Ottawa Senators take on Ovechkin

I took my brother to a Sens game last night, his birthday is on Friday, so I got him an early present. The Sens were playing Ovechkin and the other people that he brought with him that are a part of the Washington Capitals. Ovechkin is an awesome player and when he has the puck something is going to happen. That is probably why all the Caps players keep feeding him the puck. The Kid has skill there is no doubt about it, but the Caps are not a well formed team. Too much depends on Ovechkin. They may have other talent in the line up but the way they played last night I couldn't it.

The Sens did well at stopping Ovechkin. They were formidable on the offence as well. They came out with a 5-2 victory. They seem to have found their rhythm and I am quite content about that.

We enjoyed ourselves at the game, even though we were in the nose bleed section. The players look little from up where we were. Nonetheless, there is nothing like being able to see the whole ice and all the plays. I do enjoy watching the game at home, and that will continue to be my most common method, but it was nice not being limited to the camera and the short piece of the ice where the puck actually is.

With 18500 people in attendance it was great to be a part of the City spirit. We saw and were part of the wave going around the bowl 5 consecutive times until there was a break in the play and it died off.

I love my city and I love the team my city has. I am just glad that they are faring well these days. But in the end it doesn't matter, because this is my team, because this is where I live.

I hope to be able to go to a few more games.

On Site at Innovapost

It's been a week now since I started at Innovapost. I've reacquainted with old friends that have either stayed here for the last 10 years or have found their way back like myself. The application is at it's 11th version with multiple releases having gone out for each version. It is exciting to see something that I have worked on be in usage 10 years after the making. But in application development 10 years is a good long run and the time to rewrite is at hand.

My duties for the next month or so, is to validate that the business process requirements (BPR, document) matches what the code is actually doing. It is a fairly extensive application, it has to be, since it is the front end to the Canada Post business.

This application has been the benchmark to which I compare all other applications. It is completely object oriented. Well has much has it could be in vb4, it certainly pushed the envelope back then. Now with .NET it could go even further if we are permitted to do so. Most applications that I have worked on since, have been poor implementations with no or very little architectures. So on that front it's good to be back on the application.

I look forward to the next few months, it will be interesting to see where this application is going to go and who else from my past will join the team for the rewrite.