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It was a battle, but I wrote overload for Html.LabelFor() to examine data annotations and insert an asterisk for required fields! #asp #mvc

From Twitter / joshmoody 1 day ago

Just discovered the new Netflix app for iPhone. Nice! http://bit.ly/ard3Io

From Twitter / joshmoody about 4 days ago

How To: Use Regular Expressions to Constrain Input in ASP.NET

From Delicious/jgmoody about 8 days ago

Revisiting the Repository and Unit of Work Patterns with Entity Framework - Gil Fink on .Net

From Delicious/jgmoody about 8 days ago

Excellent debugging tool for ASP.NET MVC that helps track down those hard to find routing bugs http://bit.ly/10C5uC

From Twitter / joshmoody about 9 days ago

Move in day at UCA, and they all decided to go to Wal-Mart.

From Twitter / joshmoody about 11 days ago

LINQ To Tab

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Short example of using LINQ to query tab delimited files

From jgmoody's Photobucket media about 26 days ago

Got "Flight of the Navigator" from Netflix today! I loved this movie when I was a kid; wonder if I will still enjoy it as an adult?

From Twitter / joshmoody about 29 days ago

Error: Success

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Ummm. Ok.

From jgmoody's Photobucket media about 1 month ago

Paging with ASP.NET MVC ? Martijn Boland

From Delicious/jgmoody about 1 month ago

Just watched "Where The Wild Things Are". #fail

From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago

I was singing "Take this job and shove it" this morning. My wife told me "Oh yes you are! Now shut up and go to work!"

From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago

I'm not nearly as effective a developer after 1AM as I used to be. Getting old, I guess.

From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago

OData SDK for PHP

Open Data Protocol

From Delicious/jgmoody about 1 month ago

Watching Avatar on our new blu-ray player. I never understood what the big deal was with blu-ray. Finally, I understand. Amazing!

From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago

Johnnie and Lula Burt

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Was planning on going to Branson for a couple days this week, but just looked at weather forecast and it's going to rain up there all week.

From Twitter / joshmoody about 1 month ago

Trying to get a good deal on a car. Almost there...

From Twitter / joshmoody 2 months ago

Just bought my Mom flowers. I'm definitely going to be her favorite son now!

From Twitter / joshmoody 2 months ago

Just got Rachel's Stanford 10 results. She's brilliant! 40/40 correct in reading comprehension!

From Twitter / joshmoody 2 months ago

Html Encoding Code Blocks With ASP.NET 4

From Delicious/jgmoody 2 months ago

Guarding against CSRF Attacks in ASP.NET MVC2 - Scott's Blog

From Delicious/jgmoody 2 months ago

Downloading a VMware image of Chrome OS. Want to play with it, but don't want to compile it. http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/

From Twitter / joshmoody 2 months ago

Excellent chicken enchiladas for dinner tonight! One of the heat-n-serve meals from Jamie's cooking co-op.

From Twitter / joshmoody 2 months ago

Reading up on using Chrome Frame to enable HTML 5 features in non-complaint browsers (IE) http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/

From Twitter / joshmoody 2 months ago

Listening to Pandora on iPhone while catching up on latest tweets. Thanks Apple for bringing multitasking to iOS 4!

From Twitter / joshmoody 2 months ago

Is it just me, or does this feel like the longest day of the year? #solstice

From Twitter / joshmoody 2 months ago

Downloading iPhone 4.0 firmware #ios4 #apple

From Twitter / joshmoody 2 months ago

World of the Pharaohs

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Jamie at the Arkansas Arts Center

From jgmoody's Photobucket media 3 months ago

Just broke into the Top 10 on Guitar Hero iPhone playing bass on "Killer Queen". That's right, I'm the Man.

From Twitter / joshmoody 3 months ago

I HATE it when I tell someone a URL and they search for it instead of just putting it in the address bar!

From Twitter / joshmoody 3 months ago

Loving Guitar Hero for iPhone! Hands down best iPhone game I've played! I do wish there were more/better songs available though.

From Twitter / joshmoody 3 months ago

Hot commute home in my backup car /w busted A/C and heat index=101.

