Dale Lature: My Web Development

Starting to understand Flash MX 2004 Actionscripting

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:14:18 GMT

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The Flash books I mention below are 7, as follows:

2 O'Reilly books: Actionscript for Flash MX Second edition, and ActionsScript Cookbook.
Peachpit Press: Macromedia Flash MX Advanced
Flash MX Savvy (Sybex)
Flash MX Actionscript Bible (Wiley)
MaranGraphics/Hungry Minds "Visual" series: Flash Actionscript (just noticed it uses Flash 5 Actionscripting)
I also bought another O'reilly book, Amazon Hacks

I was in a hurry to find some immediate help on some MovieClip code I need to load a single frame from a movie into my "Placeholder Clip" that I put in my movie to hold the other swf files I am loading for each of the main sections of my site application. What I end up doing quite often is "borrowing" books from Amazon and/or Barnes and Noble, and if they turn out to be a "must have", I order them via Amazon and then return the copy (usually full price purchase) to the store. I figure that I support those stores well via coffee purchases (a usual step in the bookstore visit) and the books I end up keeping (like the WIRED: A Romance) I bought, or DreamweaverMX/FireworksMX Savvy, or Fireworks MX: From Zero to Hero, etc.

I also expect that soon I'll be set up at OSG to get some stuff via their Bookstore, and perhaps eventually get a Dev resource Budget to get useful reference and/or training books. I'm looking eagerly forward to getting my hands on the new Macromedia Training From The Source Books on Flash MX 2004 Pro and Flash MX ---one of the authors of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript : Training from the Source, Derek Franklin, has a blog where he is planning to do some "preview" of some of that content in that book. (Right now he's working on the Macromedia/Microsoft browser change workaround made neccessary by the insane negotiations about the permissions of IE to "auto-load" embedded content (read bout that from Derek here

Opacity Fade?

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:34:53 GMT

Something else I'm looking for: I want to create some of those "faded" backgrounds from images to use as backgrounds. Old Saint George is a beautiful place, and we have lots of good photos already scanned, and so we plan to use quite a bit of these for backgrounds, buttons, and lots of other enhancing graphics from these images. First up, though, is the "opacity fade" effect I 'm looking for. I've used Fireworks for basically every graphic effect I'v ever done, so if there any Fioreworks graphics people out there reading this, point me in the right direction.

gotoAndStop on final frame

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:21:14 GMT

Flash and LoadMovie or gotoAndStop: I am trying to find out how to load a Movie into an empty clip I have already set up (and working....I can load separate swf files that represent the 7 main navigation buttons, but I want to be able to "reload" or "redisplay" the default content in that Movie Clip container when I have either rolled off the buttons that display that content when I have rolled over them, so that the animation does not play each time it "reloads". I guess what I'm after is what I think is a way to gotoAndStop on the final frame of the defaultContent movie, so that when I roll off of any of the rollover buttons (the rollover shows the main page for each of the 7 navigation buttons), the default content that shows when the Home Page first loads does not "RE-Load" and redo all the 1 second movement that happens when it first plays, but simply displays the final frame (40) of that clip (defaulHome.swf). I want to make the rest of the page (all of the area arond the buttons and the content area--- IOW, the banner at the top, and the area below the buttons , a rollover to re-display that final frame, so that the default content doesn't keep "re-animating".

Web Dev tools of late

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:11:23 GMT

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The OSG Board meeting got moved back on the calendar a couple of weeks, so I feel a bit of breathing room on the tight development schedule, especially since I have been working through some Flash-learning exercises over on Lynda.com. I don't plan on "sitting back" with this extra room, though, but to be thankful for the opportunity to look diligently for the solutions I seek.

I'll take the opportunity to get my arms around some specific techniques that I'm after by exploring some further "how-tos" on Lynda.com online training, and perhaps do a quick Bookstore run later today or tomorrow to find something on Actionscripting (that might lead me to the code I need to achieve the gotoAndStop effect I mention in my next post)

I learned yesterday that our non-profit "Volume license" for Studio MX 2004 is in, and so I 'll be able to update my Trial to full versions when I get up there this weekend/next week. Flash is an incredibly versatile set of tools. I'm just beginning to see the power of Actionscripting. In combination with Dreamweaver and Fireworks, this trio (I"ve been using FW and DW for about2 and a hlf years now, and learned ASP via the Dreamweaver interface) is a heavyweight in Web development. As MX incorporated the .Net features/support , this also gave me a nudge in the direction of learning what's up in the DotNet world. And, as I wrote about not too long ago, ColdFusion was introduced to me as a powerful Web app platform in my Contract job that I had for a little while.

