Against entropy.
Proposed subtitle: “Ease into Prototype.” You started using the [Prototype JS lib](http://prototype.conio.net/) everyone was talking about. Everyone was doing AJAX stuff, animating little boxes, and you did not have the time for that. You had a day job. But then one day: a use case appeared. You inserted some stuff in the HTML, in a …
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[Dr Dave](http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dave/): “I have your blog in my blogroll. In Australia, bogroll means toiletpaper.” The reason I write this is that I was chuffed to see that my blog is in Mr Lumpley’s [Anyway](http://www.lumpley.com/) blogroll. I am part of the Conversation, it seems. (Perhaps I should add something to it. But hey, see above, a …
Tagging websites [Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/) just got easier. Two small buttons and an extra menu in the chrome of Firefox. Get them you too, with the [del.icio.us Firefox extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1532&application=firefox).
My rambling thoughts when riding in the backseat of my uncle-in-law’s car yesterday: “Wouldn’t it be good to have the Google Accelerator in a small way, like local, user-controlled, and… integrated in something I already use? The pre-fetch of webpages I am going to look at, and so on… Those can be good features. But …
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[Mozilla Thunderbird](http://getthunderbird.com) is a fine email client. It recognizes dumb scams automagically for me.
You might know that I am involved in the [CakePHP framework](http://www.cakephp.org/) project, and I’m developing web sites with it now. On the IRC channel today, I was alerted to the existence of the Bindings sister project. Now they have an example up, for all to see. Data Bindings v0.1 Example is a piece of very …
I have now added even more stuff to that bloated sidebar of mine. Perhaps you also have a delicious feed, and a WordPress blog? [Grab this plugin](http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/archives/2004/10/15/delisious-cached/) to get started. The folks at Del.icio.us have made it really simple to use their data. Just look at [their documentation of their HTML feeds](http://del.icio.us/help/html). > HTML feeds …
The popular web framework Ruby on Rails has a core part called ActiveRecord. That is the ORM, the object-relational mapper, which lets you use your database records “as objects” in your code. With Rails, ActiveRecord is very powerful, but it’s not that bad on its own either. Here is an example of using it as …
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Hi folks. I’ve been busy pushing out a little micro-small shopping cart system, but multiple projects keep dragging on, and “project hang” locks me down. I am getting things done, but there’s just much of it all. Today I needed a smarter way of walking through a series of screens to “buy a certain product” …
Warning to non-geek readers: This might be the most in-bred geek-talk posting ever to be made on this blog. Bear with me. Skip this post if functional programming and “different” languages is not on your plate. The web is bigger than this blog: check *it* out instead of my ramblings. If you are interested, read …