Journal

Design 4 Drupal

17 June 2009 › 8 comments

My 5-month old, at D4D Grid Talk This past weekend, I had the privilege of speaking in Boston at Design 4 Drupal, an un-conference meet-up graciously hosted by MIT. I co-presented Accelerated Grid Theming alongside Todd Nienkerk, on how to use the NineSixty theme, a port of 960.gs for use in Drupal. I dare say it was quite well… Read more

F1 + EE Module

13 May 2009 › 5 comments

In preparation for our annual Dynamic Church Conferece — For the past month or so, my coworkers and I have been diligently (read: frantically) working on our respective applications that each consume the brand new Fellowship One RESTful API. I was half of a two-man team tasked with creating an EE module, to allow churches to display… Read more

Drupal 6 Themes

3 May 2009 › 5 comments

I recently read Drupal 6 Themes, by Ric Shreves – a partner at design and development firm Water&Stone. I found the book to be a great resource. Lately I have been digging further into Drupal, an open source content management platform that describes itself lightheartedly as “community plumbing.” These tubes have been used to power many high… Read more

Keeping Digg Honest

5 April 2009 › 13 comments

For those of you who know me, you also know that I have a love / hate relationship with Digg. They seem to love linking to my content, and I generally don’t care for the negativity their readership brings both via comments on my site and Digg itself. In the past, I was simply deflecting all Digg… Read more

Thoughts on Leadership

23 February 2009 › 2 comments

For a recent seminary assignment, we were asked to share our personal definition of leadership, and address the question: “Why do church leaders fail?” We were supposed to answer in approximately 400 words. After typing my response, I thought it might also make for a good blog post. Here ‘tis… My definition of a leader is someone… Read more