Well, it’s February and I’m a little behind schedule of where I had hoped to be on bringing my new project to life. Now that this site is “live” and in acceptable shape, I’m starting to bring my main site to life. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I intend to use the Orchard Project CMS as the platform for my home automation website. I’m also hoping to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host the site. Both of these choices were made primarily so that I can use this project as an opportunity to learn and/or increase my knowledge of these platforms. I’m using the Orchard Project because most of programming work I’ve done over the past several years has been in the .Net environment using C#, HTML, JavaScript and CSS to build a custom website for courseware development by the Air Force. Using Orchard lets me increase my understanding of C# and the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern without having to create the entire framework from scratch.
I’m hoping that learning how to host a website on AWS will give me the skills to work in the growing field of cloud computing. To accomplish these goals, yesterday and today were spent training on Orchard through the Pluralsight website and AWS on Lynda.com. The Orchard training was a review of a previously completed lesson to refresh me on getting my local development environment setup while the AWS training was mostly all new information.
So far so good. I hope to have the site live with a few introductory posts and a default theme within a week or so. Then I will continue creating content and working on a unique design for the site before starting on creating my custom training module.
Hope you’ll follow along.