Posted by Matthew in General on 11 19th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Serve your congregation, not Outlook

I don’t give hat tips regularly enough because I figure that my readers are already reading what I read, and that’s an assumption that I just can’t make.  This edition of techlesia is inspired by ripped off from Cynthia Ware’s post at the Digital Sanctuary. I’ve already had...
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Posted by Matthew in IT Strategy on 05 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Software architecture and the future of integration

I’m excited to see that ACS is now employing people to focus on software architecture. Due to a number of circumstances, they ended up with about 7 different unconnected calendars across their various products. Now, with the help of architects like Jamey, they are working to integrate their products...
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Posted by Matthew in Software on 04 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment

Wishing for More

I’m piggybacking on Jason Lee’s recent post by the same name. We too use products from ACS Technologies as our ChMS. Like Jason, we consider ourselves ministry partners with ACS. We’re not just customers and they’re not just a vendor. We both seek to better the other, and we love...
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Posted by Matthew in Utilities on 10 29th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Outlook NK2 files

So, a while back Jason posted a tool for dealing with Outlook’s NK2 files. The tool is called NK2.info, imaginitively named after its Web site. As a brief briefing, the NK2 file is the file that contains Outlook’s address autocomplete data (when you start typing in the to box, these are the...
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