I have a few questions I'm gonna explore about Flash tohelp me with where I am developing right now.

Resyncing the IWAM and IUSR passwords

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:20:58 GMT

Borrowed from a Google User Group when I did e search in groups.google.com using:

not "asp pages"

A common problem when ASP pages do not display (but html
pages do) is that the password of the IIS
IWAM_computername user is not syncing properly.
Authentication/permissions to ASP pages is a complex area,
but this particular problem is easy to remedy and, I
think, well worth trying. To check this, do the following.

   1.) Temporarily assign the IIS anonymous accounts
(IUSR_computername and IWAM_computername) to the machine's
Administrator group. For Win 2K, do this as follows:
          a.) Go to Settings, Control Panel, select
Administrative Tools.
          b.) Double-click 'Computer Management',
expand 'Local Users and Groups', double-click 'Users'.
          c.) Select (double-click) IUSR_computer name
account, select 'Member of' tab, click 'Add' button,
highlight 'Administrator' (group), click 'Apply'.
          d.) Repeat above procedure for IWAM_computer
name account.

2.) Navigate to the following file -
C:InetpubAdminScriptssynciwam.vbs
Execute this file by double-clicking it. The hourglass
will display momentarily and then disappear. No other
indication of the program running will appear.

3.) Reboot the workstation. If this was indeed the
problem, ASP pages should now render fine.

4.) Don't forget to remove the IIS anonymous
accounts from the Administrator group.

IIS can't serve up my asp pages

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:12:32 GMT

I have XP Pro, and IIS 5.1 I also have .Net Framework 1.1 running, with several apps, including DotnetNuke and DotText (weblog app) all working, as well as my Cold Fusion apps (Cold Fusion MX running as an ISAPI service), and these all work. Just the asp pages are broken. I see suprisingly little on this when doing a Google Search. Surprising because I have done nothing I know of out of the ordinary in my Web development. Anybody heard or read or know anything I might check?

Fireworks MX

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:05:18 GMT

Paste Inside with Fireworks MX. WebmasterBase Jul 29 2003 11:55PM ET [Moreover - Webmaster tips]

First Contract Week Went well

Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:07:10 GMT

First week of Contarct work over. My first real "Saturday feeling" (ie. That feeling of waking up on a day when one can rest from the weekday routine). The week went well, as everyday routines and various "fires to be put out" allowed me to observe the typical goings on of the business, and the Contractor who I am replacing, who is an excellent coder and Cold Fusion developer, is going to be availabe for another week (originally slated to be available only for 3 days.....I felt much better when I learned he would be there for 7 more days --- through next Friday). I feel I can greatly benefit from those 7 extra days (and indeed I did in days 1 and 2 of those 7, Yesterday and Thursday).

I set up my test Cold Fusion server yesterday, and was finding a few Dreamweaver MX helps almost immediately (the Snippets panel and its insert before/insert after which allows you to wrap selected code between the opening and closing tages. This will allow me to createa collection of code blocks most often used in our applications. I alo look forward to seeing what I can do with various Stored Procedures usage, with the way data binding and the Database panel allows me to drag a field into Design View and have ColdFusion query tags placed around it to call from the proper database and field without having to remember it.

I completed 2 or 3 items, about half the items on a to-do list we were given (the contractor I am learning from and eventuall replacing took the other half) yesterday afternoon, which pleased me. I feel I am going to be just fine. Still a lot of learning the data here, and the various processes and data updates through which the Web applications must take a particular action, but I am feeling much more "capable" now.

MICROSOFT® SQL SERVER: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services - - ADVISOR.com - -

Sun, 20 Jul 2003 02:14:36 GMT

For the upcoming Contractor job using Cold Fusion and SQLServer.....sounds like SQLServer reporting tools would be high on the list

OSG possibilities

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:01:25 GMT

At OSG, the "cybergoals" are, among others,

Extending and adding to existing OSG web....portal additions......bookstore data integration

Webs for Media Studies and Churches, TV/Movie Reviews, resources, links, discussions, production of media study pieces.

