http://www.thehubbards.org/blog saved by grace, coder by choice Wed, 21 May 2008 11:22:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Opps, I missed that Together for the Gospel 2008 conference which was in April.  I listened to the 2006 messages and I am looking forward to listening to the 2008 messages. http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2008/05/21/together-for-the-gospel-2008/ I am in teacher in our church's nursery. As with many church ministries, there is a struggle to fill the open slots in the schedule. Part of the problem is that the church membership does not view that working in the nursery (or in other areas) as discipleship. We are ... http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2008/05/21/building-a-culture-of-discipleship/ I was using Outlook 2007 and I accidentally had my alt key stuck on my keyboard. When I hit backspace to delete a character, it deleted the last little bit I typed.  It turns out this is a fairly standard feature of the edit box being used there (also used ... http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2008/05/12/alt-backspace-is-undo/ We arrived at Clarian North this morning at 6 AM for the induction of our 4th child.  Grandma McFall is at home with Alyssa, Mikayla, and Joshua waiting to hear the news of the birth of their new baby sister.  Last night Mikayla excitedly stated, "Tomorrow is Elaina's Birthday!"  We ... http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2008/01/28/elainas-birthday/ Recently, I read a post on Reinventing the Clipboard by Jeff Atwood.  Jeff described the advantages of using multiple clipboards and gave a review of ClipX. I tried it out and really liked it. What interested me the most was the Google Search Hotkey.  It would launch a browser ... http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2008/01/23/reinventing-the-clipboard-reprise/ I'm here at the Indy Install Fest.  This is a very cool idea by Microsoft.  I have MSDN at work and technically I can run it at home, but I feel wrong about doing non-work development for professional development.  We each got a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional.  ... http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2007/12/13/indy-install-fest/ Messianic Jewish scholar Dr. Michael Brown and Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, one of America's best-known rabbis, argue for two very different interpretations of Scripture  Originally held in the summer of 2007 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, this debate features opposing viewpoints about the hard questions surrounding the identity ... http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2007/12/07/did-jesus-die-for-our-sins/ At work I use SlickEdit as my code editor.  There are several reasons which would take too long right now to enumerate.  One of them is that SlickEdit remembers cursor movements as part of the history and Visual Studio doesn't.  This is a very handy feature.  Well I ... http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2007/11/28/cursor-movements-in-editor-history/ I have been reading Aaron's blog and I have been impressed with the formatting and nice embedded pictures.  I know that he switched to Wordpress recently (which I use) and I have struggled with the web interface and getting images into the posts.  He said that he uses Windows Live Writer.  ... http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2007/09/01/windows-live-writer/ I wrote my first Rails web application last night.  My work at my job has to do with managing configuration of SIP endpoints.  Our products are related to providing a IP PBX to call centers and enterprises.              The SIP endpoints (most of the time a hard ... http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2007/09/01/ruby-on-rails/