Comments on: Launched: The Village Church on WordPress

By: John

John — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:32:22 +0000

I should make clear that I am not affiliated with the Sunbird project – I didn’t realize that the website would be tied to my name like that…

By: John

John — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:31:20 +0000

Ken, Sunbird is a Mozilla project for calendar software. It is compatible with iCal calendar format, and should be usable for phpicalendar. I have used the 0.2 version (though I’m a Mac guy, so I generally use iCal). It seems pretty stable, and they’re doing simultaneous Windows/Linux/Mac releases.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:14:46 +0000

Hey “Kyleen”:http://kennsarah.net/2005/11/03/launched-the-village-church-on-wordpress/#comment-1204! Thanks for the encouragement. Just curious: what kind of stuff are you and Adam talking up about The Fold?

By: Kyleen

Kyleen — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:01:44 +0000

YAY!!! I’m very very excited about the updates on our webpage, Ken. This is fantastic. I know Adam Browne and I have often discussed all the opportunities out there with the internet that would be great resources for The Fold (that’s what Sarah’s calling the praise band these days). Technology is so exciting!

By: Mike Bond

Mike Bond — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:39:06 +0000

Hula is a neat project, but it has several things that I view as a short coming.

1) It uses its own mail smtp server instead of utilizing one that is already on the box.

2) It uses mbox instead of maildir …. i’m kinda of torn on this one. mbox is faster for mailboxes with large number of files, and i like its behavior of not allowing folders and mail in the same mailbox. but maildir works much better with thunderbird. … i’m not sure why, since it is self contained with its own servers, why they didn’t use mysql (or some other database) to store everything. Takes away the file system limitations away …

I have 120,000 emails in one of my folders. With maildir that would be too big to use commandling tools to manipulate the data. With mbox it takes forever to open the folder (its like 120gb file that needs opened then parsed) … a relational database just seems like a more sane solution for mail servers.

Oh well, a little off topic. sorry.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:51:04 +0000

“Scott”:http://kennsarah.net/2005/11/03/launched-the-village-church-on-wordpress/#comment-1196, thanks. Yeah, the “Listen Now” links are broken as a result of the transition. I’ve come up with a solution to fix this which I’ll implement this week (hopefully tomorrow).

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:46:32 +0000

“Mike”:http://kennsarah.net/2005/11/03/launched-the-village-church-on-wordpress/#comment-1195, thanks! I had seen phpiCalendar, but I should take a closer look. I don’t think we’ll be able to set up iCal for our church admin (she’s on a PC), but if the web user interface is easy enough, this could be a good solution.

Truth be told, I wish “Hula”:http://www.hula-project.org/ would get off the ground already. It looks cool, but it’s hard to tell if this is something we’ll be able to use. Those “37signals guys”:http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/should_calendars_online_look_like_calendars_offline.php are asking good questions about calendaring. If I were to redesign the template, I’m not sure if I would use the current design or try to do a “grid” thing.

By: Alissa

Alissa — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:53:49 +0000

::applause::

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:09:48 +0000

As usual, way to go! I’d hire you in a second. Oh wait a minute, I did…

FYI, when I click on the “listen now” link on the sermons page, I get an “Error 404 – Not Found” message on a strange page. Are you aware of this?

By: Mike Bond

Mike Bond — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:24:11 +0000

http://phpicalendar.net/

Upload your ical stuff with rsync … I’ve never tried customizing the default theme, but it works very well.