I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a full-on geek. I can't speak Klingon and I don't have lust over the latest microprocessor that hits the market. I use technology where it makes sense and I try to justify it the best that I can. I only recently changed from using a mix-mash of calendars/post-it's/etc... to using Google Calendar for all of my important information. I was syncing my Palm 700WX to my iMac and attempting to keep all that straight, but then adding my wife Peggy's info to the mix . . . oof! Instead I opted for Google Calendar and now we both have PDA type phones and use the mobile portion to keep track of everything.
That lead me to the thought for today, on how best to use my time. I get a 30 minute lunch, but I've been pretty guilty of just plowing through work without taking that time. I desperately need to get things moving on the Heartland Church web redesign, as well as the children's check-in system and putting some of that time to good use would be an excellent way to do it. I decided to put in a calendar reminder that sends me an SMS message at 1 minute till lunch, and another reminder at 30 minutes after . . . that way I'll remember to switch gears and then to stop what I'm doing and go back to work. I think that'll be a great way to handle things.
On the web redesign front, last night I delved into the custom pages part of Silverstripe, the CMS (content management system in this case) of choice. I was able to create a "staff" type page from the online guides. I quickly zipped through getting that up and going in the time we got home from care group while Peggy worked on addressing information for the FamilyLife "Weekend To Remember" marriage conference. We are the promoters of this great conference for our church and are working hard to make this year a very successful year for it. We attended last year before we were engaged and it was fantastic, and with the movie "Fireproof" in everyone's minds, it should be a great incentive.
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What system are you planning on using for children's check-in? We are looking into doing children's check-in here at Chapel Hill but have not chosen a vendor yet.
We are even considering creating a check-in solution "in house" and then open sourceing it later.
We are doing a LAMP stack on Ubuntu with Postgres as the database. I'm using Codeigniter (MVC) framework in PHP for the front end and we're using a Dymo label printer for the labels, generated out of FPDF library. We will be open sourcing the system and would love feedback/assistance.
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