Blogging your studies and sermon using Google Docs
Thursday, May 10th, 2007 Posted in Luke 6:42, Titus 2:7 | 5 Comments »This scenario sound familiar: your pastor nicely insists you publish his sermons online, but sends you his work in MS Word files that were converted via an old version of WordPerfect for Windows. Yeah, talk about cruft! Fortunately, I think ...
Why your cool church web site needs (the new) Google Analytics
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 Posted in Luke 6:42, Titus 2:7 | 2 Comments »Back in November of 2005, Google release Analytics, a high popular and free service to help you measure the effectiveness of your church web site. Yesterday, at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen announced a ...
Server Move Madness
Monday, May 7th, 2007 Posted in Titus 2:7 | No Comments »The server move is next week - at which point I'll discuss some of the gory details of how I move, which may help you move. This will include making sure an older version of WordPress gets to a newer version ...
What church webmasters can learn from a bunch of dumb dairy cows
Friday, October 27th, 2006 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 4 Comments »Chewing on your cud on how to re-work your crufty old church website? Well, moo-ving along back into website reviews, I think it's time to pony up and milk a good example for all its worth. Today's prime cut being ...
Software as a Service serving First Baptist Church of Frederick Maryland
Sunday, April 30th, 2006 Posted in Resource Filled, Titus 2:7 | 1 Comment »The WikiPedia describes Software as a Service (SaaS) as: "a model of software delivery where a company adopts specific activities that provide customers access to software alleviating that customer from the maintenance and daily technical operation and support of business and/or ...
Why your Church needs a Privacy Statement
Monday, February 20th, 2006 Posted in Resource Filled, Titus 2:7 | 7 Comments »Tired of political groups filling up your U.S. snail mail box with letters to your 12 year old daughter? Irritated with self-employed church members spamming you with the latest gift-basket craze? If so, then perhaps your church is lacking a ...
Hand Fighting Referrer Spammers
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 Posted in Titus 2:7 | No Comments »The WikiPedia defines Referer spam as "a kind of search engine-targeted spam. The technique involves making repeated web site requests using a fake referer url pointing to a spam-advertised site. Sites that publicize their referer statistics will then also link ...
find -perm 777 your first ssh security stop
Saturday, June 25th, 2005 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 6 Comments »Want to get hacked? It's easy, just 'chmod 777' everything the next time you install a bbs or photo gallery application. Don't want to get hacked? Read on and 'find' how hackers see, and exploit the unsecured areas of your ...
Turning Spam Pings into a HoneyPot
Monday, February 7th, 2005 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 2 Comments »As the BrownPau reports, the Trackback Ping Spammers have been relentless - expending hours and energy figuring out new ways to waste our bandwidth and to destroy the blogosphere. So pardon me if I offer yet another post and yet ...
Using .htaccess to deal with a recent flood of trackback ping spam
Friday, February 4th, 2005 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 12 Comments »"Holy smokes, I've been hit! My comment spam 'secret code' filter is working like a charm - no spam in weeks, but now they've decided to spam through trackback. The other day I had two new trackback pings on older entries, ...
RatherNot - a MoveableType Plug-in for the ages
Saturday, September 11th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 4 Comments »I wrote an article for ZDNet, once. I think it was back in 1989 when I reviewed some books on the topic of C programming and MIDI. So imagine my utter shock and disappointment when I couldn't get through the ...
Do You ICQ?
Wednesday, September 8th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 28 Comments »I have a confession to make: I’m not as geeky as you think I am. Oh sure, I can put together a regular expression so I can mod_rewrite old URLs to new, but when it comes to contacting me, I ...
