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Every day we make decisions – what to wear, what to eat and what to do. There are little decisions and big decisions. Perhaps, for most people, the biggest decisions in life are about relationships, marriage (whether to marry and whom to marry) and work.
All the way through the Bible, the importance of this destiny defining decision is stressed. We can see it in all of today’s passages. There is a division of destiny between those who are far and those who are near (Psalm 119). There is a division of destiny between those who hear the gospel and respond with faith, and those who do not combine it with faith (Hebrews 4:2). In the book of Joel, there is a division of destiny between those who call on the name of the Lord and those who do not (Joel 2:32).
Joel goes on to say, ‘Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision’ (3:14).
I love this verse: ‘I rise before dawn and cry for help’ (v.147). Nearly forty years ago I wrote next to it in my Bible, ‘How vital it is to meet with the Lord before the day starts – “before dawn”. From now on I intend always to read and pray immediately when I get up in order to be prepared for the battles each day brings.’ I have not always succeeded in doing this. However, that decision has made a huge difference to my life.
There is a distinction, according to the psalmist, between those who are far from God and those who are near to him. The psalmist writes, ‘Those who devise wicked schemes are near, but they are far from your law. Yet you are near, O Lord’ (vv.150–151).
The psalmist has made a decision to ‘call [to God] with all my heart… I call out to you; save me’ (vv.145–146).
As those who are out to get him come closer and closer, the psalmist is able to say: ‘But you’re the closest of all to me, God’ (v.151, MSG).
Are you experiencing ‘God’s rest’ in your life? Or are you worn out trying to control everything and everyone around you? Maybe it is time to resign as general manager of the universe and start believing God’s promises and trusting God to do what only he can do.
The way to find ‘rest’ for your soul is to listen to God’s promises, believe them and show that you believe them by living in obedience to the word of God.
Many people hear the gospel. When you hear the gospel you have to make the most important decision of your life. Do you respond with faith and believe? Or do you respond by hardening your heart and disobeying?
The writer of Hebrews says, ‘We received the same promises as those people in the wilderness, but the promises didn’t do them a bit of good because they didn’t receive the promises with faith’ (v.2, MSG). He urges them not to harden their hearts (v.7) or to fall through disobedience (v.11).
God’s promise to everyone who believes in the gospel is that they will enter his rest (v.1): ‘If we believe… we’ll experience that state of resting’ (v.3, MSG).
In this life, there will always be trials and testing. It is never going to be without times of turmoil. However, the moment that you believe the gospel, you have the promise of God’s eventual and eternal rest: ‘And at the end of the journey we’ll surely rest with God’ (v.10, MSG).
One day, every human being will have to give an account before God: ‘Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account’ (v.13).
In the meantime, you have an amazing opportunity to experience a foretaste of that ‘rest’ as you open your heart to the word of God, for ‘the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword… it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart’ (v.12).
As you open yourself day by day, the word of God penetrates your inner being, revealing areas of your life (‘the thoughts and attitudes of the heart’) that you need to sort out. At times, this may seem painful and challenging. However, the purpose is to prepare you for entering God’s rest.
Today, you can enjoy God’s rest and peace as you trust in him and his word believing that he will take care of you and provide for all your needs.
Lord, I believe your promises. Thank you that I can look forward to entering into an eternity of your rest. Thank you that even now I get a foretaste of that rest.
God makes a remarkable promise that is recalled in the New Testament: ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved’ (2:32; see Acts 2:21; Romans 10:13).
This comes at the end of the great prophecy that Peter quoted on the day of Pentecost: ‘And afterwards, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days… And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved’ (Joel 2:28–32; see also Acts 2:16–21).
Others may have discriminated against you, but God does not discriminate on the basis of your age, gender or situation in life. The promise of salvation and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is for everyone – male and female, young and old. We see this on the Alpha weekends when countless people’s lives are transformed by this promised outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
There are many still in the ‘valley of decision’ (Joel 3:14). The decision of whether or not to call on the name of the Lord has far reaching implications. The New Testament makes absolutely clear that the name of the Lord is Jesus: ‘If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved... for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved”’ (Romans 10:9,13).
Joel promises those who do this that ‘the Lord will be a refuge for his people’ (Joel 3:16). He promises wonderful blessings. He also warns that there is a winepress of God’s judgment (v.13; see Mark 4:29; Matthew 13:39). The book of Revelation refers to the wine press as a description of the judgment of Jesus on the last day.
God’s hope in this passage is that the people will hear this call to make a decision and turn to him. ‘It’s not too late’ (Joel 2:12, MSG). The Lord will ‘take pity on his people’ (v.18): ‘I am sending you grain, new wine and oil, enough to satisfy you fully’ (v.19). He promises, ‘I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten’ (v.25). This is a wonderful promise, especially for those who feel that much of their life has been ‘devoured by locusts’.
As Joyce Meyer puts it, God promises us ‘double for our trouble’. He restores, redeems, renews and revives us by his Spirit. He promises, ‘In that day the mountains will drip with new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house’ (3:18, see also John 7:37–39).
This is all astonishing, good news that you can bring to those who are in the valley of decision.
Lord, thank you that you promise to restore the years the locusts have eaten and to pour out your Holy Spirit on me. Please fill me with your Spirit again today.
‘… the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword… it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart’ (Hebrews 4:12).
Bernard Levin, ‘Clodhoppers on Crusade’, The Times, 27 January 1992.

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Earlier this year I used these simple strategies to build a daily habit of exercise. I wasn’t working out for hours every day, but I was spending some time every day purposefully moving my body. Full disclaimer: exercise has never been a passion of mine. In fact, I’m fairly passionate about not exercising! Creating this daily habit took effort and focus, and I felt so proud of myself for sticking with it and keeping up this commitment every day. High five, self!
Any guesses what happened next?
Our family got sick. Each of us staggered the 10-day virus so it felt like we were sick all month long. It just kept going! I got really exhausted trying to keep up with work, take care of everyone, and find the energy to exercise. I felt tired and overwhelmed. Since working out was still a habit I had to be conscious of sticking with, it was easiest to let slide.
I mean, c’mon, I was sick!
My guess is study habits for you may feel a lot like exercising does for me. It’s not your passion and you’re working to create regular habits that stick. You don’t want to study, but you want to graduate, so you put in the hard work. And often it feels like hard work, no?
What do you do when there is an unexpected stressor?
Do you feel tired and overwhelmed by your study habits like I felt with my exercise routine?
If you identify with any of these signs, you may be stuck in the middle of study burnout. If so, it’s OK. You’re in the right place, and we’re in this together!
Getting off track and missing our goals is normal. Our society puts a lot of pressure on working hard and achieving every goal. I’m a very driven person and am guilty of pushing myself to meet every single goal as a measure of success! I’m prone to be really hard on myself when I don’t hit every single one.
The more experience I have with failure and success, the more I see the process of failure as normal. This is particularly true for students and anyone learning something new.
Learning is a series of failure.
This doesn’t have to be a negative thing! I’m still learning how to be a successful adult who exercises and you are still learning how to be a successful student. The process is tricky. Along the way, we are going to fall back into our old patterns, or sometimes we need to intentionally turn our attention to other things for a time.
The most important thing is to identify where you’re at now and decide where you want to be instead. These strategies help you to get back on track and recover from study burnout.
The best way to change anything is to be clear about where you’re starting from. When you’ve broken your study habits this means admitting you’re off track.
You’ve burned out. Gotten off track. Need to get back to normal. It is OK. Totally Normal.
Perhaps most importantly, offer yourself some kindness.
Be honest about the cause because it helps you identify the best solution. It is also something you can plan ahead for and avoid in the future.
This may seem unconnected, but it’s not! We can’t do our best work when our bodies aren’t working at their best level. I’m prone to try and fix my messed up habits first, rushing to be busy and get a lot done so I’m caught up quickly.
It usually feels like the right thing to do, but rarely works out well for me.
To really work efficiently I have to take care of myself first. This means ensuring I’m eating regularly, healthy meals and getting plenty of sleep. When I have this foundation each day, I’m unstoppable!
Taking care of yourself looks different for each of us, but should center around nutrition and sleep. These basics fuel our bodies to do all of the things they need to do.
A healthy body sustains you!
Part of recovering is regaining some motivation.
Remember, motivation never comes from your assignments and homework. None of us want to do those things. What we want is the result of studying.
Those dreams fuel our motivation to study. We don’t want to exercise every day, but we do it to get the hot bod. Similarly, none of us want to study every day but we want the bigger and better future a degree offers.
Hopefully, you’ve noticed that I haven’t yet suggested you actually DO anything. It goes totally against my action-based tendencies, but I have learned recovery is much more about how you approach things than what you do.
With the foundation of the first three steps, you are positioned better for success. And the process of success starts slowly.
It may feel like starting over with your habits. My exercise habits felt exactly like starting over, but they grew and stuck much more quickly than the first time around.
What other strategies have worked for you to recover from study burnout? Leave a comment below and let me know!
And how solely focus on what you are studying now ?
It is really hard to break a habit like check your phone! I find making it a little more difficult is helpful. Like putting your favorite apps on a different page in your phone, or deleting the app so you have to re-download it before you surf. Just a little bit of challenge can be enough to remind you what you are really focused on!
i also struggle to resist checking my phone, but when using pomodoro i turn on flight mode on my phone.