From Twitter / joshmoody 3 months ago

Coolant Leak

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Please see the area circled in red. Any idea what this part is and why it's leaking? 2003 Grand Prix GT

From jgmoody's Photobucket media 3 months ago

Collins Creek

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Collins Creek

After visiting Bridal Veil Falls recently, I decided to stop by Collins Creek while I was in the neighborhood. This is one of my favorite spots in the State, and I've photographed it several times. I'm sure this won't be the last :)

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Collins Creek

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Collins Creek

After visiting Bridal Veil Falls recently, I decided to stop by Collins Creek while I was in the neighborhood. This is one of my favorite spots in the State, and I've photographed it several times. I'm sure this won't be the last :)

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Collins Creek

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Collins Creek

After visiting Bridal Veil Falls recently, I decided to stop by Collins Creek while I was in the neighborhood. This is one of my favorite spots in the State, and I've photographed it several times. I'm sure this won't be the last :)

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Back at work after an 11 day vacation. 476 unread email messages.

From Twitter / joshmoody 3 months ago

What is it about a freshly washed car that attracts birds? It's as if some residue from the soap induces a bird bowel movement.

From Twitter / joshmoody 3 months ago

Just renewed my Flickr Pro account for another year. Check out my photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/

From Twitter / joshmoody 3 months ago

Triple Falls

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Triple Falls

Newton County, AR

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Triple Falls

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Triple Falls

Newton County, AR

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Triple Falls

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Triple Falls

Newton County, AR

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Bridal Veil Falls

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Bridal Veil Falls

Near Heber Springs, Cleburne County

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Bridal Veil Falls

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Bridal Veil Falls

Near Heber Springs, Cleburne County

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Bridal Veil Falls

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Bridal Veil Falls

Near Heber Springs, Cleburne County

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Natural Bridge Falls

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Natural Bridge Falls

Lost Valley, Cleburne County

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Hanging out at Bridal Veil Falls near Heber Springs

From Twitter / joshmoody 3 months ago

The "Lost" Series Finale event starts in less than 24 hours! The end is near!

From Twitter / joshmoody 3 months ago

Listening to a pretty good live band while waiting for it to get dark enough for the Silver Moon Cinema in DT Conway.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Trying to wrap some stuff up at work so I can have a guilt/worry free vacation!

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Friday's looking like a great day for chasing waterfalls. Rain tonight and tomorrow, then partly cloudy Friday. And I'm off work Friday!

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

We're very close to the end, Hugo. #Lost

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Someone had the nerve to call me for a survey during the last episode of Lost before the finale! Are they crazy?

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Branson Landing

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Branson Landing

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Branson Landing

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Branson Landing

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Marina @ Indian Point

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Marina @ Indian Point

Branson, MO

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Branson Landing

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Branson Landing

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Branson Landing

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Branson Landing

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Cabin @ Faulkner County Museum

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Cabin @ Faulkner County Museum

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Downtown Bigelow

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Downtown Bigelow

I saw this old building on the way to Wye Mountain for the Daffodil Festival in March but didn't have time to stop for photos at the time. Glad I finally got back there, it's an interesting building.

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Downtown Bigelow

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Downtown Bigelow

I saw this old building on the way to Wye Mountain for the Daffodil Festival in March but didn't have time to stop for photos at the time. Glad I finally got back there, it's an interesting building.

From Uploads from Josh Moody 4 months ago

Old Springfield Bridge

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Old Springfield Bridge

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Old Springfield Bridge

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Old Springfield Bridge

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Ellison's Store

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Ellison's Store

Birta, AR

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The AT&T data network is so crummy in Branson I can barely get enough signal to tweet my complaints about it!

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Getting numbed up so I can get drilled and filled. 2 fillings. I'd rather be just about anywhere else than this dentist chair!

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

There's a wreck just before exit 129 in Conway. I've barely moved for 30 minutes. #stuckintraffic

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Sawmill Explosion

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Scan from the "Mena Star" in 1910 about a Sawmill Explosion at Watson, Ok that killed some members of my family. Warning: The newspaper account is graphic!

