Renaming BlueMilk to Lamar

BlueMilk was the early working name of a successor project to StructureMap that was originally ripped out of the new Jasper framework project. 

Most of the feedback on the name “BlueMilk” wasn’t positive. I wasn’t terribly attached to the name, so I’m officially renaming “BlueMilk” to “Lamar.” The first Nuget (v0.8) is published with the very latest work. I might be able to throw an OSS Friday sometime this week at finishing the remaining StructureMap features inside of Lamar and publishing some documentation, but we’ll see.

First, what the heck is Lamar? For most of you, it’s my intended successor to the venerable, well liked (by at least some people), and unfortunately slowpoke StructureMap library. It’s also the runtime code generation and compilation subsystem I pulled out of Jasper so folks could use that independently of Jasper.

For the moment, you can find way more information about Lamar under the “BlueMilk” tag on my blog.

What’s with the new name?

Other than Marten, most of my OSS efforts the past 2-3 years have really been working toward the Jasper framework we’re brewing up at work as a successor to FubuMVC. “Jasper” itself is just named after my ancestral hometown (Jasper, MO), and most of the other projects on the JasperFx organization are named after either other little towns around Jasper (Oakton, Alba) or local landmarks (Baseline). Fitting into that theme, Lamar is the next town up highway 71 and I’ve got plenty of family roots there as well.

Other notes that may only interest me:

• Mirabeau B. Lamar was the 2nd president of the Republic of Texas, a hero of the TX revolution, and worlds of things in Texas are named after him. I didn’t know this until researching this post, but Lamar, MO is apparently named after him as well.
• My wife is *this* close to completing a master’s program at Lamar University and I’m super proud of her
• Lamar the town is the birthplace of Harry S. Truman
• It was raided during the Civil War by Quantrill’s Raiders (think Jesse James)
• Wyatt Earp was their first constable
• I’m biased, but the Barton County Fair in Lamar may be the best small town fair in the entire state
• If you’re a Modern Family friend, the Cameron character is supposedly from this area