Coders for Christ

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, but I don't know where I'd be without it in my toolbox. A ...

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 Arena managed Small Groups.  Thanks go to Jeff Gibson and his ...

A paper that describes the why and how regarding duplicate people records.

Lately I've been getting lots of questions about my experience with Arena.  The last set of questions were particularly well thought out so I got permission from the good people (Zana and Win) at Christ Chapel Bible Church to share their questions and my responses with anyone who is interested.  I guess this post will only be of ...

At last weeks Arena Developer Roundtable, I gave a live demo and announced the impending beta release of the Podcast Module I’ve been working on off-and-on** over the summer. As of today this new Podcast Module is available to other Arena Developers on the Community site.  At CCCEV, we'll be starting to use this instead of an old ...

Day 2 brought us out to the beautiful CCV campus in Peoria. David started off the day by showing us:the completely professional contribution statements CCV created for Arenaa new sync tool that lets you sync Arena tagged people to Outlook for easy offline contact data.a utility for importing MapPoint polygons into Arena's areas.the ...

I wish you were here!  Today we hosted day #1 of the developer roundtable which was a blast as much as it was inspiring.  With Alfred's opening speech and Mark 'state of the union' address, I once again realized this ship is on the right course.  Even though this community is barely six ...

Registration is now open for the next Arena Developer Roundtable taking place in sunny AZ this October 16th and 17th.  This time the roundtable is also open for prospective Arena Community Developers to participate and understand the benefits of joining the community. What happens at the roundtable?  Well, based on the last one, we ...

This is a alternate location of the draft specification (slightly dated) for the upcoming Podcast Module for Arena.  The project announcement can be seen here on the Arena ChMS Community forum. The document can also be found on the original location on the Arena Community.

This past Friday we upgraded to Arena 1.1.  The new Import/Export capabilities allowed me to easily install a custom module we developed called "Tag Finder".  It was written in less than a day, and simply put, it gives you the ability to search for tags.  Since tags are hierarchal (compared to ShelbyV5's ...