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Category Archives: Refactoring
Dangerous Prayers and a Sloppy Wet Kiss
Have you ever prayed a dangerous prayer? Not merely a brave or even a sacrificial type of prayer, but a truly dangerous prayer? Have you ever prayed something you’re a little squeamish about, even though you know it’s the right … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Christian-life, God, New Beginnings, Personal, Prayer, Refactoring, Trust
Tagged Christian, Divorce, faith, forgiveness, God, grace, Growth, new beginnings, personal, Prayer, refactoring
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While in those Waiting Rooms
Waiting rooms. Special, dreary places that serve only one purpose: to wait in. I don’t like waiting rooms — never have, never will! Who does? In waiting rooms, there isn’t much else you can do except…wait. Particularly when you’re in a … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Christian-life, New Beginnings, Personal, Refactoring
Tagged Bible, Books, Character, God, refactoring
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Life After Divorce: No Dating Allowed
Dating. For recently divorced people, it’s often the proverbial elephant in the room. The subject of dating usually comes up right after the uncomfortable admission of divorce is uttered. Along with deciding to stay put in Colorado until my youngest daughter graduates … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Christian-life, New Beginnings, Personal, Refactoring, transitions, Trust
Tagged Character, Christian, Dating, Divorce, faith, God, Growth, personal, Prayer, transitions
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Being Fleshed Out – Emergent Design
In our latest adventure at work, we’re racing headlong and headfirst down the road of “emergent design” in Agile software development. We’re learning how to “fail fast and fail often” the hard way, and it’s been a challenge to determine whether … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Personal, Refactoring, Software, transitions, Trust, Work
Tagged faith, personal, refactoring, software, transitions
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Life is Short… Walk with God
Ashley Madison — the scandal that just won’t go away. Though the Ashley Madison hack/scandal is already a few months old, the repercussions continue to be felt throughout the corporate and religious world. The most recent update is that Gawker has … Continue reading
Posted in Christian-life, Refactoring
Tagged Christian, faith, forgiveness, God, grace, refactoring
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Iteration Retros – The Airing of Grievances
One of the better team practices in software development is to hold retrospectives after every development cycle (iteration, sprint, release, etc.). Iteration retros give the team an opportunity to review the user-stories (requirements) that were completed and discuss ways of improving the next … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Refactoring, Work
Tagged Agile development, forgiveness, God, grace, meetings, refactoring, software
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Being Thankful for Unanswered Prayers??
Something that’s been on my mind quite a bit lately is the matter of unanswered prayers. Most of us spend so much time and energy on how badly we want our prayers to be answered that we don’t think about all those prayers He … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Christian-life, New Beginnings, Personal, Prayer, Refactoring, Trust
Tagged Character, Christian, faith, God, grace, Growth, Prayer, refactoring
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The Cell – Refactored!
Now available on the Kindle! In keeping with the theme of “Being Refactored”, my latest novel is available for download at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B014XN066M! “The Cell – Into the Underground” is a heavy revision of my third novel, “The Cell – Twilight’s Last … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Christian-life, Refactoring, Writing
Tagged Books, Christian, faith, refactoring, writing
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Refactoring and Being Refactored
Before I go too far down the road with this blog, some basic terminology and concepts should probably be explained. First off, what is meant by “refactoring”? From Refactor.com: refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of … Continue reading
Posted in Christian-life, New Beginnings, Refactoring, Software
Tagged faith, God, grace, new beginnings, refactoring, software, writing
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Sunday: a Day of Rest?!?!
It’s Sunday morning, and though I should have slept in at least to my normal time, I awoke at 3am and wasn’t able to get back to sleep. Most mornings, one of the cats (Romeo) starts howling for breakfast around … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, God, grace, israel, pets, sundays, volunteering
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