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Wine-ing Over Baseball…Or Is That the Other Way Around? Either Way, Yum!
For the last few years Seth and I have spent the second to last weekend of every October in Cambria and Paso Robles for the Wine Alliance's Harvest Festival. Sadly, the Angels have either been out of it by this point or never in it to begin with so taking a trip away hasn't been a tough decision. What will we do next year or in 2013 if the Angels are still in the thick of things? Well, suffice to say that is a conundrum I would love to have! It' not like we'd have hotel reservations to cancel. We stay at his folks' place. Yes, I know how lucky I am!
Random thoughts from the weekend:
1) Taking a trip up here in the middle of the post season doesn't have to mean sacrifice for the baseball fan. There is usually someplace great to watch the game, a winery throwing a baseball party, like the one we attended last year, a local you hit it off with tipping you off to an open party somewhere, or something. Sights like this are not uncommon. Best. License. Plate. Ever…okay…maybe not ever, but still:
2) Things are not always what they seem. I figured I'd get my tips on where to watch the game this weekend from the baseball winery. No dice. Because of the too mild weather, harvest is still going on instead of just finished and all of their biggest baseball fans are out working. No, I got my best tips – and excellent wine! – from the gentleman at the Pithy Little Wine Company, nestled in a gorgeous boutique looking tasting room in downtown. And thank you, good Sir, excellent tips they were.
3) There have been less bad calls this post season than I remember from other post seasons, but they're still there.
4) I said it before and I'll say it again, I miss having a Molina brother behind the plate.
5) Every time I sit down to watch Albert Pujols play I think, nah, he can't quite live up to the hype no matter how good he is…only to be reminded a few plays later that, no, really, he is that good.
6) Even injured, Josh Hamilton is almost that good. St Louis fan walking into the bar for the first time in the 6th inning: What happened? How did Texas score that last run? Me: Josh Hamilton happened. St. Louis fan: Say no more.
7) Sitting down at the bar to watch the game, wherein you are rooting for St. Louis as your borrowed team, behind this sight is not as daunting as you might think. Hey, at least you know they're all baseball fans and not going to start whining about wanting to change the station to football!:
8) Catching a ball I can understand. I would never lean out over the rail to catch a ball, even if I don't agree with it, on some level I understand why someone might do this in the heat of the moment. But throwing a ball onto the field? Seriously? I can't understand it at all. Kudos to the Rangers ushers for kicking him out…not that I expected anything less.
9) Cheese and wine pairing is wonderful. Small bites and wine even better. BBQ and wine pairing rocks. But a bacon and wine pairing is the best of all. Yes, bacon and wine. And I assure you, it was even better than it sounds, especially the wild boar bacon paired with rich cabernet. Yum! And it's even better when you meet another baseball fan couple up from Los Angeles for the festival weekend. A Cubbie and a Red Sox fan – proof that two long standing curses (one broken and then some) can cancel one another out into a happy marriage.
10) I wished Mike Napoli all the best with the Rangers when he got traded and I meant it. But I have to confess, hearing the entire stadium chant Nap-o-li, Nap-o-li when he comes up to bat with runners in scoring position and seeing all of the signs that talk about how clutch he is makes me feel a little ill. Why couldn't you have done some of that for us, Mike? I know you didn't have as many opportunities, but you did have opportunities.
11) Regarding the previous bullet, I don't know where this sort of October pettiness is coming from. I haven't always been this childish about losing. They say adversity breeds character. Well, apparently, baseball "adversity" breeds the wrong kind of character in me. *sigh*
12) For a game where the final score was so darned uneven, it sure didn't seem uneven in the middle. I swear Texas was on the verge of catching up every time they came up to the plate.
13) Cambria is small and internet access at the house is always sketchy and, in fact, non existent this weekend, but there are worse things. Spending the afternoon like this up the street at Moonstone Cellars, one of the wineries with free Wi-Fi while we plot our dinner and game viewing strategy (no TV at the house either), doesn't suck. Tempranillo. Yuuuuuum!:

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Errors part of game, but it shouldn't be with replay
CLEVELAND -- I was standing in the "Joyce Lounge," the unofficial name given the auxiliary grounds-crew storage room tucked in the area behind home plate at Progressive Field.
The room is so named because it's where umpire Jim Joyce will retreat to have a quick cigarette before a ballgame when he's in town. But the Joyce Lounge has another more official purpose, for it is also the room where the console used for instant-replay reviews is housed in a locked box, among the rakes, hoes and shovels.
I was inspecting that locked box Thursday morning, noting the photos attached to it. The photos were of "troublesome" areas in the ballpark -- places where the contours and specifics of the layout can make for difficult reads in real time, and the photos serve as a warning, of sorts, so that the crews know what they're getting into.
Sure enough, one of those troublesome spots is above the left-field wall, where a green railing sits atop a green wall, just above the yellow line.
Well, by now you know what had happened Wednesday: An umpiring crew led by Angel Hernandez reviewed an Adam Rosales ninth-inning, two-out "double" that had actually struck that metal railing and bounced back on the field. In real time, perhaps, you could understand the confusion caused by the play and this so-called troublesome area. Mistakes do happen, and that's why Major League Baseball has a video review system in place for disputed home run boundary calls.
