Monthly Archives: January 2006

Danish social workers patch the system

[Loftsramte Eksperter](http://loftsramteeksperter.dk/) (Experts hit by the ceiling) is a beautiful hack of the social welfare system in Denmark. Hacked by great people, social workers, who make sure the folks on welfare do not get their checks “light”. > Vi vil gerne høre, hvad eksperterne har at sige om loven, og hvem er større eksperter på feltet [...]
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Using Google Sitemaps: some free statistics

Google Sitemaps contains some free statistics tools for the website owner. Here’s how to start using them. * You need a Google account. The same as your Gmail account. Don’t have one of those? Just ask me in the comments here, and I’ll “invite” you to this service.) * Go the aforementioned page, and “Add” your website. * [...]
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Ernie The Attorney: Web-designer needed for New Orleans project

Ernie The Attorney gives a work-for-free tip to web designers: get involved with [Backstreet Cultural Museum](http://www.neworleansmuseums.com/multiculturalmuseums/backstreet.html) in New Orleans, and present their collection of Mardi Gras Indian costumes. Very interesting stuff.
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Validation hint for Javascript with markup in it

Validation time. (For clients!) Get the stuff valid, so the work with CSS is less guess and more science. So, one begins by removing all the errors that have to do with missing slashes, lost ALT attributes, and soon the errors are fewer. I had trouble with a piece of Javascript that wrote the markup for [...]
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Technical “news”: New Wordpress running this blog

Yes, now I’ve gone and done it: upgraded my blog to WP2. Took me a while to think it up, but now it’s done. Took me all of 10 minutes. 10 other minutes were used to back my files and database up. I know this for a fact since I wrote it down, and I’m writing [...]
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Prototype 1.4 out

Get the newest (“final”) Prototype library by getting the latest Scriptaculous library. The new stuff in Prototype 1.4 seems to be more stability fixes (extra checking before doing things), and a couple of Rubyisms: `Object.succ` means `this + 1`. `inspect()` to get a representation of an object or element. And there seems to be more stuff [...]
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