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Presenters in Ruby on Rails

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Ruby on Rails is all about Model View Controller (MVC). This is a web development technique to separate database, html and code. This is a smart idea since...

ActiveResource Twitter client

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Every tech blog should have a post about a Twitter client. Here’s mine. To be fair, my client has only 8 lines of code, so it rocks. To update a Twitter...

Unrelated: food

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

File uploads in Ruby on Rails

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

New: Oorkaan

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have also recently launched www.oorkaan.nl. This is the restyled website of Oorkaan. They organize concerts and musical productions for children. They...

Six essential Rails plugins

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Over the years a pattern has emerged in my utilization of Rails plugins. These plugins have become so essential to my development workflow, that I canâ...

Zappelin restyle live

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Oh goodie! The new Zappelin website was launched just five minutes ago. I built the (HTML part of the) website in Ruby on Rails. It was a joy to create...

The Web, all grown up

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I am one of those old-skool web developers who write code using a text editor (vi, not emacs). Still I do appreciate evolutions in my field. And after completely...

Teh ultimate Snow Leopard review

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
OMG. I just finished the ultimate Snow Leopard review. Took me longer than Lord of the Rings! (yes, the book) It’s thourough, my friends. And technical...

I promised

over 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
to give you a whole slew of new/restyled websites and I am keeping my word. Today saw the launch of the whole-new www.omroep.nl (sort of like the BBC of...