Archive for October, 2004

Track Congress on Your Site

Thursday, October 14th, 2004
Presumably no one is actually reading this blog, although server logs say otherwise. Anywho…

GovTrack has a nice new feature where you can embed GovTrack’s tracked events into your own website. I’ve embedded the latest intellectual property-related events on this page, to the right and down.

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GovTrack’s Insides

Monday, October 4th, 2004
I wrote an article about how GovTrack’s website works on the inside. The summary is:

Websites have some of the same design issues as programs. One common issue is how to avoid duplication, but while software developers have solved this issue with functions, website developers are still struggling for a solution. GovTrack.us, my new website, solves this problem using XSL transformations and the Mono framework.

In the interests of full disclosure, I wrote the article just so it would be blogged on Monologue, which it was, so I’m happy. Thanks, Miguel!

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