I'm poking my way around the open source channels and lurking for information.  To be honest, I'm a professional Microsoft developer by trade.  I haven't made the switch, yet, to open source tools.  I do run Mandrake Linux at home on one machine to handle mapping multiple domains to a Windows 2000 Professional box.  (IIS on Win2KPro only allows one domain.)

Anyway, I came across Zope.  It claims to be an application server. 

Zope is a leading open source application server, specializing in content management, portals, and custom applications.

That can be a broad term, and I am only posting this for my own benefit (yours too, if you're as green as I am in open source).  I have dabbled in Java, PHP, and Perl, but nothing substantial.  So, forgive me if this sounds ignorant.

Anyway, the Christian Open Developers' Network encompasses a project called Centrallix, which also claims to be an "application server."  So, needless to say, I wondered what the difference was.  (I'll investigate this more myself later, of course.)  Here is Centrallix's own definition of what the system is:

Centrallix is a web-based app server and data management engine featuring data abstraction, structural embedding, "pro"-DHTML generation, a SQL engine for multi-source queries, and object-based development.

OK, there are the definitions.  I'll try to find more later on both.  If you have any insight into either, please comment on this entry (see the attached comment link).  Thanks.

blogs4God just posted a link to The xagronaut Chronicle.  I'm so thrilled!  (Excuse my giddiness.)  It just helps to know that there are others like me that engage in similar (though never identical) veins of thought.

I need to return to the category page for technoBlogs and this post to explore the other blogs.

Oddly, I've felt several times that God was leading me toward blogging as an outlet for ministry activism.   Sorry, nothing against ministry--I just don't quite feel qualified yet.  I believe that point will be just around the corner, but for now, I am pursuing this blogging adventure as God leads and allows.

My hope, eventually, is to use this blog as a place to challenge the rest of the Christian world with ideas for integration and collaboration that may not have taken shape before now.  More on this later.