The shock, of course, is that Hernandez and Co. did review the play and still ruled it a double. And in the wake of this decision -- one that loomed large in the A's 4-3 defeat -- Hernandez has roundly and rightly been criticized from all corners.
But MLB's review system has also been criticized, to the point that some people -- including my colleague Terence Moore -- argue that any talk of expanding replay usage to trapped balls, fair-or-foul calls, forceouts and tags ought to be scuttled.
Bob Melvin, a longtime replay advocate whose A's team was burned by Hernandez, said the incident might have changed his perception about replay review.
"You talk about expanding replay," Melvin said. "Well, if you have replay and you can't get a call like that right, then why would you expand it?"
I understand the instant uproar over Hernandez's error, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. For this was human error intruding upon the modern system put in place to protect the game from human error. And if anything, it only underscores the importance of getting calls right by any means necessary.
As I stepped out of the Joyce Lounge on Thursday, Randy Marsh, MLB's director of umpires, walked in. He wore the stern face of a man who had to get up at the crack of dawn in his Kentucky home and make the drive to Cleveland to confirm what the rest of us knew: One of his men had made a horrible gaffe. He immediately began investigating the console and the video feeds of the play.
Neither Marsh nor Hernandez spoke to reporters Thursday, but an official release from executive vice president for baseball operations Joe Torre confirmed the obvious:
"Home and away broadcast feeds are available for all uses of instant replay, and they were available to the crew last night," Torre said via a statement. "Given what we saw, we recognize that an improper call was made."
It was made despite the availability of multiple feeds and camera angles and the ability to freeze and rewind, all in high-definition.
Until Wednesday night, the home run boundary-call system has been nothing but efficient and effective. These calls are fairly black and white (and, again, the TVs used to review them are not). I, for one, first saw the Rosales replay while sitting 20 feet away from a small screen in a dank bar, and I knew, instantly, that it was a home run. I have yet to see a single angle in which it is not obvious that it is a home run. For the life of me, I can't imagine there is a single functioning television on this planet in which that hit does not look like a clear home run.
"I don't know what kind of replay you had," Hernandez told the San Francisco Chronicle, "but you can't reverse a call unless there's 100 percent evidence."
These were the divertive words of a man who simply couldn't own up to an error. All the evidence was there, as was a system sound enough to allow for a correct decision.
Hernandez's incorrect decision hurt the A's, who know quite well, from their 2012 experience, the importance of every game (and count me among those who would have liked to have seen this game replayed from the point of Rosales' homer, a la the Pine Tar Game on June 24, 1983). And it underscored, once again, that umpires are human beings, warts, cigarettes and all.
How does the Hernandez incident implore us to remain as reliant as we already are on human error? Human error -- not the system or the technology in place -- is what caused this mess in the first place.


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Praise the name of the LORD!
Praise, you servants of the LORD,a
2Who stand in the house of the LORD,
in the courts of the house of our God!b
3Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good!
Sing to his name, for it brings joy!
4*For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel as his treasured possession.c
5For I know that the LORD is great,
that our Lord is greater than all gods.d
6Whatever the LORD desires
he does in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all the depths.e
7It is he who raises storm clouds from the end of the earth,
makes lightning for the rain,
and brings forth wind from his storehouse.f
8He struck down Egypt's firstborn,g
of human being and beast alike,
9And sent signs and wonders against you, Egypt,
against Pharaoh and all his servants.
10It is he who struck down many nations,h
and slew mighty kings—
11Sihon, king of the Amorites,
and Og, king of Bashan,
all the kings of Canaan—
12And made their land a heritage,
a heritage for Israel his people.
13O LORD, your name is forever,
your renown, from generation to generation!i
14For the LORD defends his people,
shows mercy to his servants.j
15The idols of the nations are silver and gold,k
the work of human hands.
16They have mouths but do not speak;
they have eyes but do not see;
17They have ears but do not hear;
nor is there breath in their mouths.
18Their makers will become like them,
and anyone who trusts in them.
19House of Israel, bless the LORD!l
House of Aaron, bless the LORD!
20House of Levi, bless the LORD!
You who fear the LORD, bless the LORD!
21Blessed be the LORD from Zion,
who dwells in Jerusalem!
* [Psalm 135] The hymn begins and ends with an invitation to praise God (Ps 135:1–3, 19–20) for the great act of choosing Israel (Ps 135:4). The story of Israel's emergence as a people is told in Ps 135:5–14; God created and redeemed the people, easily conquering all opposition. God's defeat of hostile powers means that the powers themselves and their images are useless (Ps 135:15–18). The last three verses appear also in Ps 115:4–8.
* [135:4] Though all nations are God's, Israel has a special status as God's "treasured" people: Ex 19:5; Dt 7:6; 14:2; 26:18; Mal 3:17.
c. [135:4] Ps 33:12; 144:15; Ex 19:6; Dt 7:6.
f. [135:7] Ps 148:8; Jer 10:13; 51:16; Jb 37:9.
g. [135:8–9] Ps 78:51; 105:27, 36; 136:10; Ex 12:29.
h. [135:10–12] Ps 136:17–22; Nm 21:21–35; Dt 2:24–3:17.
i. [135:13] Ps 102:13; Ex 3:15.
