Coders for Christ

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 and it's super easy to setup. Last week a super admin, Kim came to me ...

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 biggest Arena "customer". As such they rely on ...

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 is a correlation.  I frequently ask people what blogs ...

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).  Derek's been tremendous addition to our IT team and is always ...

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 ...

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 is an open source .NET 2.0 (C#) software project hosting web application that ...

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 things we talked about that are almost certainly interesting to other developers or ...

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 ...

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 ...