Something good coming
I’m in the middle of a lot of changes. I recently changed positions in my career. I am still on a mac and intend to be. I’m at the University of Akron now, doing web design and development projects. I’ve come to look at web development from a whole new perspective. A website that supports such a large community is extremely hard to manage branding and content control. It’s the first time I have come to a site and had to manage it through a cms.
Akron U has developed it’s own PHP driven CMS. However, they are looking at other products. I have had a chance to review some products myself in the course of events. While I love Wordpress, I have found that Drupal is quite interesting and have begun to implement it. I’m hoping to have my main website up and running in drupal soon. I’ll continue to write Mac OS X and Unix tips and tricks in Wordpress, but run my overarching bradrice.com website in drupal.
I’m also working with Google Sketchup and Google Earth. Two very cool products. I’m going to be tracking the development on Google Earth and the Google maps api. It will be interesting to see if Google Earth eventually becomes a kind of browser plug-in, or if it will garner enough support as a standalone. It’s really quite amazing to see the 3D buildings take shape in different locations, cities, campuses and businesses. You can check out the Googleplex in Google Earth as an example, or type in Boulder Colorado in the search field and zoom in and see the sketchup models taking shape there.
I’ve been studying Information Architecture and how that relates to site building. Site maps, semantic web, dom, ajax and all kinds of good stuff like that. I hope to write more about those topics on my main site, while this blog will continue to focus on Macintosh and Unix as it relates to Mac OS X. One great thing about Mac OSX is that it is Unix at the core and most of the technologies I find interesting, run in Mac OS X.
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