From jgmoody's Photobucket media 4 months ago

Watching Pawn Stars and wondering when the last time was that someone brought a pair of Russian nuclear launch keys into Dad's pawn shop.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

At Jamie's family reunion in Birta, AR. I have no idea who these people are.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Dusting off the camera and heading out to the Old Springfield Bridge for some photos. http://bit.ly/ax4vcL

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Saw Iron Man 2 after work w/ @linuxdin - The beginning & end were great but the middle was slow. A lot of story line for an action movie.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Just got another telephone survey. 3/4 nights this week. I gotta stop taking these. I'm afraid I'm on a list somewhere cuz I take them.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

My 3 year old just had a "night terror". He was VERY upset & crying in sleep & we couldn't wake him. He was fine when he finally woke up.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

I wonder if I could get away with scheduling a Friday afternoon "Developer Meeting" to watch Iron Man 2?

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

2 telephone surveys in 2 days. This one 8 minutes long wanting to know my views about gays as Boy Scout leaders.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Just got a phone call from @GovMikeHuckabee ! Well, an automated phone survey to be more accurate, but it felt like a conversation.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

At the Mena Middle School Gym where they are about to auction off the old school properties.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Got to Mena just in time for a Torando Warning!

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Think I might go to bed for a few hours before my alarm goes off. Didn't plan to work this late... it just sorta happened.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Trying to turn "data" into "information". Not an easy task sometimes.

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Jamie & Rachel are going to Ladies Banquet @ church tonight; Levi & I are having guy's night. Thomas the Train then dinner @PizzaInn_Inc !

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

I fully expected a long day at work, but 5am to 11pm?I'm wiped out!

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

At the office. At 5am. On Saturday. Scheduled maintenace. Going to be a long day!

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Spending my iTunes allowance on Glee. #guiltypleasure

From Twitter / joshmoody 4 months ago

Got home from work just in time to find my child had thrown a baseball thru our window. There goes her allowance for the next 10 years.

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Disappointed that @lcdonline is charging 2.99 for their iPhone app. There's few apps worth 3 bucks, and this one doesn't make the cut.

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

So many Netflix titles, so little time.

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Stan Lee is the king of cameos! Just saw him in the new Iron Man 2 / Dr Pepper commercial

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Bad 1st impression of Opera Mini / iPhone. Wouldn't load at all until I switched from wireless to 3G. Intro screen loads now, but no sites

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Just e-filed my Federal Taxes... First time I can remember filing before April 15th. Feels kinda weird.

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Replaced thermostat this evening, but car still overheating. Plenty of coolant, but it looks "sludgy". Going to try flushing radiator next.

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

@pulrich actually, I used @checkdotin, which posts to several at once. But it seems to have a problem with the brightkite short urls...

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Temp gauge in my car pegged out again on the way home from Best Buy. Guess I'll have to replace the thermostat tomorrow.

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Picnic lunch and playing at Toad Suck Park with the family

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Wish we had a *real* bookstore in Conway. Hastings has a pitiful selection of computer books... a four foot section of "__ for Dummies"

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Heading home. Was afraid my car was going to overheat in traffic, but it's ok now.

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

#stuckintraffic at Morgan

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Experimenting with geotagged Tweets

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Showed the kids the scrapbook Mom made for me a couple years ago. Lots of neat stuff in there... Like my Dad when he had hair! Thanks Mom!

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Got my Easter haircut out of the way. Now to enjoy what's shaping up to be a beautiful day!

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Listening to the thunder and wondering if the kids will ever go to sleep tonight. I enjoy a good thunderstorm. The kids: not so much.

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

This is the way I've developed for years - Comment Driven Development: http://bit.ly/9qNYnQ

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

2003 Grand Prix Owners: If brake lights don't work but rear turn signals do - the hazard button on the steering column is stuck. Jiggle it.

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Family History

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I found many family history "treasures" this weekend while going thru some of my Great Grandmother's old papers. This is my favorite. It's a 7 generation family history written by my Great Grandmother, Edith Howard. It was written sometime between 1978 and 1981. It traces a direct family line from her Great-Grand Father to her Great Grand-Sons. The last person on the list.... "Little Josh".

From jgmoody's Photobucket media 5 months ago

Hit the jackpot this weekend on ancestry documents. Birth/Death/Marriage records, correspondence, & ancestry notes left by my G Grandmother!

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

@lukewilliams I'd be happy to code review your powershell scripts...

