Today I talk about my involvement with Operation Christmas Child. This year’s collection week is November 12th – 19th. Please get involved.
This is a ministry I find very rewarding to support. It’s not because I get to see a smile on some child’s face, it’s because I can give anonymously and sit back and just enjoy being able to give without any concerns about whether or not my gift will be received with thanks. The children that get these gifts may never meet me but when I get to Heaven I can’t wait to find out how many lives were impacted by a shoe box full of toys and the prayers that were said for the child who would receive it.
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Jesus Geek is a Christian technology podcast providing news, tips and information you can use in your homeschool, church or ministry. It is a member of the My Life Ministries Network: a community of ministries that views the everyday Christian life as a ministry and seeks to encourage Christians in their daily walk with Christ.
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The following is a partial transcript of today’s podcast.
Anyone who’s ever coded a webpage by hand knows that dealing with browser interoperability can be a huge pain in the neck. Every browser on the planet seems to render W3C standard code in it’s own unique way.
These days, coders have come up with tricks to make pages look the same no matter what browser you’re using to view a website. While the creativity and genius of these coders is commendable, it’s something that shouldn’t have to be done.
Back in 1993 when NCSA released Mosaic there really wasn’t much technology out there that could screw up how you view a webpage but as technology progressed and people became more creative the needs for standards arose. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) showed up on the scene in 1994 and published a list of recommended standards that to me was a breath of fresh air. Now I could code a page and be assured that it would look the same in all browsers.
Fat chance. Microsoft entered the browser market and took those standards and flushed them right down the toilet. This led to a number of companies releasing their own browser which render standard code in inconsistent ways eventually leading to all of these tricks to make a webpage look consistent across browsers.
You’d think that by now some of these tricks would have slipped into the browsers themselves. Why is it when I mistype a URL, http://www.foo.com.faq.htm for example, that the browser doesn’t recognize this common typo and replace the dot after com with a forward slash? I must do this 20 times a day because I’ve misplaced my fingers on the keyboard. Is it that hard to parse the URL before it’s submitted to make sure it’s valid? The least the browser could do is come back with a message that says I entered an invalid address. Afterall, .htm is not a valid top-level domain so the request shouldn’t even be sent to the DNS server. I wonder how much lag time would be decreased if we had browsers smart enough to not send invalid URLs across the internet.
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Today I play a voicemail from Pat Aquilone, aka Jesterhawk, talk about the Geeks and God Web 2.0 Conference, touch on some information about OSX and Windows interoperability and plug Jay Ryan’s book, Signs and Seasons.
Feel free to leave comments or send feedback to geek{at}jesusgeek{dot}info. You can call and leave voicemail at 518-290-0228. This podcast is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Jesus Geek is a Christian technology podcast providing news, tips and information you can use in your homeschool, church or ministry. It is a member of the My Life Ministries Network: a community of ministries that views the everyday Christian life as a ministry and seeks to encourage Christians in their daily walk with Christ.
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Today I review Pod-o-matic‘s offering in the free-podcast-hosting showdown. I also provide you with a review of Transformers: The Movie. Also, If you want to check out some early episodes of the podcast, go to http://bezahlt.podomatic.com for a good laugh.
This show is chock full of extras: ambulance sirens and you can hear me eating my lunch!
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Jesus Geek is a Christian technology podcast providing news, tips and information you can use in your homeschool, church or ministry. It is a member of the My Life Ministries Network: a community of ministries that views the everyday Christian life as a ministry and seeks to encourage Christians in their daily walk with Christ.
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Continuing with the “free podcast hosting theme” I talk about PodShow. Also, Podango has opened up their beta program to new registrations. Jason van Orden provided a little blurb about in on his blog.
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Jesus Geek is a Christian technology podcast providing news, tips and information you can use in your homeschool, church or ministry. It is a member of the My Life Ministries Network: a community of ministries that views the everyday Christian life as a ministry and seeks to encourage Christians in their daily walk with Christ.
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Today I talk about TalkShoe‘s hosting service and how their payment mechanism works. I also play a voice mail from Chris at The Jesus Geeks podcast.
I didn’t script out this episode so I have no transcript for you, you’ll have to listen to the podcast!
Also be sure to check out the latest episode of Grace Junkies.
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Jesus Geek is a Christian technology podcast providing news, tips and information you can use in your homeschool, church or ministry. It is a member of the My Life Ministries Network: a community of ministries that views the everyday Christian life as a ministry and seeks to encourage Christians in their daily walk with Christ.
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