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The noticeable natural things out in the world become heightened, and faith and gratitude come more easily. Go with the flow-As you become calmer about outcomes and detaching there is less effort in making things happen.
Often more, spiritual awakening is accompanied by old age. This is because you know that your time for accountability is near and you are going to be reconnected to your soul. This is because you know that your time for accountability is near and you are going to be reconnected to your soul.


text: Bartłomiej Filipek (Bartek as a shorter version) is a C++ software developer at Xara where he works mostly on text features for advanced document editors. He works remotely from Cracow/Poland. Apart from graphics applications, Bartek also has experience with game development, large-scale systems for aviation, writing graphics drivers and even biofeedback. For seven years Bartek has been regularly blogging. In the early days the topic revolved around graphics programming, and now he focuses on Core C++. In his spare time, he loves assembling trains and Lego with his little son. And he's a collector of large Lego Star Wars models.

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Block & Crown presents their impudent newest hot stuff, called 'Cruz The Beat' with hot bassline and wicked rap vox in it. What a perfect blend for dancefloors! Another great release on 'Which Bottle?' that will work in every DJ set, grab your copy!
Fine Day Bad Boy Bill, Gettoblaster & ZXX feat. SKYLR We Jack.

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We know autonomous cars are coming, but what form will they arrive in?
Autonomous cars are coming. Sure we’ve still got a long way to go, especially when it comes to the ethics and safety behind them, but there’s no changing the fact that they will go into mass production in the very near future. Heck, you only need to look at the fact that an autonomous car just crossed to the continental United States to see just how close we are.
But how will market for self-driving cars evolve once they do arrive? Will human drivers eventually become illegal, as Elon Musk predicts? Or is Bosch’s vision of drivers switching between autonomous and manual modes closer to the mark?
Well those are difficult questions to answer. Especially when, as a new report from The Boston Consulting Group suggests, there are still significant obstacles to overcome before autonomous cars become economically viable.
Indeed, it’s the need for economic caution as much as technological limitations which is likely to see autonomous driving technology rolled out in phases rather than all at once.
The Boston Consulting Group reckons the first autonomous feature to become available will probably be the single-lane highway autopilot, with Teslaâ€™s planned introduction in mid-2015, followed by GMâ€™s version of the feature, called Super Cruise, which will appear in 2016 on an all-new Cadillac vehicle.
By 2017, the management consulting group says, AVs capable of traffic jam autopilot and autonomous valet parking should be on dealersâ€™ lots, followed by highway autopilot with lane changing in 2018. Vehicles capable of urban autopilot could be ready in 2022, paving the way for fully autonomous vehicles by 2025â€”the year when Mercedes, for one, expects to debut its first full autonomous model (which presumably will look something like at the F-015 it showed off at CES earlier this year).
That said, new entrants from the technology sector could accelerate that timeline and speed up adoption.
In developed markets at least, the opportunity for manufacturers and tech providers seems pretty significant.
Boston Consulting Group conducted a study of 5 000 US drivers which shows that more than 50% of consumers would likely buy a partially self-driving car, and more than 40% would buy a fully self-driving vehicle. A further 17% said they would pay that much for multiple features, including urban autopilot and self-parking. Consumers in other markets, such as China, Germany, and Japan, would be willing to pay even more, the group claims.
Of course, saying you’ll do something and actually doing it are two very different things. And as we’ve written previously, all the will in the world won’t bring autonomous driving infrastructure to countries that can barely feed their own populations never mind implement proper safety standards.
If manufacturers are looking to get into the autonomous car game though, it does seem they’re better off spending their money in some areas than others.
While it seems unlikely that autonomous cars will totally destroy car ownership, they could disrupt it in a big way. If a company like Uber, which has already seen a small number of people ditch their cars, believes that it will eventually replace its drivers with robo-cabs, then what’s to stop the general population doing the same? That’s something that’ll likely be especially true of people who don’t see the sense of owning something that’s parked 90% of the time (presumably these same people don’t own lawnmowers, or ladders, or book collections).
To be fair, there are locations where using so-called “robo-taxis” does make more sense than owning a private car.
In large cities such as New York, Boston Consulting Group says, to share a commute with three other passengers not only for less than the cost of a conventional taxi and but even for less than the all-in cost (including subsidies and capital investments) of a subway ride. And the cost of a robo-taxi ride in another megacity, Shanghai, would be less than the cost of driving a private vehicle, even if the robo-taxi carried only one passenger.
Of course if you’re trying to get from your remote farm to the village of Nowhereville, chances are you’ll still be better off owning your own vehicle. Still, even the rugged off-roaders of the future will probably come with some autonomous features.

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Queensland’s peak solicitor body has applauded the appointment of Brisbane silk Roger Derrington as a judge of the Federal Court.
Queensland Law Society President Christine Smyth said Mr Derrington, SC, was a highly qualified and respected barrister and a popular lawyer among Brisbane-based solicitors.
“We have no doubt he will be a terrific judge and the Queensland legal community welcomes his appointment with open arms," Ms Smyth said.
“QLS has campaigned long and hard for the appointment of additional Federal Court judges so any new appointment is welcomed.
“However, Queensland is in desperate need of at least five more Circuit and Family Court judges to help cope with the crushing backlog that is causing considerable hardship and heartache for far too many Queensland families."
Mr Derrington’s appointment was one of two announced by the Federal Government late Friday – with a second judge to be based in Sydney.
Mr Derrington will take up his position at the Brisbane Federal Court on Wednesday (Mar 29).
More than a year ago QLS commenced its campaign calling on the Federal Government to rectify the lack of judges sitting in Queensland.
"We had called for the Federal Government to appoint at least two judges – one to the Federal Circuit Court and another to the Family Court – to south-east Queensland in order for Brisbane to cope with the region's overwhelming workload," Ms Smyth said.
The Society had revealed the much-needed two appointments could be funded out of the Federal Government’s announced savings measures to provide additional funding to court operations.
Also pointed out by the Society at the time was that 2015-16 Federal Budget measures would result in greater priority of funds to frontline court services meant up to an additional five judges could be appointed in Queensland.
Ms Smyth said QLS stands ready to engage with the Attorney-General George Brandis on the issue of resourcing and work through the need in Queensland.

