Designing, Developing and Generally Making a Mess of Things
Posted by mdrisser on 2009/09/29 under Design, Development, Web Browsers | 
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As part of the WebsiteSpark initiative from Microsoft, which I talked about last time, you receive a licensed copy of Microsoft Expression Web. There are 4 parts to the Expression Web Family:
I’ve taken a little time to play around with them, so I’ll share with you my impressions.
Posted by mdrisser on 2009/09/27 under Development | Be the First to Comment
I recently began learning ASP.NET to expand my Web Development repitoir and consequently began searching out blogs about ASP.NET. In my search I’ve stumbled across several posts about a new Microsoft initiative to help small web design and development firms and freelancers.
Posted by mdrisser on 2009/09/16 under Design, JavaScript, jQuery | Be the First to Comment
I found an interesting short post by Doug Neiner over at Fuel Your Coding about a jQuery plugin to generate a Table of Contents, this could be very useful for a documentation system, long article, tutorial, etc. You can find the post here.
Posted by mdrisser on 2009/07/14 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
I’ve seen a couple of great posts for freelance designers to add themselves to a list (Minervity, Woork), a kind of “get your name out there” thing. I think its a great idea, but what about freelance web developers? I mean the back-end coders, PHP, RoR, JSP, etc. So to that end I’ve decided to go ahead and start just such a list here.
So if you are a back-end coder interested in freelance projects, leave your contact info in the comments.
So I’ll go ahead and be the first 
Michael Risser — 11 yrs. Web Design & Development Experience. PHP, RoR, Perl.
Posted by mdrisser on 2009/06/05 under Development, PHP, Rails | Be the First to Comment
I think I’ve gotten about as many feature requests as I’m going to get, I put out a last call on Twitter yesterday and received zero responses.
In all honesty I’ve only received 3 feature requests, Justin C. Velthoen (@JVelthoen on Twitter has asked for gCal/Outlook ingeration; Jordan Brown (@Jordanbrown on Twitter) has asked for it to be as simple and as accessible as possible and that it leverage Facebook Connect and Twitter OAuth; Mandi Leman (@blellow) has asked for integration with Blellow. Thanks for the input guys, I really do appreciate it.
Also thanks to everyone who Tweeted and retweeted the call for requests and gave me some encouragement.
So I’ve locked down the core features:
One of the nice things about having all of these items in the same app is that they can all talk to each other. Time tracking can be tied to projects which in turn can be tied to clients for invoicing for example.
A plugin architecture will allow for the entire app to be more easily expanded and customized. For example adding Facebook Connect, Twitter OAuth, gCal, Google Docs and Blellow. Yes, those 5 items will be the first officially supported plugins
So this weekend I’ll be finishing up the pre-development planning: database and table layouts, requirements for each of the core features, repository set-up (git-hub) and maybe even begin coding.
If you are a designer (graphic/web) or a developer (PHP/Ruby on Rails/JavaScript) and would like to contribute to the Adjunkt Project, please feel free to let me know. I’d be gald to have the help.
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