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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
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Filed under: news, Arena ChMS, Roundtable, RefreshCache |
Saturday, May 08, 2010 6:28 PM
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nairdo
Last year we decided to take a little more ownership of our destiny so we created " RefreshCache ," the free two day event for church developer teams that use the Arena ChMS platform. We're doing it again, but this year we're breaking
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Filed under: Arena, news, Roundtable, RefreshCache, XSLT |
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 |
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:47 PM
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nairdo
I was writing a query for Reporting Services (SSRS) and I really wanted to use a parameter to allow the user to choose how many of the "top" results should be retrieved/shown. With SQL Server 2005, the TOP expression is now parameterized however
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Filed under: code, SQL Reporting Services |
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:24 PM
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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 |
Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:55 AM
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nairdo
In case you did not hear via twitter ( @ourarena or #ArenaChMS ) or the Arena blog , Chris Rivers will be giving a 10,000 foot demonstration of Arena ChMS. If you have never seen Arena in action and are considering a switch from your current Church Management
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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, May 22, 2009 4:30 PM
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nairdo
I was pretty excited about the upcoming AZGroups event with Scott Guthrie next week , but when I started reading about VS 2010 beta 1 released yesterday and some of the .NET 4.0 features I had a flashback about something I said in 2006, but first check
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Filed under: AZGroups, LINQ, Workflow, news, Scott Guthrie |
Monday, April 27, 2009 6:16 PM
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nairdo
I know this is a month old, but I'm just getting caught up on some reading/viewing... If you also haven't seen the day 1 keynote of MIX 09 and care about where your craft is going, you need to watch at least the first 8 minutes of the video and
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Filed under: AZGroups, news, Silverlight, Scott Guthrie, UX |
Friday, April 17, 2009 4:22 PM
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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
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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 |