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Gentlemen…

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
… start your engines! It seems engines are making a return to Rails. What’s next, components?...

Showing a video in maintenance

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
Stumbled across this today: when geek-site github was down for maintenance, they showed a cool video in stead. Kept me watching long enough to log right...

New in Rails: metal

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have been watching a curious commit this week, which brought something called Metal to Rails. I had no idea what it was; I sort of get what Rack is supposed...

Full-time entrepeneur

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
A post like this one is the stuff of dreams. A guy starts coding a project because he believes in it. It starts to become a success, but his employer is...

Microsoft Windows is a piece of shit

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I’ve been unfortunate to have used Windows just recently. I work on a Mac, but to install a new internet server I needed a piece of software the only...

Start Ranking The News

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have been involved in a new crossmedia concept called Ranking The News. It’s a website plus radio show (on Radio 1) that lets you, well, rank the news...

Massive refactoring

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
or “why I love unit tests”. An ode to agile software development. It is becoming a theme on this blog, but you are just going to have to deal with...

For Dutches: Canon van Amsterdam

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I happen to live in the bestest city in the world: Amsterdam. It just so happens that there’s a series on the local TV channel that I really like, to...

Using gmail with Ruby POP3

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
Try Googling for the title of this post! A lot has been said about using Ruby to connect to your gmailbox. In short: with Ruby 1.8 you can’t. With Ruby...

Easiest localization of Rails 2.2.2

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
Here is a common use case: localize all built-in strings and date formats of a Rails application in just one language. I don’t need to switch dynamically...