Monday, November 14, 2005

A step in a new direction

Because of the dramatic change from what was woventhorns.com and what will be the Woven Thorns Productions web site, I have done a nearly unforgivable thing. I have added a "Coming Soon" page.

Before judging, feel free to hop over to woventhorns.com and see the image for yourself. It does not have an animated picture of a construction worker, and does not mention anything about the site being under construction (which I am still against, and will continue to pretend that makes this okay).

I am hoping to build suspense in the 2 people I force to view my site while giving myself incentive to hurry up and finish the site. Because I hate coming soon pages so much, and I have so much to say and do with this Company, I will hopefully have the site up in the next week or so. (But definitely no later than December 1, 2005)

I will be implementing far more complex development in the background than ever before, which will actually make things easier, as I've recently discovered that complex applications are much easier to maintain and develop than semi-complex scripts. (note that scripts are a collection of functions and if-then statements, and applications are built using multiple classes and a more object-oriented approach)

I will also be switching to a tried and true templating system, and will offer the end result as an open source application.

A quick glimpse into the future:
  • New Direction
    • Church Management
    • Church Community Building
    • Individual Study Applications
  • New Image
    • New Logo
    • New Color Pallet
    • New Layout
  • New Projects:
    • OSCampus - an Open Source suite of Higher Education Software Solutions
    • OSChurch - an Open Source suite of Christian Church Software Solutions
    • OSHelp Desk - an Online Help Desk application
    • Bible Guide - "Read the Bible in" online application
    • The COSD Network - a Community of Open Source Developers working on Christ-centered projects.
If you would like to be involved in any of the projects listed above, or you know of a ministry that a team of Christian developers could help with, please contact me at: chris [at] woventhorns [dot] com.

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