http://blog.skybluecanvas.com The Lightweight Blog Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:19:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the end of May of 2009, I prematurely announced that SkyBlueCanvas version 2.0 was nearly ready for an alpha release. It was a little embarrassing to have to redact that announcement but SkyBlueCanvas is an one-man outfit supported by my day job, so it can be difficult at times ... http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/skybluecanvas-lightweight-cms/skybluecanvas-update-february-2010/ Image manipulation software is a required tool in every web designer and developers tool box. If you are an independent contractor, however, the large price tag on Adobe Photoshop can take quite a bit out of your budget and your paycheck. Recently, while poking around to find a more affordable alternative ... http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/uncategorized/killer-imaging-software/ A few weeks ago I was following along in a FaceBook comment thread on a post by my friend Scott (same name, different guy). Someone jokingly made a reference to the "What Would Tyler Durden Do" and "What Would Jesus Do" memes. A follow-up joke pointed out that with Scott ... http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/jquery-javascript-library/scott/ The Filament Group has created a plugin for the jQuery JavaScript Framework that will render HTML table data as bar, line or area charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element. The plugin takes the headache and custom coding out of visualizing tabular data as graphic charts. The data is also ... http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/jquery-javascript-library/jquery-plugin-displays-html-tables-charts/ Matt Heyes at www.iamroot.co.uk has written a step-by-step tutorial on how to integrate Solmetra's SPAW WYSIWYG editor with SkyBlueCanvas. You can read the tutorial at www.iamroot.co.uk. "SPAW Editor is a web based in-browser WYSIWYG editor control enabling web site developers to replace a standard textarea html control with full-featured, fully customizable, ... http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/uncategorized/integrating-spaw-editor-skybluecanvas/ Update - January 14, 2010 I have resumed work on the new version of SkyBlueCanvas. Due to the extent of the changes, the next version will be numbered 2.0. I have not set a release date yet but the major coding is complete. I am currently working with a UI designer ... http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/uncategorized/milestone-skybluecanvas/ I don't normally make posts that are not related to SkyBlueCanvas, but I really enjoy seeing anyone do anything extremely well. As a friend of mine said, "Danny MacAskill is the Yo-Yo Ma of bikes". This is just inspiring to watch. Watch the video, you won't regret it. http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/uncategorized/danny-mcaskill-biking/ Hello SkyBlueCanvas Users, It's hard to believe that SkyBlueCanvas was released just 12 months ago. In many ways it seems like years have passed. In others, it seems like it could not possibly have been a year already. We have accomplished a lot in our first year. Over the past 12 months, SkyBlueCanvas ... http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/uncategorized/anniversary-skybluecanvas-release/ SkyBlueCanvas has received some nice media attention in recent weeks. So I thought I would write a quick post to link to the sites that have been kind enough to give us some attention. All of these sites as well as the entire open source community are funded in large ... http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/skybluecanvas-lightweight-cms/skybluecanvas-media/ For a really cool Fragmentor usage example, check out my blog post on the Editable Sidebar Content Hack System Requirements SkyBlueCanvas v1.1 PHP 5 (Not tested with PHP 4) Apache Web Server Important Unlike most SkyBlueCanvas Plugins, the Fragmentor Plugin must be installed manually via FTP. If you install this Plugin through the admin console, it ... http://blog.skybluecanvas.com/skybluecanvas-lightweight-cms/plugins/fragmentor-plugin-skybluecanvas/