Geeks and God Episode 133 - August 2010

Pre-Intro

Welcome to the August 2010 edition of The Geeks and God Podcast. In this month’s episode

• ChurchTechGuy reports on the Gurus of Tech Conference,
• a couple of pieces of quick Drupal news,
• and in the Drupal Spotlight, part two of Going Live with your Drupal Website.

Intro

Welcome, everyone, to the Geeks and God Podcast, hopefully we can talk about something that will help you out in your church or ministry.

Gurus Conference

Report by Peter Awad.

• Gurus of Tech
• Church Tech Talk Podcast
• The DV Rebel's Guide

Drupal News

Before we jump into the Drupal spotlight, some news.

• ACS Integration - Matt Farina just posted the first alpha for the #drupal module to integrate with ACS Technologies. http://drupal.org/project/acs.
• Provide integration with ACS Technologies Church Management System for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.
• The core work will basically get Drupal talking to the ACS database, doing core API integrations.
• The initial focus will be on user integration. User accounts from ACS will be integrated into the Drupal user database. This includes basic profile information as well as login and site access.
• The second Alpha release should be out before this podcast airs.
• Matt also working on Fellowship One integration: http://drupal.org/project/f1
• Bible Field - http://drupal.org/project/bible_field allows people to reference any body of work (not just Bibles) by book, chapter and verse. (Chapters 2-10 or verses 1-8, etc.) The module is sponsored by a church and that got me thinking in terms of an interview with ministry leaders who contribute back to open source. My ignorant stereo type is ministries tend to consume (vs. develop) OS. It would be great to find out motivation, hurdles, etc. behind some folks who've done it. - Hans
• Church Web Sites Article: http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4947/53/ (optional content drop by shrop. Blame me :) )
• would the Bible Field for Star Wars books be called the Force Field?

Drupal Spotlight: Going Live - Part 2 of 2

Note: Tips 1-13 presented in Part 1. Check out (and contribute to) http://www.drupal-check.org/ for more tips!

14. If you've enabled the core Contact module visit admin/build/contact
15. Set site e-mail admin/settings/site-information
16. Review site messages admin/user/settings
17. Cron: http://drupal.org/cron or Poor Man's Cron. PMC has been included in D7 core admin/settings/site-information as "automatic cron."
18. Double-check roles and permissions
19. Protect critical users. Never add content as user #1; block this account
20. Performance /admin/settings/performance
21. Uncheck "Rebuild theme registry on every page" /admin/build/themes/settings/[theme name]
22. Write errors to the log only /admin/settings/error-reporting
23. Custom 403 and 404 pages admin/settings/error-reporting
24. Redirect user to www
25. Disallow odd user names like root, admin, administrator, webmaster at admin/user/rules/add
26. Move .htaccess content to Apache config
27. Remove .txt files to mask Drupal version you are using.
28. Stop logins from being remembered. In settings.php rewrite ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 0); with 0 being the number of seconds user stays logged in.

Wrap Up

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• calling our voice mail line at 313-444-2634
• sending us an email (mp3 file) geeksandgod@gmail.com
• or visit our website at www.geeksandgod.com/episode132

As always, we’d like to thank to our sponsor, MustardSeedMedia.com and also thanks to Bob Christenson and Matt Farina for their continued support of this podcast.

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