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Has the munchies. Too early for 4th meal. How about a choc malt from sonic instead?

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Just booked my space flight with Virgin Galactic! A deal at only $200k per ticket! http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/ #notreally

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Just mailed back my 2010 Census form. Have you?

From Twitter / joshmoody 5 months ago

Trying to beat the rain to Heber Springs for some photography at Collins Creek

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

On our way to Wye Mountain

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

John Crockett Rogers Family

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Photo taken around 1904

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John Crockett Rogers

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Thomas Jackson Rogers

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Father of John Crockett Rogers

From jgmoody's Photobucket media 6 months ago

RT @Arkansasgov: Arkansas.gov becomes the first state to offer mobile payments for eGovernment services: http://ow.ly/1nZXl

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

Just sent @photobucket an email via the website. Not happy w/ them for erroneously deleting one of my photos for terms of use violation.

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

handheldfriendly | Learn the Mobile Web

From Delicious/jgmoody 6 months ago

Just got home from a very long, but productive day at the office.

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

Meeting schedule for today: 9-10, 10-11, 11:30-1, 1-2, 2-2:30, 4-5 . Might do a little programming too. #caseofthemondays

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

Trying to get caught up on processing some of the photos I took this winter. A few new ones on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgmoody/

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

Alfred Moody Death Certificate

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Just got the Death Cert back for G G Grandfather who died in 1926, hoping to learn his father's name. Death Cert says "Father: Unknown".

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

Waiting for Dept of Health to open. Trying to find death certificate for my Gr Gr Grandfather. Hope it will give identity of his parents.

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

Blogging is so passé

Good thing I never got into it.

As I wrote in a previous post, I’ve been planning on moving joshmoody.com away from a blog and instead make it an aggregation of the social networking sites I actually use.

That finally happened this week. On the spur of the moment one night, I decided to update the OS on my Linux web server from an ancient version of CentOS to the latest and greatest Ubuntu. I REALLY like Ubuntu… it’s by far the easiest Linux distro to set up and maintain I’ve ever used. After the upgrade, I decided to go ahead use the programming I’d been working on for my new front page.

I wrote anaggregatorin PHP that takes new items from the public RSS feeds from my Twitter, Flickr, and Photobucket accounts and shoves them in a database. Then I can easily display those items on my website in the order in which they were posted.

I still have a little work to do on this, but it’s functional enough to use. Not like anyone will actually read it any way :-)http://joshmoody.com

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From Josh Moody 6 months ago

Spent the weekend searching online ancestry documents and scanning copies of birth/death/marriage certs. It's fun, in a boring sort of way.

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

It seems my family had something better to do in the summer of 1870 than talk to the census taker! Alfred Moody, who were you?! #ancestry

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

William Thomas and Alice M Moody

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Jan 8, 1964 in Mena, AR

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William Thomas and Alice M Moody (Back)

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Jan 8, 1964 in Mena, AR

From jgmoody's Photobucket media 6 months ago

Broke a crown while eating breakfast this morning and my Dentist is closed on Fridays.

From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

Breakfast at IHOP with the developers! Yum!
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From Twitter / joshmoody 6 months ago

Another In-Place Editor, a jQuery Plugin by Dave Hauenstein

From Delicious/jgmoody 6 months ago

30 Amazingly Creative Social Bookmarks Icon Sets - Speckyboy Design Magazine

From Delicious/jgmoody 6 months ago

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com

From Delicious/jgmoody 7 months ago

Wishing I could filter my Facebook news feed with regexes. A Firefox plugin? A good start: s/(.*)(farmville|mafia|gift|quiz|aquarium)(.*)/

From Twitter / joshmoody 7 months ago

Converting our old Windows XP desktop to a VMware image using Fusion's Migration Agent.

From Twitter / joshmoody 7 months ago

@abby_sims Bummer, hope tomorrow goes better!

From Twitter / joshmoody 7 months ago

Just got automated phone call from Conway Public Schools. No school Wednesday. Roads are still yucky in Conway with little melt off.

From Twitter / joshmoody 7 months ago

Gonna take a break from working and play with the kiddos in the snow for a while. Don't get this chance very often in Arkansas...

From Twitter / joshmoody 7 months ago

@pulrich Glad he gave up, would've been a yucky trip!

