Magician’s Plea – Unpaused
I wrote the lyrics for Magician’s Plea after a 1987 or 1988 visit to Disney World with my parents. We went on various theme rides and I just wanted to be entertained. I wanted to let go and believe in … Continued
What’s up, Docker?
Docker. It’s a technology I’d heard of several years ago and hadn’t looked into. I finally started reading about it. It looked interesting and I’ve been wondering about using it in my Laravel development workflows. One of my goals in … Continued
Rabid Beaver
Customer: “What happens if I don’t pay?” Seller: “Then we send over a rabid beaver to gnaw off your arms.” Customer: (looks shocked) Seller: “Just kidding, ha ha!” Customer: (looks quizically at seller) Seller: “He’ll probaly just start with your … Continued
Putting the Mentor Back Into Tormentor
When I was in Grade 7, maybe Grade 8, I played a trick on one of my classmates. I’ll call him Bohdan. The teacher called on Bohdan to stand up and answer a couple of questions. I could see he … Continued
KL takes a tumble
KL took a big dip today. It really took a tumble. Came down like the snow came down last week. I chased the alerts down to around $43.30. It seemed to let up there, holding around $43.70. What does all … Continued
Adding Jasmine unit testing to Hello Bruce Trail
Introduction Development of the integrated Hello Bruce Trail is shifting to more of a focus on the front end. After reading several articles about test tools for JavaScript, I decided to look into adding tools like Jasmine and Karma to … Continued
Hello Bruce Trail 0.3.1
I deployed the 0.3.1 version of the integrated Hello Bruce Trail site to the demo site this week. It incorporates various under-the-hood changes that support CRUD operations (create, retrieve, update, delete) on Geomaps and the ability to upload photos. As … Continued
Video blog – Entrepreneurial Challenges
A couple of weeks ago right before one of my morning possibility call, I watched a video from a link that one of the call leaders had shared with me. It was a Darren Hardy inspirational video. I got inspired … Continued
Automating WordPress Theme Options – Part 1
The purpose of this article is to explore and create a way to automate the copying of theme settings from one WordPress site installation to another. A common workflow when adding a new feature or design component to a WordPress … Continued
HPL Guidance Commitee Meeting
I had a meeting with my High Performance Leadership (HPL) team this evening. It was our first meeting with the entire HPL team – previous communication has been individually with the team members. Joe, Charmaine, Kathleen, and I met in … Continued