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Most wonderful show is keeping up with the Joneses.
AJ Jones.
Mr. Jones.

I am tired but good.
Why are you tired?
Oh, I have no idea.
I think it has something to do with the last week.
It's been crazy.
It's crazy.
I was thinking about this.
The last time that we spoke to you guys
was three podcasts ago.
Yes.
and we were sat in a very similar situation than we are in now, but in reverse.
Yes, box is everywhere.
Because three podcasts ago, we packed up our entire house and we're sitting in the studio,
which was the last room in the house to be packed up because the following morning, wasn't
it?
Or a couple of days after that, we were moving out of our house for good.
Yeah, so we did a whole bunch back to back and then packed it down.
Oh, that's right.
  If you missed them, we did an interview
with some developers out in California who've done one of my favorite apps called New Bible.
So we interviewed them.

Well, Dinek Lehne interviewed me two years ago and we recorded it. But yes, I get your
point. So three podcasts ago, we were surrounded by boxes. Tonight we find ourselves surrounded
by boxes because we're in our new house.
We are.
Hurray.
And pretty much one of the first rooms we had to unpack was this because we realized,
"Oh, wait, we have a podcast to record."
It's true.
Actually, the only room in the house that is fully unpacked is the...
Kitchen.
Kitchen.
Because it's your domain.
It is my domain.
And it's what you solidly worked on.
For three days.
It's all in tech, folks.
Just three days.
Talk to me about your kitchen.
It is a beautiful kitchen.
It is very large.
There's lots of room.
pantry is about twice the size of the previous pantry that I had.
I love that you painted your pantry before filling it.
Well, it kind of looked like a CSI scene in there.
I'd catch up bottles, explore it against the wall.
I think so.
I was like, what happened in this pantry?
And I thought I cannot, because I couldn't get the marks off of things.
I cannot do this to myself.
So you just repainted it.
I took all the shelves out, painted all the shelves, painted the pantry, painted
all the trim and then put it all back together.
What was I doing while you were doing all that?
I have no idea.
I think you were just like sitting around, eating bond bond, saying, bring me more
grapes.
No, you were unloading storage units and such.
Yeah.
Me and my band of married people were unloading storage units.
Yes.
Many married people made our move happen.
We're, yeah, we should talk about that.
Yes.
For goodness sake.
Yes.
For goodness sake, we had teams that helped us move out.
We had teams that came in and cleaned this house
before other teams came and moved in things.
- We should do a timeline to explain it all.
- It was craziness.
- So three weeks ago, we moved out of our house.
We sold our house, had nowhere to live.
So the very kind Bill and Noni Butler
let us sleep at their house.
- Yes.
- For three glorious days.
- Was not exactly roughing it.
- It's not roughing it at all.
(laughs)
MJ and Tia both wanted to move back in with the butlers when we came home.
Right.  Why can't we stay here?"
That's right. I think partially it was the food too. We were fed very well.
So we're technically homeless in Splendor for three days.
Yes, homeless in Splendor.
If you can call having a swimming pool and a hot tub, homeless.
An awesome food.
Then we woke up on a Friday and we went to our attorney's office and signed the papers for the
house we're currently in. Yes.
We then got in a car and drove to Florida.
Yes, because we'd already purchased our vacation in January.
Yeah, which wasn't a bad thing.
It was amazing how that timing worked.
It worked perfect.
And so while we were away, we had some very sweet friends who, well,
actually, before we even got away, we had very sweet friends who helped us pack stuff up.
Yes.
And that was amazing to me.
Yeah.
A game of Tetris with all our belongings happened.
Yeah.
And so then, yeah, we went away to Florida.
So while we were in Florida, we had a team of people come in, God bless them, and clean
this house while we were away.
Yeah, from the top to bottom.
Humbling and incredibly kind.
So thank you to everybody who did that.
Meanwhile while we were still away, all our stuff arrived on the driveway in one of those
storage pods.
Yes.
And another team of people came in and moved everything in.
Now, and even set up stuff like our tables and stuff.
So when we got home, there were some place to sit to eat.
And our new neighbors who we hadn't really met, you'd stop by and said hello.
Yeah, I'd met her once in person and we texted a few times, very sweet.
She'd let us put our mattresses on a box of our bedding in their garage.
So when our team of friends came to unload the pod, they also set up beds for us.
Yes.
Because a week later, we were driving up from California.
Incorrect.
We were driving up from Orlando.
But I could see how you could think that was California.
- I think it was never one of my strong points.
Geography, mental, arithmetic.
- Yeah, I know you're really excited if you figured out
we're supposed to turn left to get out of our subdivision.
You're like, "Look, pay my nearest bus to turn left."
I'm like, "So I'm just MJ."
Yeah.
- We drove up from Florida.
- Yeah.
How many hours was that?
- Well, it was like 10 and a bit hours of driving,
but it didn't include stopping and getting gas
and going potty and blah, blah, blah.
- But by the time we got here, we were exhausted,
But not necessarily enough to not paint our kitchen pantry.
I might be buying that.
No, I started working on that right away.
(laughs)
- My point though.
- Started looking for things and.
- My point though was we literally pulled into the driveway.
Got in as a family, prayed over the house.
- Yeah.
- Thank God for the house, put the kids to bed.
And it was amazing, wanted to run the house,
this new house that we hadn't even been in
with all our stuff unloaded.
- So strange.
- In a thousand and a half, next couple of days
I had some guys come over and help me as well.
Yeah.

