July 2007

There’s a new addition to the blog today. It’s called madKast. You’ll notice the little green icon next to the title of every post.

madKast is one of the many great ideas coming out of Boulder this summer. The team is part of a program called TechStars, a really cool program to help startups get their ideas off the ground.

Installing madKast was a snap, just paste their code somewhere before the </head> tag in your blog template and madKast does the rest. The service is currently in beta right now, so I expect some minor improvements before their official launch, but even in its current form, it seems like an awesome blog-sharing tool.

Great. Another post about the iPhone. Don’t worry, this isn’t my ranting (dis)approval of Apple’s new device, but rather a sad realization after my first encounter with one last evening.

Since the dawn of time, or so it seems, web developers have been required to be well versed in both programming, and juggling. Now I don’t think that many developers would have a very good chance at making a living as street performers, but we are cursed blessed with the obligation to make our sites display properly on different browsers. While we can all rejoice in the fact that IE 5 on the Mac OS has become an increasingly smaller headache, Apple just threw us another curveball.

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Ever since I made the XHTML/CSS switch, I, like many people, have been terrified at the idea of using tables. However, I’ve tried to keep a relatively open mind about using tables to display tabular data (it is what they were made for after all). Now I have a very good reason not to.

What happens when you try to move data around within a table? Nothing good. Other elements stay put, <tbody>, <tr>, and <td> tags are bound to get lost in the confusion, and chances are, you’re going to end up putting in a little too much work. So what can you do?

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This is my inaugural post for the NPL Solutions blog. You’ll start to see a lot more from me as the days and weeks continue on, but I’d like to take this first opportunity to comment on the creation of this blog.

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