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The Arena Community Developer Board

Friday, July 02, 2010 8:37 AM by 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 Read More...

Ignore This Book At Your Own Peril

Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:09 AM by 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 Read More...

Arena Loves Twitter Too

Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:26 PM by 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 Read More...

RefreshCache 09: Summary

Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:47 AM by 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, Read More...

RefreshCache 2009

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 Read More...

The Voracity Solutions 'Installer'

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:50 AM by 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, Read More...

Roundtable: Reason for Not Attending

Saturday, May 30, 2009 1:59 PM by 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, Read More...

The Break Up: the Branching of CCV and Arena

Friday, May 29, 2009 6:27 PM by 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 Read More...

New Cccev Website - Powered by Arena

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 Read More...

Our Virtual Check-in System

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 Read More...

Software Development On Time

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:49 PM by nairdo
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 Read More...

Arena Enables the Paperless Office

Monday, June 16, 2008 5:47 PM by nairdo
I dig the latest version of Arena ChMS and the new Document Types feature is great. In a nutshell it allows you to attach documents (pdf, images, .doc, etc.) to a person, tag or group. It's the feature that enables you to move to a paperless office Read More...

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:38 PM by nairdo
If you're not familiar with a UAT environment, it's the place where your users can perform either formal testing or just simply kick the tires of the latest version of your system/application (depending on how formal your "testing" really Read More...

Custom Arena E-Ticket

Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:08 PM by nairdo
With the current release of Arena (2007.2.x) there is no "E-Ticket" feature, which means if you enable it for one of your online registrations it will attempt to link to a page/file that does not exist (~/eticket.aspx). Luckily, this also means Read More...

Elegance vs Practicality

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:45 PM by nairdo
I yearn for and typically choose only elegant solutions, but in times of desperation it's not beyond me to use a hack to accomplish something. I'm not proud of it, but I do see it as sign of my practical side. I also don't enjoy javascript, Read More...

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