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You want to contribute to an open-source project, but are scared away by all the git-complexity involved?

For some time I have been annoyed with how slow my Terminal (in my case iTerm2) starts up.

This is just short snippet on how to install Node.js (any version) and NPM (Node Package Manager) on your Ubuntu/Debian system.

Scroll down for setup instructions.

Exceptions happen.

Okay, let me clarify that title first.

In my previous article I told you about how I like to tests my scope.

The content of this post is no longer correct.

[Today I learned][1] that Ruby garbage collection can be of huge importance to performance.

Randuin posted a comment on my previous Lighting fast, zero-downtime deployments with git, capistrano, nginx and Unicorn post asking how I handle database migrations.

Everyone who has ever developed a web app has had to deploy it.

I recently worked on a new feature in a separate branch.

We’ve all been there, you committed changes you now regret.

Sometimes you have to take your git repository’s log to see what you did the day before (ideal in preparation for the daily stand-up).

With git it’s possible to squash previous commits into one.

For some time now I’ve experience my mac to be very slow.

Sometimes it handy to get a list out of git log that tells you which files were changed since your last release.

[BitCoin][1] is a hip new currency using peer-to-peer networking to process transactions.

CoffeeScript is a really nice way to write JavaScript code.

Rake is an awesome tool to automate tasks for your Ruby (or Rails) application.

Uploadify is a great project to provide file uploads in your project.

I’m a happy user of RSpec, Cucumber and sometimes Steak.

The Twitter for iPhone app (itunes) can be configured to use your very own Firefly URL shortener!

I’ve been doing some work on Firefly lately and tonight I’ve released version 1.3.0.

With my move to Heroku I felt bad about having Heroku’s app servers serve static content for me.

This is just a quick note to let everyone know Ariejan.net is now proudly hosted by Heroku.

Amazon S3 allows you to set per-file permissions to grant read and/or write access.

Today I learned that error_messages_for has disappear from Rails 3.

Everytime I open a new Terminal on my Mac, I get a line like this: Last login: Thu Nov 25 09:07:55 on ttys004 This annoys me.

Most people need their MySQL database protected with at least a decent password.

In my previous tutorial I explained how to setup a PPTP based VPN server on Ubuntu.

I recently installed Ubuntu Linux on a home server (I hate that word, but it best describes what it is, so).

I just pushed Firefly 1.1.0 (code) to Rubygems containing a very nice new feature: QR Codes.

If you have deployed apps to Heroku you know that you cannot write to the read-only file system that Heroku offers.

Today I found myself in a situation where I have a few (200+) WMA audio files.

Today I found about 100k Resque jobs in the failed queue.

On of the first things you learn when using Vim activly is that when you delete something using x or dd that content is actually cut and put on a clipboard.

In git, branching is cheap and easy.

The other day I was toying with Rubber to deploy a Rails3 app to Amazon EC2.

Firefly is a light-weight URL Shortener app.

I’m often asked how to merge only specific commits from another branch into the current one.

I’ve always trouble uploading files with Curl.

By popular demand I’ve setup a guide to setup your own personal URL shortener with Firefly and Heroku.

Today version 0.4.3 of Firefly was released with some minor updates.

If you are working with Rails 3 and Mongoid, you’re likely to upgrade to [mongoid-2.0.0.beta6][1].

Bundler allows you to define the gems your application uses, resolve dependencies and load everything up.

I just pushed Firefly 0.4.1 to Rubygems.

RVM is an easy way to switch between different ruby implementations and gemsets.

Get ready for 0.4 (or, 0.4.0.1 to be exact)!

Hot off the press is Firefly 0.3!