Rod Morehead's Blog

Neurospicy Digressions: Faith, Tech, and Everything in Between

  • Stewardship Testimony

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    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…

  • Champion What Makes You Unique

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    A phone call told use that “they should have called you and let you know that the plumber wasn’t coming”. So, as I embark upon my new job search, I hope I have learned the lesson of the one handed plumber well.

  • Breaking up with Singleton

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    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.

  • A Gentle Introduction to using RSS

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    RSS contains the following information: Links to the most recent articles on the site Titles, descriptions, and other details of the articles and the website The good news is that you never have to edit or save an RSS file, that is the job of the website, they keep their RSS file updated with the…

  • Whatsa matter buddy? Yous gotta problem with Javascript?

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    I’ve seen great assembly language, bad Java, scintillating Visual Basic, poor Python, ludicrous lisp, crisp Hypertalk, and even some very good Javascript. Lisp and C++ users regularly look down on programmers using almost any other programming language because the barrier of entry to Lisp and C++ is high.

  • A Moral for the Madagascar DVD

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    Being a parent forces me look for the message behind a movie. At the beginning of the movie Alex the Lion looks macho to the citizens of New York, but he is really living a shallow, passive, actor’s existence being careful to “never bite the hand that feeds you.”

  • Work Recognition

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    To me hockey players are the ultimate love of the game group: “Growing up we always played baseball, football and basketball. The best hockey players play in the IIHF World Championship every year, even during an era when the US Olympic baskball team can’t even attract players who actually are interested in playing.

  • The Truly Ecumenical Pope

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    As usual Orson Scott Card says something better than I could ever hope in his World Watch column Why I Miss Karol Wojtyla: John Paul II, more than any other Pope, united, in feeling if not in fact, Christians who take the divine Redeemer seriously.

  • Self critique and the surgeon

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    Even the most fundamental truths about software development are easy to forget, like that software development is rarely easy, and shouldn’t be. Management uses phrases like “keeping you hand dirty”, but I still think in terms of being a “real software developer” so I can help make better software.

  • Robert Martin hits the nail on the head about craftsmanship

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    Part of it reads: I hope the next big thing is the growth of professionalism and craftsmanship, and the realization that these are the attributes, not documented process or raw manpower, that will make our industry productive, accurate, and respected.

  • Late Night Lego Fishing

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    It was able to pull the lego piece back up against the grate and I was hopeful that with a few more tries would be enough to have the lego sucked into the empty vacuum cleaner where it could easily be retrieved.