http://www.davidcollie.com/index.htmlHot News!enuser@domain.comCopyright 2011 David Collie2011-07-24T14:44:38+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:34:21 +0100user@domain.comPersonal2011-07-23T18:55:23+01:00http://www.davidcollie.com/files/e3488eedbf72ccff7e90fcd896648e75-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.davidcollie.com/files/e3488eedbf72ccff7e90fcd896648e75-6.html#unique-entry-id-6I run the website for my local church. Just recently I received an email from someone considering using Wordpress for his church’s website asking for my opinion on it’s suitability. Here’s what he asked:

I am currently reviewing possible options for developing my local church's site and wondered what your opinion of Wordpress was in relation to the use within a church environment?

Here’s my answer: we have been using Wordpress for our church since October 2009. Before that one of the congregation managed a static HTML website for many years which was published by FTP on weekly basis. This was, of course, a burden for the website administrator as he was the only person capable of updating the content. What we wanted to do was to remove this dependency on a single person to update the website and have the ability to have multiple people update the content without requiring too much technical knowledge. I can say that this is a success - we have a small group of website editors who update the content regularly and keep the content ‘fresh’. Each week we send a link to our newsletter using a free account on Mailchimp which works very well. The website is hosted at an ISP of our choice - X9 Internet - who have proven to be very reliable and charge reasonable prices.




]]>user@domain.comTechnical2011-05-17T22:04:27+01:00http://www.davidcollie.com/files/bcbd435262379b47ed4fe23aa4852d81-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.davidcollie.com/files/bcbd435262379b47ed4fe23aa4852d81-5.html#unique-entry-id-5Engadget on the Lodsys case against small iOS app developers. The patent issue is a tough one as patents are there to stop people ripping off your inventions but unfortunately the whole system’s been abused by trolls.]]>user@domain.comTechnical2011-05-16T19:38:18+01:00http://www.davidcollie.com/files/18dae5ef43ec3ee354733dfb80065672-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.davidcollie.com/files/18dae5ef43ec3ee354733dfb80065672-4.html#unique-entry-id-4

I just got the Famous Question badge (a question with 10,000 views) on Stackoverflow for my question about MySql replication. I like SO but don’t seem to spend much time on it for some reason.]]>user@domain.comPersonal2011-05-08T15:08:42+01:00http://www.davidcollie.com/files/e713a9129b5a9229fb4f76a86c966f82-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.davidcollie.com/files/e713a9129b5a9229fb4f76a86c966f82-3.html#unique-entry-id-3Seth Godin’s ideas on what schools need to teach children in the future. They’re vital skills for getting on in the modern work environment. I wish I had been taught them when I was at school.]]>user@domain.comTechnical2011-05-08T15:00:08+01:00http://www.davidcollie.com/files/8f1b6542c634459562d4771796a600bf-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.davidcollie.com/files/8f1b6542c634459562d4771796a600bf-2.html#unique-entry-id-2Tower looks interesting - it’s a Mac GUI for git. Looks like it will take the pain out of having to remember how to manage git from the command line.]]>user@domain.comPersonal2011-05-08T13:03:09+01:00http://www.davidcollie.com/files/cdc3edb48c01ac20d8d857385a9b2988-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.davidcollie.com/files/cdc3edb48c01ac20d8d857385a9b2988-1.html#unique-entry-id-1user@domain.comPersonal2011-05-05T13:16:16+01:00http://www.davidcollie.com/files/de34e97eeacea22a33e66315ac903fea-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.davidcollie.com/files/de34e97eeacea22a33e66315ac903fea-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://j.mp/iF9kpG.

Remember that 1,500 miles away Libyans are literally laying their lives down for right to say who will represent them. ]]>