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Not sure where the tracker for Prototype is, so I’m posting it here, in case fellow railers run into it—1.4.0_rc2 is the version distributed with the latest Rails.

Element.removeClassName will leave th…

From what I understand, the way they work over at 37signals is that Jason Fried will do interaction design, graphic design, HTML, and CSS coding, which he’ll then hand to David or some other programme…

Ok, I didn’t mean to say so much on this topic, but I really can’t help myself with the response I’m getting :)

So I’m saying these big application components don’t work.

But come on! No login system? I…

I can’t help but be a bit amused at the response to my post on leaving OpenACS. It illustrates very clearly one of the things that I had almost forgotten, but that I do not long for: The culture of co…

Paidcontent:

MSN is selling 24 hours of front-page real estate for several hundred thousand to a million compared to a high end of $50,000 in 2001.

This web advertising business keeps growing and growin…

Just installed Switchtower, the automated application deployment tool for Rails, and wow. It’s really neat. Just do a rake deploy and your production server is updated without missing a beat. Can’t wa…

So I noticed that this FlickrExport thing is actually open source, so I figured I could change it to point to 23hq.com myself. But I have no idea how to compile this bastard, and my Xcode ignores me w…

It’s now more than 24 hours since I put the Google Analytics javascript in place, and the interface still says the first reports will be ready within 12 hours. And all the help pages keep crashing. Al…

A number of folks have asked me why I decided to leave OpenACS in favor of Rails, and with David leaving Denmark for the States, I figured now was as good a time as any to tell the story publicly.

It’s…

By popular demand, here is the code. It needs to be hand-held, but the bulk is there. While putting it together, I noticed a bug, which has caused my 39 posts with a URL on the title to lose their con…