This week, we are memorizing 1 Timothy 6:12. Check out my latest Scripture Memorization song here: 1 Timothy 6:12 If you're new here, see my introduction to this series here. "Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of eternal life to which you… »
This week, we are memorizing Romans 12:1-2. Check out my latest Scripture Memorization song here: Romans 12:1-2 If you're new here, see my introduction to this series here. This song, Romans 12:1-2, has a really special place in my heart. When I was… »
This year, our church is committing together to memorize Scripture, one passage each week. To help myself keep it top of mind as well as build a habit of repetition, I am trying something new. Each week, I am creating an original song, assisted by AI… »
Here is the “why” that drives me as I evaluate, encourage, and celebrate teams in regards to their Flow Metrics. Why Throughput matters? When teams work on large tickets that take a week or more, it's hard to spot where time is being wasted. These… »
In times like this, it is important to step back from all of the chaos and question what our role is going to be in all of this. When violence or injustice happens in the world, it is common to want to slap back, to draw lines around groups or ideas… »
Fault can be a trigger word for people. A word that stains you with guilt with even the mention of it. A word that won’t let you go, hold you down and imprisons you where you know you don’t belong but fear you can’t escape. I have learned to look at… »
A Life Against So often in our lives, we look for who we should be against. Target is selling Satanic clothes: against! Netflix is promoting sex trafficking of young women: against! Disney is adding sexual identity education to films for minors… »
Anytime a team focuses on volume, the quality MUST suffer. You show more people your bad thing and show them the wrong way. The way to game the quantity problem is to oversell and underdeliver. However, that does not play out well for overall product… »
How do we think both Creatively and Critically without tripping over ourselves? It’s so common to be to critical to start or have no “good” ideas. Let’s take a look at the brains that drive how you think and solve problems. The Right and Left Brain… »
“If you faint (slack, stay, be still) in the day of adversity, your strength (firmness, vigor, force, substance, worth) is small (narrow, thin). Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If… »
Next time you're out there writing some code for a custom WordPress theme or plugin, try thinking about adding colons or dots to your hook names. It makes it much more readable and easier to understand the separation between components and the… »
This was inspired by Adam Wathan's blog post here: https://adamwathan.me/2016/04/06/cleaning-up-form-input-with-transpose/ Check out his book here, he's brilliant! The purpose of Adam's blog post was to show the utility of Collections in Laravel. I… »
I have been playing around with Laravel 5 recently and it's really looking great. Definitely different, and definitely improved. First things first, I strive to setup my laravel projects with 2 main folders, separating the Public facing website and… »
Just found the best thing ever today! I have been working for so long with code files ranging from PHP to C# to JSON, lots of images in various sizes, zip files for downloads, etc. and I have always had such a hard time getting important information… »