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MegaMythen: play with the Greek Gods

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
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...

Cross-browser testing

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
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...

Start a new git remote branch

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
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...

Rails 3

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Z0mg Ruby on Rails 3.0 has hit beta....

Open Source ftw

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
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.My...

Throttle ActiveRecord creation

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
One of the sites I maintain, www.radio1.nl, was recently bombarded by GeenStijl. This is the Dutch equivalent of a slashdotting. The app held up quite well...

Art with an internet connection

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
A nice piece of art: A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter is a black box with an internet connection. Every time someone buys it, it seeks connection to the...

Now online: Z@PPmixer

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
For once a web app not done by me, although I did the single-sign-on in the back end. The Z@PPmixer is all new and improved. It’s a tool (FOR KIDS) to...

Wikileaks needs your donation

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I just donated €20 to Wikileaks. Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational...

Nederlandse Spoorwegen makes customers hate them

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Strong words? Yes, indeed. Though I have the SMTP-headers to prove the fact that NS (Dutch Railways) actively hates their customers and wants to annoy them...