Archive for January, 2009
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. [ READ MORE ]
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). [ READ MORE ]
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! [ READ MORE ]
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. [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
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… [ READ MORE ]
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) [ READ MORE ]
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. [ READ MORE ]
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. [ READ MORE ]
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. [ READ MORE ]