Archive for December, 2009
Just thought about this now: skipping gem documentation on the production server. Makes much more sense. [ READ MORE ]
Remember how you used to Google Image Search to rip a decent loader image? Yes you! Don’t do that any more. Use Ajaxload to generate your own purty loader. I just used it today and so can you. [ READ MORE ]
Oops, did it again… I moved my second plugin to Github just now. This one checks a bank account number in a Rails application to see if it’s valid. Dutch bank account numbers conform to the “Elfproef” checksum, so that’s a handy little tool. [ READ MORE ]
Quite a few years ago I wrote a plugin for Ruby on Rails. It checks incoming client connections against DNS Blackhole Lists. It has worked quite well over the years. In the mean time I moved all my code from Subversion to Git, but somehow never moved the plugin. Until now! [ READ MORE ]
Follows the inevitable post for our Dutch audience: “my” channel Z@PP has recently shot a video based on their pay off KOM MAAR OP. It’s with all the presenters and performed by Monique Smit. The lyrics are a bit thin but the fun doing it more than makes up for it. The clip will be [ READ MORE ]
I am currently working on a JSON API for a game that is to be launched in February. The game developer and I have decided on it to communicatie between flash and the database for a simple reason: built in in both Rails in Flash. There is one interesting thing though. Flex has no idea [ READ MORE ]
Getting ImageMagick onto your computer would be so incredibly difficult I would often just forgo the entire thing and pray that image manipulation would sort of work on the server. Well, no more. Claudio Poli has written a great bash script to install the whole thing with one command. Clone this repo and execute it. [ READ MORE ]
Ruby on Rails is all about Model View Controller (MVC). This is a web development technique to separate database, html and code. This is a smart idea since these three fields require very different things. Usually this separation works well. Sometimes though I need a fourth distinction. And I use a Presenter. Update: .autospec file added [ READ MORE ]
Every tech blog should have a post about a Twitter client. Here’s mine. To be fair, my client has only eight seven lines of code, so it rocks. [ READ MORE ]
