I’m enthralled that more and more free web apps are coming from the big names like Google and Adobe. Adobe is poised to release a free web-version of Photoshop and an online version of Premiere has already been created, although it’s known as YouTube’s Remixer. But even cooler than those apps is Kuler. Kuler allows you to create, upload, view, vote on, search, tag, or generally be enamored by color schemes. It’s a web…

BetaChurch is not really a how to kind of a place. On DaveMerwin.com I wrote a post for how to install Django on the Mac for development purposes. Have fun.

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.

I tried to envision an online space for our Bible Study groups, a secure site where any member could post prayer requests, or pictures, or update a shared calendar, or share valuable internet resources, or upload Bible study notes or Powerpoint presentations. And then I thought, I don’t have the resources, the talent, or the time to make such a place. But then I searched…and found Nexo.

From their site: “Nexo is a free service that allows groups to collaborate online. Groups can share interactive calendars, pictures, videos, tasks, polls, comments, blogs, files and much more. Nexo is free, flexible and secure.” Read on for more information…

Perhaps you have heard the buzz surrounding Silverlight.

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

Wow. That was lame. We made some server changes and the DNS got messed up. That brought the site down for a bit. Sorry for the confusion. We aren’t going anywhere.
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Ever wonder what your website looks like on another browser? Or at a different resolution? BrowserShots.org allows you to see precisely that without the hassle of downloading 30 browsers or changing your resolution 10 times.

For those of you who do not know, Second Life is a paid online community taking place in a completely interactive virtual world. What a fascinating place. A completely virtual world with out constraints like death or physics, disease or a personal history. My head is spinning with what this new world represents. What it will mean to sociology? What will it mean to corporate responsibility?

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.

Via Digg through the Techcruch blog, I present to you Slideshare.

According to Slideshare’s site, you can “upload your slides, share with a link, embed in a blog, discover interesting slideshows, tag, comment, and have fun.”

The writeup at the Techcrunch blog will answer some of your questions. Slideshare’s blog will answer even more…