We had them scattered everywhere.
We had like four different storage areas.
It was like we needed a pirate's map.
Yeah.
Find everything.
Yeah.
So you did a great job of finding it all.

Yeah, I did to unload our last thing.
But I was shocked how fast 10 people can unload stuff.
half an hour took.
It was ridiculous.
Yeah, it was so fast.
So now we're living in a really big house, but with boxes everywhere and we don't have
no where everything is.
So if this podcast sounds weird, if you can hear the crickets like I can, we haven't put
up any sound treatment in the room that we're calling our studio.
Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.
We haven't done anything.
So bear with us while we're doing that.
J told me that there was a rude bird outside of his window yesterday morning.

He woke me up, Mummy."
I was like, "Oh, I'm sorry about that, Bunny."
So, yeah, we just want to thank all of the amazing people and there are many of you that
helped us with this massive monumental move.
We so appreciate everything you did.
Thank you so much.
And I want to talk about that a little later when we get to our topic of handling blessing.
In addition to the awesome people that we had help us move, and we've also mentioned
our neighbors.
We've met one of our neighbors, and we already knew our next door neighbors.
It turns out our next door neighbors.
We got a church with the Hornbuckle family who, God bless Deirdre, who has been basically
my go between between UPS.
We had everything.
I had all my mail held, but then I realized that only applies to USPS.
Didn't apply to FedEx or UPS.
So God bless her every couple of days.
I'd be texting and going, "Dude, is there any way you could go get a package off my doorstep?"
So those are neighbors who've been amazing.
They've been feeding us.
They've been encouraging us.
And today, Wes and I went TV shopping, so that was awesome.
She's also been providing tools and first aid kits for wounded people.
And I felt like for the three days that we're moving things, I'm texting her every few minutes,
like, "Hey, do you have this?
And hey, do you have a..."
Yeah.
Well, thank you Hornbuckles.
Very good.
All right.
Do you want to talk about vacation?
Yes.
Because I've learned that I really like vacations.
Me too.
Not working for two weeks is great.
By the way, if you've tried to email me in the last two weeks or send me a text message
and I haven't replied, that will be what I'm doing tomorrow.
So apologies if I haven't been in communication.
You should maybe write a sermon tomorrow too.
Because my job is communicating when I'm on vacation, I don't communicate or it feels
like I might work.
Yes.
PSA over.
Yeah.
Vacation was great.
- One reflection, I mean, when I was looking at the timing of everything, I was thinking,
"Gosh, this is horrible timing to take possession of a house right when you're going on vacation."
- I think any time you take possession of a house, that's great timing.
- But I think if we hadn't already paid for our vacation, we would have ended up spending
our entire time off here unpacking boxes, which would have been horrible for the kids.
- Yeah, because let's face facts for the last three days, we've pretty much neglected them.
- Their iPad-parented children and their hair looks like they're raised by wolves.
It's not been parenting better moments in the last few days.
Be like, "Here, eat this.
Go sit over there.
Don't you have toys somewhere?"
Anyway, yeah.
So, we've been trying to find things like cutlery and so, like, "Hey, let's just make
them things they can eat with their fingers."
What were you saying about vacation?
Well, so it was great.
It was really, really good.
We went down to the seaside area.
We didn't stay right in seaside.
We stayed just outside of that, which I actually think is a good decision.
I think seaside is, I mean, it's stunning, but it's quite busy, isn't it?
So being one or two beaches away from that.

