Mirmillo

I ran into a situation today where I had to sort Social Security Numbers (yes, I know, storing SSNs is a no-no) in a table. I use the wonderful Jquery Tablesorter plugin by Christian Bach and it works beautifully, generally.

The problem arose, because in the presentation of the SSNs in the table, they are formatted like most Americans expect, 123-45-6789. However, when the tablesorter started doing the sorting, it actually performed the arithmetic on the field and sorted the result, rather than the string. I post this because, admittedly, it took me quite a while to figure out how the sort was behaving, and maybe this will save someone else some time.

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I did some hacking of the jQuery Flickr plugin to make it work with the cool shuffle effect. Now I just have to make it so I can do a gallery per article. By the way, these are photos from the recent Road Rally we ran for H’s Church Fellowship Group, I’ll post more about that soon.