The Bull Og

It’s nearing that time of year:  time for the cherry harvest.   These days, I sit in an office all day and code.  When I was young, I helped shake cherries for summers in a row.  Ah, the lessons I learned on the farm… like that I didn’t want to be shaking cherries for the rest of my life ergo my current occupation as a software developer.   

Here’s a good link to see what cherry shaking is all about.  Click on the text in the image to see pictures of cherry shaking.

Couldn’t help but think we’re continuing to move in the direction of the web as our operating system when I read this quote about Bill Gates leaving his current position at Microsoft:  “Mr. Gates has been identified with personal computer software, while the center of gravity in computing is increasingly shifting to the Internet.”  - NY Times

I was doing a search today in Amazon’s wishlists to see if a certain someone I know maintains one there. Suprisingly, I ran across a number of wishlists for people with the same name. Even more suprisingly, I found a list for someone with the exact same first, middle, and last names as yet another acquaintance of mine whom we’ll call George. I checked it out and found a couple of scandulous titles and wondered if the list really belonged to George and if so, does George know that the list is publicly available?
I emailed George and found out that it’s not his list at all but, by coincidence, someone out there in cyberland just happens to have the same initials and a taste for non-mainstream titles. What can George do? Email the other George and say, “Hey, those are my initials too! Take those titles down so people don’t think I’m a perv when they’re looking at what they think is my wishlist but is really yours!”

What’s Amazon’s policy on global name ownership? Maybe we should all be assigned IPv6 addresses to truly distinguish ourselves from one another.

Can anyone really tell me what the SOAPAction header means or is good for?   I was getting a faultstring saying “Unable to hanlde request without a valid action parameter” and didn’t know what to make of it.  I dug around (read:  Googled for it) and found an RFC or two (and you know I love reading those…) but couldn’t find a solid answer.  My solution?  I just thought to look in the WSDL and low and behold, there was a SOAPAction key-value pair which I wound up using in my AJAX call and it worked.  Go figure.

I follow Justinsomnia from time to time and I was reading this when I discovered this and was fairly impressed. Then I realized the developer for script.aculo.us is right here in Vienna! Crazy…

Am customizing for inclusion in PCMF. Let’s see how it goes.