Lab or "Cyberplace" developments

SmartMobs technologies ramp-up (ie. scheduling, contact infos, blogging remotely, hall rental, group booking, etc.)

Webs for Studies of/in Third Places

Webs for Discussion Forums (linked to Booktables, linked to Bookstore data)

Webs with "Portal-ability" via DotNetNuke and .Net

Webs to aggregate and highlight Weblogs and their place in the OSG schema

Webs for Books/Book talks/Book Authors with Weblogs, encouraging authjors to do Weblog extensions of their books (eg. SmartMobs.com)

Webs for Education (e-learning, e-seminary, online education) (also using some of the above hybrids that create online community)

Webs for OSG Smart Mobs (or is that "Great Good Smart Mobs" ala Smart Mobs and Great Good Places)

Webs for Online Community Studies; Social Psychology of Online Community; CMC; Social Software

Webs for Churches; extending Church groups into online groups; extending the reach; Web hospitality and open discussion, encouraging seekers, highlighting the interests and gifts of your Church or theological community, encouaging weblogs and web stories, Smart Mobbing the Church

A 90-day trip of discovery and development

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 15:47:55 GMT

The questions of exactly how much pay will be available to me how soon is still being ironed out. The intent right now is to find some funds from various sources for the next 90 days in order to accomplish several new "build-outs" of various new features (like a Weblog server, a Windows 2003 Server for .Net development and use of DotNetNuke Portals, PDA compatibility issues, Bookstore data integration into other site features --- such as use of a "booktable" idea for various website sections , akin to some of the Search engine "book links" to Amazon books that relate to a particular topic---- and that's only the beginning.)

Web Development Notes for July 2-July 7

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 15:37:36 GMT

I have been up and about over these past 4 days since returning from Cincinnati, anxiously setting up shop as "OSG cyber-engine south". Larry gave me his scanner off his desk to bring home and experiment with ways of getting various printed materials into Web-publishable form, so we can begin to put some of the content on the OSG site that they've long desired to have as part of their Christian Community Portal vision.

The fact that they have , for years, described themselves as "A Great Good Place for Community and Spiritual Renewal", gives all my "Web history" and "Web skills" immediate relevance and power.

When I went out to the bookstore yesterday, I sat reading a book called something like "The Columbia University Guide to Electronic Publishing", and turned to the section on e-book production, formats, and distribution. I also looked at an issue of Business 2.0 where there were several articles on wireless and cellular's solutions to some of the WiFi offerings.

I've also spent time looking at the Portable PC mag Larry gave me to read up on various features and models, in order to choose one that they will then go and acquire for me. It was another instance of a great gap in the approaches taken by OSG and Larry vs prior experiences. It is a matter of having developers in the organization who actually use and arer "intimate" with the technologies, in order to develop the most appropriate applications and uses for PDA/Portable networked information. Who but a person fluent in the use of and "feel for" the portable/handheld features would be in the best position to conceive the most practical and popular uses for the data to be retrieved, the connections to be made to contact data, the ways in which to receive text messages, email messages, video messages, forum message notifications, and to feedback into the loop from what kinds of local device data?

This relates closely to what I've been reading in Natural Born Cyborgs, where Andy Clark is now (in what I'm reading this morning) exploring the possibilities for bio-techno implants (in the context of discussions about experiments with blind or deaf or paralyzed patients or animals), and what these experiments tell us about the way our brain-networks send and receive neural operation messages and sensory information. Clark's book is much more than studies of the brain. He is exploring the way brains adapt to sensory input and surroundings, including the use of various "scaffolding" to help support the processing of information. I am anxious to read further as it seems promising that he will address the kinds of fears I was discussing yesterday concerning the "Rise of the Machines", and how the popular theme of machine vs human has conjured up a vast array of warnings and apocalytptic tales that urge caution and perhaps abandonment of the attempts to place too much human activity into the care of computational environments.

Job Prospects for the next 20 years

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:56:00 GMT

My Web projects and Job inquiries on this, the 20th anniversary of my marriage to Janet.

I have begun a small Website project for a member of the Church we've been attending. She has published a book, and I'm going to spend some hours doing a website for her ($200). It's a cheap price, but it will help me to have something else for my "portfolio".

