As a member of the iOS developer program, I have had early access to iOS 5 beta for some time now. I first installed it with Beta 3 in mid-july on my personal iPhone. Being that I am a part-time developer and don’t have thousands of dollars to buy multiple iPod touches, iPads and iPhones…

I realized while talking to another church that my previous blog post about off-site check-in didn’t include as much detail as I thought it did about the actual I.T. side of the process, so I thought I would elaborate more on that seeing as we are in the middle of setting up another campus. Storage…

A thoroughly enjoying show powered by a great story and backed by good clean fun.

Number of seasons: 1
Episodes per season: 24
Content: Clean

At times heart-breaking, but a wonderful show that makes me wish for a perfect ending in real life.

Number of seasons: 2
Episodes per season: 24
Content: Clean

I really enjoyed this show and have already watched it for a second time.

Number of seasons: 2
Episodes per season: 24
Content: Clean

So being that it was a holiday and we had the chance to shut down servers to run updates and look into problems, we did just that. Nearly all our updates ran without a hitch so that was nice. We had one problem to look into though. We have a Snow Leopard server running as…

The Setup So I have a 3 1/2 year old Macbook Pro (pre-Unibody). It isn’t exactly slow, it does what I need. But I spend a lot of time in Windows doing development for my job (both at church as well as side jobs) so I finally decided to get a new one as soon…

Update: Read the 10.7.2 update here (sorry, doesn’t really fix the problem). Update 2: Read the latest from Apple here. Update 3: Apple has resolved the issue with the 10.7.3 update. Mac OS X Lion includes a new feature called auto-save, coupled tightly with versions. This feature is designed to automatically save versions of your…

So we just started rolling out Lion to a few machines for testing and came across something that is extremely annoying, as well as related to a previous post I did detailing how to setup Directory Services. Previous to Lion, one of the reported TrustInformation levels was Encryption which identified if the connection was over…

UPDATE: Be sure to read this post regarding the Lion updates. Where I work we use all Macs along with Open Directory, which is basically Apple’s version of Active Directory. Open Directory handles storing the user accounts and authentication of users of course, but it also handles computer records, centrally managed preferences, etc. As this is…