http://mikehaggerty.net Programming and Jesus. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:58:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My pastor asked if I would design a cover for a CD that our church is producing. Always up for a challenge, and having been employeed as the layout editor for my high school's newspaper, I accepted. This was a fun project, but not one without troubles. ... http://mikehaggerty.net/2008/10/22/1st-corinthians-project-cd-cover-design/ Yesterday I started making a website for my church. I basically want to create a glorified address book where church members can go to update their contact information and look up the contact info of others. Nothing to write home about, I know, but it is a good ... http://mikehaggerty.net/2008/10/14/ruby-on-rails-and-unfuddle-so-good-together/ I'm not a very good JavaScript programmer, but today I decided to try and become a little bit better. My usual JavaScript methods involve a lot of hackery. One of the things I have never found a good solution for is passing arguments to a function. With ... http://mikehaggerty.net/2008/10/13/using-jquery-to-facilitate-default-javascript-function-arguments/ [caption id="attachment_17" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="SGCC Statement of Faith Wordle"][/caption] I have been a member of Sovereign Grace Community Church in Roanoke, VA for about 2.5 years now. This is a wordle created using the text of my church's Statement of Faith. http://mikehaggerty.net/2008/10/03/sgcc-statement-of-faith-wordle/ The Virginia Healthcare and Hospital Association needed an application built that could tie together all of the hospitals in the Commonwealth of Virginia for purposes of status notification and disaster alerting. Due to the complex nature of the system, only a custom-developed web based application would do the job. I ... http://mikehaggerty.net/2008/05/22/vhha-mci-application-development/ I used the Static Page Component Doc Generator by Christopher Kent Wigginton to generate some documentation based on the wheels cfcs. I figured that until the documentation was fleshed out a bit more, this might be helpful. You can download a zip or you can browse online. I ... http://mikehaggerty.net/2008/05/20/wheels-api-expolorer/ I have been following the ColdFusion on Wheels project for a while now, and I finally got around to making a video tutorial. It's pretty long (38 minutes) and I have bad allergies (seasonal) right now so my voice is a little nasally and annoying. With those caveats out of ... http://mikehaggerty.net/2008/05/17/making-the-blog-with-coldfusion-on-wheels-part-1/ A few friends have been throwing an annual mustache-themed event in Blacksburg, VA for the past couple of years. They needed a website, so they asked me. Employer: self Skills: php, flickr api URL: http://moustachebash.com Time invested: 10 hours [caption id="attachment_13" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A celebration of the mustache"][/caption] http://mikehaggerty.net/2008/04/22/mustache-bash-website-design/