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Colors in Capistrano

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Wow, purdee colors in my Capistrano output!...

Launched today: human rights survey

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Today I launched www.mensenrechtenonderzoek.nl. This is a national survey aimed at three age groups: children 10-12, children 15-18 and adults. It surveys...

Advertisement opt-out

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I just discovered this page, which presumably opts me out from receiving targeted ads. Yey! No idea if this actually works, but seems like a good idea....

Rails on Google App Engine

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Google has just announced Java support for their App Engine. So what? Ruby on Rails on teh Google is what! Yes, sir, you too can deploy your Rails application...

I heart Rack Middleware

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
This Scaling Rails episode led me to the Rack Contrib project on GitHub. This project contains some pretty neat middleware that can be a huge time-saver...

First International Longest Tweet Contest

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
How many data can you put in a Tweet? Well, 140 characters. Think again. By using encoding software, like ZIP, you can put a whole lot more into one little...

Transmit your production database

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I wrote a small Ruby on Rails plugin that transmits the production database. It works either way: from the server to your local computer or from your computer...

HTML5 on a major national website

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Yesterday I promised to blog about my work with HTML5 and a major .nl website. The website in question is radio1.nl and early this morning I relaunched...

Cross-browser HTML5 audio tag

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
HTML5, the next version of the language of the web, is a wonderful thing. It’s a real step forward in terms of semantics and making browsers more powerful...

Teh ultimate email regexp

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Validating e-mail addresses can be a pain. Most of the time you want some syntax checking, just to prevent the most horrible abuse. But more often than...