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Requests
Version: 1287 | Series: 5098
2000/12/15 Email to Notables/Quotables (individual emails)
2000/12/20 Beta .95 release to Developers, Consultants
Join several industry associations ASP Guild, OSDN, SourceXchange?.
Submissions to major developer sites - zdnet DevHeads, ASP today, www.perl.com?, sourceXchange? Can we post downloads there? Link to our downloads.
2001/1/1 Press launch
Adaptec lunch list, Peter Lewis, WSJ guy, Bus Week guy, big press list, Perl batch?
2001/1/1 Beta.96 Developers/Consultants (API in theSky)
2001/1/15 Commercial Launch (License sales needed) version 1.0
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To Do Before Launch Authorize.net (we now have Nova Information Systems) Digital Certificates - for skyBuilders - needs a subdomain assigned (secure.) Microsoft SiteBuilder - purchase initial Windows 2000 Server, SQL Server, etc. Marketing Logo artwork, Flash version? Get Boca Raton font on BobPoly (Rebekah) identify ASP sites (SourceXchange is Linux.Perl only) Documentation (mostly on the skyBuilders web site) Help Pages Installation instructions Developer Pages, Developer Application Form Consultant Pages, Consultant Application Form Business Pages Design (Technology) Pages Define/Design/Develop/Deploy Product Pages Manager Pages Glossary Page (one big one, with anchors, later skyGloss) ToDo Page (one big one, with anchors, like this?) Pre-Launch Milestones Monday morning strategy meetings 2000/02/21 Trademark applications (get skyBuilders 2000/06) skyBuilders, skyBuilt - in progress various 'in theSky' - in progress? 'the webWare company' just use it. Offsite backup (Derek's Concentric DSL site) Site Monitor in place Statistics Logging and Analysis Reminders in Events (MS Internet Transfer Control) Search capability on skyBuilders.com web site? (done 2000/12) before V. 0.9, we need to have ready: documentation, internal and external (Data Dictionary) dev.skyBuilders.com launch Develop Test/Demo Site Generator (Folder clones enough?) demos.skybuilders.com - large number of installations (instant deployments) Developer package, with recommended reading and write-ups of our standards and methods, ftp and site access, Interest Group email, etc. (API in theSky) Consultant package, with examples, installation and customization notes, tools and strategies, Interest Group email, etc. Translator's package? openInternetLexicon.com Programmer's package Zipped file available for download on an ftp site (at a hosting service? Interland best) Get InstallShield or SSEDIT (www.soysal.com) to package the downloads Individual serverPage downloads (as part of Module descriptions) on skyGate1(H:\Webware) Allow directory browsing at webware.skybuilders.com Backup Services (backup db with encryption for our customer sites) Server monitor verifies pages are serving. (buy Site Monster) NetSaint ditto? Version 0.9 (beta until Commercial launch - now in 2001?) this deploy is to developers and consultants (prospectives) this corresponds with the public launch of skyBuilders.com ASP deploy (as close to 1.0 as possible, but some beta modules OK) PHP Deploy (partial - proof of skyPorter concept) Perl deploy (partial) Core, Pages (Forms), Events, Reservations all at same beta level. Sell separately. Number some modules with lower beta release numbers (e.g., Accounts .80) Web Hosting - Genuity/Shore/PSINet-TIAC/Verio/Galaxy/Interland Mark Semich help? Have a site running in a Data Center at launch, so we can switch if necessary with Remote Administration, needed for Cyberarts in any case. Needs a colocated computer, or we rent one of their boxes and remote configure it. OpenInternetLexicon, OpenDataBaseModel, OpenServerPages People - Richard Homonoff, Joe DeBassio, PaulSteinberg/MJ Kenny, Mike Schindlinger, Kathy Lloyd, Maggie Bruzelius, Richard Morello, John Donovan, Bruce Molay, Jeff Sauer, Matt McMakin, Brian DeLacey, Simson Garfinkel, Priscilla Choate, Susanna Doyle, John Bradford Companies - LoudOffice.com, Angels - Paul Allen, David Wetherell, Mitch Kapor, Corporate Partners - AOL, Microsoft, Sun, IBM/Lotus, Intel, Oracle, SyBase, VCs - Roger Williams, Rick Sharpie, Karen Camp, Jacqueline Morby, Howard Anderson Notables - Tim Berners-Lee, Tim O'Reilly, Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, Dan Bricklin/Bob Frankston, Brian Behlendorf, D.C. Denison, Join standards organizations W3C? syncMLiCalendar XBRL.org IMS (CBT) Join industry associations ASP Guild OSDN SourceXchange ______________________________________________________________ __________________________________ Technology Needed for the business, some by Launch time Data Dictionary (one for program code, one for database) problems, Item - Article, Date in Calendar (reserved word) Glosses, with links (italics?, blue) Database Model (ODBM) PalmPilot Integration bought Palm IIIs and Minstrel get developer info, Programming book HDML - MicroBrowser support, WAP Bar-code reader support order a wedge 12/27/99 for Admissions to Events Control, Inventory Package, Rentals, etc. Peachtree Quicken/QuickBooks data structures (imports/exports Excel) talk to Intuit, offering ASP support (PC Mag quoted) Is there a RDBMS accounting package? (10/27) Oracle partners? Database converters (10/25) List of all chars (combos?) that break SQL (e.g., ' |) Is there an escape method? Yes '' 2000/01/25 JDK development on BobPoly (00/01/02) add 40GBdrive (added 4GB SCSI - replaces 17GB IDE that failed) JSP a snap with JDK? Source Control (CVS) 2000/02/25 Set up on Linux box CVS on Windows? expensive? Get Richard Morello to help? Bruce Molay? skyCap Page Porter - to convert ASP/VB to PHP, Perl, JSP, ASP/JS (and maybe 4D Server Pages, Filemaker Pro Server Pages) Ports of timeLines to PHP, Perl (maybe JSP) for launch. Server box hosted at an ISP data center. Shore.net, Exodus.net, Genuity.net, Interland.com Can we Laplink to it? Can we run multiple virtual servers? Basic box $250 to $500/month. Can we find an economy deal that will take our tower server(s)? - give them an IP.