I’ve been reading over at phil ringnalda dot com about Firebird’s next major feature – “webpanels (Ben Goodger’s webpanel overview)”:http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/webpanels.txt. Think a tiny webpage in your side bar, that will also of course handle an XUL interface. Ben Goodger has already “suggested (MovableType Forum posting on an XUL MT client)”:http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?act=ST&f=12&t=25091&s=14f03ae435ab38fe528a3861e5a7526f an XUL MT client. I may be tempted to download one of the current Firebird nightlies to give it a go…
“The Register”:http://www.theregister has an article on the announcement by the “Open Groupware project”:http://www.opengroupware.org/ of the initial release of their Exchange replacement.
Thanks to comments by “Francois Jordaan(Francois Jordaan’s weblog)”:http://www.fjordaan.uklinux.net/ on a topic concerning CMS Needs over at the “Measure Twice Weblog”:http://kalsey.com/blog/, I found a couple of interesting articles related to the use of MovableType as a simple CMS system. “Stopdesign”:http://www.stopdesign.com/ covers the “use of MT”:http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2003/07/11/adaptive_paths_mt_setup.html as part of the “Adaptive Path”:http://www.adaptivepath.com/ redesign. Meanwhile, “A Whole Lotta Nothing”:http://a.wholelottanothing.org/’s article “Beyond the Blog”:http://a.wholelottanothing.org/features.blah/entry/007162 gives some very clear examples for the use of MT for static-page generation. I’ll probably be following this for my About pages…
At work we are trying to move our content management in-house. Our current website is a JSP-driven affair, with well defined areas where we want our staff to upload content once a week or so. MovableType should let us do that – I’ll just have to write a custom Tag to grab the individual archive files and embed them.
Scorched 3D, the latest version of the 3D remake of one of my favorite games of all time is out. The latest version finally includes Napalm, yay!
As I’m putting the finishing touches to my article on Java & RSS. The submission deadline for the alterations is Monday but I’m hoping to finish it tonight so I can have the weekend clear.
A whole array of useful sites and tools for you today.
* First off, this “on line PHP script”:http://www.nickherman.com/colormatch/ over at “nickherman”:http://www.nickherman.com/ will generate a colour palette based on a given colour.
* “Colours on the web(Colours on the web – color Theory and color matching)”:http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/index.asp is a great site which also hosts a “colour wizard”:http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wizard.asp which from the description sounds great, however failed to work for me with a handy @Microsoft VB Script runtime error ‘800a0006’@ message. The text was also a little hard to read on the wizard page, but elsewhere the site had some great information
* “EasyRGB(EasyRGB – The first RGB and COLOR search engine on the web!)”:http://www.easyrgb.com/ is a very handy site packed with utilities such as a color harmony generator and tint search engine
* The online “QuickColor”:http://kohaistyle.com/scripts/quickcolor/ tool generates a harmonised colour palette in real time….
* As does this “very good looking flash utility”:http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/color_toy_fr.htm over at “Defence Mechanism”:http://www.defencemechanism.com/. This tool can generate random palettes for you, but doesn’t necessarily generate web-safe colours.
* Finally, “The Colour Schemer(The Color Schemer: The Ultimate Web Designer’s Color Tool)”:http://www.colorschemer.com/ is a shareware app that also generates palettes, albeit as a desktop tool.
Note, applicable the spelling of colour from other sites has been retained 🙂
This is my first post using “Zempt”:http://www.zempt.com/ as a Movable Type client. Its working pretty well so far 🙂 My main reason for getting it is that it does spell checking, and as you may of noticed, I need all the help I can get in that regard!
Quite a few CSS resources have been sitting in my ‘to checkout’ bookmark folder for a while.
* “Position Is Everything”:http://www.positioniseverything.net/ is a CSS resouce site focusing on the use of CSS for positional layout. The hosted “Perched Upon a Lily Pad”:http://www.positioniseverything.net/guests/3colcomplex.html design which I first found out about from “Simon Willson (Simon Willson’s Blog)”:http://simon.incutio.com/ is especially good
* “CSSShark(The CSShark Answers FAQs)”:http://www.mako4css.com/index.htm has some CSS FAQ’s and tutorials.
* There is some good information over at the “CSS Panic Guide”:http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/css/index.html, although despite the clean looking site I found it a little hard to navigate.
* “The Nemesis Project”:http://nemesis1.f2o.org/ aims to gather all sorts of CSS resources together. I haven’t looked in too much depth but the “Meta Tag Generator”:http://nemesis1.f2o.org/meta hosted there is very handy.
* Eric Meyer’s “CSS Edge”:http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ aims to show the more exterme uses for CSS.
* Finally, “Glish.com”:http://www.glish.com/css/ has some more CSS layout techniques.
My hunt for a new anti-virus program have lead me to “Panda Software’s”:http://www.pandasoftware.com/ “Titanium”:http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/titanium/. I’ve installed the trial version and so far all seems well. I’ll let it bed in for a week or so and if I like it will probably pop over to amazon to “pick it up (Panda Titanium at Amazon)”:http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000069KQS/qid=1059555787/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2_2/026-6546191-6695604. I would buy and download it direct from them, but the cost to download the product is the same as purchasing a normal copy, which seems bloody stupid to me – I’d much rather have a CD and manual in my hands, unless its a lot cheaper just to download it.
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