Over the past few months I've noticed a number of people who want to build sweet websites and web applications but they don't have the tools to do it. In some cases they are looking for something like drupal or another tool to help them where they lack the time or technical skills.
In other cases I've seen web applications and sites that have a great intent but are missing something in their user interface, technological approach, or some other aspect.
In some of these cases a tool like drupal, django, or one of the other flavors or cool tool can help out. But, these tools can only take someone so far without other technical knowledge to go along with them.
So, I'm wondering if there is a market for blogging about this stuff. For blogging about the cradle to the grave and technology through the processes of web building stuff. What do you guys think? Is this something you are interested in? Please, be honest. If it's not it won't hurt my feelings.
Blog away!
Hey Matt,
If knowledge is power, then the more the better. There is so much tech innovation, there is no way to stay abreast of it all. Even staying current with a very small subset (say, Drupal modules) is a big task. I'd say, if you've got the time and the drive, then go for it. I can personally guarantee you'd have at least one reader!
Blessings!
-NP
Web applications
I have so many projects that could be solved by a good web application.
At work, we have so much information that is emailed around as Excel files which gets dumped into a folder in Outlook then is difficult to manage. Some of the jobs have been greatly improved by creating an Access database, but we are pushing Access beyond what it can handle well. Typically the step up from Access would be an SQL server app, but that would require a lot of development time and then be very rigid. I am looking at drupal and thinking that it is almost a SQL server application, except that the basic functionality is already developed. Most of the hooks are available to fill in the functionality that isn't built in or available from a module. I have been wondering if there is an application framework that is more flexible and powerful that drupal, but that includes more of the functionality than something like Ruby on Rails. Django looks interesting, I'll need to look into it further.
I think that a flexible, but full featured web application framework has the potential to be a very useful tool for the development of custom applications that churches and businesses need to operate efficiently.
I am dying to learn more about this and get started with some apps.
I'm interested
Hi Matt -
Absolutely there is a market for the sort of information that you are blogging about. Oftentimes a question raised in a forum post has a very complex answer which requires a separate blog.
One complication is that we are all at different levels of experience/expertise/capability, so even for a blog, there will be no "one size fits all" approach. But the beauty of a blog is that the information be there for the time when we finally need it.
If you were also thinking in terms of a "commercial" market for this information (ie some form of payment/subscription) then yes, I would also be interested.
Peter Sneesby
www.sneesby.com.au
www.lifesourcetv.com