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Friday, November 18, 2011 8:57 AM
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nairdo
Today marks the launch of our 5th Arena ChMS powered website . This time around it was more of a cosmetic face-lift, and as far as the switch-over was concerned, we used all the tricks we learned last time to make the change very smooth (more on that
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Filed under: news, Arena ChMS, project |
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:26 PM
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nairdo
Something I've been meaning to have added to the Arena Custom Module Developer (ACMD) guide is this little known feature that was introduced at some point in the past few years. It's a way to group your custom module's settings as seen here:
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Filed under: code, Arena ChMS |
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:11 AM
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nairdo
When we launched our Queen Creek campus at the Queen Creek High School, we decided not to rely on the local network there. Having learned our network reliability lessons when we ran a test church at Campo Verde High School the year before, we instead
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Filed under: Arena, check-in, Arena ChMS, IT |
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:20 AM
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nairdo
I admit defeat. I can't keep up with all the community posts in the Arena community forums anymore. Actually, I would have to say it started at some point during 2010. I just would not admit it until today. I guess this might also mean the.Community
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Filed under: news, Arena ChMS, angry coder |
Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:39 AM
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nairdo
If you're developing complex modules for your Arena website, you'll probably need a tool such as Firebug (a plugin for Firefox) to test how your CSS changes will effect layout in the browser. Once you've used Firebug you'll have a hard
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Filed under: code, Arena ChMS, reviews |
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Friday, July 02, 2010 8:37 AM
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nairdo
In February 2007 the guys at Arena ChMS established what was loosely called the Community Developer Board (or CDB). This little known group was comprised of the Arena team ( Jeff M , Steve, Mark , Alfred , etc), Jon and David from CCV , and Phil and myself
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Filed under: news, Arena ChMS, Roundtable, RefreshCache |
Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:09 AM
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nairdo
" Ignore this book at your own peril. " -- Seth Godin said that about the book Rework by the founders of 37signals . Before I even finished it, I went and ordered two copies for some friends. Everyone will benefit from reading the book, but
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Filed under: news, Arena ChMS, reviews |
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:26 PM
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nairdo
Have I mentioned how much I love Arena? Here's why - because it can do almost anything you need it to. Let me illustrate with a small example. I recently heard someone say 'oh, Arena can't do that yet' on the topic of integrating twitter
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Filed under: code, Arena ChMS, XSLT, twitter |
Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:47 AM
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nairdo
Wow, what a week**. Based on the feedback we heard or saw ( Josh , tweets ), some blog posts we read ( Joel , Brian ), as well as Jason and my own observations, we can now say RefreshCache was a total success! While each person had their favorite part,
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Filed under: news, Arena ChMS, RefreshCache |
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:24 PM
by
nairdo
Well it's less than a week away -- our first 100% community organized, managed and executed developer gathering for Arena called RefreshCache . I originally envisioned this get together as a very small group of guys (6-8) but we decided to open it
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Filed under: news, Arena ChMS |
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:50 AM
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nairdo
If you haven't checked out Voracity Solutions you should do it now. You already know the guys at Voracity Solutions as Jon Edmiston and David Turner the original creators of what has become Arena ChMS . Among various long term plans and projects,
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Filed under: news, Arena ChMS, utilities |
Saturday, May 30, 2009 1:59 PM
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nairdo
I've been asked by a few people why we decided not to attend this year's roundtable. We've been very disappointed with the 2008.3 release (the problems that it created, the lack of a documented test plan and release certification checklist/sign-off,
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Filed under: Arena ChMS, Roundtable |
Friday, May 29, 2009 6:27 PM
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nairdo
Now that it's been announced to the Arena community developers I can discuss the news: CCV has decided to branch away from the Arena core code base. It's difficult for me to talk too much about this situation, since I'm pretty close with Jon
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Filed under: Arena, news, Arena ChMS |
Friday, April 17, 2009 4:22 PM
by
nairdo
li {padding-bottom: 8px;} click for large view This week we finished development and implementation of our latest, jQuery flavored, Arena powered cccev.com website -- and I'm pretty excited about how it turned out. Everyone did a tremendous job: Jeremy
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Filed under: Arena, LINQ, news, Arena ChMS, jQuery |
Sunday, February 08, 2009 3:34 PM
by
nairdo
For the past few weeks, I was beginning to think our new Arena check-in module was only going to be a virtual system -- not a real, working application. You see, we had to postpone the full rollout a few weeks ago when our first full scale pilot had a
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Filed under: .NET 3.0, check-in, Arena ChMS, IT, virtualization |