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So let it be houze

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
For an as of yet undisclosable project I am researching house in all it’s various incarnations. It only took me three searches to land in the realm of...

DHH Keynote

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I am not only an Apple fanboi, but also a Rails fanboi. What do fanbois do? They watch keynotes from their heroes. Here’s the one DHH did at RailsConf2010...

AT&T hates customers

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
In my series “corporations are amoral” here is a new installment. It’s all over teh interwebs that an AT&T customer emailed the AT&T CEO and was ...

Components in Rails

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I’m at RailsWayCon2010 and yesterday attended ‘Small is Sexy’ by Nick Sutterer. Besides funny, it was a great little presentation from someone yearning...

CouchDB as document store

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
I am at RailsWayCon 2010 and just enjoyed a pleasant presentation by Jonathan Weiss. He told us about CouchDB as a document store and why it rocks. Why...

I heart git

over 1 year ago by joost on Space Babies.
You only appreciate fast version control when you’re on a slow link. Thank you Linus for creating git, I would have gone insane without it today! PS...

Modernizing RSpec

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
A recent blog post on the Rubyonrails weblog led me to a great presentation about modernizing specs written in RSpec. In the everlasting quest to reduce...

This is what happens when you screw people

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
When you screw people, eventually they are going to screw you back. This is exactly what is happening with Adobe right now. They have been hurting their...

Migration to Ruby 1.9.1

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Today I migrated one of my apps to Ruby 1.9.1. Just for fun. It actually went quite well. There were a couple of issues, most of them related to old gems...

Z@PPzone: a world for kids

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
This week saw the launch of Z@PPzone: an new online world/game for children. It revolves around the five Z@PP characters Chica, B.B., Lizz, Olec and Spark...