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Nederlandse Spoorwegen makes customers hate them

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Strong words? Yes, indeed. Though I have the SMTP-headers to prove the fact that NS (Dutch Railways) actively hates their customers and wants to annoy them...

Web 2.0 suicide machine

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
As much a brilliant idea as it is funny: the web 2.0 suicide machine. One click of a button removes you from many social networks, deletes your tweets,...

Foreign keys in Ruby on Rails

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
For a long time I have been searching for built-in foreign keys in Ruby on Rails. For some reason, the core developers don’t think it’s particularly...

Move from MySQL to PostgreSQL?

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
I am sure many of you reading this have received Michael’s plea this morning as well. The original developer of the MySQL database is worried that his...

Skipping gem docs on production server

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Just thought about this now: skipping gem documentation on the production server. Makes much more sense....

Generating an Ajax loading image

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Remember how you used to Google Image Search to rip a decent loader image? Yes you! Don’t do that any more. Use Ajaxload to generate your own purty loader...

Elfproef validation in Rails

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Oops, did it again… I moved my second plugin to Github just now. This one checks a bank account number in a Rails application to see if it’s valid....

Check for DNSBL inside Rails app

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Quite a few years ago I wrote a plugin for Ruby on Rails. It checks incoming client connections against DNS Blackhole Lists. It has worked quite well over...

Kom maar op

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Follows the inevitable post for our Dutch audience: “my” channel Z@PP has recently shot a video based on their pay off KOM MAAR OP. It’s with all...

Simulating JSON PUT in Rails

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
I am currently working on a JSON API for a game that is to be launched in February. The game developer and I have decided on it to communicatie between...