Unless not even mentioned cyclists.
No.
There's so many cyclists and some of them seem like they have no idea.
They've never cycled before in their lives.
I just want to bring a paint gun or something, just tag people that are driving me crazy.
Apparently we're really...
That's it, you're done.
We're going to violence towards cyclists.
But yeah, it was good.
I mean, we ate in seaside a couple times, just lovely.
The kids love that, and to run around in this sort of pavilion area and stuff like that.
So that was really, really fun.
It was also fun to be with Glen and Anna, my longest running friends at this point.
Running friends?
Longest running.
I need to find a phrase to describe the length of friends.
your friends the longest.
And they were so gracious and looking after our kids because I don't like going outside.
They were happy to take the kids to the beach, which meant I think I only went to the beach
once for maybe 15 minutes and then got bored and left.
Yeah, I think I only went two or three times and they took our kids.
So thank you.
There was one day when I sort of came down with a cold and basically
Glenn and Anna parented our children.
Well, I did bed.
I'd like to think that he made lunch.
Okay, you would deliver it so you don't remember facts probably.
That's right. Yeah. Yeah.
But then we went to Disney.
We did.
Should we talk about Disney? How will that happen?
Sure.
Well, this comes back to the whole topic of...
You know how normally we do a weekly catch-up and then we go into our main topic?
There's no smooth transition.
The whole thing is about handling blessing.
Because I feel like the last
this season of life that we're in right now,
it feels like when you sneeze and random strangers say bless you,
It feels like all those blesses are coming to fruition.
It feels like every single day there's abundance and blessing and it's it's it's
ridiculous. So blessing a friend who would come and clean your house, blessings
of friends who would help you come and move blessings of people who would phone
up and say, Hey, I'd like to pay for you to go to Disney blessings on like, for
example, we sold this house, this house, we sold our house in a day.
And there's houses in our neighborhood that went on the market at the same time that still haven't sold.
Yeah.
We found this house on it.
You know, so everywhere we look, there's upgrades.
We went to Disney.
We got upgrades.
Got so much favor.
So I go into the spin thing of must moderate the blessings so that my, my life isn't misrepresented.
So I'm basically tempering what God is doing because it's so good because I don't want people to get the wrong idea.
I don't want people to get the wrong idea that we are being wasteful or I don't want people to get the wrong idea that we are suddenly big headed or I'm realizing,
"Oh, I'm not really good at half of the stuff I teach."
Like, "Oh, I'm really not good at this whole handling blessing."
So here's an example.
Yeah.
We've got friends who'll stop by because they want to come and drop by and say hi and see the house and just be happy for us.
And so they come in and we're giving them a tour of the house.
And I realize I must be so uncomfortable with God's kindness that to temper it, I'm pointing out all the things that are wrong with the house.
Yeah, we need to fix this.

And oh, can you believe this?
And I'm like, what?
And I'm not grumbling and I'm not complaining because there isn't criticalness in my heart.
I'm actually complaining for the sake of other people so they, I don't know where I got this messed up mindset from, but I'm awkwardly excusing myself from the kindness that God has shown me.
Yeah.
Isn't that pitiful?
Well, so some place you're uncomfortable with blessing.
Well, I've, I have a friend who's a missionary and him and his wife are just dear friends of ours.
And I remember a number of years ago when we were getting to know them, we went out for dinner and he had a Rolex on his wrist.
a beautiful timepiece and I commented on how nice his watch was.
And he was very quick to tell me where the watch came from, that it was a gift from this,
that the next thing in this kind of breathless explanation.

But there is that mindset out there, isn't there?

Very true.
You don't.
Right.

