My Typical Music Selection For Focused Development Time

ByTim Nolte January 6, 2017January 6, 2017

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Tim Nolte

Technical Architect

A Christ-follower, husband, father, and WordPress Developer with Forum One.

Family / Work

Working Nights & Weekends

ByTim Nolte January 20, 2017January 20, 2017

Resisting the urge to work nights or weekends has been a challenge since starting my new job with Sprint back in September. Having a big high visibility project, that is all new, hasn’t helped matters. This article from DZone says a lot to why I need to put my boundaries back in place. I know things aren’t at a good place when my wife says “you’ve been working a lot lately, when will things get back to normal”. Major red flag indeed. So looking forward to the next few months as we’ll be moving into a new house, and my wife plans a trip to Africa, I’ll need to think long and hard before I pickup the work computer during my nights and weekends.

Development / Featured / Geek / Programming / Social Networking / WordPress

Have I Arrived? Maybe In The Eyes Of Some

ByTim Nolte July 15, 2019July 15, 2019

Daily Thoughts / Food / Life Shapes / Music / Relationships

Wasteful Weekends, Geeks…Gotta Love Em

ByTim Nolte October 17, 2005

So yeah, I pretty much wasted the weekend away again. Not totally, but I could have done a lot more than I did. I guess I sort of get tired of doing stuff, like work, all the time and want some time to just kick back and relax. I’m feeling like I’m kind of spinning my wheels with the web job. I really like to nail down the site design before I do the custom programming stuff. The problem is they’ve given me hardly anything to work with. Well Monday will have to be a big day to work on getting stuff going. I guess I’m going to worry less about the design and make sure the funcitonality is all there. So yeah, not much…

Daily Thoughts / Devotions/Studies / Leadership / Work

Work hard and become a leader…

ByTim Nolte January 6, 2017

Geek / Programming / Tech

If Money Were No Object, What I’d Choose For My Next Developer Machine

ByTim Nolte April 24, 2018April 24, 2018

These days I’m sporting an HP Chromebook 13 G1 which has mostly been a good machine. Seems like even with 8GB of RAM I still end up with some freeze ups when I’m plugging in or unplugging my USB-C dock. It’s rather frustrating but fortunately Google Chrome is designed to recognize abrupt closes and can recover. I used to run in developer mode but now since I can run Android apps I’m using Termux with a Linux shell and Neovim as my IDE. I’m still working out the best setup for Neovim but so far it’s serving me well. So back to the premise of this post and the main image. If I had the finances to support it I’d want my next machine to…

Notes / Programming

WordCamp GR 2017 – Computers <3 Structured Data – Steve Grunwell

ByTim Nolte August 26, 2017August 26, 2017

Steve Grunwell – https://stevegrunwell.com/ https://github.com/stevegrunwell/structured-data/blob/master/README.md What is Structured Data? Standards to help computers to understand our content. Content is for humans. Structured data is for machines. Structured Data Structured data is all about providing context itemtype/itemprop/content HTML/XML HyperText and eXtensible Markup Language Meant to convey information in a meaningful way Generic layout RSS An extension of XML for content sydication Introduced structure: post titles, content, dates Standardized and can be validated Microformats & Dublin Core Competing standards for rich data Dublin Core is a specific set of standards, but designed to be limited in scope Uses meta tags Microformats – uses class names Resource Description Framework (RDF) A specification for modeling metadata New attributes Opengraph Facebook’s social graph Used to create rich media when sharing content…