hyperswitching

My new favorite ruby IDE: RubyMine

2009-04-28T15:50:00.002+02:00

I've been working with RubyMine since a couple of weeks now, and I have to say that I don't use NetBeans anymore. RubyMine is faster, leaner and does it's job a lot better. If you want more reasons, just ask :) Nobody reads this anyhow lol

Safari 4: Google clonium?

2009-02-25T11:43:00.003+01:00

Both Google chrome(chromium) and safari use webkit, but why on earth did apple make an almost 1 on 1 copy of chrome?Can't say I don't like it :DMaybe they should work on making the inspect element thing more like firebug.

Google Reader revamp

2008-12-04T22:42:00.002+01:00

I just noticed the UI of google reader got a relift.The subscription folders are more clear and the whole site seems a bit fasterout

Wanted: Icons in the favorites list of the iPhone

2008-12-03T14:56:00.002+01:00

The Phone-application of my iPhone has this nice favorites list. However it is text-only, and I have all these nice pictures of the people in my phone. So how can I tell the Phone application to show a grid of thumbnails of my contacts?.sigh.

Phusion Passenger / mod_rails

2008-11-27T15:17:00.002+01:00

I was running some mongrel_clusters until today. :) I had read about phusion a couple of times, but only now I took a few minutes to install it. Some things went wrong at first (no rake in $PATH, missing some packages) but the installer notified me about that. Very nice.Installing was a breeze, so now our rails apps run in apache with mod_rails (passenger). We still proxy and serve static content

Hudson rocks

2008-11-19T11:29:00.002+01:00

Last week I've implemented Hudson as our buildserver. Previously, we were using Luntbuild (and cruisecontrol).The installation was a breeze. Installing it as a service was just a click away. We did have some problems with SSL when installing several plugins, so we donwloaded them from theinternet manually.Hudson is a very neat tool, which integrates with http://www.redmine.org thumbs up!

A tiny solution to the email problem: Notification headers

2008-09-24T09:21:00.002+02:00

This is something I was thinking about some time ago... Some of my emails aren't really emails, but system messages. Stuff like "Import failed or succeeded" or a password change request email. Also, most of those emails are only valuable during a brief period of time (The log email of an importer isn't something you need to keep etc). What if there would be a mail header that specifies that an

Switched from putty to poderosa

2008-09-12T11:27:00.001+02:00

I just discovered poderosa. A terminal client. I've used putty for ages, but it doesn't have tabs, local cygwin connections and, very important, the ability to save passwords.Poderosa has it all. The only downside is that it uses .NET, so it isn't as lean as putty. + I don't like the office 2003-like menu bars.

Free JavaRebel license

2008-07-17T11:48:00.003+02:00

ZeroTurnaround offers a free JavaRebel license for a limited time. Go to http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/ and hope the link is still there!JavaRebel allows you to hotreplace classfiles, even when method signatures differ.

NetBeans the best IDE for RoR

2008-04-16T14:00:00.002+02:00

I'm an IDE junky. I like productivity. So far all IDEs for Ruby on Rails have been crappy. Since a few weeks I've been using NetBeans, and it is the best by far.That is why I wanted to do a post about it. But lifeonrails has beaten me by 6 months ;)One thing he forgot to mention was CTRL + SHIFT + A to switch from controller <-> view

Logitech diNovo Mini Review

2008-04-15T12:27:00.003+02:00

Hi guys.I'm reviewing the Logitech diNovo Mini today. The diNovoMini is a small wireless bluetooth keyboard and mouse combination perfect for HTPCs and the PS3. It acts just like a normal keyboard and mouse so it should be compatible with any device that supports a usb or bluetooth mouse and/or keyboard. A bluetooth usb dongle is provided.First of all the diNovo Mini is SMALL. I'd say it's the

Google App Engine

2008-04-08T10:14:00.002+02:00

I just discovered that google has released a preview of Google App Engine. What it basically does, is allow you to create webapplications in python and let it scale on the google cloud. They have a data store + sql-like query language (GQL). I'm going to digg ;) in to it soon, to see what it's like. Unfortunately they don't have a ruby or java framework. But I assume they do allow for django, or

