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Rails too much focused on technical details?

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
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...

Ruby 1.9 is here

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It seems that Ruby 1.9 is finally here (thanks Lenmeister). The latest version of my current favorite scripting language promises speed above all and decent...

Nested models now really in Rails

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have blogged about this before, but the feature was pulled from Rails because it wasn’t complete. Now it’s finally in: support nested models in forms...

Commercials for radio1

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Radio 1 in .nl has introduced a new slogan: “een en al nieuws” (one and all news) and there are commercials to celebrate. I think they could have chosen...

Subversion visualisation

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
My coworker Bartz has rendered a cool visualisation of all commits to the Omroep repository (my work for www.radio1.nl and www.zapp.nl). Codeswarm visualization...

Wordpress-style forms in Rails

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Today I completed something I should have done half a year earlier. In the Z@PP admin CMS, I use Wordpress-style forms. These have lots of repeating table...

Websites that worry me

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It is 2009 and still websites are launched completely vulnerable to SQL injection and CSRF. This worries me. It seems websites, even high-profile ones,...

Choosing a javascript framework

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It has been several years since I last coded any javascript by hand. Since it’s a pain to test in different browsers and does not come with smart methods...

Obama’s robots.txt pwnage

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It seems someone with half a brain is in charge of whitehouse.gov since today. Their robots.txt went from 2400 lines to two…...

Amazing jQuery effects

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
This post is basically for my future self. Check out this post with 45 jQuery effects. I am sure I am going to use a few of these in upcoming projects....