Archive for February, 2007
You sir are brilliant! Brilliant! The live mix performed on John Digweed’s show Kiss 100 FM in 2005 is one of the best musical journeys of this century. Really, it is that good. Grab it if you can. [ READ MORE ]
Believe the hype. RMagick is an evil, memory leaking package. Do not use it. I always wondered why my Mongrels were sluggish; and why they often seemed to hang. Of course I always knew I shouldn’t have used RMagick. But it’s just too darn handy. And it could not be that bad, right? Right? Well, it can. [ READ MORE ]
Time to kick off this post with a priceless quote by Dale Carnegie. “About ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don’t criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be”. It’s true you know (and I am certainly one of those ninety-nine, although I strive not to be). Case in point: disgruntled event [ READ MORE ]
There’s a reason I’m reluctant use a package manager. They can be great when they work, but when they fail you’re dead in the water. And I mean really dead. Case in point: the rubygems package manager. Great when it works! But when I was confronted with a misbehaving Ruby app, here’s what happened. [ READ MORE ]
How many pounds of illness can an ounce of prevention cure? I bet it’s lots. Welcome to 2007. The year where spam has completely taken over the internet. Most admins will tell you that 90% of all email is now spam (not on my server though, thanks to spamhaus). On the web, spam is on the [ READ MORE ]
The second installment of the utf-8 saga I started last week. Of course, per all the advice that’s out there, I needed to run some nasty-ass updates directly in MySQL. Buh. Even in my utf-8 Terminal.app I could not display some weirdness properly. So it came down to hex() and unhex()’ing in MySQL. Joy! Even if it’s only [ READ MORE ]
Oh. my. god. This plugin is the mostest brilliantests I have discovered this entire week. Maybe even month! It allows you to render outgoing emails in a layout! [ READ MORE ]
Recently I discovered all releases of Turn Up The Bass ever made! How cool is that? I remember hiring these CDs from the local video store since I couldn’t afford them. And now they’re available online, plus they fit on a DVD easily. Sweeeet. [ READ MORE ]
In happier news I finished my piece for Time-Out Amsterdam a few weeks ago. Time Out is a city guide, and I’m not lying if I told you it’s the best one on the planet. Maybe even the solar system. If you find yourself in Amsterdam and you don’t know what’s where, pick up one of [ READ MORE ]
In another series about web development, this is a pretty unhappy installment. In 2007 it’s clear that your complete web application should be utf-8. This a way to encode characters for use by a computer [yes I know, actually it's a character set]. There are several character sets in use. Letters a-z are encoded in something [ READ MORE ]
