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My day job has primarily consisted of migrating an old-school ASP.Net WebForms website to a new ASP.Net MVC application. This has involved a massive layout/structure redesign, database overhaul, and a lot of custom coding. I’m mostly happy with how I structured the MVC-based content management system. It’s very similar to WordPress … only written in
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Yesterday, we were bouncing ideas back and forth on Twitter regarding a specific ticket on WordPress’ Trac system. At one point, a developer lamented the fact that Twitter didn’t automatically link “#18149” to http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18149. I jokingly commented that someone should come up with a Chrome extension to do just that. Apparently, something that does that already exists.
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Ten years ago today was picture day at my high school. Despite everything else that happened on September 11, 2001, we all still gathered in the Auxiliary Gym to take our annual year book photos. Business as usual, except for the tone that overtook the entire day. In every class we sat glued to CNN
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I wasn’t born with an abundance of patience. As a kid, I could rarely sit still for more than 5 minutes at a time, I stayed up all night in anticipation of big events, and I’d often ask “are we there yet” before we got to the end of our street. Not an atypical story
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At my day job, I’m responsible for bringing our various web products up to modern standards. Right now, that involves pulling our old website off a static, table-based system built with FrontPage and executing a new design using ASP.NET MVC 3. It’s been a fun project so far, except for one major hang-up. We have
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Every now and then we all come across situations we feel are hopeless. A project is due with too soon a deadline. A work task is just beyond our realm of comfortable effort. An important appointment is endlessly rescheduled. Our finances never seem to balance income versus expenses. It can be exasperating to keep going.
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I recently picked up Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson and read through it with a small group from my church. It’s a fantastic, approachable work explaining different ways you can reconnect with your journey to follow after Christ. The part that stuck with me the most, though, was a single line: “a change of pace
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This is your final task: Write an essay or make a video describing how this challenge has brought reconciliation and/or growth to one of your relationships. Keep your essay to 700 words or less, or keep your video to four minutes or less. It must be completed and submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 8,
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Last weekend, I was unable to fully complete task 15 because I was out of town to teach a class. As reminder, we were tasked to: The second part is much more clear-cut: Go to church. While you are there, we’d like you to do two specific things: 1) Thank the pastor. If you know
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God made us male and female — wonderfully complementary. Clearly He designed us for marriage, but we are also in a position to be a uniquely positive influence on each other. Sometimes it is a woman’s encouragement that brings out the best in a man, and a man’s encouragement that brings out the best in