Archive for the ‘ rants ’ Category
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 [ READ MORE ]
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! [ READ MORE ]
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? [ READ MORE ]
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. [ READ MORE ]
When you do Ruby on Rails development for a living, Test Driven Development is a given. I would be very uncomfortable without tests, most likely I couldn’t do a job at all. So far, so good. But RoR, being the hottest web framework there is, draws a very “alpha geek” crowd. You know, people who [ READ MORE ]
For years I’ve been keeping an eye open for a new house in Amsterdam. So far, no luck. They are either too cheap or too expensive. (This is a common problem for the Dutch housing market.) But what continues to amaze me, is how incredibly shitty most websites in this sector are. They are bad, [ READ MORE ]
In six weeks time, Holland will join the other developed countries of this world and the smoking ban in bars and restaurants will go in effect. And recently I have found myself more and more annoyed by people smoking. The funny thing is, I never used to be anti-smoking like this. In fact I considered [ READ MORE ]
So I work on a few Rails apps that need i18n. I thought the purrrrrfect tool to do this with would be Globalize. It seemed the most active and the least cumbersome. But lo and behold. The project has disappeared from the face of the earth and left me fucking screwed! How is that for [ READ MORE ]
Hilarious post about someone trying to install the new Photoshop Elements. And so true… it’s a sad state with Adobe apps. [ READ MORE ]
Dutch union lady Agnes Jongerius proposes a mandatory women-quote for public companies per 2020. Fourty percent of every publicly traded NV’s board should be female. I happen to agree. [ READ MORE ]