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Ruby 1.9: sexy hashes

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I am falling in love with Ruby 1.9 something fierce! There’s a new literal Hash syntax and I am completely smitten!...

Improvements to `char` in Ruby 1.9

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
The new version of the Ruby language brings improvements to characters. There is no `char` concept per se (which is fine), but the implementation now makes...

Ruby 1.9’s charsets FTW

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I come from a Java background. With all it’s flaws, Java’s support for character sets is very good. All literal strings are UTF-8 and source files can...

Sweeter unit tests in Rails 2.0

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have only just now discovered a sweet new feature of Rails 2.0. Unit and functional tests have gotten a lot sweeter. I can now subclass ActionController...

Checking if popup windows are opened

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Even though I’m not a javascript noob, I still manage to learn something every day. To see if a popup windows has opened, the return value of the window...

Annyoing Adobe applications

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
My Adobe apps are bugging me and I regret ever having purchased them. I will make sure not to purchase one of their slow proggies ever again....

Myspace captcha is broken

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
My favorite site (NOT) is bugging me once again. Fix your damn CAPTCHA, myspace!...

Language trickery and EJB

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Or: why I left Java. Here....

More and more Rails Core tickets

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
More and more of my patches are being accepted into Rails Core. This one contains just a bunch of tests, but it applies to a ‘return path’ fix that...

Importing email contacts in Ruby

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have just blogged about a Ruby tool I am using to import email contacts. It works great, if you are programming in Ruby I really recommend it....