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Internet Explorer doesn't support getElementsByClassName

Internet Explorer doesn't support the javascript function getElementsByClassName. Not a big deal if you're using a javascript library like jQuery or MooTools. But it's not a good reason to include a library for just one function. So we've got to improvise.

First I check to see if I can use an id instead of a class. In this case I can't because I need to process a series of elements the same way.

Alfresco on Mac

So I'm considering an Alfresco installation for a client to be hosted on an XServe Mac OS X Server. Alfresco seems like a viable open source replacement for Sharepoint. And I'd like to believe that, but I'm currently having troubles with the install on my local machine. So I'm going to log my attempt at solving this problem for future posterity.

Ad hoc Drupal node creation

This is how one creates a node in code:
http://drupal.org/node/60479#comment-114666

Drupal Block Info field

The block data are clearly saved in the blocks table in the database. But the info field isn't. To get this, one needs to go in two different directions.