I am somebody! My good friend Sam Coleman is on Wikipedia! And this makes me famous by proxy, the most easily attained form of fame. Still, I think it’s huge. He didn’t even write it himself!
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Hosted rails exceptions
Every Rails developer knows the ExceptionNotification plugin. It sends you an email when stuff breaks in your Rails application. Handy, but doesn’t work with Rails 2.1 Also, it’s a pain when the same error comes in dozens of times (users tend to reload often when a 500 comes up). Enter Hoptoad.
The Alistapart survey
As this banner 
proves, I took the A List Apart Web Survey 2008. If you’re into making websites, you should probably take it too!
Typically Dutch
Even though it’s summer, the new projects keep appearing! This time it’s a new personal blog called typically.nl. It’s a website about typical Dutch behaviour. I happen to think that we Nederlanders are quite an odd species, with some baffling habits. But also stroopwafels. So I felt a need to blog about it…
New design, whoopty doo
What better way to inaugurate WordPress 2.6 than with a new template? This one is quite nice, not as emo as the last one. More, uh, “professional”. ‘Coz we are, like, extreme “professional” here at Space Babies HQ, m’kay?
i18n is coming to Rails
Whew! Finally! Internationalization is coming to Rails! It will be baked in in version 2.2. This is going to be awesome. With built-in Timezones in 2.1, I have now nothing left on my wish list. Besides baking pizza, perhaps.
There goes my baby
It happened yesterday, but it seems so long ago already… well not really. But one of my new projects went live yesterday. They grow up so fast!
Coffee geek
I’ve officially become a filthy coffee geek today after purchasing a Magister Stella espresso maker. My days of puny consumer-level drip drab coffee are over!
NuPlay multitouch experiment
Daniël has done an awesome mod in the nuPlay environment: he’s built his very own multitouch table.
Installing Postgres on Mac OS X Leopard
Countless tutorials have been written about installing PostgreSQL on Mac OS X Leopard, so I am not going to go in detail. Your best bet is to either build from source or use Macports. But after that all online instructions seemed to fail for me. Building postgres went fine, but the gem wouldn’t. Finally I discovered the trick. The bash environment wasn’t passed through sudo…