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At this year's GDC Online, the Adobe Gaming team is thrilled to show off some of the amazing accomplishments from game developers using Adobe technology, including runaway indie game successes like Song Pop, Wonderputt, and Botanicula, along with Stage 3D hardware accelerated browser and social games from bigger studios like Square Enix's Legend World, SilverStyle Studio's Herokon, Zynga's FarmVille 2 and Ruby Blast. Even if you're not able to join us at the show, check out the new Adobe Gaming channel on YouTube – it's jam-packed with demos, how-tos, and product previews that help you get started with 2D and 3D game development.
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How to Recognize Grace
by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
It takes you by surprise
It comes in odd packages
It sometimes looks like loss
Or mistakes
It acts like rain
Or like a seed
It's both reliable and unpredictable
It's not what you were aiming at
Or what you thought you deserved
It supplies what you need
Not necessarily what you want
It grows you up
And lets you be a child
It reminds you you're not in control
And that not being in control
is a form of freedom
Thomas Merton
Life is this simple.
We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent
and God is shining through it all the time.
This is not just a fable or a nice story
It is true.
If we abandon ourselves to God
and forget ourselves,
we see it sometimes
and we see it maybe frequently.
God shows Godself everywhere,
In everything,
In people and in things and in nature and in events.
It becomes very obvious that God is everywhere and
in everything and we cannot be without God.
It is impossible.
The only thing is that we don't see it.


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The list of chapters follows the sequence found in Mohl's edition (1838-78), which were later given an
alpha-numerical designation by Fritz Wolff (1935). There are some peculiarities: first, Shapur son of Ardashir is
numbered 22* and number 30 was overlooked by mistake. These irregularities are smoothed out in the edition of
Dabir-Siyaqi (1956), which otherwise follows Wolff's scheme. More recent editions (Bertel's et al.; Khaleghi-Motlagh)
do not give numbers to the chapters, only titles. These have been assigned numbers for the purposes of the Project. A
useful concordance of chapters and page numbers in the different editions can be found in Kumiko Yamamoto's The oral
background of Persian epics (Leiden, 2003), pp. xiv-xviii.
Click on the red > to display the scene titles within each chapter. This sequence of scenes has arisen from the
work done on this Project, and allows new titles to be added as necessary.


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Six prospects nominated for Stenson Award
Sportsmanship honor given annually by AFL in memory of late Reds player
MESA, Ariz. -- The main focus of the Arizona Fall League is to help prospects in the final stages of their development. It gives extra at-bats, defensive reps and innings to players hoping to make the jump to the Major Leagues.
While refining skills is the point of emphasis, the AFL also honors one player each year for qualities unrelated to on-field performance. The Dernell Stenson Sportsmanship Award pays tribute to the former Reds big league outfielder who was murdered while playing in the AFL after the 2003 season. It's given to a player who exemplifies Stenson's unselfishness, hard work and leadership.
Managers from each of the AFL's six teams recommend one of their players for the Stenson Award, with the winner announced during Saturday's championship game (which will be broadcast on MLB.com and MLB Network at 3 p.m. ET). This year's nominees are: Salt River Rafters third baseman Andy Burns (Blue Jays), Surprise Saguaros third baseman Garin Cecchini (Red Sox), Glendale Desert Dogs corner infielder Travis Mattair (Reds), Peoria Javelinas third baseman Jonathan Meyer (Astros), Mesa Solar Sox second baseman Devon Travis (Tigers) and Scottsdale Scorpions outfielder Cory Vaughn (Mets).
Phoenix Desert Dogs third baseman Mark Teahen won the first Stenson Award in 2004. Though the honor has nothing to do with prospect status, each of its nine recipients has played in the big leagues -- a tribute to the qualities the award stands for. Last year's winner was Salt River right-hander Cole Kimball, who spent six seasons climbing from 12th-round Draft pick to the Nationals' bullpen, only to tear his rotator cuff shortly afterward.
Mattair played in last year's AFL championship game, during which Kimball received the award. He says getting nominated this fall is a tremendous honor.
"It's about character and the person you are, not how you're playing," Mattair said. "Usually, awards are for performance, and this means a lot to me, because people think highly of me as a person.
"My parents taught me to be a good person first. That's the most important thing to me. I believe in karma. If you're good to others, others will be good to you."
Mattair dreamed of playing college basketball, but he found the Phillies' offer too good to refuse when they selected him in the second round of the 2007 Draft. He took the 2010 season off to pursue an opportunity to play hoops at Boise State before returning to baseball. Since the Reds chose him in the Triple-A phase of the 2011 Rule 5 Draft, Mattair has hit 32 homers during the past two regular seasons and worked his way to Double-A.
Nicknamed "Moose," Mattair is one of the most talkative players in the league, known for chatting up teammates and opponents alike. Glendale manager Jeff Smith hadn't met Mattair before this fall, but says he didn't have to deliberate when it came to picking his team's Stenson Award nominee.
