http://anchorite.org/blog Christianity, Orthodoxy and Technology Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:41:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let us consider those who serve under our generals and the order, obedience, and submissiveness with witch they perform the things commanded them.  All are not prefects or commanders of a thousand, or of a hundred, or of fifty, or the like, but each one in his own rank performs ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2009/06/05/true-harmony/ We (StMarkDC) had a wonderful retreat earlier this month where we saw God answer prayers and work so many miracles.  Bishop David, Fr. Bishoy and Fr. Anthony delivered five amazing talks on trusting God in full.  Over 450 young adults attended the retreat from all over the world and ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2009/04/22/tgif-%e2%80%93-trust-god-in-full/ At DrupalCon in DC this week, several people expressed interested in integrating Drupal and FellowshipOne. Fellowship Tech is demoing a new RESTful API, iPhone application, Facebook integration, ExpressionEngine, and ASP .NET MVC at the DC09 Developer Mini-Conference so the pieces may finally be coming together for a workable solution.  ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2009/03/06/drupal-integration-with-fellowshipone/ Last May we started thinking about the next version of OrthodoxSermons.org, we took comments from our users, studied the market, did some of our own brainstorming and put together a wish list.  We spent six months getting quotes from vendors and evaluating “out of the box” solutions.  We narrowed all ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2009/02/22/orthodoxsermonsorg-20-is-in-the-works/ Last week a post over at Sneakers and Books caught my attention, Nader was highlighting a BBC “Extreme Pilgrim” program featuring Fr. Lazarus Saint Anthony.  Back in the summer of 2000, I got to spend several weeks with Fr. Lazarus on a mission trip to Kenya and Tanzania.  At that ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2009/02/15/fr-lazarus-saint-anthony/ Yesterday, I made a few mistakes and learned a few lessons.  I was at a client site helping them move to VMware.  We decided to switch one of their virtual machines from one VMware ESXi host to another.  They have shared iSCSI storage (EqualLogic SAN), so it should have been ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2009/02/04/restoring-removed-storage-on-vmware-esxesxi/ Twitter is a micro blogging platform that has taken off on the web, the short messages coupled with an easy to use system makes it a natural for techies and non-techies alike.  Here a few resources to get you started.  Make sure to follow me! Twitter explained: Anthony Coppedge’s E-Book, “The Reason ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2009/01/28/twitter-resources/ On Wednesday, Google announced they will be no longer allowing uploads to their Google Video service.  Google invites you to use YouTube or Picasa, but the issue for churches is that sermons often exceed the 10 minute cap on video length.  There are several competitors on the market that ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2009/01/16/google-video-alternatives/ Wishing all my readers, the CITRT community, family and friends a Merry Christmas.  Our church is “old calendar” so we don’t celebrate the Nativity of Christ until January 7th (13 more days of festivities).  I leave you with a few beautiful nuggets. St. John Chrysostom’s Christmas Homily ORTHODIXIE - Word & Virgin, ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2008/12/24/merry-christmas/ My wife and I love sitting in front of the fire in our living room, we would love to have a fireplace in our less formal family room but alas it isn’t practical.  In my typical geekness I wondered if there were any virtual fireplace options available for playback on ... http://anchorite.org/blog/2008/12/08/virtual-hd-fireplace/