Apr

23

Southern Fried Tech — get your fixins’

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We just launched southernfriedtech.com, a technology site for the southern United States.  In the coming months we’ll be adding more functionality, but for now, we have some basic feed aggrigation with those posting more useful content (naturally) getting the limelight.  SFT is a great place for people to get together with old friends, meet new ones, or just find out what’s going on in the southern technology scene.  Make an account and post your blog today.

Apr

20

IE Vs. FF Round 3: IE still a pain

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So I’m losing my mind trying to wrap Jack Slocum’s table for use in Seamless and things are going alright — I even manage to get it to render in Internet Exploder. Unfortunately, his rendering stuff (or maybe Yahoo!’s?) uses the table’s container sizes to help lay things out (quite logically, actually). The problem with crops up when one tries to render a table when the parent container is initially hidden, i.e. it has a size of zero by zero pixels — not conducive to rendering, of course. After two weeks of hacking away at this, getting things working little by little and then running into a lack of dynamic resizability/flow control, I gave up.

Jeff and Nolan were open to just rewriting the entire widget as a lightweight custom renderer instead. The new Seamless table is really just an iterator that loops over a html template, specified inside of our seamless:iterator tag. The convenient thing about it is you can make the table look like anything you want plus it’s significantly faster than the old table (which could also do custom rendering, but only rendered in Firefox — the new one is cross browser) . It’s nifty stuff. We’ll be launching the beta of Southern Fried Tech soon and you guys can check it out (it’s used extensively through out the site).

Apr

15

Ok, Linux MCE is cool.

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Apr

13

Oracle buys Appforge

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I believe Oracle has purchased the Appforge IP, presumably at a relatively low price since they managed to snag all but 3 of the developers (as far as I know) before the purchase was made. Although they have no obligation to, I hope they keep the old Appforge customers in mind as they move forward with the IP. A great many companies relied on the Appforge runtime and tools for their mobile software. Somehow, a few of those companies have ended up emailing me through my website — funny stuff. A simple way to confirm this (and how I found out) is to visit the Appforge website, which now points to Oracle. Appforge was a great place to work.