There's a "logo design" project for which I am still awaiting a specific concept. I got the money from the funding source on Saturday, and I'll now have to call and ask when we get started on this. I last heard from her about a month ago.

There's also a small $100 project for a friend who is working on setting up some documents to produce e-books, from Word to Pagemaker 6.5 (we begin with his upgrading to 7.0 to get the ebook export feature that tags the PDF so that PDAs display columns in a readable manner (usually meaning displaying "columns" written for Desktop browser displays in consecutive rows on the small PDA screen).

Maybe in the next week or so, I may take a trip up to Cincinnati if a meeting can be set up with a sufficient number of possible backers of the kind of Web visions I have (involving weblogging as n ingredient of "A Great Good Place in Cyberspcae" kin dof idea that is a significant visionary thing at Old St.George). They have a Website for which I have long desired to be a paid developer and designer (functional design, a nd some graphic design as my skills grow in that arena). I had been offered the possibility of a small stipend for making the trip and spending a little time talking with them.

I also hope to contact some folks with the CBF about their Web needs and possibly looking at "Blogging the Assembly" that's happening in Charlotte June 24-26, and several of its seminars.

Perhaps during a Cincinnati visit, a trip up to Dayton to visit and see what might be possible in conjunction with United and the MARC program (The "Masters of Arts in Religious Communication" program I finished in 1991)

All of this is part of and related to, an obsession I seem to be having with a thing I can only call my "Field Of Dreams" vision for a "Road Trip" idea that has gotten into my head. Read about it in "The 'Field of Dreams' Roadtrip"

Finally bit the bullet

Wed, 28 May 2003 19:33:32 GMT

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I bought the Cold Fusion MX Web Application Construction Kit just yesterday from Amazon, out of a sense of urgency to get going and learn this....already several contacts I have made are doing work in Cold Fusion. Since I'm already in the Macromedia fan corner, I might as well do it.

The frustrating thing is, I had begun to see, back in December, that Cold Fusion was a handy thing to know. Three of my early contacts , all in December, all worked in Cold Fusion (I was aware of only one of those three were using it at the time). That was just before Christmas. After Christmas, thinking that I needed to spend as much time as possible selling my present skills, and that "surely something" was just around the corner, I never picked it up to start learning. A couple months later I had an interview, and the major strike against me was that I had no Cold Fusion experience. Soon after that, I bought the book, and began looking at it, but soon felt compelled to return it after what I thought had been a promising possibility of a temp project fell through. That was late March. Now, an additional two months later, Cold Fusion seems to be on half the available jobs I run across.

It all looks so familiar, from having been an ASP developer.....the learning curve seems to be quite manageable, and having an editor that will do code via a familiar WYSIWYG environment (Dreamweaver) makes it a candidate for even faster mastering. Forta's book seems quite complete (1500 pages). I hope to find some reputable training, if not just start working my way through this book and the accompanying CD. Forta also has another book that I ordered along with this one, which covers using Dreamweaver MX as the development environment for Cold Fusion MX.

<%radio.macros.imageref ("images/books/small/CFMXdwMX.jpg")%>Coldfusion MX Development with Dreamweaver MX: Visual Quickpro Guide

Web Development Work for my own sake

Wed, 21 May 2003 19:11:41 GMT

A short list of "projects" that I want to expand upon in the upcoming hours and days:

DotnetNuke portals set up on:

http://dnn.theoblogical.org (main portal) with sample content
http://ecunet.theoblogical.org (Ecunet sample, which I put up to experimetn with some of the as-is modules (like Discussion and News Feeds) in order to begoin giving some flesh to what I've been pitching there (http://www.ecunet.org) all these years. Thus far, not a whole lot of activity.
http://eumc.theoblogical.org the Edgehill United Methodist Church Beta Site (hopefully the future home of http://www.edgehill.org, where the information is USUALLY updated, but the look is rather amateurish and the vision for what the Web could be has not quite sunk in, and I constatn;ly berate myself for not being a better communicator
http://blogs.theoblogical.org a portal to accompany my blog, or to "join a weblog" to a portal--- to link via Web Services and RSS and such things.

