605 lines
37 KiB
TypeScript
605 lines
37 KiB
TypeScript
'use strict'
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import { App, Activity, Category, Quote, Technology } from './Types'
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/** A Word from the Word */
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const aWordFromTheWord = new App('a-word-from-the-word', 'A Word from the Word', 'https://devotions.summershome.org')
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aWordFromTheWord.categoryId = Category.PERSONAL
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aWordFromTheWord.noAboutLink = true
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aWordFromTheWord.frontPageText = 'Devotions by Daniel'
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aWordFromTheWord.frontPageOrder = 2
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/** Bay Vista Baptist Church */
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const bayVista = new App('bay-vista', 'Bay Vista Baptist Church', 'https://bayvista.org')
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bayVista.categoryId = Category.STATIC
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bayVista.frontPageText = 'Biloxi, Mississippi'
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bayVista.frontPageOrder = 1
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bayVista.indexText = 'Southern Baptist church in Biloxi, Mississippi'
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bayVista.paragraphs = [
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`Bay Vista Baptist Church has served the spiritual needs of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast for decades. They emphasize
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serving their community as well; they were a hub for <abbr title="Federal Emergency Management Agency">FEMA</abbr>
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during Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts, and they are a relay point for each year’s
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<a href="https://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/">Operation Christmas Child</a>
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campaign. As of late 2013, the authors of their current website were no longer around, and no one could get to the
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site to update it. We proposed setting up a site based on WordPress, where multiple people could have the ability to
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maintain the site, reducing the risk of that happening again. We also mentioned that such a site could also serve a
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sermon podcast feed, increasing the reach of their ministry.`
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]
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bayVista.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did (2014)',
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`We manually downloaded all the publically-accessible parts of their old site, and used that content to create a
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WordPress-based site, updating a few outdated items along the way. We also established a podcast feed for their
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sermons. A few months after initially setting up the site, we updated the theme to be more mobile-friendly.`),
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new Activity('What We Did (2016)',
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`In the nearly three years since we had set up the site, we were the only ones updating it. We had recently migrated
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some older blogs to use a static site generator and were impressed with the performance gains. We converted their
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site, to include writing a custom template to support the podcast feed; it is now generated along with the rest of
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the site.`),
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new Activity('What We Still Do',
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`Bit Badger Solutions hosts this site; we also host the church e-mail accounts, and publish sermons to their podcast
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feed weekly.`)
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]
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bayVista.techStack = [
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new Technology('Hexo', 'static site generation'),
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new Technology('Azure', 'podcast file storage')
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]
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/** Cassy Fiano */
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const cassyFiano = new App('cassy-fiano', 'Cassy Fiano', 'http://www.cassyfiano.com')
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cassyFiano.isActive = false
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cassyFiano.categoryId = Category.WORDPRESS
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cassyFiano.indexText = 'A “rising star” conservative blogger'
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cassyFiano.paragraphs = [
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`Cassy Fiano (now Cassy Chesser) began blogging back in 2007 on Blogger. She worked hard to network with other
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bloggers, and wrote prolifically. As she approached the end of her first year of blogging, she was about to outgrow
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Blogger. She asked in a blog post if anyone had experience with Movable Type, the platform used by another blog to
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which she contributed. I replied that I did not, but that I had experience with WordPress.`
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]
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cassyFiano.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did (2008)',
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`We assisted her with finding a theme, and customized that theme to contain the same sidebar elements as her current
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Blogger theme. We modified her old Blogger template to send people to her new blog (using redirection) after
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displaying a note that the blog had moved.`),
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new Activity('What We Did (2012)',
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`In July 2012, we began hosting the site, as well as continuing support for theme updates. This joined her military
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wife blog <a href="/solutions/hard-corps-wife" title="Hard Corps Wife | Bit Badger Solutions">Hard Corps Wife</a>,
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which we had begun hosting in mid-2011.`),
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new Activity('What We Still Do', 'Cassy formally decommissioned this site in early 2014.')
