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Carrubbers Online
Carrubbers Online is one of the oldest established church websites in
Scotland, and one of the largest of this type in Europe. With many hundreds of
static and interactive pages, it represents a considerable investment of time
and energy in the team of volunteers that keep it running.
The team has a blog that records what we've been upto
recently, and plan to work on in the future should you be interested.
For a bit of advice on starting the process of setting up your own church
website, read the Cyber
Fishing article, a rule-of-thumb guide to getting started, written by
Colin Peckham, who founded and lead the ministry up until 2002.
The Carrubbers Webteam:
Nigel Swinson
Ministry Leader
Principle Programmer (C/C++, PHP, Perl, Javascript) / Site Admin
Nigel works as the Chief Software Architect for
Rockliffe Systems Inc:
a Silicon Valley based software engineering company (long story :o). He
gradated from Edinburgh University in Electronics and Computer
Science.
Jeremy Jones
Programmer (PHP, JavaScript) / Site Admin / Updater (HTML) / Server Admin
Jeremy is a medical doctor who is currently working at Wishaw General Hospital
after graduating from Edinburgh University. Married to Karen, he attempts to find
a happy medium between marriage, doctoring and webdesign.
Andrew Purves
Updater (HTML, PHP) / Site Admin
Andrew works as a Funeral Director for
William Purves Funeral Directors.
He is also married (to Isla), and tries to find a balance between married life,
and sitting in front of a computer! One of Andrew's area's of responsibility is making sure
the sermons are online each week.
Andrew Aylett
Programmer / Security / Principle Server Admin
Andrew is a graduate of Edinburgh University
where he studied Computer Science. Andrew's responsibilities lie within
the server side of the ministry where he has responsibility for server maintenance
and the technologies that hold the website together. He is happily married
to Lizzie with two children.
Graeme Nunn
Programmer / Server Admin
Graeme mainly looks after
the
IBS site, but still finds time to help with some of the projects that appear on
on carrubbers.org.
Cameron Rose
Updater
Formerly the Carrubbers director who provides oversight for the
ministry, Cameron still finds time to take care of the front page "latest" section that was much
neglected before he took to the task. He also maintains some of the other
quickly expiring content on the site.
In an attempt to bring you the best site possible, we use some of the
latest internet technologies. For those who might be interested, these
include PHP, XML, XPath, XSL Dbase and Postgres.
At the moment, we are striving to produce content which is current and
applicable to those who visit carrubbers.org. We also have some exciting
projects hidden up our sleeves - you'll find out what they are soon(ish)!
The History:
Carrubbers Online was started around 1994, by Colin Peckham, who took
the original vision to the leadership and with their blessing, built and
maintained the site. In September 2002, Nigel Swinson took up the mantle of
webmaster and with the team that has been built up over the years continues to
bring the message of hope and light to people who surf on down to
carrubbers.org.