Cold Fusion MX -- something I desperately want to learn, and am struggling to find a way. So many would-be employers are asking for experienced ColdFusion progerammers! It looks like it would not be a long process to get up to speed. It's just the time,, and the reousrces to get somethng like the Cold Fusion Application Construction Kit

.Net and Visual Studio.Net, ASP.Net , and ADO.net as well as Web services and XML with .Net DOTNET!!! It's the thing about 2/3 rds of the job descriptions either require or list as "a Big plus". I bought a copy of Visual Studio.net just before losing my previous job. I attended the Windows 2003 Server and Visual Studio.Net 2003 joint launch event (came within a freakin' single digit -- the last digit read --- of winnig a Dell PC at the end of the evening!)

Fireworks/Dreamweaver INtegration and development (I have a copy of Christian Crumlish's Dreamweaver MX Fireworks MX Savvy, to try and go through and see what I can learn.)

Flash MX -- There's a Flash MX Savvy book (in the smae series-- obviously--- as the DW/FW one mentioned above, that I would love to get my hands on and my teeth into (both books have a CD that seems like it's got some good useful samples on them)

Movable Type , weblog tools, and weblog writing. Still bloggin' away. It's been one source of keeping-sanity. Lookin' for a .Net powered weblog, as well as a Cold Fusion powered one, so that I can learn more in each platform while pursuijg possbilities of integrating weblogs with other systems for purposes of increasing my value as a Web Community consultant/developer.

PHP and MySQL- I 've started into MySQL by way of using Movable Type, but PHP and MySQL are big-time Open Source, and there's lots of web development work for PHP-ers too.

Sendin' resumes to every outlet I come across that offer free posting. I've been bit dissappointed in the response of the online resume postings.

All for my own sake, and for "catching up" or keeping from falling too far behind. Lord knows that happened in the past couple of years at my previous job. Weblogs stayed outof my radar for at least two years because of being so far out of the loop of those keeping current, and what they were talking about and dipping into.

Fireworks MX : Zero to Hero

Wed, 21 May 2003 17:56:25 GMT

<%radio.macros.imageref ("images/books/zero2hero.jpg")%>	When I got a little project to do a logo, I did a search on Fireworks to brush up on some graphics techniques, and perhaps find a few good samples from which to work. This book comes highly reccommended.
Click the picture to be taken to Amazon.com's page on the book

TrackBack on BlogworksBlog

Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:54:05 GMT

Trackback feature on SecondBlog test (so I guess I link to the TheoblogicalCommunity ).....no, link to Blogworks2

This is my first server side blog tool (Blogworks) and I have a Movanle Type installation that is awaiting the admins to install DB_File

DotNetNuke and IBuySpy

Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:47:11 GMT

DotNetNuke is a framework that extends from the IBuySpy Portal. I downloaded and istalled Nuke locally, a nd copied out the files to my new host and requested a "dotnetNuke" database (which is taking a bit longer than previous requests). Anyway, I am hopeful thatby studying and "monkeying" with IBS (IBuySpy) and DNN (DotNetNuke), I can come up with a good framework for not only the CBF work but also for setting up Church Webs and hosting them. There is also a Wrox book Building an ASP.NET INtranet which uses IBS as a starting framework. From the looks of the Chapter 2: The IBuySpy Portal Architecture, I'll have to move more slowly in order to get an accurate picture, as the descriptions seem to assume a bit more .Net familiarity than I have. The idea with using a tried and true architectuure with an exisiting support commuinity (and a book which builds on that architecture, which I mentioned), I can dive in and start working from the inside out, just as I have throughout most of my evolution as a Web developer..

Two generations of vocational dreams

Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:31:38 GMT

Today Janet and I went to a meeting with our son Brian (8th grade) and the high school couselor to select his classes for next year (High School classes! Where has the time gone?). Brian has been seriously slacking in his academics this year, and we were after him to improve things after a very slow start last fall. This last 6 weeks, everything fell back to all C's, after 2 A's and 4 B's, and one C --- just barely a C --- was in his Advanced Algebra class, in which he had just made a A the previous 6 weeks. The couselor was encouraging, pointing out that his 7th grade Teranova showed his capabilities (all subjects other than spelling were in the 95-99 percentile...don't know what the deal is with the spelling).

