*Words of Wisdom From The Elder

Thursday night we gathered at Kell’s Irish Pub and Restaurant one last time before heading home from Seattle.  There was an unofficial count of about 75 of us that gathered for food and chatter.  It was certainly a lot more than last year and we had a blast.  Thanks to everyone that came out and we’ll try to do it again next year!

Pictures from the Geek Lager are here:

http://flickr.com/photos/keithelder/sets/72157604621823612/

At the MVP Summit 2008 I didn’t take a large amount of pictures but I did take a few.  You can view them here.

http://flickr.com/photos/keithelder/sets/72157604626519285/

For some reason, and I can’t explain it, creating a backup of my laptop has been weighing on my mind.  I haven’t gotten my Windows Home Server up and running yet thus I’m having to do it by hand right now.  Since I am about to take a cross country flight I decided to take a snapshot of things before heading out.  My tool of choice is RoboCopy which is included with Vista. 

So I don’t have to stare at the robocopy help screen again here’s how I backuped up my files to my external Western Digital 400GB My Book drive using RoboCopy.  Mainly I’m posting this for me so I won’t have to stare at the command switches again.

I was writing a test earlier today  trying to play nice with the red first green later crowd.  When I first wrote my test it showed red.  It didn’t work, this was good.  I went in and wrote what I thought was “green” code.  I ran it and whoops I didn’t mark my dummy class public so the XML serializer blew up.  My test failed again.  I fixed that quicly and ran the test again and it failed again!  I looked at the message and this was staring me in the face.

Yah.  I’m at a loss too.  Doesn’t this test know that it was suppose to pass?  I feel like Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore.    “Why won’t you just get in the hole?!!!”. 

Coming up with a name for something is one of the hardest things to do.  A name says the intent, can lock you into certain genres and much more.  I need your help in naming my up and coming podcast show.  Before you cast your vote here is the intent of the show.

A show with a Southern Flavor telling tales and stories about technology that is available today from the perspective of those who have gone through the learning curve of the technology and are ready to tell their story in a simple and easy to understand manner.

There are three choices currently on the table at the moment.

• Gumpology.Com – Technology explained so even your Grandmother can understand it.
• RustyWashers.Com – Seperating the shinny pennies and rusty washers in technology so you don’t have to.
• DevTales.Com – (no tag line, name is self explanatory)
• DeepFriedBytes.Com – Anything deep fried is good c’mon!

Here are the pros and cons of each one after shopping the names around.

Gumpology Pros

• While the first impression may be about Forrest Gump, it isn’t about Forrest at all.  It is about explaining technology so it is easier to understand.  The dumbing down of technology if you will. 
• A unique name.
• Broad, could cover a lot of things.

Gumpology Cons

• Has too much Forrest connotation with it. 
• Over used.
• Possible copyright troubles.

RustyWashers Pros

• The name is more in line with what the show is about.  The show is about tales and stories from the trenches, an aspect of that is finding the rusty washers and shinny pennies within a technology. 
• Easy to theme.
• Not technology specific, could cover lots of things
• Easy to spell 

RustyWashers Cons

• People may not identify with the name immediately.

DevTales Pros

• Fairly short name.
• The word “tales” sort of sets the show context.

DevTales Cons

• Very generic and plain
• Not very Southern sounding
• Locks the show into only development technologies

DeepFriedBytes Pros

• Everything Southern is deep fried
• Sounds techy and Southern
• Kinda funny

DeepFriedBytes Cons

• I can’t think of one

A lot of things to weigh in on no doubt.  You see why I’m struggling with this?  When in doubt, create a Poll I say!  Vote for your favorite show name here:

http://poll.pollcode.com/FPJy

UPDATED:  Add a new domain so I started the poll all over.  Revote!