http://joshmoody.com Welcome to the online home of the Moody Family. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:52:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm pleased to announce that the newsroom application I wrote for the Governor's office won the 2008 eC3 Excellence Award in the category "Innovation in the use of social networking to enhance citizen involvement in government". Gov. Mike Beebe’s Information Network of Arkansas encourages citizens to help craft a positive vision for their state. ... http://joshmoody.com/2008/11/14/award-winner/ I've been reading about Agile Software Development this 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 ... http://joshmoody.com/2008/09/15/software-development-methodologies/ 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 ... http://joshmoody.com/2008/09/14/test-data-generator/ Testing native wordpress application for iPhone. http://joshmoody.com/2008/07/24/native-iphone-wordpress/ 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 ... http://joshmoody.com/2008/07/11/smash-and-grab/ 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 ... http://joshmoody.com/2008/07/09/salvation-and-chicken-pox/ [flickr]photo:2582007897[/flickr] 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 ... http://joshmoody.com/2008/06/15/vacations-over/ I'm on vacation this week, and we decided to take the family to the Little Rock Zoo this morning. It was getting hot by the time we left, but there was some nice cloud cover that kept it pretty comfortable while we were there. This was Rachel's 2nd visit to ... http://joshmoody.com/2008/06/09/lr-zoo/ If you're an iPhone user, you've probably already read that the iPhone 2.0 software is coming in early July - later than the original June estimation. You probably also know the 2.0 software will have support for built-in applications. While I certainly welcome this new functionality, I've been ... http://joshmoody.com/2008/06/09/iphone-web-apps/ After being exposed to Flickr for a project at work, I've finally joined the cool kids by putting my photos on Flickr. To avoid max upload restrictions, I had to spend $25/year for a pro account, but it's worth it to get unlimited sets, uploads, and storage. Some of Flickr's features ... http://joshmoody.com/2008/06/08/flickr/