Evangelical Lutheran Worship (tags: HSLuthBlogs) ABC News: Google to Buy YouTube for $1.65 Billion I don't understand dot com finances. How can anything like this be worth 1.65 Billion dollars? I realize that it is stock, but the fact that Google can spend that much is just ridiculous too. It's like play money. (tags: google youtube)
The Nativity Story (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Chart DrillDown Animations These drilldown animations done in Adobe Flex are amazing and the source code is available to see how they were done. (tags: flex) Google releases code search service Ars Techica details a new beta service from Google allows visitors to search through source code. (tags: Google) Does every church need two websites? famfamfam.com: Silk Icons Nice, Free Icons!
If you haven’t seen a demonstration yet of Acrobat 8 and Acrobat Connect, you can catch one here (done of course with Acrobat Connect - formerly Breeze). technorati tags:acrobat, breeze
Have you seen songbird? It’s an open-source application that looks a lot like iTunes. I’ve always thought it was an iTunes knockoff to give all those poor folks on Linux something to feel included with. This screencast on the songbird site showed me and will show you that while it looks like iTunes it is much different and if you like audio files on the internet, may deserve a place on your computer.
Redefining content management Everyone's using content mangement systems but is anyone effectively managing their content? (tags: cms "contentmanagement")
A newly available flash plugin supports full-screen video. You can download the plugin here, then try out some samples here. It looks great and is very welcome on the Macintosh where full-screen video is hard to come by. Quicktime doesn’t support running embedded movies as full screen. Real does, but few use it anymore and DivX also supports it but again is rarely utilitzed. Prepare to see it everywhere. technorati tags:flash
Contribute 4 has been released by Adobe. I was pretty surprised as Macromedia NEVER released a product without announcing them almost a month in advance. I have downloaded it and am using it right now to create this blog posting. That’s a new feature in Contribute 4! Don’t get too excited thoughâ??this is the most painful posting experience I have ever had. So painful in fact that I’m going to stop right here.
On this blog, you will find increasing amounts of ‘religious’ news. I didn’t just find anybody, but have become the webmaster of my congregation’s web site. Since this blog serves as the center of the content I put online, it is unavoidable that content I collect for this relatively new site to arrive here. Because I am also the webmaster for a public school and this blog is aggregated on a page there, there could be issues.
I’ve added my links back to my blog. I’ve posted about this a few times and I’m sure that no one cares, but I want my thought process to be here. I have long had my del.icio.us links displayed on my blog, but I have gone back and forth on including them in the blog postings. It’s easier to say why I think that this is sometimes a bad idea. First, if you have a bad system, as I have had from time to time, you can end up with a lot of empty posts if you aren’t creating del.
Remember the Day of Atonement (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Touching God's Heart? (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Is ColdFusion Harming Itself? (tags: coldfusion) Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet A social networking newbie? Want to get up to speed? This article will give you the history, the present and show you where it maybe going. (tags: social) Teaching What We Donâ??t Know Interesting article in Tuesdayâ?
This can be filed under “posting so I can remember later”. Darwin Ports has become MacForge. This is a super useful, albeit geeky resource for open-source projects that run on OS X. technorati tags:macforge
Today is the deadline for presentation submissions for the National Educational Computing Conference occuring in Atlanta next summer. I got mine in last night. I proposed a three hour workshop covering the creation of web pages using web standards (xhtml, css, xml, etc.). I’m not real hopeful as it sounds dull and I was tired when I wrote the submission so I may have not sold the idea real well. Sometime in December I’ll learn whether I’m in.
A co-worker of mine sent this out today. It’s called “How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language”. My favorite is CSS: “You shoot your right foot with one hand, then switch hands to shoot your left foot but you realize that the gun has turned into a banana.” Read it here
It’s a Web 2.0 application that serves as a directory to Web 2.0 sites. I wonder if it lists itself…
Adobe Labs has posted new information regarding Apollo â?? their upcoming build-an-application-out-of-html-css-javascript-and-flash development environment. technorati tags:apollo, adobe
Looking to add a few new programming languages to your repertoire? CNet has 10 suggestions.
MaxUP is a un-conference that will run in parallel to max in October. An un-conference is a conference where you must participate to attend. Think open-mic night at the coffee shop, then require that everyone take the stage if they would like to listen. Here's the details.
Google plans to add 200 years of newspaper history to its search archives. Perhaps they will run into the same problems with this that they have encountered in trying to put books online but I hope that they succeed. The internet, I believe, has introduced a barrier to history that has not existed before. If I want to look something up on the internet and learn about it, I have to consider how long ago that event happened.
The Call for Participation for NECC 2007 in Atlanta is Open. Deadline is October 4.