Category Archives: Development

Version 1.06 Being Released to Beta Testers This Week

The headline sums up the gist of this entire post, in that we are going to be seeding builds of version 1.06 of Lutheran Service Builder to our group of beta testers sometime this afternoon or tomorrow, as it’s reached a point where we’re fairly close to release. It needs a little more testing and [...]

Corporate Transparency and Why It’s Awesome

This article should be considered required reading for anyone who currently uses the Internet in any way, shape, or form, and is also interested in how corporations are trying to adapt to the use of the Internet and the change in how freely information now flows from the inside to the outside. I’m going to [...]

Final Testing and How It Really Isn’t

First of all, I would like to send out a notice that I am now actively looking for congregations who are using Builder to assist me in beta testing some updates. We’ve had enough trouble right now getting these updates off the ground – both data and application – and I would sincerely appreciate some [...]

Quick Update on 1.03 and Later

Just a quick note to let those of you who have been following the track of Lutheran Service Builder what’s going on, and why things may not have been as expected over the past week or so.
Things have become inordinately busy; things like:

Our very first training workshops are coming up next week in Ft. Wayne. [...]

Bugs, Testing, and Delays of Patches

Lutheran Service Builder and delayed releases have, somewhat unfortunately, become a bit joined at the hip. I know that our users notice this, and I’ve also noticed it through both being the person responsible for scheduling releases and delays to those releases, and the person who hears it from users when those delays cause frustration [...]

The Growing Legend of Lutheran Service Builder

On any given day, I am (as the front-line support person for Lutheran Service Builder) subject to a barrage of questions, comments, and in some cases, complaints. They are wide-ranging in their scope and often don’t coincide with each other. I’d even go so far as to say that some of the comments have been [...]

1.03 and Searching

I’m very happy with the implementation we have ended up with for our first big feature addition to Builder.
Originally, I had thought we wouldn’t be able to get to feature enhancements until at least mid-February, simply based on the personnel available to us at this time.
When you work with software like this, I’ve discovered that [...]

Early Thoughts on Builder Post-Launch

Since I didn’t get around to this yesterday, but I see that my previous article had more than a couple of reads, I am guessing that there is at least a small audience out there who could be interested in what this product manager has to say regarding Lutheran Service Builder and its development. So, [...]