"As a manager, you look for players who make the team better, who make the team concept better," Smith said. "Travis is one of those guys. He always roots for other guys and makes the atmosphere more fun and competitive for everybody.
"He never has a bad day in baseball. He makes it lot more loose and fun for everybody, and he gets after it. You couldn't ask for a better player to have on the team. His personality, makeup and drive will carry him as far as his skills."
Similarly, Mesa manager Bill Richardson says selecting Travis, who is ranked the Tigers' No. 12 prospect, as his club's nominee was an easy decision.
"There aren't too many people in life who after a five-minute conversation you realize what a good soul he is, as well as a talented player," Richardson said. "He has time for everyone. He works so hard on honing his craft, yet he's always talking to fans. It seems like he's known them forever.
"You talk about an 'it factor,' and he's got it. When the game is on the line, he's always in the middle of it. As a manager, you're happy because you know he can deliver. He's a winner."
Travis' lack of size knocked him down to the 13th round of the 2012 Draft, but he works diligently to get the most of his 5-foot-9, 183-pound frame. He helped Florida State reach two College World Series in three years, leading all players at the 2012 CWS with a .563 batting average. Travis continued to rake in his first full pro season, reaching High A while finishing second in the Minors in hitting at .351.
"I'm just so thankful to be nominated for this award," Travis said. "I've always been a very appreciative kid, and coming from my manager, it's pretty special that he sees me as that kind of guy.
"This definitely means a lot more to me than anything I do on the field. I always try to be the type of dude who goes about his work the right way. I'm glad people see that."


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Liquor law bill sees key changes
Hartford - A tactical decision by the state's package store lobby yielded early results Tuesday when a legislative committee made key changes to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed overhaul to state liquor laws that would still allow Sunday sales, but would scale back his plans to deregulate the ownership and pricing systems.
Store owners and their representatives faced a high-stakes dilemma early this year when Malloy came out with his sweeping package of legislation. They could concentrate on fending off this latest attempt to end the ban on Sunday alcohol sales, the type of legislative battle they have won for decades, or they could focus on defeating the parts of the bill that would relax price controls and ownership restrictions. Store owners feared those provisions would devastate family-owned shops to a far greater degree than being compelled to open on Sundays and competing with grocers for beer sales.
"We probably could have held on to it," Carroll Hughes, chief lobbyist of the Connecticut Package Stores Association, said Tuesday of the Sunday sales restriction. "Our votes were not eroding. However, we probably would have lost some additional items that were in the package. And losing those items to the extent that we lost them would have been a pyrrhic victory on Sunday sales and a disaster for the package stores overall."
So far, the strategy is achieving their goals. The legislature's General Law Committee voted 15-3 Tuesday to move forward a revised version of the bill, absent many of the changes package store owners considered most damaging.
Committee members said their bill strikes a middle ground between those who sought full deregulation of the state's liquor controls, and others who prefer the status quo.
"We have put a bill before you that is pro consumer and pro small business without engaging in guesswork with people's jobs and livelihoods," State Rep. Joseph Taborsak, D-Danbury, committee co-chairman, said. "None of us want to get this wrong and do something to put people out of business."
A longtime proponent of Sunday sales, state Sen. John Kissel, R-Enfield, also praised the compromises. "There's probably going to be some folks that feel that this bill doesn't go far enough, and there's probably going to be some folks that feel it goes too far," he said.
The bill still requires approval from both chambers of the General Assembly and possibly more committees. If it passes, it would bring an immediate end to Connecticut's 1933 prohibition on Sunday sales.
But while the governor's proposal would have permitted alcohol sales from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week, this revised version would limit Sunday sales to 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The committee's bill also keeps the existing 9 p.m. weekday closing for package stores and the grocery beer aisle. It does the same for restaurants and bars, which must still close by 1 a.m. on weeknights and 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings; Malloy sought to allow those establishments to stay open and serve drinks until 2 a.m. every day.
The other co-chairman, state Sen. Paul Doyle, D-Wethersfield, noted that their version of the bills would still give the state a two-hour regional "monopoly" on Sunday sales, as neither Rhode Island, Massachusetts or New York stores may sell alcohol before noon.
"I happen to think the 10 o'clock to noon monopoly for the state of Connecticut package store owners who decide to open is a good thing," Doyle said. "That's an opportunity for extra revenue that parallel hours won't have."
On the pricing side, the committee's bill would give stores permission to sell alcohol below cost for the first time, but only one item per month, and at no more than 10 percent below cost.
Malloy's initial proposal, which package stores strongly opposed, would have eliminated minimal retail prices. His compromise plan, released last month on the eve of a day-long public hearing on the bill, would have allowed up to five items per month at 10 percent below cost.
The committee's version also eliminates Malloy's plan to offer "beer only" sales permits to convenience stores and large gas stations.
It increases from two to three the number of package stores that a single person or corporation can operate. But that too is a step back for Malloy, who first sought to raise the ownership limit to nine and to remove the one-store-per-2,500 population zoning restriction. (He later comprised down to six and reinstated the population restriction.)
