Preaching
2011 Christmas Reading
The angels announced His birth No vacancy. The inn was full. No place inside for these expectant travelers to rest. The only space available was in the stable. It was there that Mary brought forth Jesus. It was there she swaddled him and laid him in a manger. This however was no ordinary child. This [...]
The Paradox of Wanting
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and [...]
Grumpy and the Gourd
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd [...]
Programming
Testing Effectively with Rails
I enjoyed this reminder about the benefits of keeping the unit tests exposing edge cases and the integration tests on the happy path. Testing Effectively with Rails
Cleaner git history – Stash, Rebase, Pop
A common workflow of mine is: git stash && git pull –rebase && git stash pop I actually have this aliased to gpull. It stashes any uncommitted changes, pull in the latest with rebase, and then pops my changes off the stash. git pull is a shorthand for git fetch and git merge. You can [...]
Excited about ARel 2.0
Not only is it faster, but it’s providing some great code reading. ARel Two Point Ohhhhh Yaaaaaa
