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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 |
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, February 16, 2011 11:20 AM
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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 |
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, July 02, 2010 8:37 AM
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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 |
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 |
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
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Filed under: news, Arena ChMS |
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 |
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
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Filed under: Arena, news, Arena ChMS |
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
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Filed under: AZGroups, LINQ, Workflow, news, Scott Guthrie |
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
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Filed under: AZGroups, news, Silverlight, Scott Guthrie, UX |