I was recently asked what churches should do about Twitter and Facebook. In fact, there are a lot of bloggers that have different opinions on this as well, many of them with some great ideas. …

There has been quite a bit of talk around the blogosphere about the need for churches to revise their website. I believe that most churches should budget for hiring a company over doing it internally …

As many of you know, I’m a full-time software architect, concentrating mostly on Enterprise Java for the small and large companies. While I have posted a few technical items on this blog from my days …

Tammy at Multi-Site Kids had an interesting post about how she would prefer to have better reporting solution for her check-in system:
For us, one area that makes me cringe is our check-in system. It’s …

Sometimes in life, things come in patterns. With the blogosphere, this can happen quite frequently due to some big news topic. For me today, I’ve had two topics show up from seemingly random sources. Here …

Not long ago, there was a post titled “If Your Volunteers Posted a Blog”. Taking another viewpoint, what if new visitors blogged about your church and their experience? The Blogging Church has a post regarding …

A few weeks ago, I had need of a simple way to wrap the output of a typical cron script into an easy-to-read output. For those not familiar, cron allows a user to run a …

Jim Walton at Church Tech Matters posted part 2 of his Email Etiquette series regarding sending email to your congregation. Here is a snippet from part 1:
I saw a letter from a church recently detailing …

I spent a little time working with ServiceMix this weekend. Overall, I have good things to say about it. I wanted to quickly hack together a poller to read an Atom feed and convert it …

The Austin Ruby on Rails User Group has announced their speaker for the December 13th meeting: Eric Stewart. Having worked with Eric recently, I greatly respect his professionalism and agile approach. He’s been doing …