I happened to stumble across this web site today while I was searching for a more accessible way to incorporate iframes into USC Upstate's web site using jQuery. Over at noupe.com they have compiled a great list of 50 jQuery resources. This makes a great addition to the list of techinques and tutorials over at www.jquery.com.

Well, I just found myself taking notes from a 12-year-old developer...

03- 03- 2008

Spartanburg, S.C. – The Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of South Carolina Upstate will continue its monthly nonprofit information lunch series “Friday Focus” with guest speaker Nick Catto on March 21 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at USC Upstate’s Community Outreach and Education Center, 325 S. Church St. in Spartanburg. Catto will discuss how nonprofits can utilize the Web to reach constituents, donors, volunteers and other audiences in a cost-effective yet polished manner.

I've been blogging on and off for almost two years now and I've learned one thing from the entire experience...I'm not very good at it. Well, at least I'm not very good at making regular posts, which is one of the main ideas about blogging.  I do believe that I'd do better if it were a required part of my job, like running a corporate blog or a research blog, but as for a personal one, I just never find the time.

Tonight groups.drupal.org is hosting a two hour screen cast lesson about developing with Drupal. For those who don't know, Drupal is an open source content management system and is the cms I am currently using for this site. I will be attending the "Drupal Dojo" tonight via IRC at Join #drupal-dojo on freenode. I'll do a write up on the experience in the next day or so.

I've just finished wrapping up my latest website, www.ashevillehwyrentals.com and I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out. Asheville Highway Rentals is located in Spartanburg SC and provides rentals for weddings, parties, events, birthdays, construction, household projects, and heavy equipment. The hard part about building a site  that incorporates all these services is coming up with a design that  isn't too focused on any one aspect of their services. I knew that if I made a lavender and floral design that stressed their wedding services that I might scare away construction workers or if I made a site showcasing bulldozers and hammer drills that I'd scare away people planning their weddings.

Finally, Microsoft has made steps to make testing IE6 and IE7 easier for Windows users. Previously, you had to pay for an additional Windows license to legally run both versions of IE for testing purposes. Now Microsoft is making available free Windows XP/IE6 images available for VirtualPC (also free as MS is competing with VMWare). This means that you can run IE6 in a virtual machine while running IE7 on your host machine. The drawback is that the download is set to expire April 2007 ... although we are promised new versions will be released. What Microsoft doesn't mention is that Virtual PC also runs on Windows 2000 (and IE7 doesn't). Therefore it's possible to install this Windows XP VPC image on your Win2k machine. You can then update IE6 on the XP image to IE7, testing IE7 without upgrading from Win2k. This is all-around excellent news for web developers.

The JavaScript is only 2k with gZip on! (4.5k otherwise) The entire package is nearly 300% smaller than it's nearest competitor, ColourMod. And, unlike it's competitor, the ColorJack Plugin is free to use + modify. It is a very simple + effective.
Check it out here: www.colorjack.com/studio

This is Spot's new summer pose for his upcoming calendar. Did I mention I love Photoshop?

I've been building on my websites functionality and have just added user blogs. After becoming a member, feel free to contribute to my pages.

So far, I must say that I've been very impressed with my Drupal CMS. I always love when I find something for free that others are paying out the nose for.

HA!

More later