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• Feb 15, 2010

  mycatholic.com

  Has anyone ran across http://www.mycatholic.com/ ?  It looks interesting and the layout is very clean.  The Catholic take on iGoogle I think. 

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• Feb 10, 2010

  Screenshot of embedded Google Wave

  

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• Feb 10, 2010

  Embed Google Wave

  Some Info

  Wave API: http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/embed.js

  Wave URL: https://wave.google.com/wave/

  Wave ID: googlewave.com!w+Wt7Fj-_RC

  Show the wave

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• Feb 9, 2010

  Prayer Clock

  I have written a small open source application as a prayer reminder, with Angelus and 3 o'clock prayer to Divine Mercy.

  http://allencch.blogspot.com/2010/02/prayer-clock.html

  [UPDATE: Blog moved to http://allencch.wordpress.com/projects/, project moved to http://sourceforge.net/projects/prayerclock/]

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• Feb 3, 2010

  Drupal Views Filters: Making Exposed Searches User-Friendly

  One of the main new features of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis' website (to launch on February 22!) is the much-improved parish and school searching capabilities. There are many facets to these sections of the site; everything is built using the combination of nodes built with CCK, Views, and Mapstraction (for Google Map interfaces).

  

  One of the main annoyances with most implementations of parish and school searching that I've found (and I've tested almost every U.S. Archdiocese's website for this functionality) is the fact that searches are extremely rigid...

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• Feb 2, 2010

  Which Drupal module are you using for your posting interface?

  I need a good interface module for when you are creating posts.  I like the one that www.opensourcecatholic.com is currently using.  What is it called?  I know you've experimented with others in the past.  What would you reccomend?  Thanks : )

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• Jan 25, 2010

  Hits vs. Visits - Optimize Your Website!

  Recently, I've been tracking visits on two of the larger Archdiocesan websites on our Archdiocesan web server, and I found an interesting anomaly (one that I had thought was odd earlier, but didn't really have hard numbers to decipher it until more recently). Check out the hits (a 'hit' is a file downloaded from the web server to a computer) for the entire www.archstl.org domain:

  Hits for Archstl.org and StLouisReview.com:
  

  173,000 hits on archstl.org vs. 44,000 hits on the St. Louis Review website.

  Sounds reasonable, right? After all, the Archdiocesan...

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