So it seems like we want to, because here's the thing, wouldn't it be tragic if God is doing things in the lives of people as forerunners for what he wants to do in that community?
But the people he's doing those blessings through are so embarrassed by it that they temper it, they hide from it, they withdraw from it, and then perhaps the community doesn't get the breakthrough that God had designed it to come through.
Right.
So anyway, all of that to say, I'm having this mix of emotions.
I give you another example, a simple example.
I come back from vacation and I'm feeling really overwhelmed by the generosity of other
people because I'm aware that other people have said yes to us to help move stuff in
when we're not even here.
Are you kidding me?
So they've said no to doing other things on that Saturday morning.
They've said no to being with their families.
They've said no to resting.
they're expending their energy on behalf of us.
Now, on the one hand, we were very careful to ask people
who were friends of ours because we legitimately don't want
to take advantage of the relationship we have
in our community and that we're leaders
and we've seen enough abuse of power and authority
that I just didn't want to put out something on Facebook
going, hey, if anybody really loves Jesus
and really wants to serve the leaders in their community,
why don't you demonstrate?
Yeah, they don't want to do any of that.
Wanted to reach out to people we have relationship with
say, "Hey, would you be able to, not would you be able to, would you like to?"
Right.
And there are people we've trained really, really well to say no, they understand our
boundaries.
So I'm kind of okay with that.
I'm kind of wrestling a little bit with the fact that people are being kind to me on behalf
of, I don't know why.
But then I realize I'm coming home and I'm thinking, "Oh, I've got a whole warehouse
full of stuff that I'm going to need help with."
Now I feel bad asking the same people who've already helped me to help me again.
Right.
So what's that shame?
Oh, good.
That we dealt with that.

But we've learned that new formula that joy is found in a tender response to weakness.
Yeah.
So at that point, I'm feeling weak.
And rather than hiding my weakness, I'm making my weakness known and saying, would
you be able to help me again. And when people say yes from a genuine place, not yes, because
they feel composed to say yes. There's joy on their end and there's joy on my end.
Yeah. And so I don't know why I'm rambling. I guess I'm excited to verbally process all
the emotions I've been feeling.
Oh, you're so cute. Look at you. Yeah, I was fun for me today, particularly. Well, first of all,
Well, when we first got home, that first morning Cindy came over with this gift from a whole
bunch of people.
Oh, hold the phone.
I forgot about all that.
That gave us the most amazing housewarming gift and a financial gift towards furniture
or something that we needed for the house.
It just felt like, "Oh, God, you're so extravagant.
You're so beyond anything we would ever think of."
hope or imagine. And of course, you know, because this house is enormous, like compared to
where we live before, whatever, there's, there are a lot of needs for furniture and different things that have to happen, you know?

So we're part of an astonishingly generous community. Yeah. Like, and it comes back to that thing
we've talked before in the podcast about how good Americans are at celebrating.
Because people are really good at celebrating. I watch everybody in our community ride the
tidal waves of other people's celebrations in joy. So babies being born, there's genuine
excitement, birthdays, housewarming, graduation, all these things where people are thrilled
to celebrate other people.
Everything is an opportunity for celebration.
It warms the cockles of my heart.
Oh, really?
Exactly.
Are the cockles of your heart.
I don't know.
Back from when I was a pirate.
Southwest.
That's the southwest part of your heart.
For me, it was really fun today.
My cousin came over and she hadn't seen it yet.
And she kept getting all teary-eyed as we walked through it.
And I was sort of explaining,
"Oh, we want to do this.
We want to do that."
And eventually we want to do the basement and blah, blah.
And she just kept saying, wow, God's just really set you guys up for the to be in the perfect place
and a house that's going to work for when they're teenagers.
And I'm so excited for you. And it was fun for me today because I didn't feel like I needed to
apologize for God blessing us. So I feel like my heart is starting to shift to being able to just go,
You know what? God's given us a great gift and I'm, you know what I mean? I'm not going to,
I'm not going to feel like I need to downplay it.
Good for you, babe.
Yes, say no to shame.
That you're going to be running soon. I don't feel, I don't feel shameful. I'm not trying to
talk myself out of it being shame. I don't feel shame, but I guess I feel.
No, well, the shame thing I was saying and having to ask for help again, I don't,
I mean, I think in terms of being given a house that's a massive blessing.
Right.
I don't think I ever felt necessarily shame about that, but I feel like because we're people in
ministry, there's something in me that still wants to apologize to people or tell them,
"Hey, it's okay. I know this is a massive house, but we got an amazing deal."
And explain away the blessings of God to somehow justify which you can't justify God's kindness.
So, you know, it's funny because we did get an amazing deal and you look at all that stuff and go,
it's all truth.
Are you justifying it right now?
No, it's truth, but that's not the point.
Like it should be okay to just go, hey, guess what?
This is our new house.
We're so excited and not feel like we have to explain why we have it.
Right.
Well, that's the whole thing I've been preaching on the last couple of weeks, but I've been preaching on it on behalf of other people.
but suddenly when I'm in the seat of the one being blessed, it's like, "Ah, yeah,
there's a whole lot more awkward than I imagined."
Yeah, the funny thing is though, when I think of somebody else getting blessed, like how
many friends have we had that have been given a car or whatever?
And I'm not thinking, "How are you justifying being given that car?"
Like, that's awesome.
You don't deserve that.

