I want to point everybody to a FREE cool project released today by a local software company, TechSmith. Jing, http://www.jingproject.com, is a really cool tool to take screenshots or videos of your computer screen.
This tool could be used to grab a picture of a site plan or other interesting image to share (or could be used to show me weird errors on the website...).
Disclaimer: I am employed by TechSmith, and my opinions don't reflect the company's. But I still think this is a really AWESOME tool.
As you may have noticed, I have added some Google ads to the side of the site. I hope that they are not overbearing and in no way do I intend for them to be. They are there to help offset the cost of bandwidth for the site. So if you are happy with Develop.MetroLansing, please support the site by visiting one of the advertisers sites.
Also, I have added a "development map" to the links at the top of the page. On the development map, you can see where projects are located and get links to their respective forum discussion or project page. Let me know what you think of it.
I'm working on something that will let you know through develop if a city's website has new city council agendas and the like posted to them. I went to try it live earlier tonight and it didn't go as great as I planned for it, so it looks like I might push it back a couple days.
If you notice anything broken with the website, let me know.
There were a couple database changes that accidentally got made, and I'll fix them if you find any. I did notice already that the site was telling me that there were new posts for a couple discussions when there weren't, and I can say right now that the easiest way to fix that problem is to just view those discussions if you want them to say that you've read them.
hood, I got a "links" section added to the side of the page now:
I'm still planning on pushing what I was working on earlier, but I want to get some more testing of it first.
I would like to see some of the pictures of the Lansing area, as a backdrop to the main page. It's prolly difficult to do so as I assume this is part of a template, but I think that would be cool.
Maybe guest bloggers as the site gets bigger. I think that interesting people to be guest bloggers would be reps from Prima Civitas, Lansing EDC, Chamber of Commerce, PSD, Old Town etc.
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This tool could be used to grab a picture of a site plan or other interesting image to share (or could be used to show me weird errors on the website...).
Disclaimer: I am employed by TechSmith, and my opinions don't reflect the company's. But I still think this is a really AWESOME tool.
Also, I have added a "development map" to the links at the top of the page. On the development map, you can see where projects are located and get links to their respective forum discussion or project page. Let me know what you think of it.
If you notice anything broken with the website, let me know.
There were a couple database changes that accidentally got made, and I'll fix them if you find any. I did notice already that the site was telling me that there were new posts for a couple discussions when there weren't, and I can say right now that the easiest way to fix that problem is to just view those discussions if you want them to say that you've read them.
I'm still planning on pushing what I was working on earlier, but I want to get some more testing of it first.
Maybe guest bloggers as the site gets bigger. I think that interesting people to be guest bloggers would be reps from Prima Civitas, Lansing EDC, Chamber of Commerce, PSD, Old Town etc.
Or does it mean the front page of Develop? http://develop.metrolansing.com