Recently, Tony Dye has been asking questions related to use of volunteers, specifically for IT development purposes. I had already been planning for a month to start a series on patterns that seemed to work …

As I’m trying to play catch-up on Christmas Eve now that the family is feeling better and starting to wind down before the big celebration, I wanted to go ahead and thank Anthony for speaking …

I’ve seen a number of articles recently debating whether web designers should be worrying about “proper HTML and CSS” coding when it comes to building church web sites. Now there is a new website devoted …

My pastor has started a new series at church called “Convergence”. It is the study of what happens when one walks closely with God through an exploration of the book of Mark for the next …

I have a background in enterprise application development, which is a fancy way of saying that I often have to build software that can handle many thousands of users at a time. During the “.com …

I was taught by a good friend and mentor, Jeff, that you should always have a binder whenever you consult on a project. It should be filled with valuable items that you may need at …

In his blog entry, Control Freaks, Mike Clark mentions how he utilizes a common development tool called a source control server to store everything that is needed by a developer. This reduces the time to …

I have to agree with Dave @ BetaChurch.org regarding solving people problems and working closer with them. Here is the specific quote:
I have seen many user groups and congregations have the same reaction to …

I was just recalling an incident some years ago when I volunteered with an open source project to help productize a portion of their codebase that was previously prototyped. I asked the lead if I …

I’ve been noticing recently that many folks don’t monitor or manage their own RSS feeds, and don’t know when they are broken or don’t appear correctly. What that means is that they are not seeing …