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Saturday, December 24, 2011 9:22 AM
by
nairdo
An Idea A few months ago Kim Vehon, from our Worship team came, into our office to share a video showing a bunch of phones hanging from wires flashing on and off . It's pretty cool. She wondered if we could do something like that during our Christmas
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Filed under: code, ajax, JavaScript |
Friday, November 18, 2011 8:57 AM
by
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 |
Monday, October 10, 2011 1:11 PM
by
nairdo
I've joined forces with an initially small team of developers and artists to form the Spark Development Network ( www.sparkdevelopmentnetwork.org ) and we are creating a new, open source Church Management System ( ChMS ) called Rock ChMS. You can
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Filed under: news, .NET 4.0, ChMS, Rock ChMS |
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:26 PM
by
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 |
Monday, July 25, 2011 5:15 PM
by
nairdo
This year we had a little more than 1750+ kids use the automated check-in system for VBS across three of our campuses. Looking at this graph which shows the number of check-ins per minute, you can see check-in does not ramp up as sharply as we would want
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Filed under: check-in, IT |
Friday, June 24, 2011 6:48 AM
by
nairdo
Our current church management system has been falling behind. The Visual Studio precompiled website solution we get with the SDK still targets the .NET Framework 3.5 and this morning I ran into my biggest issue to date: I can't use the NuGet.Core
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Filed under: .NET 3.0, jQuery, .NET 4.0 |
Monday, June 20, 2011 3:22 PM
by
nairdo
When you use a web based kiosk for your attendant-less check-in system , you should think about what's going to happen if your network fails you -- especially if you're using the 3G network. This is what you'll see if the kiosk cannot reach
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Filed under: check-in, news, IT, utilities |
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:17 PM
by
nairdo
[note: This is an especially 'angry coder' post -- so I encourage the the faint of heart reader to simply skip this article.] Although I hate to admit it, I know there is no such thing as bug free software releases. With testing and a solid QA
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Filed under: CMS, IT, project, angry coder |
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:11 AM
by
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 |
Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:02 AM
by
nairdo
Here are a few of the things swirling around in my head that make it hard to sleep... thinking about new friends I met in North Africa that live in tents (refugees) and have lost everything due to the revolution having so much side work I have to turn
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Filed under: angry coder |
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:20 AM
by
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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Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:40 AM
by
nairdo
My good friend and co-worker, Jason Offutt , recently started blogging over at JsonData.tumblr.com . (Yes, not only is he a developer and an artist, he's also a great writer!) In our spare time, Jason and I have been working on a couple of open source
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Filed under: news |
Wednesday, October 06, 2010 7:31 PM
by
nairdo
Yesterday I used the "hide" <friend> feature on Facebook and I'm torn over it. For me, the Facebook trend had become something I dreaded because of a particular person I know who doesn't seem to have a day job other than to FB
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Filed under: news, facebook |
Friday, September 10, 2010 10:25 AM
by
nairdo
Even before the full release of our newly rebuilt website , it seemed like we were constantly deploying daily/hourly updates from our sprints to several of servers ( UAT , Staging, etc.)... so much so that, being a Lazy programmer , I stopped what I was
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Filed under: code, utilities, RefreshCache |