AdamH.us

I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a blog for The Scripters where we can post updates and news more than just major news on the main page. It’s a possibility. I don’t know yet. If I do, the first thing I need to do is create a skin for WordPress that would match the design of the website.

There’s a lot of logistics to consider. Don’t know if it’ll get done or not. But it’s in consideration. I guess we’ll see.

Any thoughts from the readers? Probably not. I’ll probably just get a bunch of spammers trying to sound legitimate. But they don’t always make their comments match the topic of the post.

Anyway, I’ll post up any updates if we decide to go forward with it. I think it’d be a great way to increase traffic, but I’m not sure yet if it’s a good idea or not.

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Okay, it didn’t really take a whole lot of thought… Just a matter of finding enough open source software to do everything we need to do. Here’s how it’s going to break down:

1. Slackware Linux on our test server (our production server already runs Linux)
2. Filezilla FTP client for FTP access (Filezilla server for Windows FTP)
3. GIMP/Paint.NET for graphics
4. OpenOffice.org for documents (uploaded to site as PDF)
5. Firefox Web Browser — that’s what we’ll be designing for
6. PHP programming — no ASP or other commercial language
7. SciTE for script editing (at least in Linux — in Windows I have a freeware)

Note: This is only what we’ll use for production of websites. This is what we’ll use as The Scripters. As web applications (such as blog or forum software) we’ll use open source applications for those applications that we don’t create ourselves (such as WordPress, phpBB, or osCommerce).

Much of this software will also be available on systems we build for clients. It’s going to be quite a process to complete this haul-over, but we’ve got to start somewhere.

Comments are welcome. If you have other suggestions, we’re fully open to them.

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Well, it’s another week, another possibility. Today I found skin maker for Winamp and made a Scripters-themed skin for it. It looks kinda cool. You can see it here.

School’s going well. Coming up on week 7/8. Yes, it’s a simplistic course. It’s Computer Applications for Business. It’s basically Office 2007. Piece of cake. The next class is what I’m looking forward to: Architecture and Operating Systems. One more slot on the way to a degree in Computer Information Systems.

Well, I guess there isn’t much else right now… There are more plans in the works for TheScripters. So be on the lookout for those. Not sure how soon those will come, though.

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