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In the aftermath of a brutal Saturday night loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, the forward called his team out for not playing together and said there is no fun around the Celtics.
BOSTON – There was a somber tone in the Celtics’ locker room late Saturday night immediately after being hit with a one-two punch.
First, there were questions about the extent of a knee injury suffered by the team’s best player, Kyrie Irving.
Then, the Celtics had to deal with one of the worst regular-season losses in franchise history after giving up a 28-point lead to a team that had four players making their debuts in a new uniform.
As if all of that wasn’t enough, Marcus Morris, the last player to meet with the media, conducted a five-minute interview with reporters in which he held nothing back concerning the state of the Celtics.
The Celtics had just kicked away an easy win, getting outscored by the Los Angeles Clippers, 83-44, after opening a 68-40 advantage during the second quarter.
It was brutal, and the TD Garden crowd turned on the Celtics with several choruses of boos.
Then, after all of his teams departed the scene, it was Morris’ turn to get critical.
“Guys are hanging their heads. It’s not fun,’’ said Morris. “We’re not competing at a high level. Even though we’re winning, it’s just not fun. I don’t see the joy in the game.
“I watch all these other teams, guys are up on the bench, they jump on the court, they’re doing all the other stuff that looks like their enjoying their teammates’ success and enjoying everything and they’re playing together and they’re playing to win.
There were plenty of stinging comments from Morris, the latest negative note in a season that has had a few of them.
There was Morris and Jaylen Brown getting into a dustup on the bench during a timeout last month in Miami with Morris pushing Brown before teammates intervened.
There was Irving criticizing his younger teammates – probably Brown, Jayson Tatum and Terry Rozier – after a loss to the Magic in Orlando last month, and then Brown called out Irving for that move.
There has also been Irving calling LeBron James to apologize for the way he reacted to James’ leadership when they were together in Cleveland; Irving going back on his October announcement that he’d be re-signing with the Celtics in July; and the rumors involving the Celtics' pursuit in the offseason of Anthony Davis.
It has all added up for some miserable times for the Celtics, who at 35-21 are playing far below their preseason expectations after getting to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals last May.
At least the news about Irving’s knee was good on Sunday. An MRI that was done at New England Baptist Hospital revealed only a strained right knee and he will be evaluated on a day-to-day basis.
As for Morris’ comments, those should linger for quite a while. The Celtics have an important game Tuesday night in Philadelphia and they will be viewed as a team in a bit of chaos.
“The goal has to be to win, bottom line,’’ said Morris, a free agent on July 1. “We have to play to win. That’s sacrificing, playing hard, that’s sacrificing being a better teammate, that’s sacrificing whatever it is. We have to put it to the side. No one’s getting traded. The trade deadline is over.
“We’re competing for a championship and that’s how we’ve got to approach these games. Win, lose or draw, man, you’re going to lose games, but we don’t have no attitude, we don’t have no toughness, we ain’t having fun. It’s going to be a long season.
The Celtics looked like they were on the right path, winning 10-of-11 games before giving up big leads at home to the Los Angeles Lakers and the Clippers within 48 hours. They began Sunday in fifth place in the Eastern Conference.
That special run that the Celtics went on last year without Irving and Gordon Hayward, getting within minutes of a trip to the NBA Finals, seems so long ago now.

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Five day weather forecasts, maps, radar and satellite images for hundreds of Michigan zip codes.
Local weather and forecast. Radar, maps, updates, satellite views, and webcams.
A dependable one-stop source for anyone seeking extensive coverage of Michigan's ever-changing weather. Current conditions, radar and satellite maps, and forecasts.
A resource for learning about and tracking severe weather in SouthEast Michigan.
Current conditions, forecasts, radar, maps, weather cams, kid's weather and more for each city in Michigan.


