Using Wget to download large distributions
Friday, November 14th, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 2 Comments »It's 11:59pm, I'm slouched in front of my computer thinking about a topic for tomorrow while in the background, I've initiated the all-night download of the most recent version of Knoppix, all 700 megabytes of it. Hey, if the Senate ...
Adding User-Defined Fields in Movable Type
Thursday, November 13th, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 1 Comment »Last month, when I was obviously distracted by something that seemed important at the time, Deane at Gadgetopia wrote an incredibly useful post entitled Adding User-Defined Fields in Movable Type. Now I realize not everyone here uses the MovableType(MT) web ...
Surrending Bandwidth at Appomattox
Monday, November 3rd, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 8 Comments »If I was smart, I'd hold this article until April 9, the anniversary of the date in which Lee's Army was 'bagged' by elements of Grant's army at Appomattox. But things on the web change, hopefully one of them being ...
A reminder to check your listserv policies and permissions
Saturday, November 1st, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | No Comments »This morning I woke up to a surpise, a listserv I had set up for the Men's Saturday Morning Breakfast ministry had been spammed. Here's how it happened. On the frontpage of Redland Baptist, we have a link to a ...
A quick look inside my installation bag of tricks
Monday, October 13th, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | No Comments »When a plumber visits your house, they often bring with them a part canvas, part leather bag that weighs in and about 50lbs. I know this because my brother is a plumber, and I've had ample opportunity to look inside ...
Dealing with comment spam
Monday, October 6th, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 12 Comments »Yesterday, I came home from church to find someone had left some comment spam on my article entitled "Beyond the Blog and other links on making MovableType a Content Managment System." This bothered me on several levels. Not only because ...
Host File Configuration Fun
Friday, September 5th, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 2 Comments »I realize I've been a bit 'preachy' the past couple of days, so let me make that up to you by offering something very 'geeky.' If you're like me, you prefer to develop software outside of the production environment. Okay, ...
The Joshua Project
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 3 Comments »When Moses died, Joshua led the Israelites through the desert to The Promised Land. There's no image that better illustrates the state of church Web programs than a bunch of people wandering around in the wilderness trying to reach this ...
Mission4Me using MT
Monday, August 4th, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 1 Comment »If I've seemed a bit distracted lately, it is because I've been spending much of my spare time reworking Chuck Holton's Mission4Me.com website/blog. Actually, I'm still working on it, but now we're in the tweaking phase. Just so long as ...
ESV Bible RSS Feed using PHP
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 4 Comments »As promised, the ESV Bible RSS Feed, now peachy PHP flavor! To get this done, I dipped back into two past articles. One entitled Using PHP from the command line. This is necessary as we want to add our application ...
Using Magpie RSS to Read News Feeds
Monday, June 2nd, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 3 Comments »This past weekend, I added another news feed to blogs4God. Specifically Facing the Challenge of our times. So rather than take my own medicine from May 13, and use Perl with XML::RSSLite to read a feed, I decided to face ...
Lakeshore Baptist Church in Lakeshore Mississippi
Friday, May 30th, 2003 Posted in Proverbs 19:25 | 5 Comments »The secret to effective parody is its similarity to real life. The comedic effectiveness is in large part determined by the timing and delivery of the satirist. The other part is how well the joker knows the material. Proof of this ...