Singularity (C# / .NET OS) source released

2008-03-04T22:00:00.003+01:00

Microsoft has released the source of Singularity, an operating system bulit in C#.Link for the source code on codeplexSome videos on channel9 about singularity for those wanting to see it in action:Singularity: A research OS written in C#Singularity RevisitedSingularity III: Revenge of the SIP Singularity IV: Return of the UIIn short: The os is pretty cool, and does some compile time stuff that

Deferred debug logging

2008-02-22T11:49:00.004+01:00

This is not RoR specific or log4j specific. This is just something that'd be really nice. And I'll implement it soon in RoR...In production, you don't want tons of logging. If something goes wrong, you wish you had set the loglevel to debug, right? ;)So the idea is this:The loglevel is set to info.Someone makes a request.The logger logs everything as if it was on debug-level, but all in memory.If

Capistrano

2008-02-21T23:39:00.003+01:00

Ok.. I got this book RoR for Java Developers from my friend. While browsing through the book, I noticed capistrano, and I really want to play with that; it looks like deployment heaven :DI installed redmine, which I like, and looked at the source of both redmine and rforum. redmine is more ruby'ish, but pretty obscure sometimes. rforum is probably the way I'll start out making my apps. Java like

RoR Deployment

2008-02-19T16:09:00.004+01:00

So.. I've been reading about RoR and deployment here and there. Basically it all comes down to running a mongrel for each cpu.But what if you run 40 rails apps on a single box? will that result in 160 mongrels on a quad-core? And 40*50mb = 2GB of ram?Isn't it possible to run multiple rails applications on a single mongrel?Also, I'd like to know if there is some sort of tool that will manage

Hilversumse heide

2008-02-12T19:45:00.001+01:00

Last weekend I went to the Hilversume Heide with Sanne, my gf. It didn't show up on my Garmin GPS, and I couldn't find it on google maps, but here's the spot we sat: Link on google maps, the middle bump is where we spent most of the time

Template disaster

2008-01-31T14:44:00.000+01:00

I recently changed my template to this really nice one from http://www.ilemoned.com/wordpress/wptheme-greenery. I just posted link to the A:K announcement, and noticed that my template was all crappered. Turns out photobucket traffic exceeded. I'm going to upload the images to Blogger Images in a post and make the post invisible.I don't like having theimages on another server :)

MMO Strategy For Your Cell Phone

2008-01-31T14:40:00.001+01:00

Bloomsix got dugg with Armada: Kingdoms. I hope it'll turn out to be a success.

The story of haphap.nl

2008-01-25T14:43:00.000+01:00

Hey guys (and girls ofcourse),So.. A few years ago, Maurice and I launched a dutch site where you can order food online. It's called haphap.nl . Now, we were doing some adwords, and we got some orders, but only a few per week. We had this idea about creating not only an order site, but also a whole community to talk about what you ordered, and we thought of a widget (note that this was 2004) for

Still no google toolbar for firefox 3

2008-01-25T13:14:00.000+01:00

As some of you might know, firefox-3 beta-2 is out for some time now, but still there is no google toolbar for it. So, if you're listening Google, compile your toolbar :DI don't really like the new address bar (history), but it's ok.PS: Someone teach me how to blog!

Free mobile wallpaper corpping service

2008-01-25T12:54:00.000+01:00

Still only in Dutch, but here you can upload a picture, select your phone and crop a part of your picture. The result will be a perfect fitting wallpaper for your mobile phone.

Philips CD4401S/22 Review

2007-12-11T14:49:00.000+01:00

Today my new cordless phone for my home arrived. I ordered a Philips CD4401S/22 at internetwarenhuis. The reason I chose this phone is because the handsfree was supposed to be very good. My previous phone was another philips phone, but it occasionally resets for some reason since a few months. Overal it's a descent phone, although there are some things that could be better. Here are my

Awesome video about the web2.0 bubble

2007-12-05T13:57:00.000+01:00

Just found this video via http://www.dutchcowboys.nl/video/12117 It's about the web 2.0 bubble duh. Anyay. I love it :) Especially after our Silicon Valley Adventure..

StringBuffer / StringBuilder performance improvements

2007-11-22T14:30:00.000+01:00

Lately I've been thinking about some (possible) performance improvements for StringBuffer / StringBuilder:Now, SBs are designed to work with char-arrays, because they are mutable, and if you append a value, you don't need to create extra objects. In most use-cases, an SB will be used to concatenate some (String)values. Most people don't set the initialCapacity, because that requires some extra