Archives for December, 2006

RSS feed now in Feedburner


I just updated my feeds to now go through feedburner.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techpastorcom
If you are already subscribed, I sure would appreciate it if you update your feed reader with the new link!
Feedburner is awesome, allows you to manage your feed more effectively and most importantly Stats!

Oricom IP7 USB Handsets


I just scored an awesome deal. 8 Oricom IP 7 USB handsets for $5 each, reduced from $50 at Harvey Norman. The sales staff could not believe their eyes when they saw me carting them off to the checkout!
This means that I can use them for our call centre when we get around to building [...]

Asterisk VOIP Servers at Generation


After a month of wrangling, we now have two Asterisk servers running between our two offices.
Our main server, located on a fat fibre connection manages our main connection to our VOIP provider - Faktortel.
It’s been an interesting challenge getting the two servers to talk together. In the end it was a NAT issue.
I have now [...]

Scoping your own Church Management Software - Part I


Generation Church has been going for almost two years, and until now we have relied heavily on third party software to manage our pastoral care database.
At the current moment we are using the excellent Excellerate church management software from Micro System Design. Originally developed by Pete Sciacchetano for Bethany World Prayer Center, Excellerate has been [...]