It’s “for my own sake” cuz I’m not making any money. I gotta do that. Like yesterday.

A short list of “projects” that I want to expand upon in the upcoming hours and days:

DotnetNuke (as implied, they’re running on .Net portals set up on:

•  http://dnn.theoblogical.org  (main portal) with sample content
  
• http://ecunet.theoblogical.org  (Ecunet sample,  which I put up to experimetn with some of the as-is modules (like Discussion and News Feeds) in order to begoin giving some flesh to what I’ve been pitching there (http://www.ecunet.org) all these years.  Thus far,  not a whole lot of activity.
  
• http://eumc.theoblogical.org  the Edgehill United Methodist Church Beta Site (hopefully the future home of http://www.edgehill.org,  where the information is USUALLY updated,  but the look is rather amateurish and the vision for what the Web could be has not quite sunk in,  and I constatnly berate myself for not being a better communicator
  
• http://blogs.theoblogical.org   a portal to accompany my blog,  or to “join a weblog” to a portal— to link via Web Services and RSS and such things.

Cold Fusion MX — something I desperately want to learn,  and am struggling to find a way.  So many would-be employers are asking for experienced ColdFusion progerammers!  It looks like it would not be a long process to get up to speed.  It’s just the time,, and the reousrces to get somethng like the Cold Fusion Application Construction Kit

.Net and Visual Studio.Net, ASP.Net ,  and ADO.net as well as Web services and XML with .Net   DOTNET!!!  It’s the thing about 2/3 rds of the job descriptions either require or list as “a Big plus”.  I bought a copy of Visual Studio.net just before losing my previous job.  I attended the Windows 2003 Server  and Visual Studio.Net 2003 joint launch event (came within a freakin’ single digit — the last digit read — of winnig a Dell PC at the end of the evening!)

Fireworks/Dreamweaver INtegration and development (I have a  copy of Christian Crumlish’s Dreamweaver MX Fireworks MX Savvy,  to try and go through and see what I can learn.)

Flash MX — There’s a Flash MX Savvy book (in the smae series– obviously— as the DW/FW one mentioned above,  that I would love to get my hands on and my teeth into (both books have a CD that seems like it’s got some good useful samples on them)

Movable Type ,  weblog tools,  and weblog writing.  Still bloggin’ away.  It’s been one source of keeping-sanity.  Lookin’ for a .Net powered weblog,  as well as a Cold Fusion powered one,  so that I can learn more in each platform while pursuijg possbilities of integrating weblogs with other systems for purposes of increasing my value as a Web Community consultant/developer.

PHP and MySQL- I ‘ve started into MySQL by way of using Movable Type, but PHP and MySQL are big-time Open Source, and there’s lots of web development work for PHP-ers too.

Sendin’ resumes to every outlet I come across that offer free posting.  I’ve been bit dissappointed in the response of the online resume postings. 

All for my own sake,  and for “catching up” or keeping from falling too far behind.  Lord knows that happened in the past couple of years at my previous job.  Weblogs stayed outof my radar for at least two years because of being so far out of the loop of those keeping current,  and what they were talking about and dipping into.