Symphonious

We've found a cheap little NetGear router that can roughly load balance and fail-over between our two internet connections to hopefully get a little bit more speed. Of course, the simplest thing to do is to set it up so that from the inside it looks just like the old modem and then on the WAN side set it up to look like a client using that old modem as it's router. Of course, that means that the inside and outside of the router are in the same subnet (192.168.0.0) in this case and the new router's internal IP is also the IP of the WAN router it forwards on to.

If your mind can't handle that, don't worry - neither could the NetGear router's.  Shame though, it was such a simple way to configure things. Now I either have to change all the internal IPs and find anywhere they happen to have been hard coded and update them, or get the ISP that manages the modem to change it's internal IP. We've sent the word to the ISP but it's filtering its way up the chain of suppliers to the real ISP that actually runs things. Oh and of course since last time we called our ISPs been bought out by someone else again.

If only we were big enough that the top level provider considered us worth dealing with…. Sigh.

I'm setting off on a fairly major trip, firstly to Lotusphere in Orlando (20-24 Jan) where I'll be facilitating a BOF session (BOF112) titled "Mashup Web 2.0 with Web Content Management". Sadly it's been scheduled for 7am Thursday, 24 Jan which seems like a rather silly time to expect people to be up, out of bed and ready for intelligent discussion. So if you're around I'd really appreciate you getting out of bed early and coming along to make sure it's not an empty room. Ephox will have a booth on the show room floor and cosponsor a couple of parties as well (details here). I'm really looking forward to actually getting to meet some of our clients and partners - they don't tend to drop by Australia very often and pretty much never come as far north as Brisbane.

From there it's back over to Lake Tahoe for a fancy corporate retreat and a whole lot of major planning which should be fun.

Finally, I'll be spending February in London to help kick our European sales along, so if people are around I'd love to catch up and meet some new people.

Since I'll be doing a fair bit more travel in the future, I've joined up with Dopplr to help keep track of it and succumbed to the horrors of widgets in my sidebar to display my upcoming trips. If you're using Dopplr I'm registered under adrian@symphonious.net (screen name ajsutton) so feel free to follow my trips and let me know if we're passing by. I'm really looking forward to meeting new people now that I'm getting around the world some more so don't be shy.

PS: Apologies to the Planet Ephox subscribers who have now had three posts about Lotusphere in rather quick succession.

For those who both use EditLive! and were very quick to upgrade to Leopard, you might want to grab the latest early access build of EditLive! With old builds on Tiger, our toolbar didn't respond well to the darker background color:

(Click for full size version)

Fortunately, Apple introduced some new rendering styles for buttons with Leopard that we could leverage to get a much nicer, much more OS X look:

(Again with the clicking)

We need to take some time to further tweak the UI on Leopard in a few places (and improving a number of the icons would be good) but this takes care of the biggest problem we had on Leopard. If you're wondering, a new button capsule is started each time a toolbar separator is specified in the config file.

Andy Herron:

Tomorrow  is a day I’ve been looking forward to for quite a few years.  Dylan Just, one of my best mates from uni, is starting at Ephox.  He’s not yet on Planet Ephox but I think we’re fixing that tomorrow morning.

 Indeed that has been fixed. Welcome on board Dylan! Any other Ephox folk who want to start blogging - just let me know!

So it seems that our super secret project "EditLive! Dynamic" has been outed somehow. Apparently Andrew Frayling is on the case (twice in fact) but I have no idea where the source of the leak would have come from. Any bets on how long it will be until we get a "Ephox Rumors" (and the associated "Crazy Ephox Rumors") site?

Oh and it's never hard to get contact details of Ephox people, a large number of us blog, and there are plenty of contact details floating around (including my details in the sidebar of this blog). Trying to get information about EditLive! Dynamic out of us will be much more difficult - it's so secret, most of the company won't know it exists. We'll talk endlessly about Rythmyx integrations, and anything else we know about though.