I’ve mostly got the pieces of SQL DDL together that I need to define the tables for my sandbox project to manage file archiving. Hit this weekend after a tiring week and let myself get distracted.

I had bought an Intel NUC 6i5 to replace my ‘test target’ machine that has been randomly hanging and rebooting lately. The NUC setup and OS install went well except for the NIC driver. Wireless worked perfectly but the driver for the gigabit NIC either wouldn’t see the controller (Intel driver install packages) or saw the controller but then timed out before completing. As this was on a clean Windows install with nothing present except for the Intel driver packages I’m getting a replacement from Amazon. Should arrive today…hoping all goes smoothly as the NUCs are very nice little machines.

I let myself get distracted by some articles on Clojure and then wandered down into Scheme and Common Lisp. The various lisp dialects have always had a bit of allure to them as hugely expressive languages with very simple syntax. Nothing that I’m likely to every use professionally (though you never know) but cool toys to play with.

Clojure seems to be the closest to mainstream relevance with its JVM hosting and functional programming focus. Not sure I’ll do much more than poke at these but who knows.

Trying to get aimed back at DDL for the tables I need and then start piecing together C# code and native PInvoke stuff to get me where I need to go. Would be nice to be able to thumbnail canon raw files and PDFs (even better to get at metadata) but that will come later. Expecting that to involve serious native code execution as most of the SDKs for such things are in C or C++.