The Office of Fiscal Analysis estimates that the latest version of the bill would generate $5.3 million in additional revenue for the state. Malloy's initial proposal was expected to produce $8.7 million through deeper changes.
Brian Durand, a spokesman for the Malloy administration, said the revisions made to the governor's bill are not a disappointment. He pointed out how previous Sunday sales bills languished in the legislature.
"That's something that had never even come to a vote in this committee," Durand said. "So the fact that it didn't just come to a vote, but got voted out - and most people seem to think it's headed in the right direction - that's a pretty enormous success."
The latest bill also would remove the longstanding ban on first selectmen who act as their town's police chief from holding a liquor license. The ban currently affects East Lyme First Selectman Paul Formica, who started Flanders Fish Market With his wife, Donna, in 1983 before he ran for office.
The corporation that owns the business was in her name. But she died two years ago of a heart attack, and he became the executor of her estate.
"We're very appreciative to the committee for their consideration and hope that it continues on its path through the House and the Senate," Formica said Tuesday. "It's encouraging that they recognized that the restriction shouldn't be in place, as it's not in place for any other elected or appointed position other than judges or police chiefs. Just an old law that needs to be modernized and cleaned up."
The bill also adds a restriction to a proposal that would allow casino-goers to keep their drinks in casino gambling areas after the bars close at 2 a.m. The amendment states that the privilege won't apply to whole bottles of liquor or wine.
"It just allows someone to finish a drink," Doyle said. "You can't at 1:59 a.m. order a full bottle of whiskey and then drink it all night."
• Allows Sunday alcohol sales from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Eliminates some holiday closings and "Monday after Sunday holiday" closings. Christmas is still a day off.
• Allows breweries to offer beer tastings to visitors who haven't taken an official tour of the premise.
• Allows package stores to offer fee-based wine education and tasting classes.
• Lets package stores sell fresh fruits, cheese, crackers and snack foods such as chips, nuts and candy.
• Lowers the annual fee that bowling alleys and racquetball clubs must pay for a beer and wine permit from $2,000 to $1,000.
• Allows colleges to make and dispense wine for academic courses.
• Increases to $1,500 from $175 the annual fee groceries must pay for a beer permit.
• Creates a legislative task force to study the state's liquor laws in relation to other states' laws to report back in January.
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Ward Cunningham is the winner of this year's Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award. The award, given out irregularly since 1995, recognizes particularly meritorious programmers and their contributions to software development. It includes a $1000 donation made by Dr. Dobb's to a charity of the winner's designation. This year, Cunningham chose the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia and related projects.
Cunningham's contributions are to software are numerous. He developed the first wiki as part of his efforts to create a repository of design patterns. First known as a "WikiWikiWeb," the wiki concept quickly spread as an easy way for programmers to share knowledge between themselves and with a community. Cunningham also wrote the Fit test framework, which enabled UATs and other tests to be encoded in HTML tables and run as such. It's the basis for the widely use FitNesse framework. Separately, Cunningham was the co-inventor (with Kent Beck) of CRC cards. Recently, he has been advancing the concept of technical debt. As part of his award, Cunningham sat for an interview with editor Andrew Binstock, which is excerpted here.
Technical Debt
DDJ: Let me start by asking you about a concept that has recently gained currency, namely, technical debt. As you explained it in a few videos and in some writings, this is a concept of debt being paid forward to future folks who will maintain the code you're writing today.
Cunningham: The thing I was questioning is the notion that some people write code and other people maintain it. That programming was housekeeping and the blank sheet of paper was the creative space. Keep in mind that I originally discussed this before we had the word "refactoring." Some people might have used that word, but even when I talked about it in an often-quoted paper, I think I called that consolidation, not refactoring. In other words, you figure out what it should have been, and you make it that. Whereas the prevailing wisdom at the time was, "If it's not broke, don't fix it." So the first time you got something working, you quit. That's not a way to make great code.
I was really devoted to finding great code, especially when objects were new. Objects gave us an extra dimension beyond functional decomposition. And the question was, "Are these the right objects or not?" And the answer was, "Time will tell." You know, you've got a job to do. You've got to make the objects be the right objects and get the functions in the right place, and all that stuff we call refactoring. I had to explain that to my management.
The notion that you grow a product is something that people would say, but then I had to say, "Here's how to think about that growth process." I needed a term that the financial executives would understand, and they understand money. So debt is a good metaphor.
Whether you call it debt or not, but quantifying the intellectual position that you are in at a particular time in the lifetime of a body of software, is useful. And if we can be paying attention to that, and it we could convert it into numeric form, and that numeric form could be converted into dollars, you know, that's all good.
CRC Cards
DDJ: One of the things that you were involved in in solving that problem of figuring out early on what your objects should be and how to involve them, was CRC cards, which I always thought were a useful device. But they never caught on. Do you have a sense as to why CRC cards didn't remain a part of design practice?