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]
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cassyFiano.techStack = [ new Technology('WordPress', 'blogging (with a custom theme)') ]
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/** Daniel J. Summers */
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const danielJSummers = new App('daniel-j-summers', 'Daniel J. Summers', 'https://daniel.summershome.org')
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danielJSummers.categoryId = Category.PERSONAL
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danielJSummers.noAboutLink = true
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danielJSummers.frontPageText = 'Daniel’s personal blog',
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danielJSummers.frontPageOrder = 1
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/** Dr. Melissa Clouthier */
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const drMelissaClouthier = new App('dr-melissa-clouthier', 'Dr. Melissa Clouthier', 'http://melissablogs.com')
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drMelissaClouthier.isActive = false
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drMelissaClouthier.categoryId = Category.WORDPRESS
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drMelissaClouthier.frontPageText = 'Information Pollination'
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drMelissaClouthier.frontPageOrder = 1
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drMelissaClouthier.indexText = 'Politics, health, podcasts and more'
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drMelissaClouthier.paragraphs = [
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`Dr. Melissa Clouthier saw our work with
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<a href="/solutions/cassy-fiano" title="Cassy Fiano | Bit Badger Solutions">Cassy</a>’s site, and asked us to
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help her move off Blogger as well. Melissa blogs from the political right, but also covers health issues and social
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media. She had been blogging for a several years, and wanted to bring her old content with her to her new site.`
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]
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drMelissaClouthier.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did (2009)',
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`We created a custom theme based on another site, and developed graphics to complement that theme. We also imported
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the content from her Blogger site into the WordPress site, and created a featured content template for the front
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page.`),
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new Activity('What We Did (2018)',
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`Melissa decommissioned her site; we took final snapshots of the information there, then assisted with shutting it
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down.`)
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]
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drMelissaClouthier.footnotes = [
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`<em>(NOTE: The thumbnail of the site represents a new skin on the original theme; while the theme is the same, Bit
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Badger Solutions did not create the graphics.)</em>`
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]
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drMelissaClouthier.techStack = [ new Technology('WordPress', 'blogging (with a custom theme)') ]
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/** Emerald Mountain Christian School */
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const emcs = new App('emerald-mountain-christian-school', 'Emerald Mountain Christian School',
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'http://www.emeraldmountainchristianschool.org')
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emcs.isActive = false
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emcs.linkInactive = true
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emcs.indexText = 'Classical, Christ-centered education near Wetumpka, Alabama'
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emcs.paragraphs = [
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`Emerald Mountain Christian School is a private Christian school founded over 50 years ago. They use the Principle
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Approach®, which emphasizes research, reasoning, relating, and recording to help students synthesize the
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information they learn, rather than just requiring rote memorization. More information about the school’s rich
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history can be found on their site.`
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]
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emcs.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did (2004)',
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`They had a website with very basic information and very little styling. We developed a theme (the one in the
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thumbnail), based in large part on the design of their printed materials, and they approved the design. Initially,
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the site only contained the content from their previous site. We then put their school calendar of events up on
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the site, where parents could find the dates for upcoming events. Finally, we put all the material from their
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Parent Information Packet online, which helped prospective families learn more about the school before visiting
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it.`),
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new Activity('What We Did (2011)',
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`The underlying engine of the basic website was switched from PHP to an ASP MVC web application, and the back-end
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database was switched from MySQL to a PostgreSQL database.`),
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new Activity('What We Did (2013)',
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`We passed off the content and hosting of the site to a new maintainer. They have since redesigned it; it is
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accessible via the URL above, and at
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<a href="http://emcspatriots.org" title="EMCS Patriots">EMCSpatriots.org</a>.`)
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]
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emcs.techStack = [
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new Technology('ASP.NET MVC', 'page generation and interactivity'),
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new Technology('PostgreSQL', 'data storage')
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]
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/** Futility Closet */
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const futilityCloset = new App('futility-closet', 'Futility Closet', 'https://www.futilitycloset.com')
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futilityCloset.categoryId = Category.WORDPRESS
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futilityCloset.frontPageText = 'An idler’s miscellany of compendious amusements'
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futilityCloset.frontPageOrder = 2
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futilityCloset.indexText = 'An idler’s miscellany of compendious amusements'
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futilityCloset.paragraphs = [
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`Futility Closet exists as a place to give people a break from the dullness of work, by providing puzzles, anecdotes,
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and more. It began on a shared host, but was growing too large and popular for that platform.`
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]
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futilityCloset.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did',
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`We determined what the traffic requirements and size of the blog were, then made some recommendations. Greg Ross,
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the site author, decided on one of our recommendations. He had backups of the existing database, so we were able to
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set up a server and restore the data onto that new server. We configured WordPress and locked down the server, and
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this blog was moved quickly.`),
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new Activity('What We Still Do',
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`Bit Badger Solutions still hosts Futility Closet, ensuring that the underlying server receives performance and
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security upgrades, monitoring site performance, and maintaining regular backups.`)
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]
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const fcQuote = new Quote('Greg Ross', 'Futility Closet')
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fcQuote.full =
