Chris Hubbard

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!

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.  I downloaded it tonight and installed it.  I was very impressed how easy it was to connect to my blog and automatically configure the settings to work with Wordpress.  Very nice application.

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 SIP phone) has its own configuration that has to be synchronized with configuration in our system.  This can be a huge pain point for our customers. 

My latest project at work has been managing the SIP endpoint configuration completely from our system’s configuration store.  This has include new configuration that used to be only needed for the phone.  There is also shared configuration that needs to be known by the phone and the server.

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I have just started learning PowerShell and I am looking forward to learning a new language and it isn’t going to be Ruby (been there, done that).  I have been reading the book “Windows PowerShell in Action” by the Bruce Payette.  this seems to be THE book on PowerShell.  It is a very easy read so far.

Aaron, a friend at work, will be speaking at the Indianapolis .NET Developer’s Association this coming week.  In his post about it, he gives a link to a script written by Jeffery Snover which gives an easy way to kick off a IE 7 browser window using some predefined favorites.  For example, if he starts:

PS> Oie v,gtr,dr

It will bring up a browser window with three tabs and three different pages. The definition of “v”, “gtr”, and “dr” are hardcoded in the script in a hashtable. When I first saw this it was screaming to me, “Hardcoded urls? Why not use favorites? That would be much more user friendly!”
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