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Rails on Ruby 1.9.2: every POST failing?

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I ran into a nice problem today. Every POST to a Ruby on Rails on Ruby 1.9.2 app was failing. The error was nasty, too: the dreaded FAILSAFE which tells...

Expedition Chemistry

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
This month I finalized the construction of Expedition Chemistry: a website for children with a lot of (chemical) experiments. Since it’s a Dutch...

Fixing MySQL encoding issues with Ruby 1.9.2

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
There have been tens, hundreds, thousands blogs posts related to Latin1/UTF8 encoding issues. So here is yet another, this time related to upgrading from...

Icons! Icons! Icons!

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
Huge collection of free icon sets....

UPC Customer service FAIL

~1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
Honest to God, actual autoreply from UPC (our cable company, possibly the worst customer support in the world): Let op: onderstaande link verwijst naar...

Geocities

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
Most of geocities.com has been released as a torrent. All 900 GB of it. I can’t decide what intrigues me the most: that apparently I could put all...

HTML5 video (Adobe roxorz? does not compute)

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
Very strange things are happening. Not pigs flying, even stranger. Adobe have released a very awesome HTML5 video player with Flash fallback. It’s open...

Panda Maas

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I’ve developed the back end for Panda Maas, a Flash site aimed at children. The entire website is Rails 3 on SQLite with a great deal of cache optimizations...

WordPress: exclude child categories

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
Sometimes the simples things can take hours to discover. This is especially true for WordPress, whose documentation can be atrocious. I wanted to exclude...

Using git to follow Subversion branches

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
Reluctantly, I’ve had to migrate some projects back to Subversion. Thankfully git-svn is great. It even follows Subversion branches as local git branches...