From Twitter / joshmoody 7 months ago

@pulrich Yeah, it took about 1.5 hours, but I made it! Thanks for checking! Road conditions worsened quickly this morning!

From Twitter / joshmoody 7 months ago

10-15 inches of snowfall in Conway?! http://bit.ly/aX9pfD

From Twitter / joshmoody 7 months ago

Questioning my decision to drive to work today. HEAVY snowfall in downtown Little Rock. Getting here? Easy. Getting home? We'll see!

From Twitter / joshmoody 7 months ago

PHPUnit

From Delicious/jgmoody 7 months ago

Historic Bridges of the U.S. | Arkansas Coverage Map

From Delicious/jgmoody 9 months ago

The Old Mill

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The Old Mill

The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.

See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233&section=1... for more information.

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The Old Mill

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The Old Mill

The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.

See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233&section=1... for more information.

From Uploads from Josh Moody 10 months ago

The Old Mill

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The Old Mill

The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.

See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233&section=1... for more information.

From Uploads from Josh Moody 10 months ago

The Old Mill

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The Old Mill

The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.

See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233&section=1... for more information.

From Uploads from Josh Moody 10 months ago

The Old Mill

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The Old Mill

The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.

See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233&section=1... for more information.

From Uploads from Josh Moody 10 months ago

The Old Mill

Josh Moody posted a photo:

The Old Mill

The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.

See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233&section=1... for more information.

From Uploads from Josh Moody 10 months ago

The Old Mill

Josh Moody posted a photo:

The Old Mill

The Old Mill in North Little Rock was completed in 1933 and is featured in the opening scenes of "Gone With The Wind". The structure is a re-creation of an an 1880's water-powered grist mill and was built to appear abadoned.

See www.northlittlerock.org/entries.aspx?id=233&section=1... for more information.

From Uploads from Josh Moody 10 months ago

Geolocation and Online Fraud Prevention from MaxMind

From Delicious/jgmoody 12 months ago

Introduction to ACH

Definitions and transaction flows for the ACH network

From Delicious/jgmoody 12 months ago

Microformats

Information on microformat open standards.

From Delicious/jgmoody 12 months ago

Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test

From Delicious/jgmoody about 1 year ago

Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq

Utility written for Adobe AIR for creating wireframe mockups of applications

From Delicious/jgmoody about 1 year ago

Check out this great instore deal from Staples on Uniden DECT 6.0 expandable corded/cordless phone w

From Delicious/jgmoody about 1 year ago

Digitalus CMS - Home

CMS Based on Zend Framework

From Delicious/jgmoody about 1 year ago

TinyMCE - Home

This is the GUI editor that is bundled with Wordpress

From Delicious/jgmoody about 1 year ago

Why should I blog?

Why should I blog? I Tweet frequently, and my tweets auto-update my Facebook status for all my friends to see and make insulting comments about. By the time I can get a chance to write a full blog post about whatever it was I found interesting, it’s old news.

I’ve never been one to spend a lot of time blogging, but it’s been like 5 months since my last blog post. My content all goes to Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr these days. While it is much easier to post a quick note to Twitter than to write a full blog post, I believe there are still 2 reasons to blog.

1) Status updates may pass, but a blog post lasts forever. A Twitter/Facebook status update is perishable. Within hours (or even minutes), it’s irrelevant and lost in hundreds of status updates your friends see every day. If you are interested in your content hanging around awhile, write it on your blog.

2) Sometimes 140 characters just aren’t enough. I’m a wordy type of guy. Once I get started, it’s hard to shut me up. It takes a great deal of discipline for me to say what I need to within the 140 character limit imposed by Twitter.

Because I don’t blog very often, I’ve decided to change the focus of joshmoody.com away from blogging and toward the content that I’m actually posting regularly. Because I still may find the need to blog on occasion, I’m not going to completely remove the blog, but it’s going to shift to the background. In the next few weeks (hopefully), I’ll be replacing the front page of this site with something similar to friendfeed.com. I’m going to aggregate my recent Flickr photos, Tweets, and blog posts into a single stream.

