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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...

101010 A Developers Conference: RefreshCache

Saturday, May 08, 2010 6:28 PM by 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 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...

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...

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...

Wow - "The Most Important Feature"

Friday, May 22, 2009 4:30 PM by 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 Read More...

UX Transitions: the R-evolution

Monday, April 27, 2009 6:16 PM by 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 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...

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...

Jason Communicates

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...

Keeping Up With Your Art

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...

Pestering Pays Off: Say Hi to Derek

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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