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These days I’m working on the HTML and CSS for this map, but I want to hear your opinions as what to recommend from a usability point of view: The top map where the cities are placed on the map directly (it’s a HTML list) The bottom map where the list is to the right […]

Now is the time to revoke the install warning Rails 2.0, gem install, Windows => Mongrel Trouble I wrote about December 9th as Rails 2.0 was released. Rubygems 1.0 was released 10 hours ago and solves the Win32 problems mentioned in the previous post. So for now, back to: [code lang=”ruby”]> gem update –system > […]

I ran into this that we use internally in Capgemini to help people open up for new ideas. Out of curiosity: Which one of these did you hear yesterday? Post a comment, and I’ll make an updated version of the ones you hear the most. We tried that before Our systems are different It costs […]

1111 spam comments in the last 24 hours have been published on Justaddwater.dk. Just for the record, all of them are now deleted.

137 new conversations in my mailbox telling me that 137 articles I wrote were hit by spam comments the last 24 hours.

Saturday the 15th is Spam Filter Free Day here at justaddwater.dk. Why would we ever want to do something like that you ask? Well up until recently we received about 2-3000 spam comments each day so we thought we would draw attention to the wasted bandwidth, time and energy that all these spam comments consume. […]

How do you manage to help discussions being constructive and treating people with mutual respect? I just had this strange experience. You pay $34.95 for a text editor, and suddenly you’re allowed to yell and swear aththe developers. WHAT? I’m an eager follower on the E-texteditor forum as it is a good place to follow […]

We got this spam comment yesterday with link to the article itself: It points to the very article it tries to comment. Some questions pop up instantly: Will marking this as spam give our Justaddwater blog bad karma in Akismet? Why would spammers do this? What are they trying to achieve? Has this anything to […]

UPDATE December 20th: Problems are history with new Rubygems 1.0 release. See: Rubygems: Rails 2.0, Mongrel, Windows, solved. UPDATE December 19th: Rails changeset 8438 fixes the Rails part of this bug but no release 2.0.3 available yet. Rubygems 1.0 is on the way. Wait for the 1.0 release that contains a bugfix. See my comment […]

Frank Spillers from Experiencedynamics wrote me this morning, and promted us to bring an exclusive pre-release of his new poster.

In case you missed it, Dustin Diaz has written this excellent parody on what the hottest web techniques were like before webstandards and css were invented. Seven hottest web 1.0 techniques to trick out your webpage. 2) Animation without JavaScript Believe it! It’s true. Drop those old scripts that made your website scroll and blink […]

It’s no secret that we will keep this blog spam filter free on December 15th. For some strange reason we only had 127 spam comments in the last 27 hours. This is a drop to just above 100 a day (as opposed to the previous level 2,000-3,000 per day), which translates to a 95% drop […]