Archive for the 'Think New Orleans' Category

Dear Diary

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

I’m looking forward to having Think New Orleans running.
The new software is going to be the basis of The Engine Room blog. I’m going to be blogging in the small, to record decisions. Using a blog as a developer’s notebook. Blog entries are not articles, and don’t require a title, or snappy writing.
There are so […]

Jello Generator

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Creating a Jello layout for Think New Orleans 2.0 tagging interface.
This is the latest in CSS layout trickery. It is well documented. There is a series of articles at position is everything. The Jello Mold is the name of the series. It is well written, and I’m tapping out the annotated stylesheet as I read […]

Three Things About ThinkNOLA 2.0

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Three things to know about Think New Orleans 2.0.

URLs will move.
XHTML, HTML, and CSS will not be initially valid.
Best practices, standards, validation, will be followed time permitting, and will be adopted in due course.

This was a post I was going to post yesterday. I’ve gotten bogged down learning new things, and worse, concerning myself the […]

TinyMCE

Monday, September 19th, 2005

Need this to become more of an integration project. Why use Mozile when there is TinyMCE? There have to be many of these editors around. I must be able to reduce the functionality, remove some that confusing toolbar, but otherwise, it looks great.
What other editors are there? The one thing that I need, that I […]

Subversion Layout

Monday, September 19th, 2005

I’ll be creating a new repository for Think New Orleans, but I’m going to keep Syndibase related source code in my open repository, near Relay, XStrategy and all the other bits and pieces that make it tick. Think New Orleans will contain themes for WordPress and other hacks to third-party, non-Syndibase code. The Engine Room […]