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Mentally challenged Citigroup

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
The security of 200.000 Citigroup customers was compromised recently. But not as part of an elaborate hack or phishing expedition. Citigroup allowed anyone...

Grab the popcorn

8 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Intense debate. Warring factions. Constructive criticism. Fiasco. Unproductive nerd rage. Does this sound intriguing to you? It’s about the current...

Z@ppelin iPhone/iPad app

9 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Now online: the Z@ppelin iPhone/iPad app. I am involved in the back-end of this application, which in this case means most of the content. If you have children...

Smalltalk best practice patterns

10 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
If you’re programming along, doing nicely, and all of a sudden your program gets balky, makes things hard for you, it’s talking. It’s...

CSS3 and HTML5, right now

10 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
There’s plenty of talk about CSS3 and HTML5, but really implementing it all is something else. Thanks to my good friends at xhtmlized and a very forward-looking...

More descriptive error messages for Paperclip

10 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Paperclip is a fine image processor for Ruby on Rails apps. However, its error messages can be a bit terse. To solve, add this to config/environments/test...

Radio 6: De Zwarte Lijst

11 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
One of the nicest things about working for tv/radio is being part of pretty big events with impossible deadlines. De Zwarte Lijst (The Black List if you...

Fixing ASCII-8BIT encoding for Rails 2.3 ERB

12 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
The combination of Ruby 1.9 and Rails is so much fun when it comes to character encoding. Words to adequately describe the sheer joy it gives me are hard...

Why Ruby is so charming

12 months ago by joost on Space Babies.
Part of why the Ruby community is so great is that it seems to attract quirky, ironic, playful and creative people. Can you imagine .NET programmers posting...

Radio 1 gadget

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
For listening to (Dutch) public radio, you can now grab the gadget code here and use it in your Dashboard. (click the down arrow for Google/Hyves/HTML embed...