It's Diddy Kane, I'm back today with another video. Shout out to you for tuning in, and if you're not subscribed, do me a favor, and smash that subscribe button, because I will be doing the giveaway when I get 50,000 subscribers. And in order for you to be one of the winners, baby, you must be subscribed to the channel, baby. In today's video, I learned a very valuable lesson doing this gig work, baby. In this business, I learned a very valuable lesson. So stay tuned and stick around so you can find out what went down. Let's go. To order number one, we're about to get to this money. We ain't dropping the crumb. The pick up place is Lowe's. We're about to pull up and get dough in the skull. We are picking up one item, it weighs 18 pounds. The dimensions are six by 22 by 72. Now I know what we're about to do. About to go right here and get busy. And we're gonna drive 17.6 miles, and the payout is 67.53. We're about to go right here and get this cheese. Let's go. Just like that, we are here at Lowe's to get this dough in the skull. You know what? Lowe's. Yes, ma'am. All right, so order number one. 91, 60, 99, 076. Oh, that's it? Is that how to get what? I'm gonna get the receipt for you. Okay, thank you. Got this ladder, baby. That's all you have to get. $67 for a ladder. I'm gonna put it around this way. 67 bucks for a ladder. You know what I'm talking about? Is there work there? Time to hit the road and get our pockets on the floor. Let's go. I'll tell nobody in the comment section. The first order we're doing right now, the app is free. We about to get to this money don't hate. The app is free, F-R-A-Y-T. Y'all know we about to pull up and get busy. Let's go. And just like that, we are here to drop off this ladder, baby. Beep, beep, beep. Trying to get bit is Z. All I drive with, it's me. About to move kinda sweet. F-Z, one more thing. R-P-N-N-C. I'm gonna go to the side door, cause it seemed like this.  I think I came to this house a long time ago. It was having a party. It was like on Halloween or something. It was a long time ago. See if they there, baby. If not, guess what we dropping it on and moving on. You know my nickname wrong. I'm walking on my microphone. Well, they ain't answering, baby. So I'm gonna put the paperwork right here in this cream door. Close that. Guess what we gonna do? Guess what's next. Step back from the front yard. Little smack. We gone. Order number two. Guess what we about to do, baby? We are about to pull up to floor and decor. Getting this money we will never ignore. We're driving 27.5 miles. We're picking up 907 pounds of floor. Remember, 907 pounds of flooring. And we receive a payment of 70, 57. Don't forget to thank the Lord for our blessings. We about to get this money when he's stressing. Let's go. And just like that, we are here at floor and decor. This money I will not ignore. Let them do their thing. Slide in the joint, baby. You know what I'm talking about?  Escape. You know what I'm talking about? Yes, sir. How you doing? So I'm here to pick up an in-store transfer to go to the Arlington High Store. Okay, I'll get it out of here. Thank you very much. I'm gonna bring it out. Okay, thank you. And just like that, I'm gonna dive about the pooling until we can go out here and get these dividends and win. You know what I'm talking about? We got to get it right. We got to get it right, Steve. And just like that, we got everything strapped in. We about to go our head, get it in and get these dividends. Let's go. Stay in the comment section. I'll be seeing y'all be sneaking, putting stuff in the comment section. I'm gonna start erasing your comments. Do not tell them what app it is. Let them figure out for themselves. They have to do their own work. The app we just used to pick up that floor and decor order was bungee, B-U-N-G-I-I. Get back to this money, y'all know why. Let's go. And just like that, we are here to drop off this order to get an order. You know what I'm talking about? We here, baby. We're here now. You all know. Got a couple wash, trucks, a couple old school. How you doing? Another drop off from the gurney store. Oh, I need somebody. Okay, thank you. Just like that, it's time to unstrap this joint, baby. So then come out here and get this floor. Get to this money we can't ignore. We can't ignore this money, baby. We gotta get this money and understand me. Understand me. How you guys doing? Hey, what's going on? I'm living a dream. I can't complain. If I did, I'd be lying. Good story for you guys, baby. So, guess what? I'm riding, riding, I'm getting. We riding, riding, we get. We riding, riding, I'm getting. I'm riding, riding, I'm getting. I got the load in the bag. I'm riding, I'm sliding, right, baby? I happen to pick up the paperwork because it was over here like in the glove compartment looking thing, right?  I'm catching this breeze and getting this cheese, right? So guess what? I look at the paperwork and the app said that the order was 907 pounds but the paperwork says it is 2,364 pounds. Y'all know what I did, baby. Y'all already know what I did, right? I have tech support. I said, hey, I have an order in my queue and on the app it says it is 907 pounds. After getting the paperwork, I saw that it says that it's 2,364 pounds. How much more would I be compensated for this? They say, hey Jerome, are you able to send a picture of the paperwork? I sent the right over to them, baby. They said, perfect. Let me take a look and I'll get back to you shortly. I said, okay. So Monge, at this time, I'm still sending, I'm sending the parking lot of where I'm supposed to be dropping this on off because I ain't going, baby. Y'all about to give me some because I know if I slide, unload or anything like that, then they already gonna know I'm at the store. So I ain't sliding, I had time to wait. So you'll see an additional $15. $15, what? I said, that is not good enough. It is over 1,400 more pounds than it is supposed to be plus the unload. Can you at least do an extra 30? It said, let me check, it shouldn't be a problem. I said, thank you. They said, got the $30 logs for you. That will go out tomorrow. So they gave me extra $30 for that order. So instead I've made $100 and some change. We went out there and do our thing and we switching lanes. Hey, let me say this right. I don't know if it was bungee deaf finesse or was it the actual store that did the