When God wants to drill a man,
And thrill a man,
And skill a man
When God wants to mold a man
To play the noblest part;
When He yearns with all His heart
To create so great and bold a man
That all the world shall be amazed,
Watch His methods, watch His ways!
How He ruthlessly perfects
Whom He royally elects!
How He hammers him and hurts him,
And with mighty blows converts him
Into trial shapes of clay which
Only God understands;
While his tortured heart is crying
And he lifts beseeching hands!
How He bends but never breaks
When his good He undertakes;
How He uses whom He chooses,
And which every purpose fuses him;
By every act induces him
To try His splendor out-
God knows what He’s about.
Have you considered “the” calling for your life? FaithfulNews is called to make this web, FAITHFUL for him. Consider your calling today.
Last week, we implemented a smarter RSS feed and content searching capabilities into FaithfulNews. This was a crucial step because every now and then, we would get some odd contents poppin’ up such as pro-wrestling videos!
This was mostly due to some of our keywords (e.g. Billy Graham) having multiple meanings! (so apparently there is another famous pro-wrestler called Billy Graham?!?!). We’ve overcome this problem by specifying our search queries.
This week, we should see some more interface changes around the site, and cannot wait till we bring them to real life! It’s time to get to work!
We are planning some major changes at the backend of FaithfulNews in order to bring you more accurate and relevant contents. We hope the change will be in place soon.
Meantime, we are glad to see more people joining up our fan page and also following us on Twitter. Our goal remains the same - to make this Web more faithful for Him.
JEREMY CAMP!
FaithfulNews has been knocked down a NUMBER of times since its launch about a year ago (I still cannot believe it’s been a year!).
We’ve been hacked, we’ve been shut down, we’ve been compromised. But I still do believe there’s a value in delivering the faithful Christian contents out there, to block out the bad ones and to promote that Web is a God-made tool, and it must be faithful.
Well, so we are still here. One year on, still soldiering on. And we will continue to do so!
We have been hard (but we admit, it’s been a little slow) at work for updating FN. There are a few major enhancements to the site, which should make your news browsing much more enjoyable!
- Implementation of “related” images on the news articles
- Layout change for the first page to hightlight more recent articles
- Date implementation for viewing articles by different dates
In addition, there are a number of modifications made to the site, a lot of bug fixes and feature implementation.
Many more features are planned for the future and hopefully they will be implemented soon! Hope you enjoy the site!
Fixed the menu system a little bit. This is really just for looking ahead to ensure that any changes in the future will be handled correctly. There are still a few glitches, which I am not 100% satisfied with, but I think it serves the purpose.
A number of Christian news feeds have been added to FaithfulNews. Hope to bring a summary page soon so you know where we are at. But meantime, enjoy the multiple news articles from all around the world. The articles are now collected every 15 minutes! Talk about frequently updated news site! :) Enjoy!
NOTE : We will implement a feature where users can suggest a site for feeds. It will come soon. :)
I wanted to put more statistical information on the FaiftfulNews front page. That means having a persistent data structure during each “view” of the page in which I can store the statistical values accurately.
At first, I thought an array will do. A simple 1-D or probably 2-D array would do the job. It will work, but since the data structure will involve key-value pairs, a hashtable made a more sense.
So I went ahead and found a very nice Javascript hashtable. Download it from here. It comes with a nice documentation.