CRC cards show Class (top), Responsibilities (left), and Colloborators (right) (Courtesy of Cunningham & Cunningham)
Cunningham: The style early on, when objects were becoming important was that people would say, "The most important thing about objects is the hierarchy. And if you want to understand hierarchy, study the library and the Dewey decimal system, because librarians understand hierarchy, and they'll tell you how to get everything to fit into one hierarchy." I thought that was misguided. Because there's not going to be one hierarchy, or all of our filesystems would look the same. Everybody's got their files and folders set up differently. It isn't the hierarchy that matters, it's how you share responsibility, or distribute or divide responsibility between different objects, maybe in different hierarchies or maybe hierarchy doesn't matter. Different objects that are working together to get something done that matters.
What I cared about was: Here's an object that's responsible for A, and here's another object and it's responsible for B, and when A and B need to get together, these objects are gonna do it somehow. That is important. Of course, what kind of turned out is that objects are used for just about every purpose except for building meaningful models of business problems.
I liked to imagine solutions to business problems with business people sitting on one side of the table and programmers sitting on the other side of the table, and these cards spread all over the table are the props that they can use to have a conversation. But the developers then thought that it was their job to go and make the business objects that work for this problem, and I was just saying, understand your users, understand what problems they have before you start making up those objects. And if you do make up those objects to solve your problems, expect them to understand them.
At one client, we had a menu system where, when the user clicked on a certain channel, a menu would pop up with things that the user could do. And I said, "Let's make the term that pops up in the menu be the method name that does the action in the program." And people looked at me and said, "That's crazy. They haven't decided what those menu items are going to be." And I said, "Every time they change the menu item, we'll rename the method." And you know what? They changed them a few times and then they settled on the names. And then we all spoke the same language.
So the things that are important, you have to have ubiquitous terms for. And when you can make those terms be the organization of your program, then you're somewhere. But that's not what we do, so we miss that opportunity. And that's what I think happened to CRC cards. CRC cards were all about doing that.


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Speaking of the killers, I just read in the latest Rolling Stone magazine
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I guess the Mormons have the Osmans, Napoleon Dynamite and the killers as a claim to fame.
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awww casey! beautiful post as always~~~ i love when you speak from the heart!
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This post was such a God thing for me to read tonight. I just got done balancing our budget and thinking about some of these very same things. How often I get caught up in the things of this world that I lose sight of Heaven. God has been working on my heart to be more giving and to live a life that recognizes everything comes from Him and is entrusted to us to use wisely for His glory.
Thank you for sharing these words tonight friend! I felt like this was just for me to hear. 🙂
I love this post, Casey. One of my favorite stages of life so far was my last year of college, where I counted my money to the penny in hopes of making my rent and bills each month. It taught me more than anything, I think, what money's place really is in our lives. I've loved the opportunities He's given me so far to bless financially even in spite of that scrimping.
Casey, I feel like you are so generous in the ways you are able! The other ways your heart desires will come eventually as well. But it is so apparent that you are so eager to encourage, love and support others as best you can right now (you know, with all the extra time that loving and caring for three sweet babies AND running a thriving business allows). 🙂 Thanks for sharing! It is so neat how clearly you are able to communicate your heart!
We are all such gluttons of the riches we do have. Cancer has showed me what a true glutton I have always been. Gobbling up each moment ready to feast on the next. Cancer has opened my eyes in a new way. To slow down, to see the bounty, to give…. To not hold onto this place. Driving home tonight I realized all I have is the love I share. The spilling over love……
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this was such a touching post.
it makes me so happy that there are people like this that aren't at all infatuated by the money and only for the money.
it feels good to give and make someone happy; heck, even better than to receive.
again, great post!
Love this, Casey. You are wise beyond your years. Living on a one income salary we struggle at times, but we are so rich compared to most of the world. Even the poorest in America have more than so many elsewhere. This is huge for me. I want my kids to appreciate what we have and to know that this all belongs to Him anyway. Am I being a good steward? Am I searching for opportunities to help those in need? My husband and I often talk about not being "rich," but just having more so we can help others who are struggling. Even though we do help often, it's not enough… Just tonight he (my husband) and I were talking about a fellow teacher of his who has 4 children of their own, but who have also adopted 4 children. They are living on a one income salary… How do they to it? I'm sure it's a big sacrifice, but it won't go unnoticed by our Heavenly Father. One of my favorite verses is this: For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:26 NKJV). We must "seek first the kingdom of God" (Matthew 6:33). Thank you, sweet friend, for this important reminder. I feel blessed just to have found you.
Your heart is truly beautiful. I feel challenged and spurred in so many ways by this. To live life with an open hand, ready to give when the Lord calls us to. How freeing! It's all His anyways, right? Thanks for this, Casey.
I teared up reading this. I've had similar feelings on my mind as well. You have a beautiful heart! Xoxo.
My husband taught me so much about giving when we got married. He's a giver by nature. I'm a saver. A planner. It was really hard and uncomfortable for me when we would give what was "ours" to others. I felt like people took advantage of his good heart. But slowly and painfully God started to change me and mold me to be more like him and Him. It's a beautiful thing, giving.
This touched me as we are declaring bankruptcy and may loose our house too. I don't think you should be embarrassed that you have shared financial hard times. I think it's very relatable. I share mine often, maybe i shouldn't but when it is all that seems to consume you, it's hard not too. This was a wonderful post. I dream to be able to do the same for my kids one day. Bless you Casey.