finesse? Somebody did it, baby. Somewhere, someway, somehow, somebody did something and they did not put the accurate number of pounds it was. So guess what? The reason why I have an issue with this is because what if my van could only hold 1,500 pounds? And I thought it was only 907, so I'm like, I'm cool. Then I go there, get the order and I never get the paperwork. So if I don't get the paperwork, then I would never have known that. So the lesson that we have learned today is always, let me tell you guys this, always, always get the paperwork and check the paperwork to make sure the paperwork matches the app. And a lot of times, I ain't gonna lie to you guys, I'm gonna keep it to you guys because I don't begin the paperwork, I'm just like, I don't need it. It's cool. Start getting that paperwork to make that paperwork. You know what I'm talking about? Get that paperwork, baby. So we got extra doughnuts for that order and bungee. I don't know if it was a customer or if it was bungee. One of y'all is out of pocket for that because if I only could hold 1,500 pounds and it was 2,400 pounds and I never got the paperwork and now they know, guess what? I probably broke my van trying to get them vans. So come on below and let me know what you think about the situation. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. 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As we started talking about innovation and the role that plays in the digital transformation effort, I did want to bring up a long time member of the Cloud Foundry community, Julian Fisher, the CEO of NINES to talk about data services. Come on up, Julian. So now you have to deliver, Julian. Yeah, absolutely. Come on, do a song like that. I was joking that I want to have the Rocky theme when I enter the stage, and they really did it, so. That's awesome. I'm happy to work with you. Great. Well, thank you for joining us here at Cloud Foundry Summit. We're excited to have you here. Never missed one. No, you never missed one anywhere, and you've been a long time member of this community. For those of you that are new to NINES, why don't you walk us through a little bit what NINES does and how Cloud Foundry has impacted your company? Well, actually, the company has been running since 2008, and we started as a web development and managed hosting company. But it was 2012, I was in Palo Alto at ChefConf when I was invited by James Waters to come to VMware Headquarter talking about Cloud Foundry, and in 2013, we started a public offering around Cloud Foundry in Europe called passNINES.com. So that was the beginning of our Cloud Foundry journey, and from offering a public platform we actually transformed into a consultancy, finally ending up as experts in Cloud Foundry operations and, most importantly, data service automation. That is an amazing journey that any NINES has been on, and we talked a little bit about this prior to coming up here in the role data service display, and I feel like we talk about the platform and applications a lot, but we don't really spend enough time talking about data, which is obviously immensely important for your applications. Can you talk a little bit about your view on data services and the role that it plays for you and any NINES? Well, obviously, the first time we actually thought about that topic was when we had a Cloud Foundry platform up and running, and there were no data services. And we have had many customers from our managed hosting, so we've been through all the pitfalls you can imagine, such as using shared cluster architectures and things like that. So we had a pretty clear picture on what needs to be done next. So also we had tons of Chef cookbooks, as this was the primary automation technology we've been using for five years, and after operating Cloud Foundry with Bosch, we decided to deprecate all the Chef cookbooks we had. Everyone? Every single one. And it was actually the head of operations who was in charge of the Chef cookbooks who picked me up with that decision. So he was skeptical at first, but after a while, we just found out that this is the right step. And I would say it's an essential part of the success story around our data service automation products that's based on the capabilities of Bosch.  So you want to have the same experience. You know, it should be on-demand service so that you can create and restore databases at any time. So we're talking about managing the lifecycle of a stateful piece of software. So, and therefore, you're looking for a description language that allows you to describe this lifecycle. So we've heard a lot about containers and virtual machines and how this changes everything. But from the perspective of investing into automating data services, I don't want to care. I don't want to care about whether there's a container on Kubernetes or a virtual machine on a vSphere or AWS. I want to be able to describe once and run it everywhere. So wherever there's a Cloud Foundry application runtime or Cloud Foundry container runtime, I would be able to run my data service solution as well. So I think that is something that needs to be done. And, yeah, we've been on that journey for years now. But it seems like there's a bigger picture to that and the impact that has on really transforming a business. What does that look like from the companies you've worked with and how has that transformed? And to really think about the data structure is something very different. Well, we particularly had one advantage, which was that we came from the Ruby community originally coming up with the idea of platform as a service, where in the Rails part of the Ruby community, there's a lot of conventional over-configuration. So we've been already pretty progressively transforming ourselves, like agile development was already done, Kanban was already done. And with all that experience in automation, it was clear that we are going to strive for the full automation of the entire lifecycle of data services, not only setting up a data service, but going through all the events, like updates, like failures of infrastructure, and still providing a high level of automation. So that mission statement of having this operational model across a wide set of data services was pretty unique. And I think while now people are catching up to this idea, a lot of the larger corporate customers, they are stuck in their digital