So I think God's challenging our hearts in a new way.
I was thinking earlier about the passage in Luke 5. This happens twice in the life of
Peter. It's where in Luke 5, it's the first time it happens. Peter is out or Jesus is
actually commandeered Peter's boat so he can speak to the masses.  And then Jesus says, "Threw you
out on the other side and that's comical for so many reasons. But Peter does it. He, out of
obedience, he does it and the blessing is so big, it says that it began to break their boats.
And the blessing of God on your life is going to break the paradigms you've built up for what's
normal and what's appropriate and what's considered a large catch in your world, in your metaphor.
And so God is literally breaking the boats of of Peter.
And then he says, oh, you don't need to worry from now and you'll be fishers of men.
And he just he does that twice in his life.
But Peter's response is go away from me.
If I'm an unclean man, I'm a sinful man.
And again, he's God's generosity brings up the yuckiness in our hearts.
We're suddenly feel we feel unworthy.
But the truth is on one side, we're all unworthy on the other side.
We're all worthy.
We're sons and daughters of God.
This is what he does.
He is kind, he is good.
He's rich in mercy.
He's unfailing in his love,
and he loves to take care of his kids.
- And he also pours out blessing
so that you'll be a blessing to others.
Like if you think about that passage,
it's the other boats that have to come along
and help with the catch that's coming in.
It's not just Peter who shares in that abundance of blessing.
So I think there's some of that too.
like if we don't actually receive the blessing for ourselves,
we can't actually give it away to other people.
- Right.
- So, you know, it is our heart that this house
and our lives would be a blessing to other people,
but you have to be able to actually accept
and acknowledge what you have first.
- So there you go, there's our unfiltered ramblings
of being slightly conscious of God's kindness
and learning to handle that
and being astonished by a community
and the neighborhood of very generous people.
- Yeah, I keep going back to that thing
that God said to me at the beginning of the year
where He said, "You need to increase your joy capacity
"because I'm gonna pour out so much blessing on you this year
"that if you don't increase your joy capacity,
"you won't be able to cope and you'll register it as trauma."
- Wow.
- And I keep thinking about that,
and even on vacation I was like, "Lord, you're right."
You know, there's a part of me that's registering it
as trauma because I don't know how to cope
with so much blessing.
And I just felt like the Lord said it and I'm not done.
You know, so it's like, okay, I don't know.
I guess we need to get this sorted home.
- Come on. - Yeah.
- I just realized we're done,
but we didn't even talk about Disney.
Top three rides at Disney.
- Top three rides.
Well, I really liked the Cali River Rapids,
even though we got absolutely drenched like rats
and had to go and get t-shirts for everybody
'cause we had to go to a restaurant to eat
in air conditioning and we would have ended up
with pneumonia or something.
I really like that.
I loved going on the buzz lightyear ride with MJ
because he was so thrilled to try and shoot target switch.
It wasn't necessarily his gifting.
Nope.
But--
And I just generally like coasters.
I like the big coasters.
I had to say the Hollywood Tower of Terror
was surprisingly fun and not--
Really?
Not terrible.
Yet incredibly fun.
I was shocked at how good the toy story, the 4D toy story shoot, shoot them up game was.
That was tremendous fun.
My favorite, I don't know.
You've done your thing.
No, no, no.
I like soaring and I liked the Star Wars, the new Star Wars one where you're like in
a freighter or whatever.
The rock and roller coaster and my neighbors, that's it.
We're done.
It was so much fun.
I'd be shocked if we have anything worthy putting in show notes, but if we do, you'll
find them at allenagia.com/112.
We will try and get our studio and our minds in order for next week and have a proper
podcast.
But for now, thanks so much for staying with us.
Thank you for all your best wishes.
Thank you for your support over email and on social media.
We love you guys.
We look forward to being with you guys next week.