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As developers and software professionals, we spend a LOT of time learning to think logically and clearly. We also spend a LOT of time gathering and organizing information. However, we spend almost no time learning to use our memory so that we can recall information when we need it.
Not too long ago, it was common for students to be taught how to use their memory to absorb and retain information far more quickly than we do today. Our over-reliance on search engines, to-do lists, and poorly organized notes means we take too long to learn new things, forget to do things we should, and continue to be overwhelmed with information.
This is a rapid, information packed, wide ranging session that draws from recent brain research and discoveries, uncovers what the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Medieval scholars knew about memory, and applies it to the problems modern developers face. I'll show you a better way to read, absorb, and retain information - and it's been around for hundreds of years.
Note: this session presents essentially the same material that was presented in a session at SoCal Fullerton last year. While there is some new information and the presentation is tighter, much of it will be a repeat of previously presented material. Due to huge positive reponse last time (thanks!), I'm doing the same session this year.
Have it or not, it will affect you.
Do you have ADHD? Not sure? Come find out ... how to find out.
Learn what challenges some people face and what can be done to minimize or work around these challenges to increase your productivity, meet deadlines, be more organized, be on top of your tasks and priorities, become more productive overall, which will likely lead to better reviews, and earning more.
Find out how ADHD will likely show up in you or those around you.
Listing each of the 4 groups, how they work, and LOTS of specifics about each.
Learn what advantages can be used by those of you with ADHD and how you can Optimize your Brain to the Fullest.
How to profile your unique brain.
The many scales of measurement and how to track them.
Tracking the many aspects of distractions (inner and outer), including the first awareness of the distraction, and the ability to control and redirect your attention and activities.
Continually increasing your self-awareness (exercises you can do each day).
Tracking progress with metrics. Being able to get the value out of the details without getting lost in the details.
How to use your profile.
Self-Hacking, the Qualtified Self, Personal Informatics.
Self-Coaching - the ultimate goal.
Learn what some of the more common challenges are and what can be done about them. Some examples will be offered from a coaching perspective, and how they were resolved.
Questions from the audience will be received and answered.
Software engineer for more than 20 years, with a Masters degree in psychology, BS in computer information systems, a PMP, and self-employed or running small businesses most of his life, Steve presently is a Success Coach for those wanting to take powerful next steps forward in their life.
An introduction to the widely popular Python programming language.
We'll skip the history and jump right into coding so you are ready to start writing your first unit testable python scripts when you get home.
Seasoned BizTalk consultants tend to accumulate best practices as they implement BizTalk solutions across various projects and clients. In this session we will share some of the tips, techniques and tools that professional BizTalk developers use on a daily basis to improve the quality of their deliverables and reduce development time and effort. We will start with infrastructure aspects such as how to set up projects, naming conventions, and automating tasks for highly repeatable results. Next, we will look at architectural patterns and design approaches that yield more efficient, better performing, more extensible and more robust BizTalk solutions. Join us to learn how you can avoid common pitfalls and improve your BizTalk development experience.
Have you been meaning to make the jump to Git, but just haven't had the time or patience to figure it out?
What makes it so different/better than Subversion, anyway?
And what are some of the underlying design features that make it so ingenious? ... and so fast?
Just in case you haven't heard -- Git rocks!
It's the new de facto standard distributed version control system (DVCS). But it's also a very deep toolset, and so can be intimidating at first, and possibly unlike what you've used before.
The goal of this session is to demystify Git and just what makes it different, faster, and more flexible.
With this short session under your belt, you'll finally 'grok' Git, and really understand what makes it different from SVN and others.
With the basics demystified, you'll be able to proceed onward with confidence, and harness some of its awesome power on your own projects.
We'll also provide a list of helpful resources for further study and practice.
No more excuses -- let's get Git!
This session will NOT deal with advanced workflows. The primary focus of the session is understanding its underlying concepts. WIth those concepts under your belt, you'll now be in a much better position to move ahead on your own, and take advantage of all the other helpful resources available.
Learn the ins and outs of Nuget and Package Repostiory Management.
Screen casting 101 - Become a millionaire!
Want to be come a millionaire doing screen casting? You can! I'll explain how and I'll teach you what you need to know to get started with screen casting. No prior screen casting experience necessary.
Want cleaner views? Code cluttering up your views? Try parrot, risk free* for 90 days. In this session I'll be talking about my new view engine, Parrot.
Parrot strives to remove code from your views. This hopes to result in cleaner, easier to maintain views.
By the end of this talk, you'll be able to understand the parrot syntax as well as use Parrot in your mvc apps.
*not actually a product. 'tis a joke, son. nice kid, but about as sharp as a bowling ball.
We will consider different architectures and implementations with Microsft tools to move data across environments during the software development life-cycle. Whether you start from scratch working under eXtremeProgramming, or you have to establish processes in already existing organization working under waterfall methodology, whether the data to move is 1 KB or terabytes, we will uncover ways to handle the tasks and outline the cons and pros of each approach.
Machine learning is proliferating due to the demand from small devices to business intelligence on big data.
In this talk, I will discussion the principle of machine learning from the ground up without relying on any black box package. Such approach can be adapted to a wide variety of situations.
I will first introduce cost function and the gradient descent method for optimization. I will apply the approach to binary classification (true or false). Then I will extend the idea to multiple classifications. Then I will discuss supervised learning on high dimensional problem using neural network and kernel methods (e.g. support vector machine). Time permitting, I will also discuss unsupervised learning such as clustering with k-mean and dimension reduction with principle component analysis.
This session explores the Arduino open source hardware platform and how to program it using their C++ development environment. Actual hardware will be used to demonstrate how easy it is to learn and what can be done with this platform.
The San Diego Hardware Hackers SIG meets the 2nd. Tuesday each month in the Microsoft UTC offices. There is no cost to attend these meetings & free pizza is provided.
If your application relies on simple string comparison to search through text-based data, you might want to learn about an alternative approach. In this session, I will introduce you to Apache Lucene and Apache Solr, discuss what they offer, and show you how to use them to build your own search feature.
Make sure you attend part 1.With lots of new material for 2013, this session will guide any level of programmer to greater productivity by providing the information needed to write consistent, maintainable code. Learn about common coding mistakes, code style, defensive programming and much, much more. Code tips are included to help you write better, error free applications. Lots of code examples in C# and VB.NET. This session is based off my latest book, David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards.
Cassandra has emerged as one of the world's most relied-upon distributed NoSQL databases, invented at Facebook and used by companies like Twitter, Netflix, RackSpace, Instagram, and hundreds of others.
In this talk you'll learn about how Cassandra works, when you should use it, its ecosystem, and how to write a simple app that leverages it.
iOS has several powerful frameworks and utilities for playing, streaming and creating video. While the APIs provided by Apple are relatively simple, the underlying requirements of video files and video streaming can be daunting to developers. The knowledge about digital video gained in this session will be useful to any technologist, even beyond the scope of iOS.
Stop wasting time writing unnecessary code and start focusing on the code that really matters. Aspect Oriented Programming keeps us DRY, reduces development and testing time by handling cross cutting “boiler plate” code.
You may have heard about AOP and how it’s great for logging. Sure, it’s great for logging. But what you haven’t heard is the tremendous power it gives you over your code.
What you haven’t heard is how is will reduce your LOC, reduce complexity and increase reusability How does automating the implementation of several well known design patterns such as INotifyPropertyChanged sound to you? Never bother writing that code ever again!
How about retro actively applying aspects to legacy projects with a single line of code?
In this session, you’ll learn how to take advantage of AOP to make your life better and I’ll even show you a capability of AOP that will blow your mind!
Microsoft Dynamics CRM allows for the rapid development of line of business applications building on core Microsoft technologies such as asp.net, C#, WWF, SSRS and SQL Server. In this session we will cover the xRM features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and build a functional application.  Using the tools in CRM you can reduce development time by up to 80% while providing a secure robust solutions.
Node, Mongo, Backbone, and Kendo UI - Oh My!
Node.js is one of the most popular repositories on GitHub. Unfortunately it is still difficult to get a good foothold in understand Node since so many of the tutorials show super simple examples and not the way it is used in a production app. In this session I will show how to use Node, Express, Mongo, Backbone, and Kendo UI together to build the core of a real app.
This session will move somewhat quickly in order to cover all the material but all of the source code and slides will be available after the session. If you would like to check out some Node tutorials before the session, please check out my blog: http://therockncoder.blogspot.com/.
You've probably heard of PhoneGap, the free, open source framework for creating mobile apps using standard web programming, but maybe you're skeptical. You probably have a lot of questions. How easy is it to create an app with PhoneGap? Can I convert my web site to a mobile app? Will the app be too slow to use?
In the session I will, with nothing up my sleeves, convert a mobile web site into a PhoneGap app for both iOS and Android. I will take advantage of both device and HTML5 features. I will show solutions to the performance challenges PhoneGap apps sometimes suffer from. I will show to structure your web site to make it easy to convert to a device app. And finally I will show strategies around one of PhoneGaps biggest headaches - debugging.
Whether you want to contribute to an open source project, or your company has remote developers. Learn the why and how open source developers are embracing Git and GitHub for distributed development environments.
Learn more about Git and Git Branching!
Why is Node.js a good fit for soft real-time websites / applications?
Building out an example interactive website that everyone can interact with.
Learn why someone would choose to use Node.js over competing platforms as well as how to get started on your own Node.js website.
Building an IT support team people like!
We will have a fun time using videos, comics, jokes, etc to learn how to create a team that loves to help its users.
The various reputations IT support departments have and why, sometimes, they are well deserved.
1st hint: You're a service department. If your users weren't there you wouldn't have a job.
2nd hit: you're a serivce department. Your users' success should be directly and positively impacted as a result of your service, not despite it.
When your users call do they do it with dread or excitement and confidence that they'll get helped.
When your users hang up, read your email, see the support ticket closed, how do you want them to feel?
Protocols and workflow so things don't get "lost"
Be involved. This is more of a discussion than me simply presenting to you. Hang out, ask questions, give tips about things you see that work well or you'd like to see done.
Orchard is an open source content management system (CMS) based on the modern ASP.NET MVC framework. It has a very clean architecture, and is extensible and developer-friendly.
In this presentation, we will discuss about customizing Orchard with WebMatrix and Visual Studio. We will start by discussing the architecture and the design tool. We will then drill down into creating custom theme and create custom modules.
Orchard is an open source content management system (CMS) based on ASP.NET MVC technology. It is created by the ASP.NET team and other contributors from the ASP.NET community. Borrowing good ideas from WordPress, Orchard has a proven user interface design, modern architecture and is extremely developer friendly and capable. In this presentation, we will give a gentle introduction to the Orchard CMS. We will start with installing WebMatrix tool and downloading Orchard to create a local development environment. We will demonstrate the basic concept and workflow. We will show how to enhance the site by downloading themes and modules. At last, we will demonstrate how to publish an Orchard website to a free Azure website. It is possible to create a fully functional website running on Azure completely free in 60 minutes Time permitting, we will also demonstrate the workflow including git version control system and automatic Azure publishing from git. This presentation does not have any prerequisite. Familiarity with html is helpful but not required.
HTML5 is the hottest buzzword on the web. It gives a lot of new features to websites, so many in fact that it makes it possible to create a fairly decent game in the browser without using a proprietary solution like Flash. Now, we aren't talking about a sequel to Call of Duty, but instead a casual game more in the vein of Bejeweled. When you combine HTML5 with jQuery Mobile you have a great platform for making games which can be played on all of the latest and greatest mobile devices.
In this session I will cover the basics of Ruby on Rails framework. Join me for some fun RoR action!
Have you ever not gotten a job due to not being prepared for the technical interview? I've have interviewed 100's of software developers and will share my knowledge on how to survive, what we look for and even divulge some of the secrets we use during the process. This session will include advice from hiring managers, recruiters and engineers that were recently hired at a new company!
Have you ever not gotten a job due to not being prepared for the technical interview? Do you want a big raise?I've have interviewed 100's of software developers and will share my knowledge on how to survive, what we look for and even divulge some of the secrets we use during the process. This session will include advice from hiring managers, recruiters and engineers that were recently hired at a new company!
With lots of new material for 2013, this session will guide any level of programmer to greater productivity by providing the information needed to write consistent, maintainable code. Learn about common coding mistakes, code style, defensive programming and much, much more. Code tips are included to help you write better, error free applications. Lots of code examples in C# and VB.NET. This session is based off my latest book, David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards. Make sure to attend part 2.
You don’t have to put you ear on the ground, and still, can literally hear it coming. The broad introduction of Voice User Interfaces, allowing the interaction with mobile devices through voice, may become the biggest advancement in user interface design since the transition from text-based to graphical user interfaces.
We are taking a closer look at Android’s Speech-To-Text (STT) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) capabilities – and will develop and deploy three small apps, each a little more capable, and finally walk through the steps of building a voice controlled assistant.
Finally, we will turn our attention to the Browser and voice-enable Web applications.
If you are exposing data using WCF you have probably experienced a number of problems. The problems boil down to creation and maintenance of large amounts of methods to support a large number of types or types of queries. Using WCF Data Services and the OData protocol you can expose your entire data model (not your database) in a REST-based standard using one line of code. In addition clients can craft custom queries against your model without having to modify services to create additional methods.
In the introductory talk, we will talk about how to expose a WCF Data Service using an Entity Data Model, how to customize the Atom feed that results, and how to consume that service from a .NET client.
Do you have a great app idea and want to see that app on iOS, Android, and Windows quickly? Learn how you can leverage frameworks such as Unity, Xamarin, and Scirra Construct2 to build a cross-platform app. We will take a look at a few frameworks and walkthrough building an app and porting the app.
Finally, the long awaited release of ASP.NET 4.5 is here. This session explores the great new features that have been added to in place update known as ASP.NET 4.5. Features explored will include the new request validation options, membership additions and changes including OpenId, OAuth, and Simple Membership, the Web API, MVC4 changes, and Web Forms additions. There will be some discussion of the Entity Framework features involved, since they directly relate to some of the new ASP.NET features as well. Web Forms developers suffering from MVC envy now have reason to celebrate with some great new Web Forms strongly typed control additions as well. We'll explore some new Visual Studio 2012 tooling features that really solidify Visual Studio as the best tool for ASP.NET development.
Developers are notoriously lax with including security in their applications. In an age of hacking, this talk aims to arm the developer with an arsenal of protections to use while developing. This presentation explores the most common attacks on web applications, how they work to exploit your app, and most importantly, how to protect against them. Techniques from the OWASP Top 10 list such as Cross Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Session Hijacking, and Cross Site Request Forgery will be covered. ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC will be covered, as both have pros and cons that will be explored. We will start with a 'broken' application and secure it throughout the presentation. Leave this presentation empowered to immediately start protecting your applications!
