Update 2012: I now go to Slottsstadens tandläkargrupp. An elegant gentleman called Semi fixes my teeth. (The rest of this blog post concerns my choices in 2006. Cheers.) In Denmark, dentistry is prohibitively expensive. People go to Sweden to fix their teeth. First, you need a good one to go to. Here is the guy …
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Denmark is Dead: Great programmer booted out of the country
My neighbour Sean Treadway today posted a sad post – he is getting kicked out of the country: > So that’s all folks Denmark has evaluated that my contribution to the country through my freelance work is not of significant value. This is patently horrible. On so many levels. Sean’s one of the really great …
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Ruby meetup: A new wiki
Albert set up an Instiki [wiki for the upcoming Ruby meetings](http://meetup.delamednoll.se/): and you can also sign up there, to add more glitz to the meeting. And then that got old, and “peterj” started a [Rails.se](http://www.rails.se) wiki, with the same kind of wiki software. We promptly moved our SSRUG, SkÃ¥ne-Sjælland Ruby User Group, to that wiki. …
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 pÃ¥ …
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” …
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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 …
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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 …
More Firefoxness for bloggers: Performancing’s blog plugin
Performancing’s blog plugin is really productive for bloggers. Get it. Quick. Then hit F8. (Um, you need Firefox, of course. It’s XUL.) It’s the blog plugin to end all others.
Getting old: Band battles are for kids
Jason writes about Battle of the Bands and how he and Goaty (the wife) studies the kids. Goaty had a good time identifying cliques and social heirarchies in the various fast-moving packs. I had a good time watching the performers pull out moves they had obviously perfected in front of basement mirrors – guitars were …
Skype creates extra stuff, viral marketing
Some of the genius of Skype is their very open attitude to their corporate story. People like telling it, and it is “viral-enabled” already in itself. My Dad can tell it to me. But when they also create very easy-to-use buttons and widgets that people can add to their websites, and put a great deal …
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