One of the things I'm blessed with is the opportunity to use the skills the Lord has allowed me to acquire, for Him in the media ministry at my local church.  I help manage the web site as well as publish our sermons to make them available to stream or download so that fellow believers can get fed from the Word of God wherever they have an internet connection.

Something I've wanted to do for a while now is automate many of the manual steps we perform during our sermon publishing process.  Here is a list of some of the steps we go through...

• Record sermon to CD and digitally to a WAV file
• Create and print CD labels with the sermon's date and title using a Word template
• Encode the wav file to mp3
• Upload mp3 to FTP server
• Add sermon to our web site via an administrative site I built a while back
• Burn wav and mp3 files to a cd as data files for backup purposes

So right now each of these steps are pretty much a manual one, usually using a different application for each one.  I can see a lot of areas for automation and it just so happens I develop software for a living.  :)

I plan to use the same iterative and TDD approach I use in my "day code" to ensure the quality of the codebase stays high.  So I thought I would share my experiences during the development of this application on my blog.

Stay tuned for the first installment...