Chris Hubbard

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 hope to be seeing her soon.

Michelle is a little nervous but doing well.  This being our 4th child, you would think we would be pros at this by now.  It seems all strangely familiar. 

Our bible verse for today is Philippians 4:6-7:  "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

They started the Pitocin drip at 6:30 AM.  She started contracting pretty regularly (every 2-3 minutes) soon afterwards. 

We found out that her regular OB, Dr Denman, couldn’t be here today due to an issue in her family.  We hope and pray that her family is OK.

Dr Flora came in a little while ago to talk to us.  She broke Michelle’s  water around 7:40 AM.  Michelle’s nurses Sarah (who happens to be 39 weeks pregnant with her first child) and Kim (who is an intern) called the anesthesiologist to administer the Epidural.  They said that about 95% of women delivering are now getting an Epidural. 

We found out that there are about 5 inductions this morning and 1 spontaneous birth this morning.  It seems like inductions are becoming more common.  I know that it has helped us being able to schedule help at home.

At this point, some of you might be wondering why I am blogging the birth of our child.  I got razzed at work from my boss saying something like, "Hey Hubbard, no blog?  This is 2008!  Get with the program."

We went in on January 16th thinking that we were going into labor.  We got to the labor and delivery room (LDR6) and the network connection in the room didn’t work.  They have a touch screen computer in each room on a boom, but it is severely crippled and all I could do is access Yahoo! email.  So I had to send an email out from my yahoo account (which I hadn’t used in many years).  Well, it turned out to be early labor (yes after 3 kids, you can still get fooled) and so we were sent home.  This time, we are in room LDR3 and the network connection is working just fine.  So this time I am able to blog!

9:52 AM  - She is 8 cm, 100% effaced, and 0 station.  Elaina will probably come soon (probably in the next hour).

10:22 AM - She is 10 cm, 100% effaced, and +1 station.  She is ready to push.  The nurse is calling the doctor.

10:46 AM - Elaina Grace Hubbard is born!  7 lb 14 oz, 20 1/2 inches.

Please feel free to leave a comment as part of our memory of this day.

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 with a search started at Google based on the contents of your clipboard.

Often, I will get an email (or some other type of text) that contains a referenced resource that doesn’t have a hyperlink, but is easily recognized based on the textual context.  The most common is a bug id or an email address.  Email programs will attempt to automatically hyperlink some well known formats like email addresses (which can be annoying at time if you don’t want it to be a hyperlink).

For a while, I have been using a set of cobbled together scripts that would search the contents of the clipboard for certain regular expressions, if one was found, it would launch an browser with an associated URL using matching substitutions from the regular expression.  Here are a few examples:

Name: Bugzilla
Pattern to match: (?:bug|scr)?[\s:#]*(\d+)
Navigate to: http://bugzilla.inin.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=\1

Name: Perforce
Pattern to match: (?:cl|change|changelist)[#:\s]+(\d+)
Navigate to: http://perforce.inin.com:8080/\1?ac=10

Name: Email Address
Pattern to match: ([A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4})
Navigate to: mailto:\1

When I saw ClipX, I thought, "if only he could generalize the google search to allow regular expressions matches, then I could ditch my scripts and have multiple clipboards to boot."  I sent an email to the author of ClipX, Francis Gastellu, and he was very responsive.  Actually, by the next day he had released the Smart Navigation plugin to ClipX.

I was able to easily add the patterns that I had in my previous scripts.

He has a few Presets that are handy.  Actually the one that sold him on the idea was the Bugzilla pattern.

Editing the entry is straight forward.  The preview window is a really nice touch.  The boost regular expression syntax is used for the pattern matching.

For those fellow developers at Interactive Intelligence, I created an export of some common entries.  Please let me know if you know of other entries that would be helpful.

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.  Now I feel like I will be more likely to do that at home.  Thanks Microsoft!!

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 of the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53.

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 found out that there is a option to Include insertion point movements in Undo list.  Thanks Sara Ford for the tip!