While Brian is still very much in the "development" stage in terms of a career, I find myself in a very uncertain time as well, although I have specific skills and interests, I am worried about the livelihood that can be found right now. No matter how much I agonized over the lack of support I found for much of my "strategy" that I considered important to Religious Publishing on the Internet, I did have a job that utilized some definite skills and afforded me the opportunity to get a taste a lot of tools (although this was the area where I was constantly being "marked down" during performance evaluations: my "tendency to chase rabbits" --- which , from my view, was not "playing" but "learning". The skills I emerged with when I left were all a result of such "playing"; finding the right tools and skills to get a job done. Most of the valued skills I was utilizing at the time of my departure were things that I kept getting warned about in earlier years: "Stay on task" and "avoid chasing after new tools". Anybody that knows the world of Web development knows that it is required of us to "keep pace". Now it's Weblogs and Web Services and .Net (pronounced "DOT NET"). Dot Net was the issue that led to my dismissal. It was considered to be one of those "distractions" that I did not need to be "distracted with", even though the entire Web infrastructure was beginning to utilize Web Services and convert our Membership data from LDAP into Web Serviices for use across the enterprise. My own "online training electives" had .Net courses available, and when it came time for Visual Studio.Net, the company was also in the process of purchasing copies for the various developers in IT, even ones who rarely had occasion to use Visual Studio.

Late Night and Back at it today

Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:49:05 GMT

More in the Community Starter Kit. I finally got all the data pushed out, after installing a 120-day eval of SQL Server 2000. The images are apparently retrieved by a highly dynamic building of a path, which does not make it to the uploaded depoyment of the virtual directory files to the public Web (address not yet revealed, since it is , for now, a development site until I work out my deployment/update strategy.

It was 2am when I got to bed last night. The SQL tables all needed a lot of "hand editing" to add primary keys, ALLOW NULLS, and default values. I think I got all those updated this morning, and now the image problem is before me.

It felt good to again be deeply engrossed in the activity of deploying and configuring a Web site. For the first time in quite some time, the project is one where the direction and "intitial research" and exploration is up to me; it is my strategy, and I was free to keep the mignight oil burning because it was MY PROJECT. There was no rebellion against going the second mile, because now what needs to be done is heading toward strategies and technologies for which I have great expectations.

ASP.NET Web: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site : Home Page

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 02:02:38 GMT

Downloaded this today, as a way to look for solutions to e-zines, mailing lists, and intranets for Church communication agencies:

Community Starter Kit Features The Community Starter Kit enables an individual or an ISP to quickly create a community Web site such as a user group site, a developer resource site, or a news site.

ColdFusionMX

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 01:48:45 GMT

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I bought the Cold Fusion MX Web Application Construction Kit earlier this week, out of a sense of urgency to get going and learn this....already several contacts I have made are doing work in Cold Fusion. Since I'm already in the Macromedia fan corner, I might as well do it.

ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies, June 9-10, 2003 - Boston, MA

Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:09:50 GMT

Wouldn't it be great if I were able to find that dream job, with a theological organization, that sent me to an event like this to research the possibilities for the Church?

ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies 2003 Conference & Expo is the first business-oriented forum to address the recent emergence of Weblogs into the business world and their rising importance as a medium of communication. This conference will bring together Webloggers who are pioneers, experts, and technologists. Together, they will present the latest developments, strategies, and success stories behind what is now becoming known as the Business Blog, or B-Blog for short.

Web development contributes to Church Mission

Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:24:32 GMT

If I can make a go of an upcoming Web project, and renew some efforts to add new features to a Church Web for which I have found little time to go beyond mere "updates", there may be a "synergy" that can happen by applying some of the "code" used for one business Web project to enhance the features of the Church Web that is in need of a redesign and upgrade of features. User/member customizations are important to building Church INTRAnets, where members are given tools to extend their involvement in the ongoing dialogue around what it means to be "Church" at this moment in our corporate journey.

Shades of MSDN in the Macromedia Community

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:48:16 GMT

Macromedia just anounced a program that reminds me of MSDN subscriptions. It seems like a good move. There's certainly a lot to get excited about with the growth and use of Macromedia tools, Flash apps, the Weblog community they're building around their products, and the diverse support their Web suite offers to Web platforms like ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, Cold Fusion, etc.

Macromedia Unveils DevNet, Freehand MX. uk.internet.com Feb 10 2003 12:49PM ET [Moreover - Webmaster tips]