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MegaMythen: play with the Greek Gods

6 months 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...

Apple pulls sexual content from iTunes

6 months 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...

SQL query logging in Wordpress

6 months 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...

Humor

6 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
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Election special

6 months 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...

Unobtrusive mp3 player

6 months 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...

Fake Multiple Table Inheritance

6 months 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...

RailsWayCon: I am attending

6 months 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...

Migrate all tables to utf-8

5 months 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...

The ActiveRecord that would not save

5 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have just seriously spent four hours debugging the most inane bug, this year, so far. In an ActiveRecord before_create method, I was setting a boolean...