Joel Dehlin

Creator of “The Man” Dies in Seattle

Joel Dehlin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:26:37 +0000

A good friend, Gene Porter, died in Seattle this week. If you’ve been to Dixie’s Bar-b-que in Bellevue, WA (underneath 520), then you’ve met Gene. He met nearly every customer in his garage-turned-restaurant and encouraged us to “meet the man!” The man, of course, was his homemade bar-b-que sauce which was so hot that it rendered your taste-buds nearly incapacitated. I can deal with pretty hot food, and just a toothpick taste was painful.

Just a few months ago, I talked to him in his wheel chair, sitting in the back of the restaurant. Such contrast from the vibrant, loud, in-you-face restaurateur we all willingly paid to torture us.

Goodbye Gene. We’ll miss you.

“Yeah baby!”

Tech Talk in Palo Alto

Joel Dehlin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:46:51 +0000

We will be having a “tech talk” in Palo Ato this Thursday night (March 4) at 7pm. These tech talks are intended to gather software developers and designers who are interested in contributing to our community development efforts.

Details here.

Hope to see you!

Can Entrepreneurs Be Made?

Joel Dehlin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:16:50 +0000

TechCrunch says yes!

Aardvark service purchased by Google

Joel Dehlin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:18:06 +0000

The Aardvark answering service has been purchased by Google. If you haven’t used this service, give it a try. It allows you to ask questions which are routed through your network to people who have tagged themselves as having some level of experience on the topic you’ve asked about.

New Beta LDS.ORG

Joel Dehlin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:39:22 +0000

The beta for LDS.ORG is now live. We will continue to ship new features as we work out the kinks in preparation for a launch later this year. In the meantime, we welcome you to try it out and offer feedback.

Thanks!

How to be a Tough CIO

Joel Dehlin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:05:42 +0000

Ain’t it the truth.

Running IT as a Business

Joel Dehlin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:25:27 +0000

Here’s a great Infoworld article on running IT as a business. You’ve heard the arguments “for.” Here’s a thoughtful one “against.”

Opinions?

CrisisCamp Haiti

Joel Dehlin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:42:41 +0000

CrisisCamp is looking for help from technologists in humanitarian efforts in Haiti.

Follow their Twitter feed here.

Wiki here.

Facebook page here.

[Joel: Also, this is a link to a Google wave which links to the Haiti Help waves.]

Help With String Translation

Joel Dehlin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:31:30 +0000

If you’re fluent in a language besides English, we would love your help. We’re working on a prototype for a new web site and need help translating some of the strings.

If you’re interested, go to this wiki and translate to your heart’s content.

We have listed Spanish, Portugese, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Japanese, but if you know other languages, then feel free to add them to the wiki.

Thanks for your help!

UPDATE: You’ll need an LDS Account to log in to the WIKI. Get one here.

Blackberry Developers?

Joel Dehlin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:07:37 +0000

Thank you for the repsonses to my last post where I asked for PHP developers to help us this next month. We’re off and running!

We have another project where we’re working on some apps for the Blackberry. If you have experience in developing Blackberry apps and some time this next month, please contact edwardsj at ldschurch.org.

We’d love your help! Great stuff happening the next couple of months! Stay tuned!