Last year, unobtrusive javascript really hit the scene and my sites no exception. I’ve been perfecting the technique to show an mp3 audio player, which I have debuted at radio6.nl this week. It’s a tiny bit of Javascript with a big help from jQuery.
Seems like the crisis in our parliament has become global news. Guess “our boys” did some fine things in Uruzgan. Too bad the majority of the country wants to end the war. Anyway. I recently built the election special for www.radio1.nl. I just love how fast I can whip up specials like this in Ruby on Rails, and integrate it into the core of the app without making the code any dirtier.
After doing Rails development for so long, it’s ….. interesting to develop for other platforms once in a while. I am talking about WPMU, a pretty fantastic multi-blog platform. The lack of documentation is aggravating though, as is the absence of all my Rails tools like the console and the log. Well turns out you can have a sql log for WordPress as well! This post tells you how, and it works.
Apple, as puritan as any US company, has pulled all sexual apps from the iTunes store after “complaints”. Mysteriously, all the violent games remain. A MacRumors reader put it very succinctly:
So boobs are bad, but murdering cops is ok. Got it.
Mind you, these apps are all rated for 18+. So you have to wonder how these complaints even are possible. If you are a concerned parent pull the rating-switch on your child’s iPhone!
Late last year I have built the back-end for a very slick online game called MegaMythen. In this game you can play with the ancient Greek Gods and travel up mount Olympus. This game has launched today and it looks even better than I had imagined. The gameplay is very intuitive and smooth. I urge you to check it out even if you don’t play games at all: www.megamythen.nl.
It’s one of the most tedious aspects of my job: cross-browser testing. Meaning: see if the stuff I have developed looks the same in all browsers (Firefox, Opera, Safari and -ick- IE too). Luckily this can be automated, saving me lots of headaches and lots of different computers. Ta-daa! Litmusapp.
Since I am tired of Googling it, I am going to post the commands required to start a new local branch in git, then push that to the origin, then pull it in to continue working on it. If you don’t know what I am talking about, that’s fine. I do. 
I love open source. And I love contributing to open source projects. Every time one of my patches is accepted into a project, I can’t help but smile.