It’s one of my favorite times of the year – time for the Grinch!  Today is our annual R&D Christmas luncheon, and I always pull out my Grinch tie.  I’m not really the Grinch, only as far as December still being a time for us to continue to work on product development in addition to [...]

Today I was awakened by my iPhone playing music from a radio station 200 miles away. So far today, I’ve used my iPhone to interact with twitter, send and receive texts, take phone calls, check stock prices, check the location of meetings, read news, and probably some other things I can’t remember. I also built [...]

Software development is sometimes stressful and change can also create high levels of stress. At ACS Technologies we do plenty of development and we are always seeking excellence often through change. So periodically we like to hold events to relieve stress, celebrate our teammates, and plain old have fun. We recently held a Crazy Shirt [...]

We are on the verge of releasing ACS 11.0 along with the ACS Enterprise update. These new products have been under construction since 2010 and offer some exciting new features. ACS 11.0 includes significant enhancements to the Contributions module. The ACS Enterprise update includes a feature set that is targeted to Enterprise level customers. The [...]

R&D at ACS Technologies continues to grow. I’m happy to announce that Keith Thompson is taking on a new role in the department. Effective May 6,  Keith was promoted to Programming Manager and took on the responsible for leading programmers on several development teams. Keith graduated from Clemson University in 1993 with a degree in [...]

Thanks everyone for the flood of comments regarding the release of our update to the Church Life Mobile apps last month.  In case you didn’t know, we released updates to the iPhone app and also released the applications on the Android platform. You can get the apps by going to the iPhone store or the [...]

Way back in the last century, as part of the ARPANET project, a group of graduate students were tasked with building communications protocols that would allow disparate computer systems to talk to each other. They did not think themselves worthy of the job and felt at some point a more qualified team would take charge.  A member of the [...]

I recently related some of the history of ACS Technologies to one of our technical partners, and he wanted to dig into how we sruvived for 30 plus years as a software company. It’s an interesting question and there are several components to the answer. I’ll stick with the development angle on things. During the [...]

In preparation for the R&D Christmas Party, we thought it would be a fun to get each development team to decorate the wall with their 2010 accomplishments.  Folks got into the spirit and this was the result: As you can see 2010 was a busy year for our teams.  In fact, there were twenty major upgrades to products in [...]

We have another new face working in R&D this week.  It’s Michael Lindley! Michael has worked in software development for the past fifteen years as a Programmer and Senior Software Developer.  In his last job prior to joining ACS Technologies, he was Project Manager and Lead Developer of a nationally deployed and marketed software package called [...]