Visual Basic Grumble Grumble

So I’m trying to create a XML document from VB using Microsoft’s implementation of DOM. It seems pretty simple. About the same as every other implementation of DOM I’ve used. However I’m running into two rather annoying problems: But before that, here is my schema: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- edited with XMLSpy v2005 rel. 3 ...

Cycling

Tonight I finished up my 3rd round trip between office and home for a grand total of 150K in 3 round trips. I’m pretty pleased. It’s been a while since I’ve done any serious biking and the trips are enjoyable. What’s really amazing me is that it only takes me slightly longer to get in, ...

Links

Canada day in Drumheller is a new album of a few of the photos I took during the Canada day BBQ in Drum. Numsum is a web based tool that allows you to make fancy spreadsheets through your web browser and share them with people / embed them into other pages. It’s rather interesting looking. ...

Update

It’s been a very busy, but very good, last week or so. I’ve recently switched roles somewhat at work. Instead of being a pure developer / bug fixer / client support guy I’m now moving more to developer / implementations. Our software needs to integrate with other systems like accounting packages, etc and that needs ...