Its 2009. Again, I am a little slow with my own blog entries, but you'll have to forgive me because 2008 was a watershed year for my personal life. But that's another story for another day :)
Since the last blog entry, I installed Adobe CS4, then uninstalled it (and waiting for a number of improvements to its somewhat bloated interface) and returned to CS3. I have worked with Silverlight 2 stuff, helped work out some exercises for Adobe's Flash Media Server Course, and taught a large number of Flex and Cairngorm classes. Teaching's been keeping me busy.
On the technical side of things, I recently created a course for RoboHelp Server & RoboSource Control, two products that work with Adobe RoboHelp HTML.
RoboHelp Server allows you to manage Help Systems with a centralized searching system and metrics capabilities that allow you to measure statistics concerning published help systems, such as what is the most frequently searched help topic. RoboSource Control is a version-control system, similar to Microsoft SourceSafe. And if you have not heard of RoboHelp, well it creates Help Systems. If you have ever had to look up a help system in any program, chances are it was created with a tool such as RoboHelp. In my world, RoboHelp is just a Dreamweaver editor that is basically geared towards producing help systems that feature functions such as indexes and glossaries.
The challenge was to get RoboHelp Server up and running for a client, as well as getting the RoboSource Server and client components working, and then demonstrate how to finally get them all up and running together with RoboHelp 7 HTML for help authoring. Suffice it to say a large amount of work involved configuring MS SQL Server 2005 to work nicely with both RoboHelp Server and RoboSource Control. After numerous re-installs on other PCs and permission setting changes, I got everything to work quite nicely, and with few changes, it worked well on the client's machines as well.
Alright enough for now. Getting back to work.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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