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- What are the marketing steps you would take to drive people to your website?
One of the most important steps to drive people to a website is to maximise the SEO (search engine optimisation) as this is a very effective and free way to attract readers from search engines. This is accomplished by setting certain keywords and phrases throughout the website, adding alternative text to images and optimising the headings.
In addition, depending on the target audience of your website/product, social media is an effective channel for marketing because it is a large part of people’s everyday lives nowadays. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are some of the platforms to consider for marketing. It raises awareness about the brand and the product and encourages content sharing by the audience, which is a form of free promotion. Interaction with the audience also helps to build the brand image. Other effective digital marketing tools include email marketing, guest blogging and forum advertisement, which can be further explored.
- What are the future steps you would take if given additional time? This should include steps required to expand and e-commerce.
For future expansion, I will look to developing e-commerce in my website. To make sure that the website runs smoothly, the first thing I would do is to obtain an SSL certificate alongside my domain name. It provides important and secure communication between a visitor’s web browser and the web server hosting my website. In the near future, I would focus on targeting the UK market for my product, therefore I would select a UK-based server to optimise my website speed. Also, the hosting package for my website should take into consideration the uptime and performance, such as the ability to deal with extra traffic and the reliability of the host. Cloud hosting solutions would be considered for the increase in server capacity with demand.
With e-commerce platforms, there are many options to choose from such as Saas (Software as a Service), off-the-shelf software and bespoke software. Although a bespoke software is costliest to set up, I will be able to optimise the setup and customise to fit my products, unlike Saas and off-the-shelf software that are heavily-templated and similar with one another. This is worth-investing in because changing platforms at a later date can be very time-consuming and expensive and e-commerce is a popular sales channel.
Furthermore, I will set up an internet merchant account (IMA) to take money online and select a payment service provider (PSP). As there is credit card data storage and processing involved, it is crucial to meet the appropriate level of Payment Card Industry Security Standard Council (PCI SSC) compliance. For instance, regular vulnerability assessments should be completed against my website by a qualified security assessor to check for known vulnerabilities.


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Select a topic on the left to start learning about the magical world of Cave Story modding.
Hidden Controls:
Map Editor:
- Shift-drag will allow you to move the map around
- double-click the tileset pane to pop it out (or in?)
- right-click the tileset to change tiletypes
Entity Editor:
- Double-click the map to set an entity
- delete key will delete any selected entities (as long as the screen has focus)
- shift-click selects all entities of a type
- ctrl-click adds or removes entities to the current selection when clicked on
- double-click the entity list to pop it out (or in?)
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Opening your terminal for the first time
Today is a special day for me since it marks the start of my first blog and the end of Week 1 at Dev Bootcamp. I am pretty new to blogging so please forgive me if my blog drift to other topics and confuses you. I will try my best to keep it organize and interesting.
Here is a little bit about myself; my name is Brian Bier and I am currently attending Phase 0 at Dev Bootcamp. I have never thought of blogging because it is one of those things that people just need to enjoy doing. When a developer begins to blog it helps them solidify a concept while helping the readers like you understand it. Being that it’s only my first week at DBC we started to work on the not so scary Terminal and Git Version Control. I will explain more about what those two things mean soon but I will try to be detailed as possible.
The majority of people see the famous Terminal as a scary and difficult program to understand.(I will be using the word Terminal because I am a Mac user. If you are a windows user it is called powershell.) The Terminal is one of the most powerful tools in your computer that can execute tasks using simple commands. If you can start familiarizing yourself with terminal, will help you a whole lot.hey! It makes you look cool. Below is a great link for getting started with the command line.
What is Git? Git is a version control system that you download to your computer, which helps keep track of projects that you are working on. As a developer using Git will help you become more organize with your work. Git helps you save your work in specific moments in time, which are called commits, allowing you to solve errors faster. Git has its own commands that plays well with your terminal so you will have to learn a few of them but trust me you only end up using about 7 of the commands. Below is a link to learn git. Its important to know that Git saves everything to your local machine so if something happens to your computer you will lose everything. That is when github comes in to play.
Github is a free open source host where you can securely store and share projects with other people. Git and Github work together but They are not the same thing. Git keeps you organize in your computer and then you use Github to save it in the web for safe storage. Using Github is just essentially saying you store your work in the “cloud” where other can contribute or fork with ease. Yes! Other people can take your work or help you improve it. Github is Open Source so everything is out to the public, but don’t get discourage about Github, there are licenses that you can use so that you get credit for your work. I will post a link down below to help you understand open source and the use of different licenses. There are a plenty of open source host out there but Github is one of the most popular. As a new developer Github becomes your online resume so treat it well.
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Gets a list of parameter value to choose from, using the execution of a Ontrack DSL script.
The script is expected to return a list of objects (a single object will be converted into a singleton list) and the parameter value of each item will be extracted from this object using the property defined in the Value property field.


