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Book Covers by Julie Nicholls

Attention authors! Have a look at my book cover archive.

High quality book covers by Julie Nicholls

I makegenres: urban fantasy, high fantasy and paranormal fantasy

How does it work?

If you’re not sure about what you want, we’ll work together to get the best cover for your novel. If you HAVE an idea, we’ll discuss at length to ensure we get the image that’s in your head transferred onto the cover. I’ll search through the stock site to find the most suitable images and we’ll discuss various concepts until we hit on the right one.

I have a few pre-made covers available right now.

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Creating TFS Work Items programatically

One question I get a lot when teaching the VSTS course is "How can I move tasks or bugs from our existing system into TFS?" The answer is quite simple: write a program that utilizes the Team Systems Object Model. The Object Model is documented partially in the VSIP SDK -- if you intend to work with it, I highly recommend you go and grab that SDK from Microsoft, but here is a simple example of creating a bug in the first Team Project available on the server named TFSServer (you can imagine … [Read more...]

Moving Work Items from one Team Project to another

I was having lunch with an associate a while back and he mentioned a need to move a work item from one team project to another. While there isn't any direct support for this from the Team Explorer interface, I figured it couldn't be too hard to manipulate the underlying database and achieve the results - it's just SQL Server right? I hadn't actually looked at the schema mind you, I'm an optimist. It wasn't quite as simple as I thought - it felt like the database had been designed by the … [Read more...]

Using Excel for VSTS Data Driven Testing

A colleague of mine, Kev Jones, has posted some information on using a detached SQL Server database for driving VSTS unit tests which works great if you need a full blown SQL implementation.  However, if all you want is a simple data feed, you can also use an Excel file, and as it turns out, it's pretty easy to do. Let's start by stealing Kev's sample, hopefully he won't mind -- say I have a starship class with a FirePhotonTorpedo method: public class Enterprise{   private … [Read more...]

Installing Visual Studio Team Systems

So I spent the better part of a day getting a full Visual Studio Team Systems installation running under VMWare.  In order to get it all to work together on a single server, you have to have a bunch of components: Active Directory, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Reporting Services, SharePoint, Team Foundation Server, Office and finally VSTS itself.  The first problem I ran into was just plain ignorance about SharePoint.  I started with a prebuilt W2K3 server image that already had … [Read more...]

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Courage builds character. It’s a revolutionary love that drives our actions through fear. Courage comes from the Latin word cor which means heart, and doing the heartwork is what seeds miracles.

With a legacy where pain is fused with identity, healing is damn, hard work. We need the courage to face ourselves, to ask for help, to stop keeping the secrets that keep us sick, to love and be loved by those who, on the outside, mirror those who brought us the most pain.

Through the years of vicious self hate, I absorbed the pain of others. I blamed myself for the abuse and deprived myself of the right to thrive in love.

With courage as my superpower, I found the strength to break the patterns passed from massa’s cruel plantations. As I built a village with those who healed before me, I was able to love on my people in a way I never thought possible.

Sometimes, the best version of ourselves can only shine under pressure, and courage, like coal, makes diamonds.

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Photobucket About Mom: My early memories: January 2008

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

5 Years Today

5 Years Today

Today is the 5th anniversary of Mom's leaving us. The date had not hit me until my sister reminded me tonight!

I never would have thought this day could slip by without me remembering but I know Mom would understand and forgive me with all this sorrow that's in my heart with the recent events in our community.

Mom would be so hurt to know of the loss of these young men's lives....It wouldn't matter that she had not known them- just as it doesn't matter that I didn't know them!

The picture is Mom and me in 1977...31 years ago!

...This puts Mom's age here just about a year older than I am now!

Folks say I look like my mom ~ and I say, "Thanks!" :)

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Sunday, January 06, 2008

Remembering Mom on her birthday

 pictures are Ma-Ma and my 4 grandkids.
The one of her alone was her birthday celebration in 1995.

Happy Birthday to my mom

Tomorrow (Today-Jan 6 ) would be my Mom's birthday...but later this month marks the 5th. anniversary of her leaving us. She had just had her 94th. birthday.

This time of year is always especially sad for me...remembering Mom and how we finally had to let her go. Sad memories but happy ones too- throughout all the years we had her in our lives.

I never have known anyone whose heart was so full of love as my Mom's! Her love for her family had no beginning and no end!

It was a big impact on everyone when our Ma-Ma passed away, and something that is still very hard for me- even after almost 5 years now!

Since her passing, our family has experienced some other devastating happenings ... the death of 2 of her grandsons and a great-granddaughter! I have been thankful that Mom didn't have to endure that pain.

We would have this big birthday gathering/ reunion for her every year. Most years almost every one of the family would come to be with her...sometimes even the ones in California and Oregon. She loved it and I'm so glad we were able to give her that in her later years!

This picture I found was from one of her last birthday parties.

Mom would have been 99 years old.

Thinking of you, Ma-Ma!

Always with love,

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