Note my shiny new [Finkles lava dredger] (have a look at http://www.thottbot.com/ for details)

Not I’m a corporal here :)

grumble. guess its not happened too much lately but still bloody irritating.

At least i thought so

Found this to be interesting.

BBC NEWS | UK | Living apart couples ‘new breed’

The only response I can think of to this is “erm…” but thought it worth blogging :)

Girls: fancy an SMS-fired Bluetooth vibrator? | The Register

IBM’s SOA confused and complicated? Hell yeah…

The problems with IBM’s SOA message | The Register

Going To School In Azeroth: “Via the Guardian Gamesblog, a link to an unusual ethnography class. From the post: ‘[The site is] a selection of weblogs and reports from students at Trinity University in the States who’ve been charged by their prof, Aaron Delwiche (a good friend to virtual worlds weblog Terra Nova), to conduct ethnographies of the hugely successful World of Warcraft as part of their credit requirements for their ‘Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games’ course. The 15 term papers and the associated documentation are great first steps for the students in examining the social character of online social spaces, and a very good insight for people who’ve never had the chance to dive into one of these virtual worlds.’”

Erm, interesting technology, shame it relies on having hotspots everywhere.

Sony LocationFree

Thought I’d quickly blog this too, for two reasons:

1. who on earth thought “MCI Web Calling for Windows Live Call” was a snappy title? 2. The HP labs virtual office project is most interesting. other links here [1]

Wired News: Search Porn, Make Calls

[1] http://h41131.www4.hp.com/emea_africa/en/feature_stories/story1830.html

One of the key challenges I have for the dependency injection patterns is related to how one varies the configuration dynamically and by system parameters, say for instance varying behaviour by brand. I’ve had success in the past with systems that use dynamic service discovery mechanisms to ‘lookup’ the appropriate implementation given some context. This in itself doesn’t preclude the use of dependency injection frameworks to statically bind together services but does beg the question of when to dynamically bind and when to statically bind. There are also other patterns that may be of use, i.e. using a strategy pattern to allow a branded strategy to be used.

Any the article that prompted this is mentioned below – from developerworks. It talks about dependency injection and use of Aspects to enhance this. It got my mind thinking about possible synergies with the issues I’m interested in although the thoughts haven’t coalesced into something tangible as yet.

AOP@Work: Dependency injection with AspectJ and Spring

Social, Metered, No-Cost Ad Exchange: LinkLike: “Blogger? Publisher? Startup? LinkLike can help you increase unique visitors. Its social features help you find like-minded site owners. Its metered ad service gives you a useful way to exchange ads with your partners. ‘Metered’ means that for every user you send to their site, they must send one to you. Oh, and it’s free. “

Interesting blog from a sun chap: Escape Adulthood: ” Every now and then, I get somebody who asks me why I blog. ‘What’s in it for you’ they’ll ask. Quite a while ago, I tried to answer this, but at that time I missed one very good reason. It’s the occasional nice email I received complementing me on my blog….”

Burning Crusade Interview: “CVG had the chance to chat with lead producer Shane Dabiri about the upandcoming The Burning Crusade expansion. Go give it a read.What are you…”

Actually a little disappointing but still pretty cool – I like ;)

How to Make a Paper Army Tank – WikiHow

Possibly worth a read:

IBM case study on Standard Life

Blogging it when I probably should just be storing it in http://del.ici.ous/cgbeattie Still thought it looked interesting: Patterns for Enterprise Grids: “Draft Redbook, last updated: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 – Architectural Approaches- Learn about Common Patterns- Case Scenarios The target audience for this redbook are IT architects, consultants, software engineers with a need to use grid computing as a building block to the solution of architectural problems. “

Yahoo! Joins VoIP Throng: “Anders Bylund writes ‘Yahoo! is throwing their hat in the ring, adding Voice over IP features to the upcoming Yahoo Messenger release. With way too many players on the field, there’s bound to be some kind of shakeout coming, right?’”

Too much choice just isn’t a good thing.

Holy potato set to wow eBay: “Crucifix appears in humble spud Verily, the Lord moveth in mysterious ways, and nowhere has his mysteriousness manifested itself more clearly than in the land of fruits and nuts. Read on:?”

Great – a piece of paper that says I’ve incorporated BEA’s view of SOA and can recite it at will. Surely SOA is about a vendor/technology agnostic view of architecture thats interoperable and based around simple services? Really not sure how this helps.

SOA certification program officially launched: “The SOA Enterprise Architecture certification program was officially announced at BEAWorld Beijing this week. Certification is based on successfully completing three phases. Phase 1 is already available; Phase 2 will be available by end of December 2005; and Phase 3 is scheduled for mid-2006 release.”

My cloud! like tag clouds! TagCloud – View Cloud

What a cool way to look through your images! : Flickr: Your tags

Further consolidation!

Adobe’s Macromedia takeover clears final hurdle | CNET News.com

Given my recent interest in web 2.0 and all that I had a look at flickr.com. Good functional website that I think. The link on the right re: photos takes you there but here’s a link too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/craigbeattie

I’ve finally got my finger out and got in touch with some old friends. Young Dave and family are doing well – for those that know him there’s a web site at http://www.sedlen.co.uk/

so many young families around at the mo :)