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`Bit Badger Solutions has been an absolute godsend for Futility Closet. We have been with them since 2010, initially
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setting up and maintaining the site on a Rackspace VPS, and then hosting it completely. Daniel’s never failed
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in being friendly, knowledgeable, thoughtful, and farsighted. I’ve literally lost count of the number of times
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he’s saved us from one emergency or another, always with diligence and good humor, or recommended an
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improvement or a protection that saved us later. We would be out of business many times over if it weren’t for
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his reliability, expertise, and good judgment. And he’s a joy to work with.`
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fcQuote.pull = [
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`Daniel’s never failed in being friendly, knowledgeable, thoughtful, and farsighted…`,
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`We would be out of business many times over if it weren’t for his reliability, expertise, and good
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judgment…`
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]
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futilityCloset.quotes.push(fcQuote)
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futilityCloset.techStack = [
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new Technology('WordPress', 'blogging'),
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new Technology('nginx', 'the web server')
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]
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/** Hard Corps Wife */
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const hardCorpsWife = new App('hard-corps-wife', 'Hard Corps Wife', 'http://www.hardcorpswife.com')
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hardCorpsWife.isActive = false
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hardCorpsWife.categoryId = Category.WORDPRESS
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hardCorpsWife.indexText = 'Cassy’s life as a Marine wife'
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hardCorpsWife.paragraphs = [
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`Capitalizing on the growth from her Cassy Fiano blog, Cassy (now Chesser) began a separate blog in which she could
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chronicle her experience as a military spouse.`
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]
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hardCorpsWife.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did',
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'We customized the header and sidebar of the theme, and set up the hardcorpswife.com domain.'),
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new Activity('What We Still Do',
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`In 2013, Cassy shifted priorities and closed this site down. She can still be found at other places around the
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web.`)
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]
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hardCorpsWife.techStack = [ new Technology('WordPress', 'blogging') ]
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/** Liberty Pundits */
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const libertyPundits = new App('liberty-pundits', 'Liberty Pundits', 'http://libertypundits.net')
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libertyPundits.isActive = false
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libertyPundits.categoryId = Category.WORDPRESS
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libertyPundits.indexText = 'The home for conservatives'
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libertyPundits.paragraphs = [
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`At its founding, Liberty Pundits was a joint venture by 3 established bloggers (Melissa Clouthier, Bill Dupray, and
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Clyde Middleton) that, in their words, was aimed at becoming the new home for conservatives on the Internet. With the
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three of them all being prolific bloggers in their own right, and the help of many contributors, Liberty Pundits was
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a bustling hub of information.`
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]
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libertyPundits.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did',
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`Bill and Clyde had been part of Patriot Room, an already-recognized powerhouse, and their desire was for Liberty
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Pundits to contain the content that they had contributed to Patriot Room. The technical lead on that blog had moved
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on, so we did some divining of what was there. Once we deduced the current setup, we obtained the data from that
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site, determined how it would need to be manipulated to become part of a WordPress blog, then accomplished the data
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migration. Initially, this was deployed on the same shared hosting account where LibertyPundits.com, their podcast
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distribution site, already resided. The site’s traffic quickly overwhelmed that solution. They then were
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moved by their host to a <abbr title="Virtual Private Server">VPS</abbr>, which performed moderately better, but
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still had quite a few issues, mostly related to the site’s traffic volume. We recommended a new server
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configuration, including migrating from a fully-featured web server to a more lightweight web server, along with
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caching, and configured that server. This configuration eliminated the bottlenecks, and enabled them to have
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several 100,000+ hit days with no appreciable slowdowns.`),
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new Activity('What We Still Do',
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`Bit Badger Solutions maintained the server, keeping it current with performance and security upgrades. We also
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provided support to the primary 3 bloggers, when they had questions about WordPress or how the site was performing.
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The site closed in August of 2011, as the primary authors moved on to other endeavors.`)
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]
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libertyPundits.techStack = [
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new Technology('WordPress', 'blogging'),
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new Technology('Custom software', 'data migration')
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]
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/** Linux Resources */
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const linuxResources = new App('linux', 'Linux Resources', 'https://blog.bitbadger.solutions/linux/')
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linuxResources.noAboutLink = true
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linuxResources.frontPageText = 'Handy information for Linux folks'
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linuxResources.frontPageOrder = 3
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/** Mindy Mackenzie */
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const mindyMackenzie = new App('mindy-mackenzie', 'Mindy Mackenzie', 'https://mindymackenzie.com')
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mindyMackenzie.categoryId = Category.WORDPRESS
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mindyMackenzie.frontPageText = 'WSJ-best-selling author of The Courage Solution'
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mindyMackenzie.frontPageOrder = 3
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mindyMackenzie.indexText = '<em>Wall Street Journal</em> best-selling author and C-suite advisor'
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mindyMackenzie.paragraphs = [
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`Mindy Mackenzie, the prior Chief Performance Officer of Beam, Inc., is known as the “Velvet Hammer”
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for her tough-yet-caring style of leadership. Her <em>Wall Street Journal</em> best-selling book <em>The Courage
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Solution: The Power of Truth-Telling with Your Boss, Peers, and Team</em> details her spin-free approach to personal
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and business success.`
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]
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mindyMackenzie.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did (2015)',
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`We assumed maintenance of her site several months in advance of the book launch of <em>The Courage Solution</em>.