I’m sure there are probably Wordpress plugins to do what I’m looking for… heck, I even wrote a similar WP plugin one time – but I don’t want to be tied to Wordpress. The security vulnerabilities inherent in a project like Wordpress concern me, and I’m not sure I’m going to keep using it. I’m going write something custom that I can later tie into whatever blogging platform I’m using. I was thinking about importing my friendfeed into this site, but I have a feeling friendfeed will be rollled into Facebook soon and may not continue to function as it does now.

I would like to start blogging a little more often – technical stuff like programming concepts, tips, and tricks. We’ll see how that goes.

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From Josh Moody about 1 year ago

Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating

From Delicious/jgmoody about 1 year ago

Twitter conventions explained for Facebook users

For you non-Twitter folks on Facebook….

I’ve gotten a couple questions lately about conventions I sometimes use in my FB status updates. Here’s the story.

If you see a FB status update that contains #some_text, it’s most likely a Twitter user who has set up their FB status to auto-update from their Twitter updates.

The #some_text syntax (called a hashtag) specifies a topic for the Tweet. A “Tweet” is a status update, for those who don’t know Twitter lingo.

Example: “Kris Allen did really well tonight on #Idol”

This allows you to more easily use the search feature of Twitter to see what other people are saying about the topic in real-time. See http://twitter.com/search?q=%23idol for what people are saying about American Idol right now.

If you see a FB status update like “RT @SomeName Mary had a little lamb”, that is a Twitter user who is Re-Tweeting another user’s post. @SomeName is the original poster of the information.

Example: “RT @FOX16News Ark. launches Web site to track stimulus http://tinyurl.com/bnmamq

This is the same concept as providing a citation in a research paper. It’s like saying: “I’m not the original source of this information, but want to share it with you and give credit to the original author”.

BTW, if you are on Twitter and want your Tweets to update your FB status, you can do so withhttp://apps.facebook.com/twitter/.

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From Josh Moody about 1 year ago

Award Winner

I’m pleased to announce that the newsroom application I wrote for the Governor’s office won the 2008 eC3Excellence Award in the category “Innovation in the use of social networking to enhance citizen involvement in government”.

Gov. Mike Beebe?sInformation Network of Arkansasencourages citizens to help craft a positive vision for their state. Arkansas.gov offers numerous online services and an e-newsroom with audio/video, podcasts, four different electronic newsletters, listservs and RSS feeds.

I actually wrote this application for Gov. Mike Huckabee, then updated it a bit when Gov. Beebe entered office last year. Then we did a major enhancement earlier this year to integrate with content from Picasa and YouTube. Thanks to this application, Governor Huckabee became only the 2nd Governor in the U.S. to have Video podcasts in iTunes!

Of three awards given by the eC3 (National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council) this year, Arkansas won two! We also won the award for?Innovation in protecting the privacy and integrity of citizen information” for a write up in which my friend and co-workerDavid described thesecurity initiatives we have implemented.

Read more about eC3

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From Josh Moody about 1 year ago

Software Development Methodologies

I’ve been reading about Agile Software Developmentthis evening. I’ve never really categorized my preferred style of development, but I’d say it closely resembles the Agile style.

Basically, Agile development involves short iterative cycles of development with frequent deliverables. There is minimal planning and the stakeholder is frequently consulted for feedback. The goal is to have a working release at the end of each development iteration with minimal bugs. The iteration is complete when it passes tests. Then it’s time for feedback and the next iteration of feature development. Working software is the primary measure of progress.

It seems that with the Agile development methodology, you are more likely to have a Mission Statement than a Project Plan. You are working toward an end goal, but the path may not be predictable.

I find this quite interesting. In my office, our Project Managers want to have project plans that boil down to: Development will begin on ??/??/???? and end on ??/??/???? and will take X hours. Testing will begin on ??/??/???? and end on ??/??/???? and will take X hours. Deployment will occur on ??/??/????. The end result will contain features 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c1, 2c2, 2c3, 2d.

This method of strict project planning isn’t all bad, but it isn’t very darn likely either. Crap happens. Features change. We learn something new. This is why I lean more toward the Agile development philosophy. It makes allowances for unexpected circumstances. Nay, it expects crap to happen.

I’ve worked on many different projects this year. A couple stand out as being particularly complex and high profile. The first one followed a strict project plan. No wiggle room.

