Forrst, New Relase and API Kit Updates
Published August 2, 2010 by Richard Uren
I’ve never been a big fan of wood grain. I mean its great on trees, polished wood floors, exposed timber beams but in design I cant really say that its my cup of tea. Perhaps its child hood trauma over 70′s laminex ? Or sympathizing with my friend Pete who once accidentally purchased a pair of very expensive woodgrain’esq Bolle sunglasses thinking they we’re tortise shell (sure Pete, .. we’ve all made that mistake). So I find surprising that I completely adore the slick use of wood grain over at Forrst. Perhaps its the awesome design or the even more awesommer community that have won me over ? Anyhow – if you’re a designer or developer check Forrst out. Its well worth it.
Somewhat tangentally related to Forrst is tomorrows updates. We’ve done away with our janky old Amiga Guru Meditation inspired Error/Info messages and taken a sweeter more Forrst’y approach. Plus Error/Info messages now stack so you can get a couple at the the top of the screen if you whack all the wrong keys. :-)
Under the hood there was a significant upgrade of our framework from CakePHP 1.2.6 to CakePHP 1.3.3 and bug fixes for Sites which wasn’t logging handset stats correctly. We’ve also kicked off a week of API Kit updates, starting with our Java Mobile Detection API Kit. New features include configurable read and connection timeouts, http proxy configuration, automatic fail over in the event of connection timeout, an easy to use config file and support for downloading our Mobile User Agent Database (which we’ve had for a while and its finally making its way into the api kits).
TL;DR : Java API Kit out now, Website updates out tomorrow 3rd August 2010, 2pm (GMT + 10), check out Forrst. :)
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- New Look & New Release, Sneak Preview
- Upgrades – fast fast fast !
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