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We worked with her, and her publicists and other professionals, to ensure that the book launch went smoothly. We
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customized her WordPress installation to support her Media Appearances in a way that allowed them to be entered,
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tracked, and listed as of the date they occurred. We also implemented rotating videos on the front page of the
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site.`),
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new Activity('What We Did (2018)',
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`We developed the pages for her <em>You First Integrative Leadership Summit</em>, with speaker bios, conference
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schedule, and an application form.`),
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new Activity('What We Still Do',
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'We continue to provide backups, WordPress support, and content updates for Mindy’s site.')
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]
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const mmQuote = new Quote('Mindy Mackenzie', '')
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mmQuote.full =
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`Daniel is the best partner you could hope for in a web designer and for handling web maintenance! He is smart,
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creative, resourceful and fast. Daniel is able to produce high quality work on short time frames and with minimal
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creative direction and hit the mark over and over. The best part, is Daniel is a joy to work with. He is smart,
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customer-centric and trustworthy. If he says he will get it done, he does. After having a poor experience with
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another firm, I can highly recommend Daniel for all your website design and support needs – he’s terrific!`
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mmQuote.pull = [
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'…Daniel is able to produce high quality work on short time frames…',
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'[Daniel] is smart, customer-centric and trustworthy.'
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]
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mindyMackenzie.quotes.push(mmQuote)
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mindyMackenzie.techStack = [
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new Technology('WordPress', 'blogging'),
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new Technology('nginx', 'the web server')
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]
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/** myPrayerJournal */
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const myPrayerJournal = new App('my-prayer-journal', 'myPrayerJournal', 'https://prayerjournal.me')
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myPrayerJournal.frontPageText = 'Minimalist personal prayer journal'
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myPrayerJournal.frontPageOrder = 2
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myPrayerJournal.indexText = 'Minimalist personal prayer journal'
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myPrayerJournal.paragraphs = [
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`Daniel wanted to maintain a prayer journal, where he could record the prayer requests for which he had prayed, and
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the answer that eventually came to that request. He didn't want to do that on paper for several reasons - it's easy
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to lose, a long-running request can run out of space to make notes, etc. He believed that he was not the only person
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who felt this way regarding prayer, and decided to use this as an opportunity to fill both a spiritual and a learning
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need. Given <a href="https://auth0.com">Auth0</a>'s policy of offering free authentication services for open-source
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applications, he decided to develop this as an open-source application.`,
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`The goal of myPrayerJournal is to get out of the way, so that the user can focus on the requests and their prayer;
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once requests have been entered, the journal provides a way to easily pray through these requests, helping people not
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forget about active requests. It also provides a means of going back through answered requests, which can be reviewed
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whenever the user desires. There is a <a href="https://bit-badger.github.io/myPrayerJournal">documentation page</a>
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that fully describes all it can do.`,
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`As an open-source project, anyone can review the source code on
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<a href="https://github.com/bit-badger/myPrayerJournal">GitHub</a>; we also track open issues there.`
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]
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myPrayerJournal.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did (2017-2018)',
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`We went through several iterations of front-end and back-end technologies, trying to find one that would provide
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the optimal experience for praying through the list. The front end uses <a href="https://vuejs.org">Vue.js</a>, and