“We must have the project finished on this date. Create a project plan that fits this end date, then make sure you hit the date, no matter what.”

So that’s what we did. The business owner started wanting changes almost immediately, but it was too late by then. We didn’t deliver anything for testing until just before the end of the project. There was no time to change/add functionality based on feedback from the stakeholder at the last moment. Had we made small deliverables all thru the development cycle, we could have flushed all of that stuff out before the due date. Instead, it was a single massive deliverable with no room for changes. The software worked as requested, but the business owner didn’t request everything that it needed to do. Now we’re faced with large sets of feature enhancements for an application that just went live in what was supposed to be it’s final form.

The second project had a looser project plan, but still a firm date. It was approached a little differently.

”Here are the goals of the application, and a simple flow chart. Here are the milestone deliverables.”

Instead of working strictly toward the end result, I developed iteratively with the end result always a distant thought. I delivered the first milestone within a few days. It didn’t do much, but it worked. All other functionality would derive from that. Over the next several weeks, I delivered more components of the application in iterations. Each iteration was a working application that was immediately ready for user testing and feedback. These quick iterations didn’t completely fulfill the goals of the project, but each got us closer. And each iteration kept the stakeholder involved and giving feedback. After completing a particular iteration, I discovered the project was done.

We shifted directions a couple times on this second project, but those direction changes evolved from our understanding of the project and requests from the stake holder, and contributed to a successful deployment without a slew of changes shortly thereafter. I attribute this to the fact that the application evolved during the development phase to be exactly what it needed to be.

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From Josh Moody about 1 year ago

Test Data Generator

I frequently have the need to enter fake data when developing/testing an application. Things like names, addresses, credit cards, etc. To assist with this,I’ve been working on an application to easily produce test data.

Currently, it generates the following:

  • Full Name (First, Middle, and Last. First and Middle names are for same gender, though the gender is randomly chosen)
  • Address (Street Address, City, State, Zip, County)
  • Phone Number
  • Credit Card (Type, Number, Expiration)
  • Bank Account (Bank Name, Account Type, Routing #, Account #)
  • Date of Birth
  • Driver’s License (Number, State, Expiration)
  • SSN
  • Email Address
  • URL
  • Company Name

It can generate any of the above items individually, or you can generate a “Person” with all of these data elements included. If generating a person, the email address will contain the person’s first name, with the domain matching the company’s name. The area code of the phone number will be correct for the City/State of the address. The State for the Driver’s License will also match the person’s state.

The credit card and banking numbers will also pass basic validation algorithms (luhn/mod10).

I should note that this is similar to what can be found athttp://www.fakenamegenerator.com, which I discovered after I started working on this project. The difference is my solution is more robust, and can be used programmatically instead of having to visit the website.

Currently, this is only a basic PHP class that can be called to generate the data. The next step is to expose the methods as a Soap Web Service (so it can be used by any programming language). I’ll also build a GUI front-end that will allow download of the generated data in a delimited format.

When I originally wrote this, I intended to use it for work. However, I’ve written it completely from home, and I’d like to keep it for my own and license it under LGPL. I’ll still use it for work, but I want it to be “my” project and not my company’s. Of course, I remember something from the paperwork I signed when I started working here about my employer owning any thoughts I have during my employment. It is for this reason that I’ve tried really hard not to have any thoughts for the past 3.5 years.

I figure I’ve given them enough of my soul already. Surely they’ll let me keep this one small thing?

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From Josh Moody about 1 year ago

Native iPhone Wordpress

Testing native wordpress application for iPhone.

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From Josh Moody over 2 years ago

Smash and Grab

I decided to go for a walk late this evening. There’s a walking trail in town that I used to visit quite often, and I am trying to start walking more. When I do go walking, it’s frequently fairly late at night… it’s not uncommon for me to go at 9 or 10 PM. The trail is paved and has lights at regular intervals (though several are burned out), and there are usually several people out, even at this time of night.

When I first started going out there a little more than a year ago, I worried a bit about being out there alone at night. Not that I’m a scaredy cat or anything, but let’s face it: There are some not-so-nice people in this world. Not-so-nice people tend to lurk in the shadows. On this walking trail, there are plenty of shadows…

I got over it after a couple walks, and hadn’t worried about it since.