transformation at some place. So they have to replay the technological and paradigm shifts of the past 10 years within their company. And sometimes this creates friction where new technologies, new ideas meet existing business processes and attitudes. So for example, purchasing a product or adapting a certain product hits, that creates friction with the big security handbooks they got, the procurement process they have, and so on. So I'd say, yeah, it's a challenge. So with this new product category emerging in the market, customers have to learn how to use it, or how to expect it, and how to buy it, or build it if you want to. So we see two extreme positions at the moment. Let us call them right wing and left wing for a moment, just for the sake of having a visual. The connotations these days, that might not be good. So the kind of businesses that are used to look for a very enterprise kind of solution, such as Oracle databases, and the ones who do the exact opposite, who avoid that going for pure open source solutions on the other hand. So I think there's a world in between which is worth looking at, and most of the digital transformation journeys are starting at the enterprise side, walking towards the more open source kind of things. But that's a digital transformation challenge. All the major organizations are facing, especially in changing the attitudes along with the paradigms and technologies. Yeah, absolutely. It's huge. So as we think about where we're going, we've talked a lot this morning about the platform, the enablement, software development, the role innovation plays on it, and now data services, where do you see the future going? Well, obviously, the future involves containers because there's so much attention to that topic at the moment that you can't get around it. So if you look for a technical solution that an architecture to solve data service automation, you won't have a one piece of software, such as a Cloud Foundry runtime. You're ending up having a framework because the diversity of managing state across all those data services is so different. So the question is, how does the perfect framework look like? What's the automation technology to be used? What are the circumstances, the requirements that you actually need to incorporate into that framework? So as I said earlier, our vision is to have a common language where we describe the lifecycle and don't have to worry about the infrastructure we deploy to. But with the container movement, resolving problems that kind of have been solved already but in a different way, we're going back to the decision, well, do we want to automate things again, maybe in a different technology ecosystem, or do we find an abstraction that would give us a description that can do both? Because the value for us, the value is having a database and not re-implementing it over and over again in terms of re-implementing the automation. So the future is. Yeah, I believe the future is finding common way to describe lifecycle of software without having to care about its implementation. Bosch has done a great job about it. Maybe there's going to be a Kubernetes CPI that will give access to the container world, or maybe there's going to be another domain language for that in the future, who knows? Maybe, it's open source, and it's the future, you never know. Right. Well, Julian, thank you so much for coming and joining us here at Cloud Foundry Summit. It's always a pleasure to have you around. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.


It goes by many names, the Oxford comma, the Harvard comma, or the final serial comma. And if I had written down that last sentence, I might have used one. Most people know that when you have a list or series, the convention is to separate each item with a comma. We call those serial commas, and many people have been taught the last one is optional. But that's not exactly true. The actual rule is that when we have a list of items, we always need a conjunction between them, a connecting word. That's true whether the items are nouns, or verbs, or adjectives, or anything else. Or, or, or. That's one conjunction commonly used with lists. It signals and completes and clarifies the construction, and, and, and. That's the other common conjunction in lists. Well, when we use serial commas, they just take the place of the conjunctions. They operate as stand-ins, but before the last item, we usually state the conjunction so we don't need a stand-in. That was the traditional thinking, and so the final comma was traditionally left out. That's why America's 1776 Declaration of Independence reads, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No comma after liberty. The big shift to this thinking came in 1905 when a printer named Horace Hart updated his style guide for Oxford University Press, requiring his employees to use a comma before the last item in a series. The prestige of the press and the public availability of the guide made it very influential, and that is, of course, why we call it the Oxford comma today. Do we really need to use it? Well, it depends who you ask. If you were working for Oxford University Press in 1905, you would ask Horace Hart, and the answer would be yes. Ask most other English presses at the time, and the answer would be no. We still have style books like Hart's today, and for publishing writers, they're usually the final authority on grammar. Most of these style books are exactly the same except for a few small details, and one of those details is the Oxford comma. In America, you're required to leave it out if you use the AP style book, like most newspapers. You're required to leave it in if you use the Chicago manual style, like most publishers, or the MLA handbook, like most academic disciplines. If you're writing for school in the United States, MLA is usually standard unless your teacher says otherwise. So is it optional? Not really. There are just different requirements from different authorities that you heed in different situations. Is it better to include it? Overall, Americans tend to say yes, and the British tend to say no. The truth is there are arguments for logic and clarity on both sides, and both sides tend to get pretty passionate about it. So what's your opinion? Do you like including the Oxford comma or not? Let us know in the comments section and tell us your reasons.


