What you will find in this ongoing series are my observations and ideas about both rapid development frameworks and why one might use them. I will be completely subjective and if you need more information you can always contact the different projects themselves. The point of this will be a perspective that is not geeky, but might help project managers and team leaders make development platform decisions.

As a developer (yes, I know I just contradicted myself) I MUST find things that make my life easier. As a designer, I need to know what tools I have available to me. I was teaching a class the other day to a bunch of high school students about CSS and standards based design. In the class I let them know that you can no longer be a designer without knowing what the tools are and how they work. I am constantly playing and learning.

Perhaps you have heard the buzz surrounding Silverlight.

To get a snapshot with some links, read “Silverlight - a welcome surprise from Microsoft“

In our continuing series, here are three more letters full of tips for your church website, with a Wordpress-centric bent. Comments, suggestions, and additions are always welcome. Read on for D, E, and F.

I am EXTREMELY excited about Coghead. Read the blog here: CogBlog.

For the past few years I have been involved, in small or large part, with Enterprise applications. Either recommendations, design, or the whole deal, they have always been a bit of a bear. Well, more than a bit. They have been HUGE ugly angry bears looking to eviscerate any employee that wastes time considering them.

Active Collab is a project management tool that is not shy about saying that it is a free Basecamp from 37Signals. ActiveCollab is Free. It is on your server. I can see how both of those options seem really attractive to small business (churches) or service providers.

CSS is hard. Old, table based layouts were hard too, but today, CSS is hard. Moving to web standards is hard. At the recent AN Event Apart in Seattle I was shocked to see Eric Meyer’s solution to a couple f problems was a quick fix. A QUICK FIX? But this is the Yoda of CSS… the master of all that is Cascading. How can he use a QUICK FIX?