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Migrate all tables to utf-8

~23 hours ago by joost on Space Babies.
If you’re like me, you maintain a mix of both old and new Rails apps. If you’re even more like me, you have no Rails apps that store Latin1 data any...

RailsWayCon: I am attending

6 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
Being part of the Rails community is great. It’s filled with admirable people like Katz, Koz, en Fuchs. All are active Rails core members. So I decided...

Fake Multiple Table Inheritance

13 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
For many years now a pattern has emerged in my Rails websites. Most models will have Title, Description, Online at, Offline at, Is visible, Url and Image_file_name...

Unobtrusive mp3 player

18 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
Last year, unobtrusive javascript really hit the scene and my sites no exception. I’ve been perfecting the technique to show an mp3 audio player, which...

Election special

20 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
Seems like the crisis in our parliament has become global news. Guess “our boys” did some fine things in Uruzgan. Too bad the majority of the country...

Humor

24 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
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SQL query logging in Wordpress

24 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
After doing Rails development for so long, it’s ….. interesting to develop for other platforms once in a while. I am talking about WPMU, a pretty fantastic...

Apple pulls sexual content from iTunes

24 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
Apple, as puritan as any US company, has pulled all sexual apps from the iTunes store after “complaints”. Mysteriously, all the violent games remain...

MegaMythen: play with the Greek Gods

25 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
Late last year I have built the back-end for a very slick online game called MegaMythen. In this game you can play with the ancient Greek Gods and travel...

Cross-browser testing

26 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
It’s one of the most tedious aspects of my job: cross-browser testing. Meaning: see if the stuff I have developed looks the same in all browsers (Firefox...