I'm coming out of my cave to share a few great bits of news.
1) Since my last post, Jason Offutt has joined our team! Jason comes from Christ's Church of the Valley (CCV) where he was previously developing Arena modules. With his hiring, Jason also becomes Central's first full time developer (I'm still a self-inflicted part-timer).
2) Without Jason's help we would still by at 70% development completion of our new Arena check-in module. However due to his monumental efforts we actually had our first complete test milestone at the end of December and are piloting the new Children's check-in this weekend. We've been in touch with a few other churches (I'll let them comment if they want) and will be sharing the code via the community SVN shortly after the rollout.
3) OnTime 2009 Express edition only costs $5 for a team of up to 5 developers! Read the full press details. With the edition of Jason and Dallon's ever increasing development contributions, we're really in need of a bit of a process and tool overhaul to help manage our software projects. We'll be using OnTime 2009 for sure. If you've ever seen Axosoft's founder, Hamid Shojee, talk you know what I mean when I say he's brilliant -- check out his entertaining 'SCRUM in under 10 Minutes' video. He can even make a presentation in software development methodology fun.