God’s Van

December 26, 2018

Many of you are aware that we’ve been looking for a new van to replace our older, falling-apart van that was looking more and more like it would fail us soon. Well, here’s what the Lord provided: It’s a 2009 Toyota Sienna. Our mechanic agrees that this should serve us well for many years to […]

Gutenberg!

December 21, 2018

Well, I pulled the trigger! I reached the point where there was just no more testing worth doing, and it was time to move ahead. I upgraded our 391 WordPress blogs to WordPress 5.0 and enabled the brand-new Gutenberg editor for all our blog authors! For most people, this exciting development will be about as […]

The Lonely Developer

November 24, 2017

This particular post is a window into the life of a very ordinary person, doing an ordinary job, surrounded by extraordinary people serving an infinitely extraordinary God.

A good day for coding

November 14, 2017

Here’s what it looks like outside: I didn’t know when this day dawned, but it’s a good day for coding. I’ve been a little off the past several days (quiet, Bruce), so today has been good for me. My time spent searching for and finding a bug, then restructuring a lot of code to get […]

The Ethnos360 Logo

May 1, 2017

On the team I’m part of, some brilliant and creative people have been working hard over months to get a logo together that visually represents who we are and what we do. Here’s what they produced: I love it! The 360 in our name basically stands for “Around the World”, so a circular or globe […]

Hacking for Jesus

November 7, 2016

Well I sure am tired, but man did I have fun at the Indigitous Hackathon! Here was the space where our team was working: I was able to contribute some code to add an admin interface to the BibleBox setup on a Raspberry Pi. With this setup, missionaries, Pastors, whoever can share videos, bible passages, […]

How to: Stop Processing Filters in WordPress

October 4, 2016

Warning! WordPress 4.7 revamps how the actions and filters are handled, and as a result, this method no longer works! Sorry :/ A problem I ran into on a job this week was a contact form plugin that uses irreversible form field invalidation. In short, once a field has been marked invalid, it’s impossible to […]

Live and Almost Live

September 27, 2016

For the past few months I’ve been knee deep in two big website projects. Last week, one of those projects (ntm-aviation.org) has officially gone live and it’s so exciting! Unfortunately, going live is not a short process. Oh I got the site up and running in less than an hour, but with the influx of […]

Home buyers!

June 21, 2016

Our big news this month is the house! We’re under contract and out of underwriting and a bunch of other legal-sounding things on this house: It’s a short bike ride to work, and a manageable walk to downtown with the kids. We really love the area and are so excited to hopefully be homeowners soon. […]

This Week’s Project: Old Code

May 12, 2016

This week was "slow" in that there were no fires to put out, and no big to-do's due any time soon. That means that instead of working on what needs to be done right away, I was able to dig into some projects that were on the back burner...