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Move from MySQL to PostgreSQL?

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I am sure many of you reading this have received Michael’s plea this morning as well. The original developer of the MySQL database is worried that his...

Foreign keys in Ruby on Rails

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
For a long time I have been searching for built-in foreign keys in Ruby on Rails. For some reason, the core developers don’t think it’s particularly...

Web 2.0 suicide machine

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
As much a brilliant idea as it is funny: the web 2.0 suicide machine. One click of a button removes you from many social networks, deletes your tweets,...

Nederlandse Spoorwegen makes customers hate them

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Strong words? Yes, indeed. Though I have the SMTP-headers to prove the fact that NS (Dutch Railways) actively hates their customers and wants to annoy them...

Wikileaks needs your donation

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I just donated €20 to Wikileaks. Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational...

Now online: Z@PPmixer

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
For once a web app not done by me, although I did the single-sign-on in the back end. The Z@PPmixer is all new and improved. It’s a tool (FOR KIDS) to...

Art with an internet connection

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
A nice piece of art: A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter is a black box with an internet connection. Every time someone buys it, it seeks connection to the...

Throttle ActiveRecord creation

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
One of the sites I maintain, www.radio1.nl, was recently bombarded by GeenStijl. This is the Dutch equivalent of a slashdotting. The app held up quite well...

Open Source ftw

~2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I love open source. And I love contributing to open source projects. Every time one of my patches is accepted into a project, I can’t help but smile.My...

Rails 3

almost 2 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Z0mg Ruby on Rails 3.0 has hit beta....