I’ve decided I wanted to start keeping better track of my workouts, so I’m going to try to post weekly about my progress, so here goes the first post!

Sunday 2/28: Was hung over (physically, not through drinking) from the RM Tech Trifecta from the day before, so I decided to take the day off.

Monday 3/1: 30 mins on the Elliptical.  Was my first time doing the interval program on our new machine, and it was fun

Tuesday 3/2: Decided to repeat week 5 of Podrunners interval, starting with the second set this week.  Ran one 8 min segment at 6mi/hr pace, walked for 5, then ran another 8 mins at 5.5mi/hr pace.  My shins were really burning, which was weird since last week they felt fine.  Covered about 2.15 miles in 30 mins. The next day my shins were real sore.

Wednesday 3/3: Shoulder/back:

• Dumbell Shoulder Press
  • 12 X 40
  • 10 X 45lbs
  • 8 X 50lbs
  • 6 X 55lbs
  • 12 X 45lbs
  • Think I’m ready to move up weight by 5lbs here
• Lat Pulldown
  • 12 X 120lbs
  • 10 X 130lbs
  • 8 X 140lbs
  • 6 X 150lbs
  • 12 X 130lbs
• Ab workout on crunch machine + leg raises
• Front/Side Shoulder raises
  • 12 X 10lbs
  • 10 X 10lbs
  • 8 X 12lbs
  • 6 X 15lbs
  • 12 X 10lbx
  • Haven’t done this one in years.  It was much harder than I anticipated, and my shoulders burned afterwards
• Back machine that works the deltoids (need to find a better name for this one)
  • 12 X 50 lbs
  • 10 X 60 lbs
  • 8 X 70 lbs
  • 6 X 80 lbs
  • 12 X 60 lbs

Thursday 3/4: This is a usual running/leg weight day, but my shins were still sore from Tuesday, so I did 20 mins on the elliptical and then weights:

• Hip Sled
  • 3 X 135 lbs
• Calf Raise Machine
  • 3 X 115 lbs
• Lying Hamstring Curl Machine
  • 3 X 80 lbs
• Standing Calf Raises
  • 3 X 10

Was pretty sore in the calf and hamstrings after this one.

Friday 3/5: Usually a day off, but since I missed a day earlier my goal was to do elliptical today.  However, I was pretty sore from the day before, so I decided to take the day off

Saturday 3/6: Chest/Bis/Tris day:
This is my long day at the gym.  The weight workout itself is usually over an hour, but then I like to do some swimming and hottubing afterwards.

• Dumbell Bench Press
  • 12 X 65 lbs
  • 10 X 75 lbs
  • 8 X 85 lbs
  • 5 X 95 lbs
  • 12 X 75 lbs
  • I went up in weight this week on this exercise, and barely missed getting my heavy six in.  Hopefully in two weeks when I do this again I’ll hit it
• Isolated Bicep Curl
  • 12 X 20 lbs
  • 10 X 25 lbs
  • 8 X 30 lbs
  • 6 X 35 lbs
  • 3 X 40 lbs
  • 12 X 25 lbs
  • Definitely time to increase weight by 5 lbs on this one
• Bicep Pushdown machine
  • 12 X 70 lbs
  • 10 X 80 lbs
  • 8 X 90 lbs
  • 6 X 100 lbs
• Decline Bench Machine
  • 12 X 80 lbs
  • 10 X 90 lbs
  • 8 X 100 lbs
  • 6 X 110 lbs
  • 12 X 120 lbs
  • The heavy six and burn twelve sets were pretty tough here
• Preacher Barbell Curls (need to find out how much this bar weighs, will only report on actual weight on the bar until I find out):
  • 12 X 15 lbs
  • 10 X 20 lbs
  • 8 X 25 lbs
  • 6 X 30 lbs
  • 12 X 20 lbs
• Tricep Rope Push (name???)
  • 12 X 90 lbs
  • 10  X 100 lbs
  • 8 X 110 lbs
  • 6 X 120 lbs
  • 12 X 100 lbs
• Dips
  • 2 sets of 15 reps
• Swimming
  • 8 lengths

Thanks everyone who came to my jQuery talk today at the RM Tech Trifecta v2.0.  I had a great crowd of 51 people.  Unfortunately, I only got about 1/2 through my presentation before time ran out. My my, how fast 75 minutes can go when your having fun.  Below is a link to my slides and demos apps.  Feel free to download them and check it out!

