Thursday, March 20, 2003

Broschinsky Starts a Blog Mike Broschinsky with the Utah Division of Administrative Rules has created a weblog using Blosxom.  Here is his RSS feed.  Mike is an excellent thinker which is why I am excited about his contribution to the knowledge share in Utah government.  He also maintains a personal weblog.  Mike looked at several tools before settling on Blosxom, including TkBlog, Movable Type, and BlogMax.  In choosing Blosxom, Mike writes, It can be used to serve a blog that is dynamically generated from underlying text files, or it can be used to generate a collection of static pages that can then be transferred to the site using FTP. Blosxom is in active development, and has a devoted following. One of Blosxom’s strengths is the plugin architecture developed by its principal author; this allows the underlying application to be extended almost infinitely. 4:08:39 PM    comment []

XSLT and the Utah Product Management Council Yesterday, during our Utah Product Management Council meeting, Amy Sawyer demonstrated briefly how Utah Interactive is using XSLT to display RSS feeds developed from the Utah press release system.  If you are interested in using XSLT to do as Amy suggested, you may want to review Bob DuCharme's article, "Never Mind the Namespaces: An XSLT RSS Client."  Bob's example stylesheet combines summaries from multiple RSS feeds.  Jon Udell, in an earlier post entitled "An XSLT Tutorial" points to a public XSLT service.  Finally, I would suggest reading CPAN's article on Processing RSS Files with XSLT. Later in the meeting, Kerry Huntington demonstrated several of ITS's web development services, including flash animation, streaming video, graphic design, etc.  Kerry's enterprise development group is involved in the RSS team that is developing enterprise tools for creation and presentation.  He also encouraged agency participation in the shared code library. Two new eGov applications were demonstrated at the meeting: the UCC Certified Search and the Insurance License Renewal. 7:11:40 AM    comment []

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