Jay R. Wren – lazy dawg evarlast

When Apple updated their iPod lineup a couple of weeks ago, I started to drool. I’ve wanted an 80G iPod for a while, but when I finally had the opportunity to buy one – May of this year – I recognized that the then current generation of iPod had been around for a while and that a new one would be out soon.

This really pisses me off: New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux

The 160G iPod “classic” and the iTouch are a couple of really sexy sweet products. However, I wouldn’t buy a toaster oven that I couldn’t empty the crumb tray, and I won’t buy an iPod from a company that intentionally limits my ability to use their product.

Zune is lame at 30G. Creative has some offerings but Apple is so far ahead simply in user experience. This is why I wanted an iPod over something else. If you have never used an iPod for more than 5 minutes that you don’t know what you are missing. Maybe this is a case of ignorance is bliss. I might have been happy with a Creative product if I had never touched an iPod. Alas, I have touched an iPod. The menu system and “click wheel” interface are superb.

-ANGRY

I wouldn’t have taken it if I hadn’t been told it is mandatory.  What a waste of time for a person who already takes security seriously.  I feel like a child who has been told to sit in the corner and listen even if I already know everything today’s lesson is going to cover.

So when taking the quit at the end of the 190 slide deck which I skipped through, I run across a question regarding “a secure network”  I answered incorrectly.  I felt the need to email the corporate security people this response:

Yes, I know I am a bit of a prick at times

CodeMash was sweet.

So many other people are blogging about how awesome it was, I almost feel like I don’t need to mention it at all.

Any mention on the net is good, as long as they spell your name right. Meeting tons of people at CodeMash was a blast. Everyone was very down to earth. Keith was great to talk too. Catching up with Dustin Campbell was a blast as always. Of course talking with people I see more often like Bill Wagner, Josh Holmes, Jason Follas and Dianne Marsh was great too. It was great to talk with Richard Perry who is living in Detroit (well, Ferndale) who loves Detroit. I love Detroit too.

Bruce Eckel’s keynote was awesome. The non-codemash of software direction and burning man inspiration was awesome.

Neal Ford’s keynote was very fun. The Starbucks and Waffle House Domain Specific Languages are not to be forgotten.

Dave Donaldson represented NHibernate and I’ve very glad to see an open source .NET project get some exposure. I talked to a number of people who had never heard of NHibernate or Castle Project. I tried my best to explain to them what they were and of course talk them up as much as possible. I do happen to disagree with Dave when he says that LINQ is an ORM killer. LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities are just implementations of LINQ that happen to by ORMs themselves. There is nothing stopping the NHibernate community from creating LINQ to NHibernate. In fact, I’ve been thinking about how it could be done and I don’t think it would be too difficult.

I put some photos up on my flickr.

My camera was in the wrong mode for a number of the head shaving photos and I didn’t realize it until it was too late to capture the action. I love this picture of Josh and Brian just having their heads shaved and Josh just happens to be standing such that the projector is displaying “codemash” on his forehead. It was a very fun coincidence.

Did I mention that Richard Perry is a lot of fun?

It was also great hanging out with Richard Harding and Mark Ramm. Mark always has the most interesting and outrageous stories.

If you didn’t make it to codemash, I’m sorry to tell you that you REALLY missed out. I look forward to seeing you at the next one.