Innovating Tomorrow

Since the announcement to get the drupal churches group moving, again, there has been quite an increase in traffic on the site. With members getting involved in other areas of drupal, discussion of specific church use cases, and support questions as just a few of the possible functions for the group to help facilitate it's good to start with a rough understanding where the members of the group fit. In an effort to start gathering this information I've launched two new polls on the group.

• What kind of drupal user are you?
• What's your drupal skill level?

If you are a drupal user with your church or a Christian drupal user please swing by the group and take these polls. There polls will only be open for two weeks so there is a limited time to take them.

The Drupal Churches Group has grown stale with little activity in the last several months. This group, over on groups.drupal.org, was created on a whim but grew to be in the largest 10% of groups. Now, with a large base of members it sits virtually untapped with a large pool of potential. The question is, what will become of the group? Continue Reading »

When it comes to aggregating blogs in drupal there are any number of ways to do it (This is a big reason aggregation is being redesigned for the next major version of drupal). Most of these products are piece parts that need to be configured to work and aren't solutions out of the box. That's where the new Profile Blog Information module comes in. Continue Reading »

Drupal provides some great caching tools to improve page loading performance. Production sites see huge speed increases because of caching. But, when a site is being developed caching can quickly turn into a nightmare. For example, when you add a new theme override function your to template.php file it isn't picked up right away and you may end up banging your head wondering what's going on. Or, when your developing filter code your filtered content may be cached. Going to the performance setting page and clearing the cache is annoying and a work flow problem. So, let's look at a couple simple solutions that can make development a little easier and less painful. Continue Reading »

We just closed the door on the first Geeks and God conference and the planning has already started for the next conference. We are riding the wave of excitement and energy into planning the future of Geeks and God. The first planning meeting is this coming Friday!

I am looking for your help to make the next conference even more of a success than the first. If you have any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions regarding the next Geeks and God conference please comment on them here before Friday.

The Geeks and God Web 2.0 Conference was a success! We weren't sure what to expect at the first conference. The outcome was better than we could have expected and we have to thank everyone who was involved.

For those of you who are interested, photos of the conference are up on the Geeks and God flickr group Continue Reading »

This is the week of the Geeks and God Conference.

If you're interested in coming there are still tickets available (we really aren't turning anyone away). This means I won't be blogging again for a week but, when I come back there should be lots of good juicy material to blog about.

The ESV isn't just a friendly translation for webmaster and developers. Some of the best features are tech/life integration for your average everyday consumers. This goes well beyond the RSS and iCal integration I've previously written about. Let's take a look at a handful of ways anyone can use these features. Continue Reading »

The ESV translation of the Bible is the most Internet friendly, usable, and accessible English translation of the bible. I've previously written about their API, embrace of OpenSearch to add the Bible to your browsers search bar, and their use of RSS. In an effort to share the Bible as much as possible they provide more information than just these. Let's take a look at a few things to help webmasters integrate the ESV translation of the Bible into their websites. Continue Reading »

The Bible is the most popular (and possibly hated) book ever. It's popular enough that when the iTunes App store launched for the iphone and ipod touch a bible application was one of the most popular applications. There are more translations of the original text into English than any other book I've herd of or even imagined. So, it should come as no surprise that there are a couple ways to integrate the bible into a drupal installation. Continue Reading »