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HTML5 Web Sockets are awesome!

Here it is!

With my recent interest in Sinatra I decided to make some us of it and write a URL shortener service for with it.

To install Nokogiri on a Debian system you need some system packages in place.

Okay, it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say varnish changed my life, but it sure did change the speed of my site!

As most developers already know: HTML5 is very awesome!

For a very long time I have been dissatisfied with WordPress.

I get a lot of questions about how I bought my Kindle and what it cost to get it shipped to the Netherlands.

From stopsoftwarepatents.eu: Our petition aims to unify the voices of concerned Europeans, associations and companies, and calls on our politicians in Europe to stop patents on software with legislative clarifications.

For some time I have been eyeballing Sony’s e-reader in the local bookstore.

Okay, I’ve wanted to make a custom TextMate theme since I first installed the thing on my MacBook in 2006.

Creating a patch file with git is quite easy to do, you just need to see how it’s done a few times.

Codaset is openly asking its users to comment on what pricing strategy they would like most.

I got git problem: error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename when pushing to a remote repository.

You have probably seen URL shorteners that use short, seemingly random strings to identify sites.

There’s bit of a discussion between me and @ludooo about which word has the most significance when measuring the greatness of something.

Today I had the very pleasure of giving Codaset.com a try!

Just as a kind of mini cheat sheet for using git tags.

Just as a kind of mini cheat sheet for using git tags: Adding a tag: git tag tag_name git tag Should show your new tag. git push origin --tags or git push origin :tag_name Because git push doesn't push tags.

When using Rails + MySQL, you’ll find that normal string (or varchar(255)) fields are case insensitive.

Yesterday I ran into a little problem running Slick 2D on Java 6 64bit on my Mac.

I literally always have to look up the meaning of :limit in migrations when it comes to integer values.

I haven’t seen a schedule yet, but I’ve been told by Mark that I’ll be speaking at Rails Underground this year.

I just released version 0.4.0 of the IMDB Ruby Gem into the wild.

Git is quite an awesome version control system.

With the release of IMDB 0.3.0, a command-line utility is included!

Let me pose a typical Rails situation: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :fancy_hat end class FancyHat < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person end Now, how can you get all the people that don’t have a fancy hat?

Active Records provides callbacks, which is great is you want to perform extra business logic after (or before) saving, creating or destroying an instance of that model.

It’s quite easy.

I just released version 0.1.0 of my IMDB gem which allows your app to search IMDB for IMDB movie ID’s and access most data that’s publicly available.

Get the t-shirt!

Geoffrey Grosenbach is going to deliver a talk about MacRuby at RubyFest on may 14th!

Just to put it out there: I’m available for iPhone development (preferably in the Netherlands).

If you have a lot of mutations in your SQLite3 database the file size of the db file will increase a lot over time.

I just needed an OpenSSL DSA public key.

Disclaimer: If you are reading this, chances are there is a hardware problem with your Mac.

Well, the time has come to announce RubyFest!

Yay!

I just found out Ariejan.net has a PageRank™ of 3!

There’s a lot of cool stuff pooring in about what’s new in Rails Edge (which will become Rails 2.3 and/or Rails 3).

A bit late, but “Merry Christmas” everyone!

Well, I just got invited for Google FriendConnect!

How ofter were you asked by a client for a CSV (or excel) file with data from their app?

First seen at Kabisa Blog: SQL: Ordering with NULL values This post tells you how to sort NULL values in a column to the bottom and sort the remaining non-NULL values.

I’m currently writing some RSpec tests that use Time.now.

BaseApp is no longer maintained.

Yesterday evening we attended a panel discussion with DHH and Rails Core Members Jeremy Kemper and Michael Koziarski.

This morning I attended another JRuby talk, this time with Thomas Enebo.

Today, RailsConfEurope 2008 started!

A tutorial on JRuby with Nick Sieger holding your hand is just great.