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Michael Fleet

I am Michael, yes a sinner and indeed untaught, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many. I am certain in my heart that “all that I am,” I have received from God. So I live in the world, a stranger and exile for the love of God. I am driven by the zeal of God, which Christ’s truth has aroused in me. I speak out too for love of my neighbors. I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul’s desire. If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to love these peoples; even though some of them despise me. I Cor. 15:10

— Adapted from “The Confession of Saint Patrick” and “A Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus.” By Saint Patrick, Bishop of Armagh. Trans. and ed. John Skinner. 1998.

Little Sisters Disciples of the Lamb

By michael | Published: 12 Feb 2012

“The Little Sisters Disciples of the Lamb are a contemplative community that enables girls with Down’s syndrome to respond to a religious vocation.” “We follow every day the ‘little way’ taught by Saint Therese; knowing that ‘great actions are forbidden to us’, we learn from her to receive everything from God, to ‘love for the [...]

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BDD Cheat Sheet

By michael | Published: 15 Jan 2012

Epic A large or complex user story that should be broken into several smaller stories. Story A feature written as: AS A [person/role who will benefit], I WANT [some feature], SO THAT [some benefit or value is provided]. Scenario A story’s acceptance criterion, to be implemented as an executable test, and written as: GIVEN [some [...]

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What other answer would suffice?

By michael | Published: 14 Jan 2012

I know now, Lord, why You utter no answer. You are Yourself the answer. Before Your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? – C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

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Google Blog Converters: blogger2wordpress

By michael | Published: 28 Dec 2011

Yesterday, while using the Google Blog Converters to migrate a blog from Blogger to WordPress (see the “Plan B” section of Migrating an old Blogger blog to WordPress), I encountered the following error: $ google-blog-converters-r89/bin/blogger2wordpress.sh blog-12-27-2011.xml > wordpress-blog-12-27-2011.xml Traceback (most recent call last): File “google-blog-converters-r89/bin/../src/blogger2wordpress/b2wp.py”, line 28, in <module> import wordpress File “/Users/username/Downloads/google-blog-converters-r89/src/blogger2wordpress/wordpress.py”, line 55, [...]

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Rebuilding the Android NDK for Objective-C Support

By michael | Published: 19 Nov 2011

How to make the Android NDK compile Objective-C! Many thanks to Jackie Gleason (@LifeIsTooShort) for his M3 Conference (@M3Conf) presentation, Adding Objective-C Support to the Android NDK, upon which most of this tutorial is based. DOWNLOAD AND PATCH THE ANDROID NDK TOOLCHAIN SOURCES Using the terminal, create a directory for your toolchain sources: mkdir -p [...]

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Command-Line File Encryption and Decryption using OpenSSL

By michael | Published: 9 Nov 2011

To encrypt file.txt (you will be prompted for a password): openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.txt.enc To decrypt file.txt.enc (you will be prompted for the password used to encrypt): openssl aes-256-cbc -d -in file.txt.enc -out file.txt — Simple File Encryption with OpenSSL. Dryer, Tom. Tombuntu. 12 Dec. 2007.

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Holy Week Timeline Visualization

By michael | Published: 20 Apr 2011

Click to enlarge. Also available as a PDF. Holy Week (or Passion Week) [is] the week that commemorates Jesus’ death and resurrection. Here’s a new visualization we created that harmonizes the four Gospel accounts of Holy Week and lets you examine the “who,” “what,” and “where” of events leading up to and through Easter. Follow [...]

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Dvorak Keyboard Layout on Ubuntu

By michael | Published: 15 Apr 2011

Switch to Dvorak layout: sudo loadkeys dvorak Switch back to U.S.: sudo loadkeys us That was easy!

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An Unlikely Crusader for Cleaning Up the Food Supply

By michael | Published: 11 Apr 2011

— TEDxAustin Robyn O’Brien 2011. O’Brien, Robyn. TEDxAustin. Mar. 2011.

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Catching the “Little Things” with BDD

By michael | Published: 4 Apr 2011

I’ve often read/heard the following kind of critique comparing TDD (Test-Driven Development) and BDD (Behavior-Driven Development): BDD is great, but unlike TDD, it can’t catch little things like obj.length vs. obj.length() Such assertions tell me that we need to improve how we teach BDD. BDD is TDD. Many argue BDD is simply TDD “done right”. [...]

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