Tonight, I went out around 10 and walked 2 miles. Upon arriving back at my car 1/2 hour later, I opened the door and realized the passenger side window was missing. Well, I guess it wasn’t exactly missing. I knew exactly where it was: in thousands of pieces all over the interior of my car.

My center console was open, and had obviously been gone through. I had left my wallet in the console and, surprisingly, it was still there on top of the pile. My driver’s license, credit card, and $3 in cash were still there. I guess the wallet wasn’t worth messing with. I can’t tell that anything was stolen, luckily, I don’t usually keep valuables in my car. I didn’t even have my iPod adapter in car tonight.

Mine wasn’t the only car hit. While on the phone with the police, I noticed a Ford Expedition had 2 windows broken out, and it appeared to have been searched too. The driver of the Expedition didn’t show up before I left, but the police were going to wait on them so they could get a report from them too.

Shortly after the police arrived, we saw somebody shooting off fireworks just down the walking trail. Thinking it might be related, 2 police officers went to investigate – but came back empty-handed.

This isn’t my first time to be the victim of a vehicle-related crime. When I was 18, somebody stole my 1986 Monte Carlo from my then-girlfriend, now-wife’s driveway. I had stupidly left the keys in the ignition. The police found it several hours later, undamaged, and being driving by a 14 year-old who had already been caught stealing 2 or 3 other cars in town for joyrides. I think he spent the night in jail, but that was about it.

The thing is, they’ll never catch the person(s) who did this, and even if they do, there will be little-to-no punishment.

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From Josh Moody over 2 years ago

Salvation and Chicken Pox

Here’s an email my wife sent to some friends yesterday after talking about the plan of salvation with our 4-year-old:

Here is a sure fire way to know you child is not ready for the plan of salvation.

…I was explaining about sin and what sin is… that you can’t be good enough to get into heaven…that Christ died for our sins in our place…”…that He might bring us to God…” 1 Peter 3:18….God asks me to believe in him to take away my sin…

When I get to:
Believing is trusting what God did for me. When I believe that His death was for me, He gives me eternal life.

And then I ask: Rachel what does God GIVE you if you believe that his death was for you?

Her quick and honest response: CHICKEN POX

I think she needs more time.

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From Josh Moody over 2 years ago

Vacation?s Over

Vacation is over and I start back to work tomorrow. We didn’t go on a big vacation, but several small ones instead. The main thing is that I WASN’T WORKING!

Here’s the break-down of the week…

 
Monday:
As I wrote previously, we took the family to the Little Rock Zoo.

Tuesday:
We took the kids to the babysitter so we could have a date! We watched “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”.

Wednesday:
We loaded up the mini-van and traveled to Mena to visit the folks.

Thursday:
Today was our 9th Wedding Anniversary! To celebrate, we left the kids with the Grandparents, and went to the Raspberry Manor Bed & Breakfast. This was the best part of the trip. We got to the B&B around 3PM, then sat on the deck or in the hammock until about 5. Then we took a walk on one of the numerous trails in the area before returning for dinner about 6:30. We had a fantastic steak dinner, and lounged for a couple hours before retiring for the evening.

Friday:
Had a nice breakfast of ham and stuffed french toast, then did nothing for a couple more hours before checking out at 11AM.

Later that day, my father-in-law and I went Geocaching around town before my Wife and kids left for Conway with her parents. My Wife & kids, her parents, and her brother & sister-in-law all spent the weekend Greer’s Ferry Lake, while I stayed in Mena to visit with my own parents.

Saturday:
I attended the Acorn Reunion with my Grandpa (he also attended Acorn High School). Acorn is such a small school that they have an “all alumni” reunion each year. This is the first one I’ve attended. Aside from one 8th grader who was probably there with a grandparent, I was by decades the youngest in attendance. Most attendees were in their 70’s and 80’s. It was nice to spend time with my Grandpa anyway. Afterwards, my Grandparents treated me to a BBQ lunch.

Sunday:
We grilled steaks at Dad’s house. My grandmother baked a chocolate cake (with home-made chocolate icing… yum) and made ice-cream.

Now, it’s late Sunday. I’m home again, I’m tired, and I’m going to bed!

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From Josh Moody over 2 years ago