I am proud to annouce that our latest project, the public website for the Mennonite Mutual Aid Association, has gone live. This is phase one of an ambitious plan to radically change the way the organization conducts its online business. The underlying technologies were the Ektron content management system, asp.net 2.0, and SQL Server 2005. My biggest challenge in this project was getting up to speed with XSLT, as I hadn't touched it in years. Mission accomplished!

One interesting part of this project was that we co-developed some of the pages with their tech team. It was my first co-development experience, and their first time working with Ektron and the .net framework. I flew out to Indiana for a week to show them how to use the tools and how our processes worked. We then did the rest of the development remotely via VPN, brought it together with Subversion and CruiseControl.net, and pulled it off on time and on budget. Gotta love it when things come together!

I found the client very interesting.  MMA helps its members manage financial resources in ways that honor God through their professional expertise in insurance and financial services. Rooted in the Anabaptist faith tradition, they offer practical stewardship tools and education to individuals, congregations, and organizations.