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the back end uses <a href="https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe">Giraffe</a> to serve the data.`),
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new Activity('What We Still Do',
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`Bit Badger Solutions hosts the instance of this at the URL linked above. We back up the data, and also continue to
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develop it. Anyone can use it by logging in with a Google or Microsoft account.`)
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]
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myPrayerJournal.techStack = [
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new Technology('Vue', 'the front-end'),
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new Technology('Giraffe', 'the back-end data API'),
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new Technology('PostgreSQL', 'data storage')
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]
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/** Not So Extreme Makeover: Community Edition */
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const nsx = new App('nsx', 'Not So Extreme Makeover: Community Edition', 'http://notsoextreme.org')
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nsx.isActive = false
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nsx.archiveUrl = 'https://nsx.archive.bitbadger.solutions'
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nsx.indexText =
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'Public site for the makeover; provides event-driven management of volunteers, donations, and families needing help'
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nsx.paragraphs = [
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`In January 2008, a few members of <a href="http://hoffmantown.org" title="Hoffmantown Church">Hoffmantown Church</a>
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in Albuquerque, New Mexico had an idea. The ABC show
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<em><a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/extreme-makeover-home-edition">Extreme Makeover: Home Edition</a></em> had just
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done <a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/extreme-makeover-home-edition/episode-detail/martinez-family/224884"
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title="Martinez Family • Extreme Makeover: Home Edition">a build for a pastor in the “war zone” area
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of town</a>, and this brought attention to Gerald Martinez and the work he had done to help clean up this area of
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town. Through <a href="http://www.loveincabq.org/" title="Love INC of South Albuquerque">Love INC of South
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Albuquerque</a>, they learned that there were many other homes in that area that could use the “Ty Pennington
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touch.” While the goal was not to knock down homes and build new ones, the goal was no less extreme. The goal
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of the “Not So Extreme Makeover: Community Edition” was to help 50 families in 5 days during spring break
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week in 2008. From an idea in January to 57 families helped by March 29th, it was an amazing whirlwind.`
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]
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nsx.activities = [
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new Activity('What We Did',
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`The call went out for the need for “everything from carpenters to computer nerds,” and Daniel thought,
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“Hey, I’m a computer nerd!” We obtained the domain name and stood up the public website quickly
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using WordPress, which also allowed the coordinators to put content up. We next began developing an application
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(NSXapp) where volunteers could sign up for “X Week”, with over 80 different skill, talent, and ability
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categories. We then created a way to identify families and their needs, and a place for people with donations to
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let us know what they would be. From there, we created the ability to begin matching needs with goods (stuff) and
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abilities (people), organizing the stuff into donated trailers and people into teams. During X Week, we generated
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schedules and reports that were used to track the execution of the project.<br><br>After we recovered, Love INC
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expressed an interest in a version that would allow them to handle these same areas on an ongoing basis; this was
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the genesis of <a href="/solutions/tcms"
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title="The Clearinghouse Management System | Bit Badger Solutions">TCMS</a>.`),
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new Activity('What We Still Do',
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`NSXapp was officially decommissioned in 2012. (It still exists in archived form, if a need arises to use it again.)
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A <a href="https://nsx.archive.bitbadger.solutions"> snapshot of the NSX public site</a> remains as a record of
|
||
what happened those three months in 2008.`)
|
||
]
|
||
nsx.techStack = [
|
||
new Technology('WordPress', 'content management'),
|
||
new Technology('Custom PHP code', 'NSXapp'),
|
||
new Technology('PostgreSQL', 'data storage')
