WordPress Woes – The Difference Between Preview and Publish

When I’m not working on my Rails app (which is most of the time now), one of the things I do is help out with technical stuff for my wife’s business.  (She makes handmade cards focused on pastoral care.  It’s really neat.  Check it out at Weavino Cards.)   I set her up with WooCommerce […]

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How I’m starting – Heroku and Rails tutorials

Like I mentioned before, I have very little web programming experience.  I wrote a little bit of HTML back in the 90′s for class projects of “build a personal webpage”.  A couple of years ago I started a project that used a bit of JavaScript and very, very poorly done CSS.  But most of my […]

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I’m building a web app!

I frequently wonder what it would be like to start a business, but I never had an idea of what I would do. Now I have that idea. My wife recently decided to open an Etsy shop for handmade greeting cards.  She’s been making them for years and has gotten very encouraging feedback about them. […]

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This week in running (09-08-2013)

I’m getting into some of my longest mileage weeks since my target race is about seven weeks out.  The plan I’m following calls for three 20-mile long runs, and this week was my first one. There’s always a tension when I get to this part of my training cycle.  On one hand, I want to […]

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Consuming and Producing

If I’ve had a conversation with you recently, you probably heard me say some variation of “I read on a blog post the other day…”.  I’ve been told it happens quite a bit. I love to read, and I love to learn.  It doesn’t matter what I’m learning about, really.  The jokes about Wikipedia being a […]

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