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Day two at “Onesoft” training.

Hey- Dave and Co. added a new template to “Manila” - navigation link html. Sooooo nice. I don’t need it- I like this site’s navigation. But I might use it on one of my other sites- http://weblogs.userland.com/the259diaries/ , or http://webatwork.editthispage.com/. Way to go Userland!

I posted an invitation over on Userland’s discussion group for folks to post questions, thoughts to my discussion group. Did I mention that I love Manila?

I found a “Frontier” developer here in training with me. Chris works with Mason Hale over at Frogdesign, and began with Frontier about the same time I did- 1996.

This page brought to you from the training room at Onesoft, an ecommerce software company in Northern Virginia. I love Manila.

I’m here with people from “Onesoft”, Frogdesign, and Etensity. I wonder what the frogdesigners would think of “Manila”.

I’m in a curious, and perhaps unenviable, position of helping to figure out how to use ecommerce software to run a non-profit, donation-based site. Hmmmm. It brings to light the assumptions built into a piece of software.

With all the talk about open source, and open content, and standards, and what, it amazes me that an ecommerce company can go as far as “OneSoft” has with their OneCommerce product. All the documentation and even sales materials say “Do Not Distribute or Duplicate” all over them. Deja.com has never heard of the product, OneCommerce. There’s no community built around the product. It’s strange after working in the “Frontier” community for so long.