So we're here for my muse for my creative year, April 2019. I should be doing a lot of other things, but my muse is screaming in my brain again. So I have my two Ikea carts at the end of my work table. I've had them there since I moved in in September. To be perfectly frank, it's not really working for me, but I wasn't sure what to do about it until a few minutes ago, and now my muse is screaming at me to fix it. So we're going to give that a try. I'm going to go dig something out of the spare closet that we have Christmas decorations and stuff in, and I'm going to see what I can do to fix it, and I'm going to speed through the process and I'll be right back. Okay, well I don't know that that's going to make a big difference. I do know that although I love my Ikea carts, they're really pretty. If you have one, you know the bottom two shelves are really hard to get stuff out of, and right now this month my muse is screaming at me to make art but make it easy. So we'll try the wire shelf and some baskets for a while. Don't worry, I'm not getting rid of the Ikea carts. They're in the other room in the spare closet. We'll leave them in there for right now. They're being useful holding my horde of storage supplies. Yeah, anyway. So we're going to try this for right now, and we're going to see what happens. I have an empty shelf right there, right there, that I can when I'm not journaling, bin some of this up and put it down there. I am going to go get another white bin and put it there. I also have, on the other side of the paintbrushes, there's a spot to put the journals I'm currently working in. I think it's going to work a little better for me. But we're going to try it. Do I wish the black shelf was white or blue? Yes, but I got the black one. I can't really justify going to buy one just because it's a different color. Okay, so this is a little bit I'm going to edit into the My Muse video, and you'll notice that the shelf is white. So yes, the shelf worked out fabulously. I had it here for a few days, the black one, but I really was bothered by the fact that it was black and also I missed having a shelf in the spare room closet. The two carts just didn't work for me there holding my spare storage baskets and bins and things. So I put the black shelf back in the spare closet with that stuff on it, and I got a white one for here. They happened to be on sale at Target when I bought it, so that was a good thing. And then I posted something to Facebook about what to do with the Ikea cart. So they do have sentimental value from the old house and the old studio space. I do really love them. They just don't work the same way here that they did there. So, you know, but I don't want to get rid of them. So I did post something to Facebook, and of course I am interested in your comments below of what you think other places, not only in the art room but in the house that I could use them. I don't think they're going to work downstairs for my downstairs art stuff. It's just, that would be just too much stuff. I'm interested in less things around and not more things. So, but I was telling my husband all this and he had a brilliant idea, so hang on. So this is my painting corner, and I already had, of course, my easel here and my round table where my water sits and that's where my brushes and inspiration photos are when I'm painting. He said, why don't you use one of the carts over there for your rags and things? And then my flat palette, aka cutting board with parchment paper, fits across the top and I can hide things underneath it like inspiration photos when I'm not actually working on something. That's going to, I think, work really well. And then I have, hang on.  So whether I'm at the easel or at the table when I get a rag that's just way past it needs to be cleaned, I can just stick it there. That works. So then for the other one, we're going to use it over here. Or we're going to try anyway. So I was able to get some of the office supplies off the floor, which I love because it makes cleaning the floor easier. And the cart now has, on the bottom it has sort of storage containers for planners, planner stuff. So like zipper pockets and spare paper and stuff like that. And then we have computer paper, sorry, printer paper and card stock, printer card stock, and then all my different Avery labels and my little thank you notes and stuff like that. That's going to actually work really well, I think. So we're going to try it there and we'll see what happens. I may need to move these paintings up just a little bit. So I think I have to go downstairs and get some command strips. But otherwise, I think it's looking great. So that's it for now. Now back to the other video. I hope this gives you some ideas of maybe what you can do in your space to maybe solve a problem this month. If your muse is screaming at you that you need to get back to making art and you need to make it easy on yourself, listen to her. Maybe she actually knows what she's talking about, maybe. If you're not part of my creative year and you'd like to be, it's a Facebook group where we talk about art and art journaling. We give prompts and tutorials. It's free. The link is in the description below. So check it out. Also, if you want to follow me on social media, shop in my Etsy store, my Amazon store, buy my book, buy my rubber stamps, support the free content here on YouTube by joining Patreon or putting something in my tip jar. All those links are in my link tree, which is also in the description below. So don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. Listen to your muse. She may actually know what she's talking about and go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye, guys.