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Here We Go Again

Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 10:03 AM by nairdo
(Note: With this post I'm going to tag any similar, future rants as "angry coder". Although they will be few, I'm doing this just in case you want to take a pass on any of these kinds of entries.) I love Google , but with their recent Read More...
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Arena Enables the Paperless Office

Posted 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...
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Jason Communicates

Posted Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:47 PM by nairdo
A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of introducing Dallon's Developer in Beta to the blogosphere, and now I get share the news of Jason Hamrock's new blog. Jason is the Communications Director at CCCEV and his team is one of my team's Read More...
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User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Posted 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...
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Keeping Up With Your Art

Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 10:16 AM by nairdo
Is the expression "you are what you read" true? I think it is to some degree. Not only does it give you knowledge but it also says something about you. My most innovative friends are heavy blog, book and magazine readers, and I believe there Read More...
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The Youngest Arena Community Developer

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 9:52 PM by nairdo
If you were at the Fall 07 Arena Community Developer Rountable you heard me mention Dallon as the youngest Arena Community Developer, but now I'd like to introduce him via his new blog -- Developer in Beta . Dallon is a remarkable developer who's Read More...
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Pestering Pays Off: Say Hi to Derek

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 11:53 AM by nairdo
My pestering has paid off. I just got word on Friday that Derek Mangrum , our Network and Systems Administrator, has begun blogging IT specific posts over at Grinding-IT-Out and he's doing it at a furious, daily pace (compared to my 1-2 per month). Read More...
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My Must Have Utilities

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 11:30 AM by nairdo
Must Have Utilities HTML/CSS troubleshooting: IE Developer Toolbar (free) simple text editing: UltraEdit screen capture: SnagIt code generation: CodeSmith file/directory/text comparsion: WinMerge (free) file compression: 7-Zip (free) Instant Messaging: Read More...
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Custom Arena E-Ticket

Posted 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...
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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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The Search Feature

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:41 AM by nairdo
I've been working on an Arena "search connector" control that talks with our Microsoft Search Server 2008 (SS) in order to provide a seamless search integration with our Arena powered website. Ultimately, I think we're probably going 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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SharpForge

Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 9:39 AM by nairdo
One of the things I think we'll need to address within our Arena ChMS Community is the ability to have (manage) multiple developer custom projects. While its possible to do this without a tool, its terribly inefficient and not recommended. SharpForge 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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Arena CDB Roundtable

Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:41 PM by nairdo
Following the Arena community developer roundtable, CCV, CCCEV and Arena had another day to discuss several meta issues regarding the developer community and Arena in general. Although some of that discussion focused on internal matters, there were other Read More...
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