joost

Observation


over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Imagine this prediction twenty years ago: “in 2008, the world’s richest people are Russian, and the US has nationalised its largest private banksâ€...

Github ftw


over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It’s such a good idea that it’s strange nobody thought of it sooner. Create a site where all the geeks in the land can host their code and easily work...

Rails 2.2 is almost here


over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
The next major release of Rails is just about ready. There’s a ton of improvements. If you do stuff with Rails, it’s worth checking out the releaseOne...

Irony


over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5c97d4ff29cfd944da751f01177a3024626d57bb...

Connecting to a SOAP service in Ruby


over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
When connecting to services and APIs, I tend to follow the rule that simpler is always better. SOAP is one of these services where you don’t need any...

Very cool Dutch coinage


over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It took a US blog to point out to me: this cool new Dutch coin with a smashing design on it. The creator used only Open Source software to create the design...

Rails 2.2: not yet


~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Ahhh, darn it. The Rails core team is preparing for a second release candidate, which means Rails 2.2 will not be released soon. I do understand it though...

Keeping an eye on Validatable


~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Stumbled across this when I was researching the validation order in Active Record. It looks like validations in Rails will be refactored in a hefty way...

ApplicationController to receive normal name


~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
There are things in life that make perfect sense, until someone points out how illogical it really is. I am not being philosophical (for once). In Ruby...

Test driven development: take a step back


~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
When you do Ruby on Rails development for a living, Test Driven Development is a given. I would be very uncomfortable without tests, most likely I couldn...