{"id":57,"date":"2008-12-30T23:18:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T06:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2008\/12\/31\/Making+Hay+While+The+Sun+Shines"},"modified":"2008-12-30T23:18:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T06:18:38","slug":"making-hay-while-the-sun-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/30\/making-hay-while-the-sun-shines\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Hay While the Sun Shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My blog has been quiet these last few months. With the economic downturn and various friends&#8217; contracts being terminated, I am busy making hay while the sun shines. I have clients with paying work and so I&#8217;m staying busy while the work remains available. I&#8217;ll have lots of time for blogging when I&#8217;m between contracts. That said, one of my New Years resolutions is to &#8220;Never stop sugarcoating the facts without notice&#8221;. (Brought to you by the <a href=\"http:\/\/resolutionrandomizer.pop.us\/ecard.aspx\">Resolution Randomizer<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MakingHayWhiletheSunShines_147C1\/image_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" alt=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MakingHayWhiletheSunShines_147C1\/image_thumb_1.png\" width=\"620\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Seriously, one of my major New Years resolutions is to blog and screencast more. That means more <a href=\"2008\/06\/16\/Becoming-A-Jedi-Part-3-Of-N\">Becoming a Jedi episodes<\/a>, a series of posts on <a href=\"2008\/06\/27\/Introducing-Psake\">psake<\/a> and using PowerShell as a build tool, as well as some other ideas that are in-the-works. Other things that I&#8217;m currently excited about, and you&#8217;ll likely find posts about in the coming months, include MEF, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, multi-step refactorings, Prism\/WPF, and convention-over-configuration (in both ORM and IoC) to create maintainable applications.<\/p>\n<p>So stay tuned. More content is on its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My blog has been quiet these last few months. With the economic downturn and various friends&#8217; contracts being terminated, I am busy making hay while the sun shines. I have clients with paying work and so I&#8217;m staying busy while the work remains available. I&#8217;ll have lots of time for blogging when I&#8217;m between contracts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}