|
||
]
|
||
|
||
/** Olivet Baptist Church */
|
||
const olivet = new App('olivet-baptist', 'Olivet Baptist Church', 'https://olivet-baptist.org')
|
||
olivet.isActive = false
|
||
olivet.archiveUrl = 'https://olivet.archive.bitbadger.solutions'
|
||
olivet.categoryId = Category.STATIC
|
||
olivet.indexText = 'Southern Baptist church in Gulfport, Mississippi'
|
||
olivet.paragraphs = [
|
||
`Olivet Baptist Church’s pastor saw our work with <a href="/solutions/bay-vista"
|
||
title="Bay Vista Baptist Church | Bit Badger Solutions">Bay Vista</a>, and asked us what would be involved with
|
||
setting up something similar for his church. Olivet did not currently have a website.`
|
||
]
|
||
olivet.activities = [
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2014)',
|
||
`We registered the domain name for the church, then set up a fresh WordPress install. They had expressed a desire to
|
||
do as much of the content of the site themselves, so we supported them as they worked through its initial setup. We
|
||
also, as with Bay Vista, established the framework for a sermon podcast feed.`),
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2016)',
|
||
`As with Bay Vista’s site, this was converted to be a statically-generated site. We also created a
|
||
mobile-friendly site layout that looked similar to the one they had been using.`),
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2018)',
|
||
`We turned their site into a Progressive Web Application (PWA), which allows users to “install” the
|
||
site, like an app, to their phone’s home screen. The site is also still accessible from the web via a
|
||
browser.`),
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2019)',
|
||
`The church closed its doors February 24th, 2019. We converted the PWA back to a static web site, set up a static
|
||
archive site, and worked with their personnel to ensure that the podcast links are all still available. We continue
|
||
to host that archive site and podcast content.`)
|
||
]
|
||
olivet.techStack = [
|
||
new Technology('Vue', 'the user interface for the PWA'),
|
||
new Technology('Hexo', `generating the site's pages`),
|
||
new Technology('Azure', 'podcast file storage')
|
||
]
|
||
|
||
/** Photography by Michelle */
|
||
const photographyByMichelle = new App('photography-by-michelle', 'Photography by Michelle',
|
||
'https://www.summershome.org')
|
||
photographyByMichelle.isActive = false
|
||
photographyByMichelle.linkInactive = true
|
||
photographyByMichelle.indexText = 'Photography services in Albuquerque, New Mexico'
|
||
photographyByMichelle.paragraphs = [
|
||
`Michelle Summers had been photographing her children for years. When her sons were on sports teams, she was
|
||
disappointed with the cost of team photography, and felt that she could do a better job at a lower cost. Thus was
|
||
born Photography by Michelle. She specializes in outdoor photography of families, children, and sports teams, as well
|
||
as maternity photography and holiday cards.`
|
||
]
|
||
photographyByMichelle.activities = [
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2007)',
|
||
`We created the site with a few custom pages, including a gallery page that would automatically display whatever
|
||
pictures were there. We also, using WordPress and a custom image plugin, set up a site where customers can view the
|
||
proofs from their photography session.`),
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2012)',
|
||
`The custom PHP/WordPress site was replaced by a custom ASP MVC web application, which handles the front pages and
|
||
the proof set galleries. The proof display was also upgraded to allow cursor-key navigation of proofs.`),
|
||
new Activity('What We Still Do',
|
||
`As Michelle is no longer doing professional photography, the current version of this site is a simple thank-you to
|
||
her customers over the years.`)
|
||
]
|
||
photographyByMichelle.techStack = [ new Technology('ASP.NET MVC', 'content management') ]
|
||
|
||
/** PrayerTracker */
|
||
const prayerTracker = new App('prayer-tracker', 'PrayerTracker', 'https://prayer.bitbadger.solutions')
|
||
prayerTracker.frontPageText = 'A prayer request tracking website (Free for any church or Sunday School class!)'
|
||
prayerTracker.frontPageOrder = 1
|
||
prayerTracker.indexText = 'Provides an ongoing, centralized prayer list for Sunday School classes and other groups'
|
||
prayerTracker.paragraphs = [
|
||
`Years ago, Daniel was responsible for keeping up with prayer requests for his Sunday School class. To help him keep
|
||
up with requests, automatically drop requests that were old, and track long-term requests, he wrote a custom app made
|
||
up of a few pages. Over time, he added security mechanisms and other options, arriving at the site that exists today.
|
||
It is provided free for the asking to any church, Sunday School class, or small group that desires a tool to help
|
||
them establish a continuous list of prayer requests.`
|
||
]
|
||
prayerTracker.activities = [
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2005)', 'Created the original site.'),
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2011)',
|
||
`We rewrote this application using a more modern (at the time) framework (ASP MVC 3), building the security
|
||
additions from the ground up, and posturing it for an interface with <a href="/solutions/virtual-prayer-room"
|
||
title="Virtual Prayer Room | Bit Badger Solutions">Virtual Prayer Room</a>.`),
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2012)',
|
||
'In April 2012, version 4 was released with support for Spanish - our first multi-lingual application!'),
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2018)',
|
||
'Version 7 brought full mobile accessibility, along with an upgrade to a modern, ultra-fast web framework.'),
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2019)',
|
||
'PrayerTracker became <a href="https://github.com/bit-badger/PrayerTracker">an open source project</a>.'),
|
||
new Activity('What We Still Do', 'Host and maintain this application.')
