Santa Fe Magic

Heidi and I stayed with friends for a week of vacation in Santa Fe, NM. ’twas awesome!

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Natural Iconoclasm

This is definitely unfortunate (and yet, still funny!), but mother nature took a brand too literally during the last blizzard. Target’s sign never stood a chance …

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Bible Taxonomy – AJAX / WP Integration

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Note: This post is series explaining how I created the new Bible Taxonomy tool as seen on DiscipleShare. To see it in action, or to find great, free curriculum to use in churches, visit: http://www.discipleshare.net/ So how does the user input get saved dynamically to the database? It already happens in a similar way with […]

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Bible Taxonomy – Parsing Input

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Note: This post is series explaining how I created the new Bible Taxonomy tool as seen on DiscipleShare. To see it in action, or to find great, free curriculum to use in churches, visit: http://www.discipleshare.net/ Here’s a confession: this part of the plugin is only half-baked. It’s a work in progress. Users can select Books, […]

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Bible Taxonomy – User Interface Look

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Note: This post is series explaining how I created the new Bible Taxonomy tool as seen on DiscipleShare. To see it in action, or to find great, free curriculum to use in churches, visit: http://www.discipleshare.net/ The Bible’s BIG. 32341 elements in the XML file, to be exact. The WordPress custom metabox spaces are pretty small. […]

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Bible Taxonomy – User Interface Data

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Note: This post is series explaining how I created the new Bible Taxonomy tool as seen on DiscipleShare. To see it in action, or to find great, free curriculum to use in churches, visit: http://www.discipleshare.net/ So the CSS was the eas(ier) part. Then came the Javascript. It had to be snappy and non-clunky. I started […]

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Bible Taxonomy – Start Off Right (Minimized XML)

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Note: This post is series explaining how I created the new Bible Taxonomy tool as seen on DiscipleShare. To see it in action, or to find great, free curriculum to use in churches, visit: http://www.discipleshare.net/ To start, I looked for data objects that already existed for the bible on the internet. I looked at using […]

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Launch – discipleshare.net

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So I dropped the ball. In announcing all the sites I rolled out and launched for different organizations in the fall, I forgot to tell about my pet project. DiscipleShare

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What Happened Was …

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People often ask me why I shaved my head. Age; ministry; style. It’s kind of a joke, but I do think ministry caused me to lose much of my hair. Now, I was genetically pre-destined … but I was also an intern at an awesome congregation — and we had a busy, packed summer. Just […]

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Snowpocalypse

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A week ago the world did not end.  Chicago was dumped on – but other than that, we’re doing OK. Here’re some of the photos I took of the after effects:

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