Radio 1 in .nl has introduced a new slogan: “een en al nieuws” (one and all news) and there are commercials to celebrate. I think they could have chosen stronger dialog though.
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Subversion visualisation
My coworker Bartz has rendered a cool visualisation of all commits to the Omroep repository (my work for www.radio1.nl and www.zapp.nl).
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WordPress-style forms in Rails
Today I completed something I should have done half a year earlier. In the Z@PP admin CMS, I use WordPress-style forms. These have lots of repeating table rows, and I had a lot of duplication in there. Today I cleaned everything right up and went from hundreds of lines of code to a couple dozen!
Websites that worry me
It is 2009 and still websites are launched completely vulnerable to SQL injection and CSRF. This worries me. It seems websites, even high-profile ones, are still being built by incompetent morons and hobbyists. Our case today: eerlijkebankwijzer.
Choosing a javascript framework
It has been several years since I last coded any javascript by hand. Since it’s a pain to test in different browsers and does not come with smart methods built-in, it is always easier to use an existing framework such as jQuery (current favorite), Prototype or Mootools. But which one to choose? There’s now a page to test performance of every javascript framework.
Obama's robots.txt pwnage
It seems someone with at least half a brain is in charge of whitehouse.gov since today. Their robots.txt went from 2400 lines to two…
Amazing jQuery effects
This post is basically for my future self. Check out this post with 45 jQuery effects. I am sure I am going to use a few of these in upcoming projects. (via Mike @ xhtmlized)
Nanoc + Haml + Vlad = heaven
Sorry for the acronym soup, but part of my job is research and development of new website building techniques. I have found a neat and fast way of maintaining websites in the nanoc + haml + vlad combo.
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Easiest localization of Rails 2.2.2
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, everything should just change to my own language. In my case, Dutch. Here is how I do it with as many built-in things as possible.
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Using gmail with Ruby POP3
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 1.9 it’s broken. This post led me to the right path.