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JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 1996 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): ***
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick team up again as they did for 1993's THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Their latest film called JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH features their claymation, as known as stop-action, images that are their trademark. This time their vision is exuberant and only infrequently morose. Here, as in THE WIZARD OF OZ, the show begins and ends in a more traditional present. Roald Dahl's book as adapted by Steven Bloom, Karey Kirkpatrick, Dennis Potter, and Jonathan Roberts has the start and end as live action parts but with sets surreal and Dickensian.
James Henry Trotter (voice and in person by Paul Terry) is a happy English lad who lives an idyllic life with his parents by the seashore. On day a rhinoceros eats his parents, and he is taken in by his wicked Aunt Sponge (Miriam Margolyes) and Aunt Spiker (Joanna Lumley). They treat him miserably, but his salvation is a Giant Peach that grows in their yard. With a little advice from an old man played by Pete Postlethwaite, he manages to use the peach to get to New York.
One day he crawls inside the peach and is transformed into a claymation figure. Inside he meets a great bunch of bugs. The Grasshopper (voice by Simon Callow) is an intellectual, The Ladybug (voice by Glynis Johns) is a sweet older lady, The Spider (voice by Susan Sarandon) is reserved and misunderstood, The Earthworm (voice by David Thewlis) feels like he is always being used, and the best one of all, The Centipede (voice by Richard Dreyfuss), is laugh central. At first, James tells his new collection of friends, "I can't remember what fun is for," but soon he is into the swing of things.
At first the cinematography (Hiro Narita) is full of harsh and garish colors of purple, rose, and steel blues. As the jocular main part of the film picks up, the cinematography (Pete Kozachik) makes an abrupt transition and the colors switch to rich and lush oranges and blues.
The show is more than just fantastical sights like the giant mechanical shark that attacks them. It also has a plot and a clever boy to guide it. What would you do if a shark attached your giant peach? James and his companions figure out a way to lasso a flock of seagulls. Bet you didn't think of that one! His secret is that, "When I have a problem, my mom and dad taught me to look at it another way." Amazing. A show where parents are the good guys and even have advice worth pondering and even remembering.
The script is not only clever but funny. When asked about his alleged navigating knowledge as a world traveler, The Centipede confesses his experience is not much, "but I did live between two pages of The National Geographic." Later he tells his fellow bugs, "Why don't skeletons play music in church? Because they got no organs."
The show is full of musical numbers (Randy Newman), and this is the weakest part of the film. They are not especially good, and Paul Terry's voice is wonderful as James, but too weak and harsh for singing. The musical numbers are quite slow and may bore some of the more antsy kids in the audience.
This movie may not make headlines among all of the adults, but I predict it will among the kids. As the reporter in the show says, "Stop the presses. I got a new front page. Big Bugs in The Big Apple."
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH runs just 1:20. It is rated PG for some potentially scary images of charging rhinos and creepy skeletons. I was in a large audience and none of the kids seemed the least bit scared; nevertheless, it could frighten kids under 5. Jeffrey and his friend Sam, both almost 7, both liked the film and were never scared. Like the much better TOY STORY, this film is highly imaginative and willing to take lots of risks. It should inspire creativity and joy in kids of all ages so I recommend it to everyone and award it ***.
**** = One of the top few films of this or any year. A must see film. *** = Excellent show. Look for it. ** = Average movie. Kind of enjoyable. * = Poor show.  Totally unbearable.
REVIEW WRITTEN ON: April 13, 1996
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