(To those not familiar with Guns N' Roses, “Loaded like a freight train“ is the first line of the song, Nightrain, not an indication that I was drunk when I wrote this. :)
I am really excited to finally be teaming up with my good friend (and my best protege) Andre de Cavaignac on a new side project called Nightrain. In the few years I've known him since meeting him on Tablet PC Buzz, he's become an excellent developer and is in high demand. I'm excited to have his help on this project.
I am not gonna talk too much about it since I learned my lesson when it comes to talking about cool things that people might want to steal. But this is a cool project. I will say it involves mapping and we're gonna try to use this as a demonstration of the power of ClickOnce apps as alternatives to web sites.
Also got some help from another developer friend of mine, Jon Person, the developer of GPS.NET and GIS.NET. His components are exceptional examples that all component developers should follow. The thing that impresses me most about GeoFramework, is that it follows the .NET design guidelines so well. The GPS functionality is cool, but what really made me take notice was the attention to detail on the little things. Like instead of giving you latitude and longitude values, he gives you a Position class (and no, it doesn't just consist of a lat and long). Position has all sorts of intuitive features such as getting the general direction from one point to another, the amount of time it takes to get from one point to another at a given speed, etc. And this detail is ALL through the classes like Distance, Azimuth, Position3D, etc. Amazing stuff. I strongly advise you check it out if you do any type of GIS or map-related work. Even if you aren't using GPS, it's a huge time saver in the base framework.
Alright, back to work for me. Got a few things going on between this, the job hunt (though it's not a high priority right now), and fixing TEO bugs.