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Dutch national TV: Z@ppelin feliciteert!

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Quite a few weeks ago I completed an application to submit your birthday boy or girl for Z@ppelin. It features birthday cake recipes, on-the-fly PDF generation...

The ActiveRecord that would not save

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have just seriously spent four hours debugging the most inane bug, this year, so far. In an ActiveRecord before_create method, I was setting a boolean...

Migrate all tables to utf-8

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
If you’re like me, you maintain a mix of both old and new Rails apps. If you’re even more like me, you have no Rails apps that store Latin1 data any...

RailsWayCon: I am attending

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Being part of the Rails community is great. It’s filled with admirable people like Katz, Koz, en Fuchs. All are active Rails core members. So I decided...

Fake Multiple Table Inheritance

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
For many years now a pattern has emerged in my Rails websites. Most models will have Title, Description, Online at, Offline at, Is visible, Url and Image_file_name...

Unobtrusive mp3 player

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Last year, unobtrusive javascript really hit the scene and my sites no exception. I’ve been perfecting the technique to show an mp3 audio player, which...

Election special

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Seems like the crisis in our parliament has become global news. Guess “our boys” did some fine things in Uruzgan. Too bad the majority of the country...

Humor

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
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SQL query logging in Wordpress

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
After doing Rails development for so long, it’s ….. interesting to develop for other platforms once in a while. I am talking about WPMU, a pretty fantastic...

Apple pulls sexual content from iTunes

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Apple, as puritan as any US company, has pulled all sexual apps from the iTunes store after “complaints”. Mysteriously, all the violent games remain...