Archive for May, 2011

King David – Streaker, rapist, hero

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1 year ago
by Jonathan Puddle in

King David enjoys status higher than a lot of Christendom and Judaism’s other heroes and figureheads. Even Jesus is called the Son of David. I’ve been thinking recently how much this exposes flaws in modern Western Christianity. Somehow, King David managed to be the only person in the Scriptures that God said was a man after his own heart. Countless books have been written about David, or following the model of David, or otherwise encouraging a Davidian element in our lives. Obviously he is venerated and held in hugely high regard. And yet, we know that in a moment of passionate love for his God, he ran naked and nude down the main street of town. We also know that in a moment of passionate lust, he raped a man’s wife and then murdered her husband. Rock on! (more…)

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Adding more links to the Google Apps global navigation bar

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1 year ago
by Jonathan Puddle in ,

At Catch the Fire we use Google Apps for all our email and collaboration. We recently wanted to include some more links on the Apps global navigation bar, but were at a loss as to how to do so.

 

One of my team members managed to find a confusing sounding, but actually excellent solution, to this problem. Jesse Middleton posted this last year, and while some minor things have changed, it still works very well. Thanks Jesse! The basic steps are as follows:

  1. Register yourself with the Google Apps marketplace as a vendor.
  2. Create an application (with the sole purpose being to put a link on the menu bar).
  3. Add the application to your domain.

Because you’re not actually publishing your app to the Google Apps Marketplace, it doesn’t cost anything to do this, and won’t get in anyone’s way. You can create as many apps as you might want, for links to various things. Some enterprising individual should take this method and expand on it to allow people to rename and customise these menu items at will.

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