Category: Buliding The New MotivateUs.com

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The MvUsSystem Is Running

For the #MotivateUsTeam:

The first step of the implementation went a little better, and quicker than planned. The MotivateUs Manager is now running, with the above the top platform in place.

The static (legacy) site, WordPress and TheTools are now working as one. From a technology point of view. The Community Has Been Born.

To keep informed on what we are doing at MotivateUs.com visit: What’s Up At MovivateUs

#MotivateUsLab

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Prototype Is Running

It has been a long road since we made the decision at the end of 2016 to fire our service provider, and take control of MotivateUs.com. Just like in any science we needed to understand the hows. Which we have.

There are many parts of the site that are using a new skin, look, feel and navigation system. If you would like to see what is live and running inside of the prototype. It can be view here by clicking See Whats Live .

Please remember, this is only the prototype, and beginning. Comming towards the end of the year, we will be bring many more pages live, a expand skins and navigation system.

Be patient and pardon our dust. A Community Site Is In Motion.

#MotivateUsLab

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I Am On Line

I got to visit the lab today! As a website owner moving from just a website to a portal and platform, it’s rare to be able to visit and sit with the architect for a couple of hours. Usually you talk to the web designer who talks to the developer who talks to the architect.

In my mind, I had an idea of how everything might look and work but I was blown away by some of the new technology created just for us.

We are in the prototype to testing stage right now so everything is not live on the Internet just yet….

Of course I want the new portal to go live, but I also know from past experience that TESTING is critical and every component must pass the test.

Stay tuned for more as we go – here is the recap:
Bootstrap – done
Portal Manager – Done
Cross Referencing – Done
Staging Skins – Done
Services – Done

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Web Services Are Running

The MotivateUs.com service layer is in place.

  • A web service is any piece of software that makes itself available over the internet and uses a standardized XML messaging system. XML is used to encode all communications to a web service. For example, a client invokes a web service by sending an XML message, then waits for a corresponding XML response. As all communication is in XML, web services are not tied to any one operating system or programming language–Java can talk with Perl; Windows applications can talk with Unix applications.
  • Web services are self-contained, modular, distributed, dynamic applications that can be described, published, located, or invoked over the network to create products, processes, and supply chains. These applications can be local, distributed, or web-based. Web services are built on top of open standards such as TCP/IP, HTTP, Java, HTML, and XML.
  • Web services are XML-based information exchange systems that use the Internet for direct application-to-application interaction. These systems can include programs, objects, messages, or documents.
  • A web service is a collection of open protocols and standards used for exchanging data between applications or systems. Software applications written in various programming languages and running on various platforms can use web services to exchange data over computer networks like the Internet in a manner similar to inter-process communication on a single computer. This interoperability (e.g., between Java and Python, or Windows and Linux applications) is due to the use of open standards.

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/webservices/what_are_web_services.htm