• Do you know how to deploy apps retail mode?
• How about easily configuring SSL on your dev box?
• How do multiple ajax requests and the session object affect your application?
• How can I debug when I get the dreaded "?" icon on my breakpoints?
• How can I effectively cache in MVC and how can this help me replace the lack of Viewstate?
• How can I debug an error that is happening in production? Then this session is definitely for you! Help fill your head with useful tidbits to help you cruise in your next web project!
One of the amazing new feature of .NET 4.0 is addition of System.ServiceModel.Routing namespace (aka: routing service). Out of the box the routing service allows us to route messages from one endpoint to other endpoint(s). This is really nice in creating optimized architecture implementation. A good example of such implementation is a load-balancing application.
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce you to a method where you can not only route messages using the System.ServiceModel.Routing namespace but also modify its contents.
Waterfall is Dead: Move On! In today's world, the success of your career is hinged on the ability to adapt to your environment. Learn what the Agile Manifesto is and why it is important. Discover how to manage unpredictability through sprints. Understand the basics of an Agile Project Lifecycle. Increase work team productivity with timeboxing and stand-ups. Learn who owns the product backlog and how it gets worked.
A hands-on introduction to Ruby, the best programming language in the world. We'll be going over what Ruby is, what it's used for, and how to get started programming in it. Bring your laptops!
Microframeworks are the new black and Flask is one of the more popular ones. It's for Python and fun to use for REST applications.
We will explore how microframeworks differ and how to use flask in your (RESTful) projects.
This talk discusses how to understand the funding landscape to prepare your startup for fund raising.
Giang Biscan is a serial entrepreneur and a supper connector, helping early staged technology startups raise seed and series A funding. Her three successful exits include a technology that she invented for the minerals processing industry that was acquired by Ludowici in 2001, a technology transfer platform that was acquired by HITES Ltd in 2005 and an entertainment network that was acquired in 1998. She has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle in Australia, and an MBA from UCLA. Currently she is the Founder and CEO of TheStartupAngel.com, a boutique consulting firm that, in the last 3 years, have empowered many entrepreneurs through its fund raising and peer group programs.
Are you tired of sessions that don’t quite cover what you want to learn about? Here is your chance to take part in customizing a session just for you. Attendees will have the opportunity to vote on a selection of IIS related topics and we will cover as many of the top picks as time allows.
Do you want to discuss site deployment, SSL, the art of application pools, site troubleshooting, performance optimizations, load balancers? . . . Trust me you will have a hard time choosing!
You rely on IIS to host your applications. Come learn what you need to know about IIS and how it can make your life easier.
Chapter 3: Site Settings; What did IIS do to your Web.config file?
Chapter 6: Site Deployment; Death to FTP!
Chapter 8: Session State; Get your session state out of process and never fear the recycle again.
Chapter 9: Troubleshooting; Is it broken? Let’s fix it!
Chapter 10: Web Performance; Is it slow? Let’s make it go fast!
The Raspberry Pi is a small credit-card sized linux computer. Developers and hobbyists around the world are creating miraculous applications and projects, and now you can join them. This year's presentation covers the first steps to using your Pi. From the basics, like burning your SD Card to creating a Weather Reporter, you will learn GPIO Basics and simple Python tools. Communication between other components using SPI or I2C will also be covered. It is recommended, but not required that you have a Raspberry Pi, some knowledge of Python and simple electronics.
How should non-technical manages gauge agile team success?
What metrics can we use to gauge the success of an Agile team?
Why are these metrics useful?
How do we use those metrics to guide a team to better results?
What actions can teams take to improve the teams results?
How should we prioritize these actions to get the maximum value out of our time?
Can we datamine to find this information?
Whether you need to deploy a web application to production, convey a proof-of-concept to an audience, or practice development skillsets on the latest server platform, working with EC2 and RDS may give you the technology you need to be up and running in a pinch.
In this session, we will discuss the setup of Amazon Web Services: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service (RDS). We will setup a simple ASPX web application on Windows Server 2012 in EC2 with SQL Server 2012 in RDS.
Following the principles of software craftsmanship will allow you to end up with better maintainability and extensibility of your software and the success of the project in the end.
Why writing Clean Code makes us more efficient Over the lifetime of a product, maintaining the product is actually one - if not the most - expensive area(s) of the overall product costs. Writing clean code can significantly lower these costs. However, writing clean code also makes you more efficient during the initial development time and results in more stable code. You will be presented design patterns and best practices which will make you write better and more easily maintainable code, seeing code in a holistic way. You will learn how to apply them by using an existing implementation as the starting point of the presentation. Finally, patterns & practices benefits are explained.
This presentation is based on C# and Visual Studio 2012. However, the demonstrated patterns and practice can be applied to every other programming language too.
Within this session, we will explore different possibilities for collecting and analyzing the needed information to solve issues on modern distributed application and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each approach like debugger, log files, performance counter and third party solutions. The focus of this session will be on Developer and DevOps needs, as increased release cycles and third party dependency more and more result in the need for troubleshooting also on production system, rather than in an isolated test environment.
This session requires a solid understanding of distributed applications and knowledge of SOA, but most principles also apply to and can be beneficial for more traditional application design approaches. The used code examples are in .NET but the shown principles generally apply to other languages, too, and shown software is often available for a variety of environments.
Conitnuing where we left off in part one of this session, we will create a simple one page website. See the example below for a sneak peak of what we will be builing.
In this introductory session we will cover what Responsive Web Design or RWD is all about. We will discuss the elements of RWD and best practices involved in buiding a web application that not only looks great but works great on any devices including mobile devices.
You've officially leveled-up in the world of software development with Visual Studio, and you now find yourself working on projects that are infinitely larger and far more complex than anything you've worked on before. Time to beef up your debugging skills not only to debug, but sometimes just to learn the flow of a given process! Plain old break-points have always gotten you by, but now you quickly run into trickier situations that come close to making your head explode. Come and learn some new debugging tricks & tips to bring your debugging skills to new heights.
Quick overview of the SQL# CLR library and then we'll examine a few implementations of some of the functions that I've found useful. Some examples will include string manipulation, file handling, as well as some RegEx usage. There are over 225 procedures and functions, user defined aggregates, and user defined types ... and counting. Come explore some of the interesting problems that SQL# can solve. If you'd like to download an view the CLR library ahead of the presentation, you can get most of the CLR features for free at www.sqlsharp.com.
WordPress is a very popular web tool for building and publishing blogs. Did you know you can build a full featured website, as well? Over 60 million websites use WordPress for eCommerce, club sites, and more. PayPal can be integrated into your subscription membership to monetize it. This WordPress Workshop level 101 provides what you need to get started building and monetizing your creativity!
Play is a powerful method to learn! Come and play some simple agile games to explore the different values that are at the foundation of Agile and Lean development practices.
When coding using TDD, do you often run into a point when you have to “implement the whole thing”? The sequence of tests that we write significantly impacts where are code ends up! We’ll explore Uncle Bob’s Transformation Priority Premise, looking at the transformations that code goes through and how our tests can drive the code in different directions.
What is a design pattern? Why should you care? What it the power of design patterns? How do design patterns tie into object oriented programming? If I'm using objects in my code, isn't that object oriented programming? (The answer is not necessarily!) When should I use them?
Design Patterns are great but the temptation is to use Design Patterns as a golden hammer. This can lead to unnecessarily complicated, over-engineered code in an effort to be flexible and ready for the future. That sounds reasonable - if you happen to be a psychic. More commonly, you will refactor to a pattern when the code (that you’ve written simply and minimally) demands it.
We'll talk about why you should know common design patterns, why they are powerful, how they relate to object oriented principles, different composite refactorings that will move you to (and sometimes away) from patterns and the smells that help you know when to apply them.
In this session we'll quickly go over our best tips on using SQL Server. We'll show you shortcuts, tools, great practices, and hidden gems on how to manage SQL data. We'll have a great tip for SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Performance Tuning, Architecture, Design, and Software Development. Come prepared to share your own tips and be interactive.
In this talk, we spend time introducing the key concepts and importance of continuous integration. We then discuss why SQL databases are challenging in a CI environment and how to overcome those challenges.
Come get an overview of the Windows Azure features and hear about my company's migration from hardware maintained in a hosted environment to a no-infrastructure shop with everything running in Windows Azure at 90% less cost. I'll also talk about some cool ways that we're using Azure Blob storage.
Windows Azure Web Sites are easy to deploy and maintain, and are not limited to .NET development. Come learn about WAWS using Visual Studio, and learn about the differences between this feature and the traditional PAAS web roles offered in Windows Azure.
Giving good presentations is a skill that all programmers should have. Whether you're talking about something at your work or at a conference, this talk will go over some of the basics and some things to avoid. I'll also talk about why you should want to present, show some different types of presentations and give examples of how to apply the ideas.
I'll go over how to setup the ksoap 2 library and get it to talk to a .Net Webservice which will in turn pull data from a MS SQL Server. I'll also go over common traps I've found myself in while using it and debugging techniques that I've found helpful. It's really great if you want to have a .Net website with an addon Android app.
This session discusses how to break from this old &quot;organizational gravity&quot; by embracing the concepts of Scrum at the organizational level to build toward the realization of a truly agile enterprise. An enterprise characterized by new levels of productivity, continuous innovation, a work force with elevated levels of sustained motivation and job satisfaction, and delighted customers on a continuous long term basis. I call it making Scrum stick.
Embrace Scrum for your whole organization; move into the fast lane. It&rsquo;s hard work but immensely rewarding.
Are you having difficulty managing your projects? Are you about to enter the uncharted territory of project management? Do you know how to communicate effectively to your customer, teammates, and your management? Come early, sit close and get some common sense, experienced based tips and pointers on how to improve your skills. Discover how to find the ‘right’ people for your team. Learn the practical elements of working with customers, people, technology, process, and “connecting” them successfully to be more effective at your job. You will leave with demonstrable actions that you can apply at your next day back at work.
Time to make a career move? Afraid to make the jump into the deep end of the pool? Looking for direction? Want to create a new company?
Hate your job? This is a safe environment to talk out loud and hear from experiences that worked for others.
What’s this? Another acronym? Well if you haven’t yet seen MVVM in action this will be a good class for you.
In this class we will discuss what MVVM is, what it isn’t, and see it in action using Knockout JS.
NancyFX – A lightweight web framework you didn’t know you should be using.
If you like MVC you’re going to love NancyFX.
In this presentation we will build a basic web application on the framework from the ground up showcasing many of the best features of the framework.
Based on the Ruby DSL Framework named Sinatra NancyFX is a lightweight framework that is easy to use, deploy, and extend. Its main features are ease of use, small resource requirements, and support for extensibility.
The techniques for building applications have changed dramatically in the last few years. Gone are the days of single-tier, battle-ship gray, boring user interfaces. Users demand that your applications (or portions) run on more than one device. This session will take you on a tour of how you should be architecting your application by breaking it up into services. You will learn how to create your business rules and data layer as a service. This seminar will assume you have some knowledge of .NET but have been developing applications the old way and you are now looking to see how to use WCF and the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) design pattern to create applications that can be run one more than one user interface platform. This session has many demonstrations and you will be led step-by-step through the code. You will walk away with a sample set of services that run on Silverlight, Windows Forms, WPF, Windows Phone and ASP.NET.
We introduce network/graphical data, its features, how to represent it, and how to compute on it. As an example that you can adapt for your own software, we will develop a critical, but simple and practical algorithm that calculates a best path over relationships (Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm).
Using the googleapis in Node.js to interact with Glass.
Inserting Cards into the Glass timeline.
Subscribing to events on Glass.
If you want to prove that a complex system works, a good place to start is to check that each piece is working right. Unit testing intends to do just that: take a unit of your code, and verify that it behaves properly. Unfortunately, in "real software", classes interact with other parts of the system, which makes testing in isolation difficult. Mocking is a technique designed to overcome that issue: replacing dependencies by Mocks, lightweight versions of the "real thing", allows you to validate the interactions of a class with its collaborators.
I will discuss reasons you should care about mocks, illustrate how you would go about addressing them by rolling your own mocks & stubs, and demonstrate free, open-source frameworks, Moq and NSubstitute, which greatly simplify the process. Mocks and Stubs can sound intimidating; the goal of this presentation is to demystify the topic and give you a clear understanding of what they are, where they can help you, and to give you a good quick-start so that you can productively use them in your own code.
The purpose is to demonstrate how LightSwitch allows you to create professional business applications that would take a developer days to create. With LightSwitch you can create such applications in under an hour.
ComponentOne will raffle off a license to their Ultimate suite. Plus, plenty of additional swag will be available.
Angular JS with ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI.
In this session, you will learn the alternatives available for building a line of business web application using ASP.NET MVC and see a working sample of a time tracking business application built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
Takeaways: An understanding of the challenges inherent in developing business applications in ASP.NET MVC as well as approaches and alternatives for building business web applications on this platform.
HTML5 Media APIs : Let’s build a camera web app in ASP.NET MVC!
HTML5 gives front end developers many cool tools. We have native access to the camera, video and audio. I will show you how to play media files and how to capture input from a webcam. We will also look at the Canvas tag and learn to draw simple shapes and even video. We will host our camera app in an asp.net mvc application and allow users to save photos.
Lets look at some best practices for building real world Windows 8 apps. That includes using MVVM light to provide dependency injection & messaging. I’ll go over tips for using the app bar, toast notifications & the settings charm. I'll show you how to share data from your app via the share contract. We'll also look at responsive design, file picker, credential locker & facebook authentication.
A lot of work in .NET gets done by converting objects into other formats in order to store (or transmit) the values and then convert back into an object later on. This is known as serialization and deserialization of object state. In this session, you will learn the options available for serialization, formatting and deserialization of objects in .NET, using in order to create SOAP, binary, JSON and XML representations of object state, and how you can customize objects to control what information is serialized and how it is restored.
Takeaways: An understanding of the options for serialization and deserialization, and how to control the formatting of serialized objects using features in the System.Runtime.Serialization and System.Xml.Serialization namespace in .NET.
ASP.NET MVC - What a View!
MongoDB is a very prominent and popular NoSQL database. You may have heard about it, now you can see it in action!
When you want your site to perform under load, you should know how when and why async can help you. Doing it wrong can actually hurt your performance. We'll cover the simple facts and methods you must know in order to solve scalability problems in your application.


