In the Woods – “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” Video Series

In the Woods – “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” Video Series

So now that the Net is whittling away at brick and mortar video and bookstores, you might think that it is a great time to offer something online like training videos. You might think that, but then you just might be wrong. In the process of teaching myself more about JavaScript and the JQuery library I considered re-opening my Lynda.com account and checking out the online tutorials. But a quick Google search located this site which as it turns out has very good video tutorials - for free. So sure it seems inevitable that intellectual property such as music and books will more and more be delivered via the tubes, but now how do sites that sell training videos compete with free when the free version appears to be of at least equal quality? The Net has a lot in common with the wild west during the gold rush days.

Fractals - The Colors Of Infinity (By Arthur Clarke)

M.C. Escher would have been all over Mandelbrot sets.

Google's DocVerse links Office with Google Docs | Relevant Results - CNET News

This will be very a very interesting development. The web wars rage on.

Google's DocVerse links Office with Google Docs | Relevant Results - CNET News

Gmail Import Feature Mysteriously Disappears From Facebook

Gmail Import Feature Mysteriously Disappears From Facebook

Bad move Facebook! Data wants to live free!

Novell Vibe Launches, Shrugging Off Google Wave Ghost - Messaging and Collaboration - News & Reviews

If Google Wave is dead then why is it still listed on the Google Apps page and presented as a part of the overall Apps strategy?

It seems that other software companies see the value in Wave:

Novell Vibe Launches, Shrugging Off Google Wave Ghost - Messaging and Collaboration - News & Reviews

Wave had one major flaw: it was too far ahead of it's time for most people. But then again time moves on and people finally are ready to move forward.

Q u i x o r * L a b s

Recently a the addition of simple meta tag to help track usage of my web site with Google analytics triggered a recompile of the the code behind the web site and while this should not have been a problem when posted to my hosting service I got a nasty message that my application did not have the correct the full trust credentials required to execute on the server. And for unknown reasons my host tells me I will have to move the site to a new Windows 2008 server to correct this. OK but they also tell me that the FrontPage server extensions needed to upload by Visual Studio 2008 is not available on this system. So as far as I can tell they have provided no solution.

The Chinese tell us that every crisis also presents a new opportunity. Since I am being forced to move my site and/or upgrade my tool set all bets are off and I might as well look into other hosting options as well. The leader in the contest so far is my registrar Go Daddy.With so many options to consider it might take a few days to make up my mind on which way to go.   For the time being my Google based test site {Quixor Labs} will be open for business.

Google Sites & JavaScript Problem - Google Sites Help

Well this answers a lot about the limits of Google Sites:

"It won't work as I don't think Google Sites will ever offer JavaScript.

 

What you have to remember is that your Google Site is always at a google.com address and, therefore, many people, firewalls and virus checkers automatically trust everything at a google.com address: Javacript can deliver malicious code, so it's never going to happen."

So it appears while Google sites can provide huge functionality right out of the box using all the power of Google Apps, you can't really script the pages with JavaScript.  As long as you are using the site for fairly standard functions this should not be a problem.  However if you need to custom code something, you will have to find an alternative platform.  So it appears for now it is best to straddle the .Net and Google  worlds when it comes to web sites.