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Easiest localization of Rails 2.2.2

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Here is a common use case: localize all built-in strings and date formats of a Rails application in just one language. I don’t need to switch dynamically...

Nanoc Haml Vlad = heaven

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Sorry for the acronym soup, but part of my job is research and development of new website building techniques. I have found a neat and fast way of maintaining...

Amazing jQuery effects

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
This post is basically for my future self. Check out this post with 45 jQuery effects. I am sure I am going to use a few of these in upcoming projects....

Obama’s robots.txt pwnage

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It seems someone with half a brain is in charge of whitehouse.gov since today. Their robots.txt went from 2400 lines to two…...

Choosing a javascript framework

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It has been several years since I last coded any javascript by hand. Since it’s a pain to test in different browsers and does not come with smart methods...

Websites that worry me

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It is 2009 and still websites are launched completely vulnerable to SQL injection and CSRF. This worries me. It seems websites, even high-profile ones,...

Wordpress-style forms in Rails

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Today I completed something I should have done half a year earlier. In the Z@PP admin CMS, I use Wordpress-style forms. These have lots of repeating table...

Subversion visualisation

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
My coworker Bartz has rendered a cool visualisation of all commits to the Omroep repository (my work for www.radio1.nl and www.zapp.nl). Codeswarm visualization...

Commercials for radio1

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Radio 1 in .nl has introduced a new slogan: “een en al nieuws” (one and all news) and there are commercials to celebrate. I think they could have chosen...

Nested models now really in Rails

~3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have blogged about this before, but the feature was pulled from Rails because it wasn’t complete. Now it’s finally in: support nested models in forms...