Demos and Slides

The formatting of JavaScript in VS 2008 has finally drove me nuts.  Particularly, when pressing enter after a statement, the IDE will decrease the indent of the line above.  Why it does this makes no sense to me, but there is a way to get around it.

In VS2008, go to Tools>Options>Text Editor>JScript>Formatting.  Uncheck “Format completed line on Enter”.  This will keep the IDE from changing the formatting when adding new lines of code to a function/code block in JavaScript.

Last year was the first Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta, and it was a blast.  Nearly 400 developers, DBAs and IT admins descended into Denver and took part.  It is an all day code camp/server camp/PASS camp.  The event is happening again this year, Saturday February 27th.  I’ll be speaking again at this years event, this time on jQuery for .Net Developers.  Go to the site http://www.rmtechtrifecta.com and check out the schedule and register now!

I started getting this error out of the blue trying to startup VS 2010 tonight.  A quick bingle search lead me to the Microsoft Connect site where somebody has already filed it as a bug, and a quick workaround to get VS to start again was to run “devenv /resetuserdata” in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE directory.  The problem seems to stem from having a corrupted profile (at least it did for me), and running that command fixed the problem. 

If you are having this issue, give this a try, and head over to the Connect site and vote up the bug to get fixed.

Here is the demos that I will be using for my Talk tonight on jQuery.

Download

On Friday, October 23rd, I will be giving a hands on lab featuring an introduction to jQuery for the ASP.Net web forms developer:

“JQuery is an open source JavaScript library that can be used to build rich, interactive, client side applications. Recently, Microsoft has announced that jQuery will be integrated into both ASP.NET web forms and ASP.NET MVC frameworks, which means the time is now to become familiar with jQuery and discover how this powerful library can help your applications. In this lab, Ely will go over how to build interactive apps using the jQuery, especially geared towards the ASP.NET Web Forms programmer.”

The labs are a part of the Denver Visual Studio.Net user group, and are held the Friday before the user group meeting (which is the fourth Monday of every month).  There is no registration required, so feel free to stop by and gets some hands on love with jQuery.

Location:
LeaderQuest
6825 South Galena Street, Suite 100
Englewood, CO 80112
Phone: 303-832-4665, 877-660-4876, Fax: 303-768-0513
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Time:
Friday, October 23rd 2009, 7:00pm – 9:00pm.

For more information, visit the www.denvervisualstudio.net

I just updated the site to BlogEngine.Net to the new 1.5 version.  Upgrading was cake and I had no problems.  I also choose a new theme.  I was getting a bit tired of the dark grey, so maybe this theme will lighten things up a bit. 

I grabbed the fresh bits of the Windows 7 release candidate off of MSDN yesterday (after some adventures in downloading), and repaved my Windows 7 beta install on the Dell M1530 laptop.  Before, I had a duel boot setup between Vista and W7 beta, but rarely went into W7 unless it was to dink around or show it to somebody.  With the RC, however, I plan on making it my main OS on the laptop.

How did the install go?  Almost flawlessly.  From the time I popped in the DVD to being able to use the system was only around 30 minutes.  Somewhere in there, I repartitioned the drive and formatted it, but there was never any visual screen or wait time for the format.  I found this a bit odd and maybe I just missed it, or maybe Windows 7 has some type of ninja formatter that works in the background while doing other things.

Windows 7 successfully installed working drivers for both the wifi and video card, so I didn’t need to do any USB driver transfer to get on the Internet.  I grabbed all the Vista x64 drivers for all my stuff off of Dells website, and (except for the video drivers) they all worked great.  I was a little worried about the fingerprint reader and the webcam continuing to function, but they are both up and running.  I had to go to Nvidia’s site and see if they had drivers for the GeForce 8600M GT mobile card, an fortunately, they actually had Windows 7 beta drivers.  Once those were installed, I was good to go.

An hour later, I had Office2007, VS2008, and WoW (all the necessary apps in a repave for me :) installed, and so far, it has been running great.  This is the first OS since XP that I have really gotten excited about, so I am looking forward to trying it out.  The RC will time bomb on in June 2010, but I expect the RTM version will be out in the second half of this year, so everyone who tries out the RC will have plenty of time to upgrade to the final version before it shuts itself off.