http://lstones.com/lstonesblog Updates to the software and services provided by Living Stones Ministry Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:35:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My hosting company was able to reclaim the seek-first.com domain, so everything should be working fine. Again, I apologize for any problems this caused. Let me know if you're still seeing any issues. http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=24 Somehow I let the seek-first.com domain name expire. Someone took the opportunity to grab it and point the domain to an advertising page. That means that if you're using our software, which points to api.seek-first.com, it's not going to work. I'm obviously trying to get the domain back. In the ... http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=23 The Barna Group has just published new research on technology adoption across different generations. Here's one of their summary observations: "Emerging" technologies were classified by Barna research as those used by at least 20% but not more than half of computer users. These are technologies that have gone beyond fringe ... http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=22 The original source texts I use for Bible translations include some non-standard characters that many web servers struggle with - things like curly quotes and long dashes. I'm now catching all of those that I've been able to identify and replacing them with standard characters. Please let me ... http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=21 Thanks to Juan Carlos for pointing me to the Spanish translation La Biblia Reina Valera at HTML Bible and thanks to John Hurt for making the HTML version freely available. I've uploaded this version into the Seek First database and it is now available via web services (using version=LBRV) ... http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=20 A new version of the Sermons package is now available. Some of the changes will be relatively transparent to users (e.g. switching from the Yahoo UI library to jQuery) although they do make the user interface slightly more usable. This version has eliminated the need for setting up ... http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=19 The User Management package is now available for download. The package provides a security framework that is foundational to all other Living Stones dynamic content building blocks. It is critical that only authorized administrators be able to update the content on your site, but who is allowed to do what ... http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=18 In addition to the building block previously available supporting six public domain translations of the Bible, our re-designed website also features a new building block making it easy for churches to add the English Standard Version of the Bible to their website using the ESV web service provided by the ... http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=17 This weekend we are launching the website redesign. In the first phase, we are focused on presentation - dramatically improving how the site looks. In the second phase, we will be focused on developer interaction - how church website developers interact with Living Stones. As part of that effort, this updates ... http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=16 The Christian Post is reporting on a study by Ellison Research that reports that churches aren't taking full advantage of the power of the Internet. Here are some interesting stats: Relatively few Protestant churches use e-mail prayer chains, have an e-mail church newsletter, or have an online member directory (only four percent) The ... http://lstones.com/lstonesblog/?p=15