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Two-step verification adds an extra level of security to your account by requiring both your password and a verification code to sign in. It's not required, but we do recommend to enable it if possible.
Under two-step verification, click Enable two-step verification.
Choose your two-step verification method — authentication or text message.
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Finish the setup process in your authentication app, or by verifying your phone number.
For international numbers, include the leading “00” and country code when setting up two-step verification.
Keep your backup code in a safe place! If you lose access to your phone, this backup code will be necessary to access your IFTTT account. For account security reasons, we will be unable to retrieve your backup codes for you.
💡Note: You must have access to your existing authentication method or your backup code in order to turn off two-step verification. IFTTT cannot recover your account if you do not have one of those two.
Sign into your IFTTT account settings.
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Who’s already planning for the weekend!? This Saturday, August 18, bring your lawn chairs, grab dinner on the Square and head to the The AMP At Adamson Square as Marc Broussard brings his classic R&B and soul to Downtown Carrollton. The evening kicks off with the Stark Family Band at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE and the event is open to the public.
*No outside photography, videography, broadcast or recording is permitted during concerts and events. Check out our FAQ’s for other information about the AMP!


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Capturing the love between a couple is nothing short of amazing. As an engagement photographer in Bloomsburg, PA I get to see the true and utter happiness that they have each other.
You can see their happiness by the way they move around each other. By the way they touch ever so gently. By the way they look at each other. They give this look that they get lost in each others eyes and love. You KNOW they are saying how much they love each other with their eyes. Wellllll maybe the one of the couple that didn’t want to be there to take photos is actually saying….. “when can we get out of here?”. But either way I KNOW they love each other.
I love when couples come to me and have a vision of what they want their engagement session to look like. I also love when couples leave me to be creative and do my thang. I guess that just says that I love any and all engagement sessions. I get to be with them and laugh with them and enjoy seeing them love each other.


