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Success! After reading the Macromedia article linked to in the previous entry, I was able to successfully create a VERY basic weblog viewer in Flash reading an XML file generated by Movable Type with a slightly customized template. It wasn’t too bad at all. See the results here.

The time has come. I’m being pulled from more than one direction to learn to integrate Flash MX 2004 and XML… The journey begins tonight and it begins right here.

Today I found a decent online tool for creating color schemes. It’s different from others available in that it almost forces you to use a “good” color scheme. Many color scheme programs will let you do just about anything. While the flexibility has it’s advantages, if you’re color scheme challeneged, it almost defeats the purpose […]

If you’re interested in putting your family tree online, there’s only one way to go–PhpGedView. Most genealogy programs will export to the common GEDCOM format and aside from a webserver that supports PHP, that’s all you need. In fact, if you.re just getting started, you don’t even need a GEDCOM file, you can create it […]

Ok, so this isn’t the most exciting thing you might have seen this year, but here they are, all the programs in my applications folder on my G5 at work. I really think you can tell quite a bit about what type of computer user someone is by their applications, if not about what type […]

In keeping with the “best of” theme of this site, this entry is about the Open Source Content Management System that I believe to be the best all-around. WebGUI. WebGUI is almost 100% template driven. When you go to a WebGUI site, you won’t know it right away because it looks just like every other […]

In this article, I’m taking Linux (Debian and others), Macintosh OS X (Panther) and Windows XP and comparing them to find the ideal operating system for web design and development. After using Windows, Macintosh OS X and Linux (in various incarnations) each for extended periods of time over the last 4 1/2 years, here is […]

If you use Movable Type, Nucleus or Blogger for your weblog and you work on a Mac, check out Kung-Log. It’s a desktop application that will retrieve past posts as well as enabling you to post new entries to your weblog. I’m using it now and if you’re reading this… it worked :). This is […]

From last night: Installing MovableType… starting at 10:45…. finishing at exactly 11:45. Wow. That took longer than I expected, but alas it’s done. I probably would have been find sticking with Blogger, but in my never ending quest to have the latest and greatest software, MovableType was a necessity. Now I have this itching wonder […]

Both my father and father-in-law have spent time extolling the virtues of Mind Mapping–basically brainstorming on paper. I have come to realize the benefits of doing it, but for me, doing something on actual paper is just too reminicent of high school or filling out a form at the DMV or something horrible like that. […]