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Unrelated: food

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
With a newborn in the house, it starts to become quite clear that many of the food we eat is in fact not very healthy. Case in point: breakfast cerealsIn...

ActiveResource Twitter client

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Every tech blog should have a post about a Twitter client. Here’s mine. To be fair, my client has only 8 lines of code, so it rocks. To update a Twitter...

Presenters in Ruby on Rails

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Ruby on Rails is all about Model View Controller (MVC). This is a web development technique to separate database, html and code. This is a smart idea since...

Installing ImageMagick on Snow Leopard

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Getting ImageMagick onto your computer would be so incredibly difficult I would often just forgo the entire thing and pray that image manipulation would...

Simulating JSON PUT in Rails

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I am currently working on a JSON API for a game that is to be launched in February. The game developer and I have decided on it to communicatie between...

Kom maar op

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Follows the inevitable post for our Dutch audience: “my” channel Z@PP has recently shot a video based on their pay off KOM MAAR OP. It’s with all...

Check for DNSBL inside Rails app

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Quite a few years ago I wrote a plugin for Ruby on Rails. It checks incoming client connections against DNS Blackhole Lists. It has worked quite well over...

Elfproef validation in Rails

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Oops, did it again… I moved my second plugin to Github just now. This one checks a bank account number in a Rails application to see if it’s valid....

Generating an Ajax loading image

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Remember how you used to Google Image Search to rip a decent loader image? Yes you! Don’t do that any more. Use Ajaxload to generate your own purty loader...

Skipping gem docs on production server

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Just thought about this now: skipping gem documentation on the production server. Makes much more sense....