I love this post and I always love a good reminder about acting more like Christ and being completely fulfilled with Him. That is why I named my blog "WHere Your Treasure Is, there your heart will be also" because I think that verse is suc a great reminder.
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Thank you for this. For being a voice of reason to a person so many thousand miles away. I too want to give, to do amazing things, to make sure my children have the world. I often get caught up in making sure we 'have what we need', when perhaps some days I need to sit back and really decide wants vs. needs. Bless your sweet heart. You inspire me so greatly…thank you.
Thank you for sharing despite the hesitation you may have had. It is incredibly challenging to my heart this morning in remembering to "work" here on earth with eternity in mind. Thank you Casey.
your heart for other's is so beautiful. and you're so honest about your struggles, and sometimes i have to shake my head and smile- because all of those things is what makes you so endearing to me. it's why i read your blog in the first place- i appreciate your realness. it is so easy to get caught up in worry, and financial stress. but it is just money. thanks for putting things in perspective.
casey, i'm the same way. i grew up, not poor, but not rich by any means. my dad lost his job more than once when i was growing up so finances were always a bit of a stress. i would love to be in a position as a grandparent that i could put $1000 in a bank account for a new grandkid, or send lindsey and her future husband on a vacation, or pay to fix my sister's car when money's tight with them. yesssss. i totally relate to this post.
you have such a beautiful heart. i long to be the same way but i always let our own financial troubles get in the way. and i just don't know where to start sometime. also, i found a lot of comfort in reading about your past financial problems. sometimes it's just nice knowing that you're not the only one going through something. thank you so much for sharing! xo
I'm so glad you posted this! Thank you 🙂 My husband recently talked about this very subject at our young adults bible study. He asked each of us if we long for heaven. If we encourage one another in Jesus' 2nd coming. It was a message that stuck with me much like the message you heard on Wednesday has resonated with you. Your heart keeps me coming back to your blog for more. Love ya girlie!
Thank you for having courage to get past the fear of publishing this post! Your dreams, your heart, your revelation are beautiful, necessary and shared! I can't even imagine the fun Jesus is having building up and preparing the treasure that will be waiting for you in Heaven!
i love this post. and i agree- the toughest times for us are also the most beautiful in my memory 🙂
all of those dreams you talked about….putting keys in someone's mailbox, helping someone who's struggling financially, providing a full, rich (not just in the money sense) life for your kids….i loved that. loved how you said it. i have a lot of those same dreams too. and while it's not realistic yet, i keep praying some day it will be. thank you for this 🙂 xo.
This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and making me wiser 🙂
Beautiful, honest post. These can be rare. Thanks for sharing!
Just what I needed. Not only about finances, but what it means to build a kingdom for Him, rather than ourselves. I often wonder being a stay at home mom and my husband and I both being artists as well what I could do to leave behind a legacy worthy of Him for my children, their children and those I meet in my life. I often come up with too many excuses for things God is telling me I should do. I needed this.
I appreciate this post so much. I'm always skeptical of the blog world because now and then it can be… superficial. When I find blogs like yours, I have hope. Thank you for all that you wrote. Surely this is a season of sacrifice and a season of losing ourselves to the one who made it all and gave it all.
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I love that Jesus came to earth just. like. us. I love that he humbled himself and let go of his deity for a little while (Philippians 2) so that we might relate to Him. It's such a beautiful and small picture of the huge sacrifice he gave to us. Thanks for your beautiful post, Casey!
Casey- Wow. You are such a beautiful person! I dream to write like you, in a way that moves people like I believe your writing does. Thanks for your blog.
Oh man . . I love you friend. I have this verse sitting on my desk at school, "For this world is not our home; we are looking forward to our city in Heaven, which is yet to come! Heb 13:14 Thankful for your friendship, your honesty, and your heart! Love you!
This is my favorite post I've ever read on your blog. I too have those dreams-thanks for being brave enough to share this!
this was terribly inspiring. i'm moved. the part about… being so comfortable here on earth that we don't long for heaven… is such a good point!!! moving towards HEAVEN with you, friend!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, Casey. It brings to mind a simple sentence I have printed in an old picture frame: Give like you have plenty.
Sometimes we don't have plenty – be it money, or time, or resources, or emotional reserves, the health required for some service…but when you offer something up, no one needs to know that but our Heavenly Father.
This is something I'm constantly working on. It was a pleasant reminder to hear I'm not the only one. Thank you and beautiful weekend-ing to you and your lovely family 🙂
Lovely post, Casey. I would love to be able to share with others the way you say. Having homeless stay with me, giving a new car to someone without them ever knowing it. What blessings! May God continue to bless you and your family so that you can continue to bless others.
Casey, thanks for sharing such a great post! This is one of those subjects that my mind pushes away, because I get so convicted about it. I dread and anticipate heaven at the same time. I dread realizing how much I have failed and disobeyed, and I anticipate failing no more, understanding and pleasing my God.
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…" have you made your life so secure and comfortable here on earth that you never truly long for heaven?"
