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I had a need to add ACL rules to entities at the repository level.

My biggest struggle was getting dependancy injection working.

This is what I finally came up with after a fresh mind and an instant coffee:

Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog (i.e. David Goodwin) up to 01 February 2013

• RT @TidyBooksWales: great Android app for Kashflow thanks @PalePurpleLtd t.co/ZxVvJJ3i (2013/01/31)
• This bus is trying it’s best at being stuffy and making me feel sick. Grr. (2013/01/30, Birmingham, Birmingham)
• RT @KashFlow: Introducing KashDroid – Android app for @kashflow – t.co/Kn8HATW1 (2013/01/30)
• Alex appears to have a new toy. Size matters, apparently. (Phantom 630 massive computer case). t.co/6of4GYpw (2013/01/30)
• Somewhere to go for a working vacation – https://t.co/c42ZU20l (2013/01/29)
• It’s now nice and peaceful at home. (2013/01/27)
• I want some of the whatever natural herbal / stimulant / speed / drug thing the kids have been taking. Perhaps it is the sunshine. (2013/01/26, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• 16 CPU cores and 6 Gb of RAM …. not the best configuration for a web server. #canHasMoreMemory (2013/01/20)
• Light covering. Still falling. 3/10. Not bad. #uksnow (2013/01/17)
• A pirate and his shipwreck was washed up on our doorstep this morning. Thanks Caroline. t.co/0oxaCC9V (2013/01/16)
• While doing Rowan’s word box earlier … “What’s this?” I ask holding up ‘Rock’.
  “C-o-c-k. Cock. ”
  #mustNotLaugh (2013/01/14)
• The children have taken me shopping. (2013/01/12)
• Wondering how many layers to wear while running tonight. It seems to have suddenly gone cold. #-( (2013/01/10)
• Apparently it takes 8 minutes to run to school. Obviously in wouldn’t know how this is so …. (2013/01/09)
• Rowan’s response to being reminded there is school tomorrow: “I feel ill. I can’t go to school.”
  #notFallingForThat. #wolf #wolf #wolf etc (2013/01/08)
• Back to school tomorrow!
  But will we wake up to get there on time ? Tune in same bat time on the same bat channel. #DoABarrelRoll now (2013/01/08)
• Beeping a car horn like that after midnight isn’t going to earn you many friends. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. #nob (2013/01/08)
• RT @TheMikeBennett: Trolls and Other Stories. #Free for Amazon #Kindle for 3 days, from today. Tales of #horror & the grotesque? Oh … (2013/01/05)
• RT @glynwintle: sql injection vulnerability in Active Record in ALL versions Ruby on Rails t.co/BpITfSvC (2013/01/02)
• RT @NickFitz: Excellent read: @PME2013 tears the Daily Mail a new one t.co/yfLJ3XN7 (2013/01/02)
• The Ubuntu for Mobile phones presentation looks interesting – t.co/SRtt881m – wondering how vapourware-ish it is. (2013/01/02)
• RT @smarimc: Icelandic Pirate Party is polling at 2.5% in first ever poll. Interesting times ahead. (2013/01/02)
• Just packaged up Postfixadmin 2.3.6 … It looks like there will be a release soon #php #postfix #sysadmin (2013/01/02)

@sil happy birthday! Also, no blog post this year?
Rob “‏@dealmeida” De Almeida

This will make the tenth of these little celebrations of me inching one year closer to death.

And people are already being nice to me on Twitter, even though it’s after midnight and you should all be in bed before you turn back into pumpkins.

It’s my birthday. This year I am thirty-seven. This seems, all of a sudden, to be old. Thirty-six… well, that’s a nice mathematical number, the square of six, the number of possible dice throws, the number of gallons in a barrel of beer. All this makes it seem closer to thirty. Thirty-seven…that’s basically forty, isn’t it?

Forty. Dammit. At some point I wasn’t paying attention, and while I wasn’t paying attention I got all old and responsible and stuff.

On the other hand, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Most of the things I dreamed of when I started writing on this site have come to pass. Or, as someone famous didn’t quite put it, this isn’t victory, but you can see it from here. I have a fabulous daughter, I have a present from my girlfriend sitting in the kitchen waiting for me to open it (which I am itching to touch but I promised her I wouldn’t), my job is great, the entire world’s knowledge is at my fingertips, the internet is available to me even when standing in a field. I’ve learned that the 2003 me was mostly a moron but had the kernel of some good ideas. I’m even learning to cook. Tickets at the Arsenal cost sixty-two quid and we’re once again fighting about DRM (this time in HTML5) and weathering the storm of uneducated commentary, but in the last thirty days we’ve seen the first 3D-printed building planned, facial recognition software defeated, and the Ubuntu phone released. It’s an exciting time to be alive, even if you’re nearly forty.

Happy birthday to me.

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