With a newborn in the house, it starts to become quite clear that many of the food we eat is in fact not very healthy. Case in point: breakfast cereals.
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Category Archives: rants
File uploads in Ruby on Rails
When you need to resort to using Flash to handle something, you know you’re in a mess. Yet that is the case when dealing with file uploads. For some inane reason (omg it’s haaarrrrrrrrd) file uploads in browsers are teh SUCK. So it falls to us, web developers, to deal with that shit in a sane manner.
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Sony wants YOU to pirate District 9
You heard it here first: Sony TriStar (the movie distributor) wants you to illegaly download their latest film: District 9. Why? Because there are two months between first release in USA and release in Europe.
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PHP massive security FAIL
A security vulnerability was discovered in WordPress 2.8.3 recently. If you look at the flaw in question, I can’t believe people are still using PHP to publish websites. If you still do, you should be beaten with a stick. Let’s gloat about why Ruby (on Rails) is better, point by point.
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Ai! Amsterdam
As an Amsterdammer, and soon to be living-in-the-center-of-Amsterdammer, a trend of our city’s municipality worries me. This is the trend to make Amsterdam squeeky clean, disallow anything fun, noisy and dirty and turn this old town into an amusement park. This is why I endorse Ai! Amsterdam which aims to change some of the absurd local laws recently passed. i.e. a law forbidding anyone to consume a beverage while standing up. (Yes! Actually true!) If Amsterdam is dear to you, please visit the site and register. I don’t want to live in Disneyland!
Macbook Pro doesn't work with Time Capsule
Time for a vague problem. Yesterday I splurged on a new MacBook Pro 15 inch. But I had huge problems getting it to connect to my wireless network at home. And I am not the only one. Turns out it is incompatible with Time Capsule’s default setting! Argh! Continue reading
Meta parody
I love parodies. I especially love parodies where big, slow and dying industries are mocked. So I saw this Downfall subtitle-parody. See it, it’s hilarious. The real kicker is that Apple, one of the companies briefly featured in the parody, has refused to publish a link (!) to a blog post showing this video in their App Store. Alledgedly because of the word ‘Fuck’ in a subtitle. Sheesh.
Back to your maker
Sometimes I wonder if there are any sane people left. This week, a fundamental Christian organization will deliver a leaflet disclaiming Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to all households in Netherlands. All of them!
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Rails too much focused on technical details?
A new release of Ruby on Rails is imminent, and i am worried. I am worried the focus is too much on attaining nerdvana and not enough on actual productivity. Will Rails still be useful in six months?
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Microsoft Windows is a piece of shit
I’ve been unfortunate to have used Windows just recently. I work on a Mac, but to install a new internet server I needed a piece of software the only runs on Windows. So Daniël lent me his laptop and I proceeded to install the software.