Stewardship Testimony

Each year my church, Round Grove United Church, has a stewardship program where member’s of the congregation speak for a few minutes on the meaningfulness of the church and how giving has been meaningful. As I look over this congregation, I see mentors who have showed me, showed all of us ways of bearing the good fruit here at Round Grove: My wife Trish – who demonstrated the joy of teaching Sunday School over a decade ago when I hung around at the beginning of her Sunday School to “help out a little”. [...]

Breaking up with Singleton

In Steve Yegge’s Singleton Considered Stupid I found a friend to confirm my now near hatred for the so called singleton design pattern. I found myself callously using singleton to allocate an instance, and then never speaking to singleton or the instance again. [...]