Well it's Saturday.  First it was Monday.  Then suddenly Friday afternoon was here and I just didn't get much done that I wanted.  Several phone calls got in the way as well as some programming research.  Now I'm spending a portion of my weekend getting some much needed bookkeeping work done. 

This should pave the way to put a big dent in the web service module next week.  I came up with a few new web service methods I'd like to add related to inventory items.  It adds more time to the module but I think it's a solid benefit and worth the delay.

I'd love to complain but business is great and the increased workload feels good.  It feels like a solid flow of work-in and work-out.  Having too much of one or the other just doesn't set well with me :)

Finished the last of the routines I want to add to the Web Service.  Everything came out nicely.

Now for documentation, packaging, install testing and online catalog setup.

Sorry folks, but if you've sent me a message from the Contact Us page on AbleMods.com in the past two weeks, please resend it.

My iPhone was stolen a few weeks ago, so I had to change all my passwords.  By all, I mean like 12-15 different accounts since I had that login information kept on the iPhone.  Apparently when I changed the email passwords for AbleMods.com accounts, I failed to update the AC7 site itself.

My bad :(

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Ok so the holiday weekend involved a lot more fishing than it did programming, but that's the way it should be ! :)

The web service module has been converted to VB from the original C-Sharp used.  My preference is always VB because syntax is more flexible and the code is easier to read in my opinion.  No sense making things harder than necessary for the sake of urban legend that C-Sharp is somehow "better".

I added a new web method to retrieve customer records.  That will get finished and tested today.  Then I'll add a method to allow updating customer records.  After those two routines are tested, I'll try to think of a few other methods that might be useful and get those added.