Web Development Archive

Wordpress 2.5 now supported by Fantastico


Imagine my delight when on adding a hosting account for a friend that Wordpress 2.5 was available!
So with much delight I set to and upgraded all three of my own Blogs in about 3 minutes flat.
So easy to do.
The alternative was to hard to even consider… Spending the night backing up and ftping all the [...]

YAML and Suckerfish drop down menus can work together!


After a fair bit of gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, I have managed to get Suckerfish drop down menus and yaml.de working together. Add in a dash of jquery, care of Myles Angell and we have magic!
I will make the css a little more analogous to the wider yaml community so it will [...]

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 [...]

Bible 2.0


A searchable Bible, similar to eBible.com
A Blogging system that allows people to share revelation on scripture
A Commenting system that allows other people to comment on that revelation
All diggable, so that people could vote on the coolness of each others revelation (this is actually a frightening thought)
RRS: Revelation Ranking System

Anyway, enough for now…

Web 2.0 is doing my head in!


I can’t remember a time when more ideas have come to me than over the last two days. After launching techpastor.com I’ve been doing alot of research into Web 2.0. It’s a huge topic, ranging from pure tech to philosophical problems.
It’s doing my head in.
I feel like that deranged skitzo when I’m like this. When [...]