I ran this magazine about electronic music from 2002 to 2009 and had tons of fun writing for it, together with dozens of others. It had been neglected for a while, but the stuff we wrote is just too precious. I relaunched the site in Rails 3.1 making full use of the new asset pipeline.
Omg. Rails3 RC is out! And new iMacs!!! With SSDs!!!!!!!! All on one day! [faints]
Today I launched www.mensenrechtenonderzoek.nl. This is a national survey aimed at three age groups: children 10-12, children 15-18 and adults. It surveys the public knowledge about human rights, especially those related to children.
I’ve officially become a filthy coffee geek today after purchasing a Magister Stella espresso maker. My days of puny consumer-level drip drab coffee are over!
Yesterday marked the launch of the NuPlay website. NuPlay is a very cool new piece of software for digital live performances. My friend Daniël van Gils has developed this software and I have made the website. It’s a very innovative website design, with lots of hidden nooks and crannies. The tool itself is also very innovative. Please visit the site and check out the videos!
I am falling in love with Ruby 1.9 something fierce! There’s a new literal Hash syntax and I am completely smitten!
My new vice: Mint tea.
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I couldn’t resist. Does this make me a fashion victim?
DHH is a smart man.
When I saw his keynote about crud/rest a while ago, I was sceptical. After all, writing controllers in Rails is not exactly a pain, anyway. Why change the current m.o. to use methods like put and delete, when they’re not even supported by browsers?
But restful development didn’t go away and I read more and more about it in the Rails community.
So after upgrading to 1.2.1 I decided to give it a go. And what do you know. It’s actually easier than regular development in Rails! I am telling you one day web applications will simply write themselves. Of course, this kind of sweetness would not be possible without convention over configuration, but still the Rails folks are definitely onto something.
I literally added one line to config/routes.rb and three–count ‘em–three–methods to the new controller. That’s all it took! I am amazed.
I’m still not refactoring my old controllers though. Well, not yet.
