Haiti 2012
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In October, 2012, I had the opportunity to take a week-long trip to Haiti. Below is a collection of photos from my trip and a recording of a sermon I presented about my experience. Enjoy! Haiti 2012 from Eric Mann
Eric Mann
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Twenty-Nine
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That’s right. Today is my 29th birthday. Usually I take time on my birthday to write a to-do list for the coming year. It’s close enough to the end of the year that it serves double-duty as a list of New Year’s Resolutions. Unfortunately, I never bother to share the list, so no one holds me
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There’s Nothing Wrong with Comic Sans
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When I was in high school, my favorite football team wasn’t very good. I was excited when we’d win at least half the games in a season. I also distinctly remember once when the cable company switched to a “more competitive game” during the 2nd quarter because we were losing so badly. When the Ducks
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jQuery as a Global Event Bus
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Some time ago, I made a mistake. Rather than taking the time to truly understand how events worked in jQuery, I built my own JavaScript library to handle event delegation. It worked, but why reinvent the wheel? It turns out jQuery is perfectly capable of serving as a global event bus for all of your
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Use Your Head
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I know, a political article during election season. Sue me. In this year’s Oregon election, we’re being asked to vote on two somewhat controversial ballot measures – 82 and 83. Measure 82 will amend the Oregon constitution to allow casinos to be built elsewhere than on tribal land (we already have 9 tribal casinos in
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2012 Portland Marathon
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Flagship Store: Marketing Fail
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While walking back to my car this weekend from the Portland Marathon Fitness Expo, I had the chance to swing by the Columbia Sportswear flagship store. I love that place, and I love seeing their new displays of fantastic products. Unfortunately, one major marketing failure made Saturday the exception.
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Using XML-RPC in WordPress
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It was brought to my attention last week that there aren’t very many good tutorials on the web regarding the use of XML-RPC in WordPress. Sure, there are plenty that talk about how easy it is to use and how great of a tool it can be, but few examples explaining just how it can be
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Theme-ready Shortcodes in WordPress
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A few months back, I taught you how to make your widgets theme-ready by extracting the actual markup into an overridable template. Now, we’re going to do the same for shortcodes. And for those of you wanting to see this in practice, stay tuned for the release of version 2.5 of WP Publication Archive in
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Hear the Cry
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About three years ago, I turned down an amazing opportunity to spend a month building houses in Guatemala. I might give you all the reasons in the world for making that decision – it would be hard on my job, I had loans to pay, I couldn’t leave responsibilities with my church, etc. The truth