25Aug 2022 by Slinkwords
Approaching God With Confidence – Hebrews 5:1-3

Approaching God With Confidence – Hebrews 5:1-3

Featured, Inspiration
How are we able to approach God with great confidence? Because Jesus stands in our place as intercessor. We do not need to go through a priest or through the Virgin Mary, we have a direct connection into the Holy of Holies. It is because of this direct connection that we can have such confidence to approach God. Have you ever been in a situation where your prayer was answered immediately? It may have been an impending auto accident which involved a quick prayer for safety and an immediate answer to that prayer. Some prayer answers may have involved an entire church or community focused on a sick child. After an extended prayer vigil the child's health begins to improve. Whatever the situation, and whatever the outcome, we know that…
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24Sep 2021 by Slinkwords
Creating the Visual Studio 2019 Xamarin Solution

Creating the Visual Studio 2019 Xamarin Solution

C#, Featured, Programming, Xamarin Forms
We have a single Xamarin solution with a main project along with an individual project for each of the platforms being targeted. In this case, we are looking at the individual app designed for New York, called NYWineryHopper. We also see the Android and iOS projects. If desired, we could have included a UWP (Universal Windows) project in order to target windows with our mobile app. We will start by creating a blank Xamarin Forms project. After opening Visual Studio 2019 (version 16.9.2), click on File-New-Project. Since our development will be using the C# language, that is selected in the first dropdown available and Mobile is chosen on the right-side dropdown. We happen to have the desired selection right at the top. Click Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) and Next to proceed.…
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21Sep 2021 by Slinkwords
Building Your PHP Rest Service (step 1)

Building Your PHP Rest Service (step 1)

Featured, PHP, REST
he first thing to do is create the directory structure. For our Representational State Transfer (REST) Read services we are using the directory structure shown below from our WordPress site File Viewer The basic file called core.php goes into our config directory. Code for that file is: <?php // show error reporting ini_set('display_errors', 1); error_reporting(E_ALL); // home page url $home_url="http://localhost/api/"; // page given in URL parameter, default page is one $page = isset($_GET['page']) ? $_GET['page'] : 1; // set number of records per page $records_per_page = 5; // calculate for the query LIMIT clause $from_record_num = ($records_per_page * $page) - $records_per_page; ?> In that same Config directory, we have a file called database.php. The code in that file is: <?php class Database{ // specify your own database credentials private $host…
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20Sep 2021 by Slinkwords
Walk the Appalachian Trail Spreadsheet Creation

Walk the Appalachian Trail Spreadsheet Creation

Excel, Featured, VBA
We will start with the basic excel sheet design. Place the word “Month” in cell A1 and numbers 1 to 31 in B1 to AF1. Also place the word “Total” in cell AG1. Now place the months “January” to “December in cells A2 to A13. You have completed the basic spreadsheet that we will be using. Now we will add the first bit of functionality to the spreadsheet by activating the TOTAL column. Go to cell AG2 and type in (without the quotes) “=SUM(B2:AF2)” and press the <Enter> button. It will display 0 because you haven’t yet entered any mileage. Do you think that you can copy that formula down for the rest of the rows and be finished with the totals? This would work to total only each row,…
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31Mar 2021 by Slinkwords No Comments
Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 31

Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 31

Featured, Inspiration
Read through Proverbs in 31 days, Today’s reading is entitled “Avoid Things That Can Corrupt The Mind” Read Proverbs 31 - Do you recall the days when your parents gave the great advice that the best way to keep out of trouble is to avoid the troublemakers? Although the accepted definition of “trouble” has changed greatly, the advice still applies that the best way to avoid sin is to stay away from the sinners who are participating in them. What types of things do you consider to be corrupters of the mind? This question may have brought drugs, alcohol and other things to mind, yet idols also corrupt the mind away from God. Now consider what you may consider an idol. No, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a buddha…
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30Mar 2021 by Slinkwords No Comments
Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 30

Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 30

Featured, Inspiration
Read through Proverbs in 31 days, Today’s reading is entitled “Only God Is In Control” Read Proverbs 30 - Is the focal point for today a surprise to you? Is God in control of the rioting and looting that occurred in mid-2020? Was God in control of the police incident (murder) that sparked the rioting? Is God in control of the coronavirus that seems to have gripped the world, causing panic and fear? I would give a solid “NO” to these three questions. God was not in control of the reactions to the circumstances, this is all mankind and the evil influences of the world. How does that apply to the fact that God is the only one in absolute control? He allows freedom to choose what we do in…
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29Mar 2021 by Slinkwords No Comments
Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 29

Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 29

Featured, Inspiration
Read through Proverbs in 31 days, Today’s reading is entitled “God Gives Sight To The Poor and Oppressed” Read Proverbs 29 - How often have you felt poor and oppressed? Do descriptions in scripture such as this generally refer to feelings? What you feel and believe can change from day to day - one day you will believe things could never get worse while the next day things change to create a belief that you are “on top of the world.” God’s Wisdom goes well beyond feelings and beliefs based on those feelings. Since we are considering feelings, let’s look at a feeling and belief that can control all others - belief in God’s power and presence in your life. Accepting Christ can help you to overcome the roller coaster…
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28Mar 2021 by Slinkwords No Comments
Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 28

Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 28

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Read through Proverbs in 31 days, Today’s reading is entitled “Justice Evades the Understanding of Evil People” Read Proverbs 28 - Now we have an opportunity to apply the wisdom of proverbs to current events. At this moment, we are near the middle of 2020. There have been protests, riots and much destruction across the United States and the world. At least that is what the media would like for us to believe. My home is in a small town in NC which had a few peaceful protests with some of the groups ending in prayer. It is an absolute truth that justice evades the understanding of evil people; and it certainly seems that the evil people are the outspoken majority. We may allow the world to drive fear into…
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27Mar 2021 by Slinkwords No Comments
Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 27

Wisdom of Proverbs – Day 27

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Read through Proverbs in 31 days, Today’s reading is entitled “Jealousy Is More Dangerous Than Anger and Wrath” Read Proverbs 27 - Jealousy is a bad thing. It is likely that you have heard this many times during a lifetime, yet sometimes those who will give this advice will long for the earthly “toys” that others have acquired. We are imperfect humans living in an imperfect world, so we do the best we can to strive for the perfect example shown by Christ while falling short many times. Where should jealousy fall in the “ranking” of sins? Well, I guess if we strayed from the fact that “sin is sin” we could also assign different danger levels to the act of jealousy. If you look across the street at your…
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