Author: Matt Heerema
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			The Rise of DeveloperonomicsAccording to Venkatesh Rao in Forbes Magazine: Software Developers are the new precious metals. Venkatesh has a pretty bleak (realistic?) outlook on the global economy, and he is suggesting that everyone who is able should invest in a quality software developer. 
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			Is “Ministry” Killing Your Church?Charles Specht asks a hard question: have you given any thought to why your men’s ministry, women’s ministry, children’s ministry, music ministry (ouch! hands off!), conferences, classes, and various meetings exist within your church lately? Are the “ministries” in your church killing your actual effectiveness in The Great Commission that Jesus gave us: to go… 
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			Massive Congratulations to Dan McClanahan, World’s Best PhotographerLiterally. My buddy, Dan McClannahan just won a remarkable Platinum Medal in the International Photographic Competition from the Professional Photographers of America. He was one of a short-list of 32 photographers from around the world awarded this medal out of 22,000 photographers from 54 countries. I’m going to give him a hard time that he… 
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			Under Construction: Progress UpdateIt’s coming. I have some renewed energy and incentive to finally get this site in shape. In case you haven’t been playing along, this Summer, I undertook the reconstruction of my Web site live and in public. Well, I underestimated the impact on life that a third child would have and so lost steam. But… 
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			What Is Going On With This Site!?To all of you who are surprised by the dump of articles in your RSS reader, or those of you who thought they were heading to notourhome.com, allow me to explain. I have decided to consolidate several of my sites, and to round up my disparate Web presence and simply own my persona of bi-vocational…