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Stacey, The Lightweight Content Management System

February 5th, 2012

Browsing around the web the other day, I found a clean, lightweight template system called Stacey [http://www.staceyapp.com]. The layout and look is very straightforward and uncluttered. Using a subset of HTML tags, the most interesting feature is that it does not rely on any database — it is completely text-based. It’s also opensourced at github [http://github.com/kolber/stacey]

I wonder if anyone has found this useful or flexible enough to recommend this system over the other template systems out there.

Stacey, The Lightweight Content Management System.

Three people who should not be writing your content | Siegel+Gale

September 24th, 2011

 

 

Three people who should not be writing your content | Siegel+Gale.

Think of three people who shouldn’t be anywhere to the content creation process in your office. Who would they be? Why?

Sarah Negugogor, at Siegel and Gale, has posted a concise argument against using lawyers, engineers, or managers to write content. I found myself nodding in agreement all the way through…

Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation | TechCrunch

July 13th, 2011

 

Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation | TechCrunch.

“A billion is the new million” — great comment! Too true.

Dropbox is a great service (even with their TOC caveats), but $5B-plus??? That’s nuts!

OT/NT Refs: Source code now available on GitHub

July 9th, 2011

If you’re interested in seeing the code for the OT/NT Ref graph, I’ve posted it to GitHub: balinjdl/OT-NT-Reference-Map – GitHub. All source files are there, along with a README, LICENSE, and sample graphics. I’ll continue posting about the development here, but code changes will only be updated on GitHub. Enjoy!

OT/NT Refs: Development log, entry #5

July 8th, 2011

otnt-rev8Completed

  • Added layers (Quotations, Allusions, and Possible Allusions are all on separate layers, independently controllable (see below), as are the book arcs);
  • Added panning (click-and-drag to move);
  • Added keyboard event handler (to toggle visibility of layers (“q”/”a”/”p” for 3 link layers, “b” for book arcs, “c” to recenter view*, and “r” to reset view to initial state*);
  • Added zoom (“+” and “-” to zoom in and out, respectively)

ToDo

In priority order:

  • Add book labels
  • Fix intermediate point calculation
  • Post code to Github
  • Add basic interactivity [zooming & panning]
  • Add advanced interactivity [to show links for a specific book (a la http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/12/15/us/politics/DEBATE.html)]
  • Add columns for each chapter (why?)
  • Add mouse scroll wheel zoom handler
  • Add the allusion links and possible [allusion] links
  • Set up correct Z-order (handled by order of function calls)