ip2Country.pl - A fast little script to bulk id IPs by country
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Code-Snippets, How-To | No Comments »Yes, I know, all cool programmers use Python these days - but to this old-school programmer, PERL is to my antiquated PC what GWBasic was to first computer at work back in 1983. That is a nice little tool ...
Making a Ready Defense by Planning for Failure
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bad Design Posters, How-To, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. While this aphorism is very worn, it is also very true. Here are some simple things you can do with mysqldump, crontab, tar/gzip and a little contingency planning to insure you don't ...
Spring Cleaning, or time for a HealYourChurchWebsite do-over.
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in About HYCW, How-To | 2 Comments »The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming and WordPress 2.5 has been 'in the wild' for a couple of weeks. These factors, and the fact that my own blog is getting a bit crufty has me thinking it is ...
How to quickly check your error logs for oddities
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in How-To, Resource Filled | 2 Comments »With more church webmasters taking advantage of free, one-click installs (e.g. WordPress, Drupal, etc ...) provided by inexpensive web hosting solutions, I figure it is time to provide a quick tutorial on how to harvest useful operational, user and security ...
How to avoid high maintenance church website design
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Bad Design Posters, How-To | 4 Comments »For what will it profit a man if his church website is the slickest in the Internet if he has to forfeit a month's collections just to change the welcome message? If you haven't guessed by the play on Matthew 16:26 ...
3 column tableless layouts not so hard with the YUI CSS Grids Builder
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in How-To, Resource Filled | No Comments »Multiple column, table-less layouts using CSS isn't so hard the CSS Grids Builder tool provided as part of the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library. Just enter the number of columns, the widths and positions, and presto - a very small ...
How I fixed my Windows XP Stop c000021a {Fatal System Error} with Knoppix Linux
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Code-Snippets, How-To | No Comments »Below are steps describing how I used Knoppix Linux to fix the dreaded Windows XP 'Error Message: Stop c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Session Manager Initialization System Process...' failure. This morning, when I powered-up my computer at work, my Windows XP-based ...
How to set your system clock in Linux
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in How-To | No Comments »So once again, that infernal Daylight saving time thingie bothers us by automatically setting, or perhaps not setting our system clocks on your Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Knoppix, or Suse install either an hour ahead, or remaining an ...
How to setup Google Sites for your website’s Wiki page
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, How-To | No Comments »I feel like a little boy yelling down the street to announce the arrival of the circus. "They're here! They're Here! They're HERE!" Yes folks, the JotSpot WIKI technology that Google acquired back in October of 2006 is now a ...
How to block a range of IPs from spamming your church website
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in How-To | 1 Comment »Using a blog to manage a website’s content is a flexible and affordable solution more and more churches are employing to effectively present their message online. There is however one drawback – in that some of the open source ...
How to secure your church’s dedicated Linux server
Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted in How-To, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »This post is dedicated to all of you running your church’s website in the choir robe closet, or who have been graced with a generous and geeky member who has taken advantage of one of those cheap, unmanaged dedicated server ...
YourMap - an easier way to integrate Google Maps into your church website
Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, How-To | 7 Comments »Back in August, I posted a 10-step "How to (really) embed Google Maps on your church website." Yesterday, I received a really nice email from Mickey of Church Website Help & Google Earth Hacks informing me he's developed a free ...
