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Elegance vs Practicality

Posted 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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New Arena Milestones

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 12:05 AM by nairdo
It's been a busy past couple of months. Besides the typical vacation/holiday time spent on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's, we also did a few other things before the year ended. We switched our small group ministry off GroupFinder and onto Read More...
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Here Are Some of Our Questions

Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 10:19 PM by nairdo
Lately I've been getting lots of questions about my experience with Arena... Read More...
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The Arena Podcast Module

Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:18 PM by nairdo
At last weeks Arena Developer Roundtable , I gave a live demo and announced the impending beta release of the Podcast Module I’ve been working on off-and-on** over the summer. As of today this new Podcast Module is available to other Arena Developers Read More...
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Arena Community Developer Roundtable - Day 2

Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:07 PM by nairdo
Day 2 brought us out to the beautiful CCV campus in Peoria. David started off the day by showing us: the completely professional contribution statements CCV created for Arena a new sync tool that lets you sync Arena tagged people to Outlook for easy offline Read More...
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Arena Community Developer Roundtable - Day 1

Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:35 PM by nairdo
I wish you were here! Today we hosted day #1 of the developer roundtable which was a blast as much as it was inspiring. With Alfred's opening speech and Mark 'state of the union' address, I once again realized this ship is on the right course. Read More...
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Arena Fall '07 Developer Roundtable

Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:51 AM by nairdo
Registration is now open for the next Arena Developer Roundtable taking place in sunny AZ this October 16th and 17th. This time the roundtable is also open for prospective Arena Community Developers to participate and understand the benefits of joining Read More...
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First "3rd Party" Arena Module

Posted Sunday, May 20, 2007 4:24 PM by admin
This past Friday we upgraded to Arena 1.1. The new Import/Export capabilities allowed me to easily install a custom module we developed called "Tag Finder". It was written in less than a day, and simply put, it gives you the ability to search Read More...
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Arena Custom Reports

Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 3:47 PM by nairdo
Arena has several ways to create a "custom report". Some ways are very simple for simple cases and intended for normal people. Other ways are for more complex cases and are intended for someone who has reporting like (SQL, Access, etc) skills. Read More...
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Edit Your Application

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:13 AM by nairdo
If we could, we would prefer to lock down the Member Status field so that only our small Evangelism admin team could edit it. Unfortunately Arena does not allow this particular field to be locked in this way (most other Arena areas and fields can). Since Read More...
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Arena Unveiled

Posted Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:19 PM by nairdo
It's been a busy March and I can't believe it's over (actually Q1 2007 is over). Just before I left for a spring break vacation, we unveiled Arena to seven major teams at Central (small groups, involvement, prayer, student ministries, communications, Read More...
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Arena 1.0 installed

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:10 PM by nairdo
We've been too busy around here, but we finally got around to installing Arena 1.0 on our development system. I've only had it for a few hours, but it looks like they've added some cool new features since the pre-release: Relationship Types, Read More...
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Arena Check-In or CCCEV Check-In

Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:20 PM by nairdo
One of the many Arena tasks I have on my plate includes examining how we might use Arena’s built in “check-in” capabilities for our two self-serve, multi-campus environments (Children’s and Students). Since there is no Arena documentation Read More...
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Goodbye Rushed Notes

Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:27 AM by nairdo
Have you ever been on a support call with a vendor who is clicking away while you’re jotting down notes about what they are doing? Ideally you’d want to stop them at each step and make sure you’ve got all the details down, but you really Read More...
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Two Hour Install and Conversion

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:33 AM by admin
If only all software conversions/integrations were this quick and easy: Just before I left to catch my plane to Memphis, Guy, from the Arena team, connected remotely to walk me through install of the Arena beta on our system and connect it to our existing Read More...
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