Olympic athlete and later missionary Eric Liddle said in the movie Chariots of Fire, “When I run, I feel His pleasure.” There have been a few times in my career when I have had the exhilarating sense of knowing that this is what I was made for. Now is one of those times, and I am very grateful for it. Hours seemed like minutes. I thoroughly enjoyed coding, and even more enjoyed writing about it at my geek blog, TurboManage, which this week grew to over 300 page views in one day. My corporate job of seven weeks ago now seems like a distant memory. I am inclined to suggest that every software engineer should save up and take a four-month sabbatical every few years to enjoy coding again. My spirit has been so refreshed!
Praise the Lord for significant progress this week! I crossed a couple more technical hurdles around unit testing and the database, so the pool of technical unknowns continues to dwindle. I have released an alpha version at dmcsandbox.appspot.com. It doesn’t look real pretty yet, and doesn’t have a fraction of the features that the finished product will have; nevertheless, you can login with your Gmail account, create prayer lists, and add prayer requests that will still be there next time you log in. No daily email yet, no editing, and no sharing with groups. But it’s a start, and it’s live for you to preview.
This coming week I will, Lord-willing, complete editing capability for prayer requests, start the daily email, and launch the RememberOneAnother.com Web site (but not the app yet).
Please note: any data you create at the sandbox site is test data. The real app will be launched at a different URL with a clean database, but please do feel free to log in now and post any usability comments back here.
Thank you for your prayers, and please keep praying!
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