I highly recommend Clover. And not just because they’ll pay me $100 if you sign up. Our church has been using their CMS system for the past month and we love it!
“Scripture tells us the story of how a Garden is transformed into a Garden City, but only after a dragon had turned that Garden into a howling wilderness, a haunt of owls and jackals, which lasted until an appointed warrior came to slay the dragon, giving up his life in the process, but with his blood effecting the transformation of the wilderness into the Garden City.”—Doug Wilson as quoted in Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology: What’s the Message of the Bible in One Sentence?
“And I have perhaps the world’s most magnificent tower of abstractions, starting with transistors and moving up through circuits, chips, processors, all kinds of hardware I know nothing about, operating systems, and a nice tall stack of increasingly abstract programming languages undergirding the famously friendly ones I use, Python and Ruby.”—Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think - James Somers - Technology - The Atlantic
This article shook me up a little bit. My right brain wants to make everything fit into the perfect design pattern and to engineer the hell out of every piece of code. But my left brain loves hacking to make something the smallest and fastest that it can possibly be. In the art world, clean and well-organized are hardly regarded as virtues.