Online Identities

Man, this can suck lots of time out of your life!

I am a guitar-player; I recently started a social network on Ning, so I can infest the Internet with digital artifacts of my practices.

First of all, not only is Tuesday Groovy, so is creating your own network for whatever you want. It doesn't have to be about "me", even though mine is; it's more about the music.

I didn't want to use one of the "big guys" because everyone has one of those; I will not conform (in that way). We all know I'm more of a PA-kind-of-a-guy.

I even have this blog cross-configured into my socnet; I will be flipping browser tabs shortly to see The Internet At Work.

Tied To MLK Jr.

Today is my daughter's birthday (she is 10), and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s actual birthday, which is not always the same as the holiday in the US.

What's the big deal about that?

In itself, not much. But now consider that my birthday is the same as the day he was (to be) assassinated.

Okay, there's some creep-factor there....

Last Year Just Keeps On Giving....

I love consuming podcasts. I won't cite links, I don't have that much time. Being the consumate geek, I built my own plugin-based RSS reader years ago. I won't bother citing that either; it only has about 700 downloads on download.com. Needless to say, it has a podcasting module called "Snarfer", not to be confused with an actual RSS reader of that name; they stole it from me I'm sure of it.

I still have a backlog of over five hours of podcasts from 2007.

No problem; I wasn't ready to let go of last year just yet....

Oh Yeah, Happy Effin' New Year!

No Best Of 2007 ruminations here.

No 1000 Predictions For 2008 prophecies here.

Plenty of blogs you can go to for that.

I've been on vacation, but not in the summer sun....

On the development front, I must say that using a ServiceContainer-based architecture has been the Best Strategic Decision of 2007!

It's really the only way to pass unforseen and hierarchical globs of interfaces around between contexts.

Why dick around with changing method signatures? You only need one signature, ever:

void TheOnlySignatureYoullEverNeed(IServiceProvider context) { ... }

Okay, you really need two signatures, because sometimes you want to alter the container contents:

void TheOnlyOtherSignatureYoullEverNeed(IServiceContainer context) { ... }

That one should not be used very liberally, but there are places for it, e.g. in a deployment pipeline.

So you really did have something for 2008?

I reckon so....