|
||
]
|
||
prayerTracker.techStack = [
|
||
new Technology('Giraffe', 'server-side logic and dynamic page generation'),
|
||
new Technology('PostgreSQL', 'data storage')
|
||
]
|
||
|
||
/** Riehl World News */
|
||
const riehlWorldNews = new App('riehl-world-news', 'Riehl World News', 'http://riehlworldview.com')
|
||
riehlWorldNews.categoryId = Category.WORDPRESS
|
||
riehlWorldNews.frontPageText = 'Riehl news for real people'
|
||
riehlWorldNews.frontPageOrder = 4
|
||
riehlWorldNews.indexText = 'Riehl news for real people'
|
||
riehlWorldNews.paragraphs = [
|
||
`Dan Riehl began blogging as “The Carnivorous Conservative” back in 2004, specializing in the areas of
|
||
crime and politics. He changed to “Riehl World View” a short time later, and writes both news and opinion
|
||
pieces. He was a prolific blogger, publishing over 15 posts a day on most days. He wanted to take his blog in a
|
||
different direction, and was having trouble getting his Movable Type blog do move with him.`
|
||
]
|
||
riehlWorldNews.activities = [
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2012)',
|
||
`We spoke with him regarding his ideal direction and assisted through the selection and customization of his
|
||
eventual chosen theme. We also did some work on the customization of that theme. Additionally, we imported the
|
||
large volume of posts from the Movable Type blog into his new WordPress blog.`),
|
||
new Activity('What We Did (2018)',
|
||
`Dan wanted a fresh start for Riehl World View, so we generated flat files to preserve his prior archive. The post
|
||
volume meant that none of the existing WordPress plugins that do that would work, so we built a custom converter
|
||
to preserve that content.`),
|
||
new Activity('What We Still Do',
|
||
'Bit Badger Solutions continues to provide backups and WordPress updates for Riehl World News.')
|
||
]
|
||
riehlWorldNews.techStack = [
|
||
new Technology('WordPress', 'blogging'),
|
||
new Technology('Custom F# code', 'archive static page generation')
|
||
]
|
||
|
||
/** The Clearinghouse Management System */
|
||
var tcms = new App('tcms', 'The Clearinghouse Management System', 'http://tcms.us')
|
||
tcms.isActive = false
|
||
tcms.indexText =
|
||
'Assists a needs clearinghouse in connecting people with needs to people that can help meet those needs'
|
||
tcms.paragraphs = [
|
||
`The TCMS motto, “Putting People Over Paperwork,” sums up the mission of this system. To successfully run
|
||
a needs clearinghouse, such as those run by Love INC affiliates, there is a lot of paperwork involved. Clients must
|
||
be tracked, along with their needs; these needs must be verified; resources for goods and services must be known;
|
||
volunteers must be known and sent communications to keep them involved. All of this adds up to a significant
|
||
recordkeeping (i.e., paperwork) burden.`,
|
||
`TCMS addressed these issues by providing a repository for all clearinghouse operation needs. It helped eliminate
|
||
duplication of work, and also linke clients with goods and services. It also provided the means to communicate with
|
||
volunteers, either en masse or using selective criteria. This allowed the recordkeeping requirement to be smaller
|
||
and quicker, giving more time for the actual helping of clients. It used WordPress for its front end; this provided
|
||
organizations with a web presence that they could maintain without having to employ a web guru, using
|
||
WordPress’s <abbr title="What You See Is What You Get">WYSIWYG</abbr> editor and management tools.`,
|
||
`TCMS was decommissioned in 2014.`
|
||
]
|
||
tcms.techStack = [
|
||
new Technology('Custom PHP code', 'the application logic'),
|
||
new Technology('WordPress', 'publicly-facing pages and authentication'),
|
||
new Technology('PostgreSQL', 'application data storage')
|
||
]
|
||
|
||
/** The Bit Badger Blog */
|
||
const techBlog = new App('tech-blog', 'The Bit Badger Blog', 'https://blog.bitbadger.solutions')
|
||
techBlog.categoryId = Category.STATIC
|
||
techBlog.frontPageText = 'Technical information (“geek stuff”) from Bit Badger Solutions'
|
||
techBlog.frontPageOrder = 3
|
||
techBlog.indexText = 'Geek stuff from Bit Badger Solutions'
|
||
techBlog.paragraphs = [
|
||
`The Bit Badger Blog grew from Daniel’s personal experience with learning and using the Linux operating system.