Humility is certainly a way our heart is opened to receive… to keep that, even in times of prosperity takes self awareness… or another challenge to overcome!
I was recently reading in Matthew 9, the story of Christ healing the man with palsy… all quickly expected to see him physically healed, instead the Savior first forgave his sins. It was a good reminder to me that the things of this earth… the physical, comes second… after the power of healing, the powers of heaven, the power of our Savior…
Well written.
You are such a beautiful person….yes you are so beautiful on the outside….but your heart my friend….amazingly beautiful! I too long for the days I can bless others…..and mostly my babies! For now….I work to that end! Much love friend!
This is why I did not go back to my old job. This is why I am pursuing a career in social work. I finally stopped to listen to God, however stubborn I have been. He keeps showing me this is His plan for me, even when I doubt. When will I ever learn? Well, I'm glad to have found the gifts God has given me and to finally be obeying His will.
Your words are so inspiring. Thank you for that. It is EXACTLY what I needed today!
A beautiful post Casey, and just what I needed today. 🙂
Beautiful post Casey, and just what I needed to hear today.
Casey, I hope I get to meet you in person one day! Your write so beautifully and your love for Christ shines. Sometimes I feel like you must read my mind. I long for all these things, too, and sometimes it's such a burden because I want to go and serve and learn from Him everywhere else, but I have to be excited about where I am and how I'm being used here. Today. Thanks for the reminder.
This is soooo well said. I love when you write about God and His goodness. I can relate to this in so many ways even if we have two completely different life stories!
Being comfortable is well, comforting but not something that God wants us to be. He wants us to find our comforts in Him, not the world. It's definitely during times of trials/troubles/struggles that I find myself clinging and loving Him even more.
Thank you for this post!
So beautiful and inspiring.
In a day where so much is focused on our worldy riches, it's so easy to forget how unimportant they are.
Your writing has blessed me so much, it always inspires me to be and do better, thank you!
It is so strange that you write this today because I just had a talk with my husband about radically changing the way we manage our money last night.
I've thought so much about treasure in heaven and how little I care about what I get there or here treasure-wise(now that I know Him thats all I want; forget treasure)…I really just care about the people who are missing Him- not gaining a heavenly reward…then it occurred to me that perhaps the treasure we collect in heaven ARE people. Perhaps they are somehow the treasure we bring with us there.
Oh Casey, this is so beautiful!! Your heart is lovely. This has been on my heart so heavy lately, as well–living not as permanent residents here but as Kingdom citizens. I don't want to store up and hoard treasures that aren't eternal. It would be amazing to give more than we live on. It's hard to think like that when the house note needs paid and we struggle just to make ends meet on one income, but then I have to step back and look at it all from God's perspective. He wants us to give in faith. He wants us to give out of our lack to meet someone else's needs and trust Him to take care of us. It's a stretch for me, but I'm praying that God will increase my faith! xoxo
This really touches my heart. Our pastor made a similar comment this past Sunday about our rewards in Heaven and it made me realize that we really shouldn't just coast comfortably in this life even though we have confidence in our salvation. Not that we can work our way to Heaven, but that we have a responsiblity while on Earth to be a shining example of Him! Thank you for reminding me of this and thank you for being brave enough to share what's been on your mind!
You really do have such a beautiful heart and soul, and I love reading these posts. Makes me wish I could have a conversation with you over coffee or something! So inspiring.
That last quote is so true! I want to live a life of uncomfortableness. To never be comfortable and take for granted what I have and to always want to give. It's so true that in our time of need, we rely so heavily on God and looking back on those struggles, I realize that I long to be back in those situations, to be close with God, and to trust in him alone. I pray all the time for uncomfortable situations and that I learn from every single one of them.
We are struggling so much right now, but through the struggles comes strength and trust, love and hope and a deep deep bond and reliance on God that we have never known this perfectly before.
Also comes with it illness and hospital bills and the not knowing the future, so we trust.
I so understand where you are coming from, I want to help others so much always it is on my heart, yet at this time I find I need the help from others, whether it's just someone to listen to me or someone to physically help us out. it hurts me to be at this end of the giving/taking. I always want to be the one giving, yet I know I need to be gracious and accept the help. it's hard as women, I think!
take care girl!
you have a GREAT heart!
as always you spoke to my heart. i love your sweet and tender heart and i think of your beautiful and honest words often as i go throughout my day. it's so awesome to hear about all your dreams and all the great things you want to do for your family and even strangers, the ways you want to bless them. God has taught me a lot about grace (and pride and humility) through financial struggles and though it's been hard, i thank God he is doing whatever is takes to conform me to his image. I'm so glad to hear things are going well for you all 🙂
I love your heart Casey! This post just absolutely resonates with me! My hubs and I share the same dreams. To go out there and be the hands and feet of God.
This is amazing. I'd like to use a quote from here in a blogpost I am writing today if you would like to stop by. Thank you for this.


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The Illinois Student Assistance Commission closed on the sale of nearly $1.4 billion worth of its student loan portfolio Monday, a deal that will garner about $46 million for the agency, a spokesman said.
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