I got my latest project posted – DevHawk Wiki. I was hoping to have this up yesterday, but GDN wouldn’t cooperate. It’s pretty minimal right now – it’s a v0.1 release. Collaborators welcome.

The cool part about DevHawk Wiki is that the wiki rendering code is separated out into a separate assembly. This means you could embed it in other apps (I’m thinking about a wiki-style comment system for this blog). One of the things I had to do to make this work is keep things like the wiki file repository independent of the wiki rendering itself. I used delegates to do this, then I read Don’s recent post on delegates and loose coupling. Here’s an example of what Don was talking about, in the wild.

My father just pointed me to the Mailinator service. Basically, it’s a totally public email system for fake email address. I guess the primary example is a place where you want to download something, but you have to give your email address before you can download. Typically, I just use a fake email address for that. But for some places, they want to check to make sure the email address is real first, so they send the download link to the email address. But they also harvest the email address and sell it. Mailinator solves this. You give an @mailinator.com address, they send the download link, you pick it up (no password needed) and the email (and all resulting spam) gets auto-deleted. Cool.

But their slogan sounds like something my brother would come up with – “It’s like flicking a booger…at spam”.