|
||
His first experience with blogging consisted of pages that had to be edited every time a new post was made. The
|
||
initial posts were titled “My Linux Adventure,” and existed as a copy of this home-grown blog. The Bit
|
||
Badger Blog has that, plus tech tips regarding many different computer products. It covers web servers, databases,
|
||
programming languages, and open-source software. Bit Badger Solutions also hosts 64-bit RPM builds of xine, a Linux
|
||
multimedia player; the blog, via the RSS feed for that category, can deliver notices of updated versions directly to
|
||
subscribed users. Finally, it also contains notices of new versions of Bit Badger Solutions-developed WordPress
|
||
plug-ins (“Daniel’s Dropdowns” <em>(inactive, as its functionality is now part of the WordPress
|
||
core)</em> and “HCSB Verse of the Day (Plus)”).`,
|
||
`It is currently a statically-generated site, utilizing <a href="https://hexo.io">Hexo</a>, and its code is
|
||
<a href="https://github.com/bit-badger/blog.bitbadger.solutions">open source</a>.`
|
||
]
|
||
techBlog.techStack = [ new Technology('Hexo', 'static site generation') ]
|
||
|
||
/** The Shark Tank */
|
||
const theSharkTank = new App('the-shark-tank', 'The Shark Tank', 'http://shark-tank.net')
|
||
theSharkTank.isActive = false
|
||
theSharkTank.categoryId = Category.WORDPRESS
|
||
theSharkTank.indexText = 'Florida’s political feeding frenzy'
|
||
theSharkTank.paragraphs = [
|
||
`The Shark Tank is a news and opinion site centered on south Florida politics (and the state at large). They provided
|
||
extensive coverage of Rep. Allen West’s winning campaign in 2010, and are continuing their focused news and
|
||
opinion to current political races.`
|
||
]
|
||
theSharkTank.activities = [
|
||
new Activity('What We Did',
|
||
`They were displeased with their current theme, and had found a theme (and a demo site) that they preferred. We set
|
||
up the theme, ensured that their content would fit in the new theme’s requirements, and helped them turn off
|
||
parts that they didn’t need. We also converted the social media connections from their old site to a style
|
||
that would work nicely in the new theme.`)
|
||
]
|
||
|
||
/** Virtual Prayer Room */
|
||
const vpr = new App('virtual-prayer-room', 'Virtual Prayer Room', 'https://virtualprayerroom.us')
|
||
vpr.isActive = false
|
||
vpr.indexText = 'Gives prayer warriors access to requests from wherever they may be, and sends them daily updates'
|
||
vpr.paragraphs = [
|
||
`Many churches have prayer rooms – rooms set aside for people to come in to pray. Hoffmantown Church in
|
||
Albuquerque, New Mexico was one of these churches. However, they had seen the use of this physical prayer room
|
||
dwindling over the years. People had become less willing to drive to the church, especially at night, and security
|
||
became an issue as well; either prayer warriors had to know how to disable the security system, or the church would
|
||
have to remain unlocked.`,
|
||
`Having seen our work with the <a href="/solutions/nsx/"
|
||
title="Not So Extreme Makeover: Community Edition | Bit Badger Solutions">Not So Extreme Makeover: Community
|
||
Edition</a>, the church contacted us to see if something similar could be developed to help their prayer ministry.
|
||
The resulting application that was developed extended the prayer room to wherever the prayer warrior can get an
|
||
Internet connection! Prayer warriors could enlist right from the site, and had to be approved. Requests and updates
|
||
were tracked by date/time, and warriors could record when they’ve prayed for a request from the site, or from
|
||
clicking a link in the daily e-mail they received with requests from their interest areas. As many prayer needs are
|
||
confidential, security and confidentiality were very important. Virtual Prayer Room ensured these by providing
|
||
varying security levels for prayer warriors and the ability to mark each request as confidential.`,
|
||
`In 2016, Hoffmantown Church elected to begin using another package for their prayer requests. While a few other
|
||
churches had expressed interest in it, none ultimately decided to use it; so, in 2017, Virtual Prayer Room was
|
||
officially decommissioned.`
|
||
]
|
||
vpr.techStack = [
|
||
new Technology('Custom PHP code', 'the application'),
|
||
new Technology('PostgreSQL', 'data storage')
|
||
]
|
||
|
||
export default {
|
||
|
||
/** All categories */
|
||
categories: [
|
||
new Category(Category.SITES_APPS, 'Web Sites and Applications'),
|
||
new Category(Category.WORDPRESS, 'WordPress'),
|
||
new Category(Category.STATIC, 'Static Sites'),
|
||
new Category(Category.PERSONAL, 'Personal')
|
||
],
|
||
|
||
/** All apps */
|
||
apps: [
|
||
aWordFromTheWord,
|
||
bayVista,
|
||
cassyFiano,
|
||
danielJSummers,
|
||
drMelissaClouthier,
|
||
emcs,
|
||
futilityCloset,
|
||
hardCorpsWife,
|
||
libertyPundits,
|
||
linuxResources,
|
||
mindyMackenzie,
|
||
myPrayerJournal,
|
||
nsx,
|
||
olivet,
|
||
photographyByMichelle,
|
||
prayerTracker,
|
||
riehlWorldNews,
|
||
tcms,
|
||
techBlog,
|
||
theSharkTank,
|
||
vpr
|
||
]
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
export * from './Types'
|