Ok. This should make right some of the wrong I did to some of you by posting a ridiculously small thumbnail of the edition of Tietoviikko we featured in.

Here's me on stage at the recent Testaus 2006 seminar:

Yeah, I know. It's still somewhat small, shot from behind the audience, and the colors are way off but that's the best their photographer could do.

Oh, and that slide right there is indeed representative of the presentation style I employed, inspired by the powerful style of legends such as Lessig and Takahashi. I got some very positive feedback. Still waiting for a more comprehensive (but less effective) feedback based on the organizers' feedback forms.

He did have an excuse, though. The same as mine, in fact. I woke up 5am today to catch a train to Tampere. 5am. That's 5 o'clock in the morning. zero-five-hundred hours. That's just brutal, especially considering that I was padded like a polar bear and still shivering from cold out there! Now if I'd only manage to force myself to head back to the hotel...

Hey, it only took 16 months of people hitting this blog from Google searches like "+cruisecontrol +weblog" but my first and so far only contribution to the CruiseControl project now seems to be in :)

Looking at what I had written brings up interesting notions about how my preference towards smaller methods has strengthened enormously since 2004. Part of the reason for the big methods (and the big class in general) in the WeblogPublisher was that I wanted to keep it all in one source file. In hindsight, I can't figure out why I thought it would be somehow inappropriate to introduce a subdirectory...

Maybe I'll submit another patch for a refactored version some day. Right now, I honestly don't have the time--I'm busybusybusy with getting my manuscript ready for the 2/3 review.

Oh, and if you're wondering what does the output look like from the WeblogPublisher, take a peek at my old postings from 2004.