Well it’s off to Disney

Well it’s off to Disney World again. Seems like only a few weeks ago when we last made the trip. This time we are taking our grandson Jayson. It’s his first time. He is very excited. I remember our first trip. It’s been close to twenty years ago. On that first trip I remember how new, colorful and clean everything was. Disney has people handling down to a well-honed science. We waited in many a line, but each was organized such that you could not see its full length. Along the wait path interesting displays were strategically placed to distract your attention from the wait. Over the years we watched the theme parks change and grow from three to five … they have included so many resorts I have lost count. One day we will stay at one of these resorts. For now, we stay with Mom. She lives just a short 30 minutes away.

Will be taking my trusty powerbook. Hope to spend some quality time writing Cocoa code. This will be a nice change from my every day work in C#. Don’t get me wrong I love C#…its just that the Mac is my favorest, and bestes machine. Have a goal in mind to write an application in Cocoa that will access the www.my-list.com database using web services. Really am disappointed that Apple has not included in Cocoa the ability to connect to mySQL. That is one of the nice things about the Microsoft platform, the ability to easily connect to a database. Have looked at some of the ODBC stuff for Mac to mySQL. However, found installation confusing, difficult and POORLY documented. I could get none to work. Even tried the Java stuff with the same result. Now perl and php connect easily to mySQL. So with perl SOAP should be able to create a web service to do the connection, data retrieval, insert and updates an make it all work.

Plan blog my progress…thats if I can get to a local hot spot.