Eric Mann

  • Podcast

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    We should ask God each and every day to test us and show whether or not we are still following the path he laid out before us.

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  • 1Password: Better and Worse for Personal Data Security

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    Ever since I was a victim of digital identity theft in college, I’ve kept a keen eye on data security.  I use long passwords that mix case, numbers, and punctuation.  I impose ridiculous must-change-passwords-every-6-months rules on myself.  And I never, ever write my passwords down for others to see.  But still, I feel like things

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    We are all running a race, and we can lean on God for strength and support to keep us from stumbling.

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    Do you put God into a box?  How much do you actually trust that he will answer your prayers?

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  • Don’t Dequeue WordPress’ jQuery

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    As a moderator on the WordPress Stack Exchange, I end up spending a lot of time on the site.  I see lots of great questions, lots of not-so-great questions, and several you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me questions.  But the question I see the most often frustrates me: How do I remove WordPress’ jQuery and use Google’s CDN version instead?

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  • Distraction Free Reading Mode

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    I’m a big fan of the “distraction free writing mode” within WordPress. For those of you who haven’t seen it – launch a new post in WordPress and click the full-screen icon on the editor.  Your mind will be blown.  The sidebars, admin interface, and all of the other UI cruft of the WordPress interface drops

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    God has a name. Does that mean that everyone’s reference to “God” is to the same one?

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  • Making Singletons Safe in PHP

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    Last time, I argued in favor of the Singleton pattern in WordPress.  Singletons make sense in WordPress specifically for several reasons: They live in the global scope without using the already abused/overused [cci]global[/cci] keyword As a distributed application maintained by several hundred developers, they prevent problems that likely arise from others misusing your code But

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  • Podcast

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    Today I start on my goal to produce a short, weekly audio broadcast. More details to follow.

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