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For many years, American Hydroformers has been one of the leaders in hydroforming technology and friction stir welding technology. Friction stir welding is a type of technique that offers a variety of benefits and advantages over one of the more traditional methods known as fusion welding. Friction stir welding has the ability to create a bond of any size, and this is one of the reasons why it has the ability to serve a wide range of industries.
Every industry continues to have changing priorities and a variety of advanced technologies that can be used to create a variety of applications. As a result, American Hydroformers continues to adapt the friction stir welding process to meet all the needs and demands of the industries. What are we doing to help the automotive, engineering, and aerospace industries move ahead?
A variety of components can be created through friction stir welding. When friction stir welding is used, there will not be a need to bring in additional technology and machining. When there is no need for additional machining, you will be able to save a significant amount of money and time. Friction welding also has the ability to join more than one type of material, and this can also decrease costs. When you are able to join multiple materials, you will not have to worry about using the expensive materials until you really need them.
The machines that are used in friction stir welding are built with a large capacity and they are some of the most advanced machines in the industry. These machines and tools are created to meet all the demands that your industry requires. These machines are also designed to meet the quality requirements and part requirements for the industry.
Many industries require the use of complex shapes, both large and small in size. These small and large parts are required to meet the reliability and quality standards so they can withstand any type of force or impact. When friction stir welding is used, the materials will be bonded together in order to create a stronger result. When the created components are stronger and made of high-quality, the components will have a longer life than they would if the fusion welding process was used.
Do you want to find out how friction stir welding can be used to improve your production and manufacturing processes? Contact us today for more information.


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Cape Town, South Africa: veteran thrash metal band Infiltrate Neutralize Govern (aka: ING) has released an early preview of it’s latest work with ‘Zumatopia’.
ING has always been revered for it’s sharpness of tongue and quickness on the trigger to comment on matters of local and global political interest. The band saw it fit to release a demo version of the first track to be revealed from it’s forthcoming full length album Violence Is Golden, expected later in 2017.
Violence Is Golden will be the fifth release from ING, following a debut EP in 2008, and album in 2009 and 2012, plus a compilation of re-works in 2014. The new album will consist of completely new material to landmark the eighteenth year of the band’s existence, and will clearly display no faltering in ING‘s typical antics and potency.


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This special Debt Recovery section is allied with the DebtSet/Bailiff-Sheriff Australia website. SUBSCRIBE HERE. While much of this section's services are restricted to Bailiff-Sheriff Australia subscribers, there are regular news items posted here to assist business leaders in understanding debt collection procedures and other matters through the courts and tribunals in Australia. Click here to see what Bailiff-Sheriff Australia has to offer your business.
BAILIFF-SHERIFF Australia is an informational website developed by Vale Patrick Asange, long-serving senior bailiff for Brisbane Magistrates Court, supported by Business Acumen magazine.
There is a lot of information available to the public that may assist in dealing with a range of issues related to Australia's various court and tribunal systems. This information is growing all the time.
Now Bailiff-Sheriff Australia has a dedicated area for its subscribers that presents a growing number of specialized articles, interviews and video presentation tutorials.
This special subscriber area was being developed by Pat Asange and continues development by other experienced people in this sector, as a way of helping business leaders to address vital operational areas linked to debt control and management.
ongoing access to the debt recovery training video resources online.
Bailiff-Sheriff Australia is an online resource that addresses the very real problems of debt management in ways that offer great value to businesses around Australia.


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How can I not use this picture for Wordless Wednesday? Gosh, how I love this little clown.
If you haven’t been here is a few days, you’ll notice the big change: I changed my blog’s name to Dagmar’s Home, read here why it’s a perfect fit, and the redesign with a new header, new logo, and nifty sidebar widget it finally up and running. I am so thrilled with it! Let me know how you like it.
I am now the DIY Blogger for EverydayFamily.com and my second project got posted: DIY Glue Paintings: Just Add Glitter!
Just in time with that new position, I’m in the running to be one of the Top 25 Creative Moms and really need your vote! I’m No. 28 right now and it’s just a simple click. You can vote once a day and every vote really counts! If you have a second, please click over there. Thanks!
Let’s get Wordless! More Wordless Wednesday hosts to check out: Live and Love Out Loud, Dear Crissy, Project Alicia, Mommy Paradise, Better in Bulk, Jenny Rain, and Verena’s Schoene Welt.
Oh my goodness!! This is such a cute/funny pic. Love it.
Wow! This post is packed with so much great news. Just voted for you. Fellow Cafe mom top 25~!
Thank you so much for your kind comment and support, Andie!
You have to love a child whol wants to have fun. Always a blessing to have in the family.
funny glasses. i like to try funny glasses on too.
I voted. You’re 25 now, woot!
Fun glasses! Cute shot! Thanks for hosting and all the very best to you with your blog and the competition.
That is so cute. My WW is about clowning around too! Love the new look too! Nice!
Wow! Love the facelift! Really beautiful.
Hahaha, that is one awesome photo!!
Love it! My kids are still so little that even regular kid’s sunglasses are too big, and it’s hilarious when they wear them!
He is adorable…with or without glasses! Blessings to you from NanaHood.com Come link up with me if you have time!
Ha, ha, wie süß! Das Foto gefällt mir! Ich habe natürlich auch gleich für Dich gevoted! Dein neuer Header gefällt mir auch sehr gut und die Farbe auch!
Ich hoffe, dass es Dir und Deiner Familie gut geht.
I tried to sneak my WW link pic in, but because it won’t go live on my blog until 7am UK time, I can’t get it to work (I am so not technical about these things, I am sure there is a way to do it!) Will have to try tomorrow, when I get a moment, I was trying to be organised as I am very busy tomorrow. Oh well! PS I voted!


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EchoEnergy has broken through the barriers to alternative fuel sources. The impact on world markets could be staggering. But amid the euphoria, Sabrina Galloway, one of EE’s top scientists, makes an alarming discovery. Sabotage of the process has unleashed an eco-disaster, and toxic waste is poisoning Florida waters and the Gulf of Mexico.
Youthful congressional chief of staff Jason Brill prepares his boss for the upcoming International Energy Summit. But he’s beginning to realize the senator’s support of EchoEnergy and its CEO may involve more private than public interests.
Sabrina and Jason have never met. But in a world that values corporate greed over human life, they have attracted the notice of silent but powerful enemies. And these relentless shadow players leave tracks all the way from the Middle East to Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Clinically proven to last 5 years, Bellafill offers a smoother look that lasts for patients suffering from pitted acne scars.
Bellafill is the first dermal filler to be approved by the FDA to treat acne scars. By filling in gaps in the collagen layer caused by cystic acne damage, Bellafill creates a natural, soft, and smooth appearance to the skin’s surface.
4.1 Is Bellafill right for me?
4.2 What is treatment with Bellafill like?
4.3 What should I do prior to treatment with Bellafill?
4.4 How much does Bellafill cost?
4.5 What’s the downtime after injection with Bellafill?
4.6 How long does it take to see results of Bellafill, and how long does the effect last?
There are several types of dermal fillers on the market. The most popular ones are hyaluronic acid filers, like Juvederm and Restylane. In the past these fillers were used to correct acne scars, and while they do provide a nice smooth result, they only last a few months. Not only is it inconvenient, but it can also be expensive to use these types of fillers for acne scars.
Bellafill is made of over 80% purified collagen. Logically, it makes sense that we would replace the lost collagen in these scars with collagen.
The added benefit with Bellafil is that this product also stimulates the body to produce more of its own collagen. This means even when Bellafill’s results do start to dissipate in 5 years’ time, studies have shown an increased collagen layer remains in the treated area, and ages in a similar aging pattern to your baseline collagen4,2.
Where hyaluronic acid fillers, like Juvederm and Restylane, have an antidote of sorts, Bellafill does not. Careful placement by skilled, experienced hands are the key to creating a lasting look you love. Our physician injectors have been awarded Diamond-Level Injector Status, a designation reserved for the top 5% of injectors nationwide. Continuing education on the artful mastery of cutting edge placement techniques keep our physicians at the top of their game.
Bellafill can help patients suffering from particular types of acne scars, by replacing lost collagen and creating a smoother skin surface3. The criteria for Bellafill treatment are nuanced, and depend upon the actual structure of each of your scars, so a consultation with one of our physician injectors is recommended to determine which of your scars can benefit from Bellafill injections.
What should I do prior to treatment with Bellafill?
The cost for Bellafill at Reflections is $800 per syringe. Patients generally use a single syringe to treat acne scarring. However, an exact quote based upon your treatment plan will be provided during your complimentary consultation with one of our expert physician injectors.
Don’t just live with acne scars – call us today to schedule a complimentary consultation!
*Bellafil is not right for everyone, or every acne scar. During your consultation, a physician will examine you and provide you with the best options for your acne scar treatment. If Bellafil is not a good option for your acne scar removal, Reflections offers many other treatments and technologies for improving the appearance of acne scars which may be a better fit.

