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 always flock to the latest and greatest thing. You see, testing is out. Speccing is in. And I don’t like it.
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, really, really really bad.
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 it quite normal (though having never smoked myself) for people to smoke. Continue reading
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 Open Source? Continue reading
Hilarious post about someone trying to install the new Photoshop Elements. And so true… it’s a sad state with Adobe apps.
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.
Well there you go. Today, my license to Adobe Fireworks has stopped working. Mind you, this is a product I have purchased quite legally. I have never issued it to anyone. I have even diligently installed it to only one computer. Yet today Adobe has decided that my license has expired/is invalid/has been deactivated/whatever.
This is painful and it reinforces my belief in the sad state of Adobe software. Their products are overpriced and underpowered. I vowe not to use their crap again until they have significantly stepped up their game.
I am installing Pixelmator as I type this. Fuck you Adobe!
My Adobe apps are bugging me and I regret ever having purchased them. I will make sure not to purchase one of their slow proggies ever again.
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My favorite site (NOT) is bugging me once again. Fix your damn CAPTCHA, myspace! Continue reading
Allrighty! The cat is out of the bag. Zed Shaw, creater of the Mongrel web server, has finally snapped! He’s always been a funny sort of guy, and I really do appreciate his style. Also, Mongrel is a fantastic web server even though I am using LiteSpeed myself. Anywho. Check out this rant from good ole Zed. Ouch! Brutal!