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America’s Charities, the leader in workplace giving and philanthropy, released a report on top corporate employee engagement and workplace giving trends. The research, Snapshot: What Employees Think about Workplace Giving, Volunteering, and CSR, details the leading issues facing employee engagement and workplace giving program managers across corporate America today, including the increasing importance of volunteerism, authentic leadership, and corporate-nonprofit alignment.
This webinar recording is uniquely designed for social responsibility, employee engagement, and workplace giving leaders.
New and emerging trends in CSR, workplace giving, and employee engagement.
The influence of our changing workforce, culture, and technology on employee engagement and giving.
What employees most want in employee engagement and workplace giving programs.
Case examples of what companies are doing to enhance their programs and increase impact results.
Read our past Snapshot series reports.


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Pullman Bangkok Grande Sukhumvit offers two ballrooms accommodating up to 500 guests with large pre-function space and dedicated car park building making our ballroom wedding venues an ideal choice for a large wedding reception in the heart of Bangkok.
Wedding day, it’s your turn to make time stand still. Make your dream day come true at our ballroom wedding venues at Pullman Bangkok Grande Sukhumvit the perfect venue for a Bangkok Wedding. We offers a stylish setting and flexible layout wedding venues, an ideal choice and all-inclusive-host to your perfect wedding reception in the heart of Bangkok.
Pullman Bangkok Grande Sukhumvit, an ideally located Bankgok Hotel offers a Grand Ballroom that is a pillar-less, perfect for a ballroom wedding venue. Located on the 4th floor, featuring 490 square metres space for up to 500 guests, plus a large pre-function area suitable for photo backdrop, registration desk, gallery display and even serving pre-dinner drinks. The Grand Ballroom is also enhanced with a sky walk way connected directly to the car park building.
With a similar design to the Grand Ballroom, the Junior Ballroom’s dimensions are 26x19x3.4 meters or, just under 500 sq m (5,382 sq ft). It can also be converted into 3 individual wedding venues, suitable for wedding that need highly configurable venue layout, flexible capacity or require extra time for setting up. You may opt to hold the official wedding reception with family members and senior guests in the Junior Ballroom 1 & 2 then, move to the Junior Ballroom 3 for a private after party with your friends.
Whether you choose to have your wedding reception in the Grand Ballroom wedding venue or the Junior Ballroom wedding venue, opt for a Chinese banquet, a European set menu, a lavish buffet dinner or a cocktail reception with after party, our Event Manager and professional banquet team are sure to help you arrange a custom –made wedding and create the day of your dream.

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This open and spacious oceanfront Kauai vacation rental is the perfect location to relax and enjoy breathtaking sunsets, cool trade winds, and the Polynesian lifestyle that comes with it! Please note this rental requires a 5 night minimum stay.
The Master suite looks out onto an oceanfront view lanai(patio). It has a King size bed, private full bath with jacuzzi tub and shower. The 2nd bedroom has a Queen size bed. A 2nd full bath is located in the hall. 3 night minimum, other minimum stay may apply seasonally; please contact us for details. As with most homes on Kauai, this vacation rental is not air conditioned.

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SharePoint PreSaveAction helps for actions before saving an item - ..:: I like SharePoint ::..
I my customer project i need this function for the following scenario. The user has to choose a value from dropdown list. If the selected item from dropdown has a special value, the user should get a message, that informs him about a special situation and that he should confirm to proceed.
Part 1: Setting up a solution with a list definition, a list instance and deploy it.
Part 2: Creating a custom list form and connect it with the list definition.
How can i make attachments working in custom SharePoint listform?
What is a listfielditerator and how can i customize SharePoint listforms?


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We love an incredibly fantastic standing amid our consumers for our superb item high quality, aggressive rate and also the finest assistance for Shirt Fabric Printed Poplin , Shirt Fabric Printing , Shirting Fabric TC Printed , because of our top quality and reasonable prices.
Our pursuit and corporation aim should be to "Always satisfy our consumer requirements". We carry on to build and style and design remarkable quality items for both our outdated and new clients and reach a win-win prospect for our clients at the same time as us for Shirt Fabric Printed Poplin , Shirt Fabric Printing , Shirting Fabric TC Printed , We always insist on the principle of "Quality and service are the life of the product". Till now our solutions have been exported to more than 20 countries under our strict quality control and high level service.

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Need all the facts on Bariatric Surgery and how it can help you improve your health and meet your weight loss goals? Have you been considering Lap Band® surgery? Do you want to learn about the advantages of Sleeve Gastrectomy? If you are looking for weight loss help and are ready to learn more about weight loss surgery, the Comprehensive Weight Loss Center is here for you.
The first step in getting obesity help is to attend our free weight loss surgery seminar. During this informational seminar, our weight loss specialists will discuss the problem of morbid obesity, the different surgical procedures available and the associated risks of surgery. There will be a question-and-answer period where your individual questions regarding weight loss surgery and obesity help will be answered by one of our board-certified surgeons. In addition, our staff will provide valuable information regarding insurance coverage.
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Country fans listen up as the incredible Luke Bryan comes to Coral Sky Amphitheatre on Saturday 3rd August 2019! As one of the biggest stars on the scene, you'd be crazy to miss this one! As Luke Bryan brings his Sunset Repeat tour to the stage with special guests at each and every one of his shows… there's going be plenty of entertainment from the beginning to the end of the show.
Tickets on sale NOW for the unmissable event this summer!
Luke Bryan is now bringing his tour to your local venue – giving you another chance to catch him LIVE! It's going to be huge – don't miss out on this special opportunity to see him as he once again blows the crowd away! This August at Coral Sky Amphitheatre, it's the only place to be! Tickets are available to purchase above today!


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Suffering from Fibromyalgia or other chronic disabilities can be a big challenge. There are many vitamins and medications that the internet recommends, but I wanted to try multivitamins. The first one I found that was the cheapest was “Fibro-Ease Multi” on Amazon.
Before I tried these, I looked at the doses of the vitamins I usually take before I even bought it. Thankfully, most of my natural vitamins are the same amount or maybe a bit under what I usually take. The effects were immediate for me. My pain went down, and my energy went up.
It’s almost the end of the week, and the bottle suggests doubling the dose after the first week. I am still taking doses of CBD to keep my anxiety and insomnia in check and Echinacea along with my prescription.
I usually take about 2000-3000 mg of B12 and 2000 mg of D especially. The B12 helps with energy and focus while I diagnosed with a vitamin D deficiency by a doctor years ago. I also take C, E, and magnesium alongside my prescription and Echinacea to avoid getting sinus headaches and infections.
Looking at the full dose in the supplement facts, it has 1000mg of B12. However, it also contains B1,2, and 6. If, after my second week, my memory and focus are still not as good as I want it to be. I will take one b12 of 1000mg along with the multivitamin. However, it has the same amount of vitamin D.
It also contains 500mg of C, 200mg of E, and 600 mg of magnesium. I have been able to replace all of my vitamins successfully thanks to this multivitamin. Besides the other B vitamins, I had mentioned, this multivitamin also includes various other vitamins that are great for building up energy and lessening pain.
Since I had developed a banana allergy a few years ago, I don’t think I had eaten enough Potassium. I used to eat bananas all the time, and I did not have cramps as much as I did after I stopped eating bananas. Since this multivitamin contains Potassium, I have noticed I have cramped up a lot less than usual.
I recommend Fibro-Ease Multi for anyone suffering from Fibromyalgia or any other chronic condition. However, I highly suggest talking to a doctor about taking this first, especially if you take other medications that might interact. I only take one drug that doesn’t really interact with a lot of things. Stay safe everyone!


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Toe Stand is an amazing posture not only because it is beautiful to look at, but because it is wonderful to develop the practitioner’s psychological and mental powers, especially the power of patience. Toe stand also punctuates the standing series and prepares us for the stillness and relaxation of savasana.
Why do we bring the left hand up first in Toe Stand?