May the Force be with you

TL;DR — This is my personal tech blog. I write here about a variety of topics that currently occupy my mind. You may (or may not) find them useful to you.
I'm living with my S.O. in Breugel, the Netherlands and I'm employed at Kabisa ICT.

• What happened to downloading games from The Pirate Bay? 19 May 2012
• Running a different ruby with Passenger 3.2 and RVM 11 May 2012
• Decorating Devise's current_user with Draper 14 Apr 2012
• Eindhoven.rb Lightning Talk: Gitlab 06 Apr 2012
• Showing Ruby, Rails and git info in your app 02 Apr 2012
• From 11.34s to 0.625s for opening a .rb file in Vim 21 Mar 2012
• Redis using 2GB of memory on 70MB data set - the fix 21 Mar 2012
• Open Source is a privilege. Not a right. 20 Mar 2012
• Removing untracked files and directories with git 10 Jan 2012
• Recursively fixing file and directory permissions 13 Dec 2011
• Upgrade postgresql-8.4 to postgresql-9.1 on debian 22 Nov 2011
• Deploying a third-party Rails application - like Gitlab 18 Nov 2011
• Contributing to Open-Source with Github 09 Nov 2011
• Fixing a slow starting Terminal or iTerm2 on Mac OS X 08 Nov 2011
• Installing Node.js and NPM on Ubuntu/Debian 24 Oct 2011
• Automatically switch between SSL and non-SSL with Nginx+Unicorn+Rails 22 Oct 2011
• Rails 3: Customized exception handling 14 Oct 2011
• Fast specs - Run your specs in less than 1 second 13 Oct 2011
• Testing Rails 3 scopes revisited 09 Oct 2011
• Properly testing Rails 3 scopes 25 Sep 2011
• RSpec speed-up (24.6%) by tweaking ruby garbage collection 24 Sep 2011
• Capistrano and the custom maintenance page 19 Sep 2011
• Lighting fast, zero-downtime deployments with git, capistrano, nginx and Unicorn 14 Sep 2011
• Git: checkout a single file from another commit or branch 13 Sep 2011
• Git: remove, reset and rollback commits 08 Sep 2011
• Git Log: What did I do yesterday, exactly? 24 Aug 2011
• Git: Squash your latests commits into one 05 Jul 2011
• Your Mac slow? Disable Spotlight in Snow Leopard 27 Jun 2011
• Git: What files were changed since the last release? 24 Jun 2011
• Crowd sourcing your BitCoin mining 23 Jun 2011
• Vows and CoffeeScript 10 Jun 2011
• Rake with namespaces and default tasks 04 Apr 2011
• Rails 3 + Devise + Uploadify = No Flash Session Hacks 27 Mar 2011
• Narf: A Ruby Micro Test Framework 11 Feb 2011
• Using your Firefly URL Shortener with Twitter for iPhone 07 Feb 2011
• Hot: Firefly 1.3.0 URL Shortener released 01 Feb 2011
• Rake task to sync your assets to Amazon S3/Cloudfront 01 Jan 2011
• Now powered by Heroku 31 Dec 2010
• Public Readable Amazon S3 Bucket Policy 24 Dec 2010
• Why did error_messages_for disappear from Rails 3? 15 Dec 2010
• Hide "Last login:" on bash login 25 Nov 2010
• Clear your MySQL password 26 Oct 2010
• SenTestCase: XCBuildLogCommandInvocationSection error in XCode 3.2 12 Oct 2010
• Setup a PPTP VPN connection on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 12 Oct 2010
• Setup a Ubuntu VPN server 11 Oct 2010
• Firefly 1.1.0 adds QR Codes for your shortened URLs 02 Oct 2010
• Precompile SASS to CSS for deployment to Heroku 28 Sep 2010
• Mass convert WMA to MP3 using ffmpeg and ruby 11 Sep 2010
• Resque: how to requeue failed jobs 23 Aug 2010
• Using multiple clipboards in Vim 09 Aug 2010
• Rename a git branch 09 Aug 2010
• How to enable SSH Forwarding on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 29 Jul 2010
• Screencast: Firefly URL shortener in less than 2.5 minutes 12 Jul 2010
• Cherry-Picking specific commits from another branch 10 Jun 2010
• Uploading files with Curl 07 Jun 2010
• Firefly 0.4.3 and Firefly Client 0.4.0 released 06 Jun 2010
• Setup your own Firefly URL shortener in 2.5 minutes 06 Jun 2010
• Upgrading to Mongoid Beta 6 30 May 2010
• Bundler + Passenger with Rails 2.3.5? Yes, please! 17 May 2010
• Firefly 0.4.1 released 30 Apr 2010
• Ruby version and gemset in your Bash prompt? Yes sir! 25 Apr 2010
• A new day, a new Firefly 14 Apr 2010
• Get ready for Firefly 0.3! 13 Apr 2010
• Detect browser Web Sockets support 05 Apr 2010
• Announcing Firefly, a ruby URL shortener 29 Mar 2010
• Really? Another Sinatra URL Shortener in Ruby? 28 Mar 2010
• Installing the Nokogiri ruby gem on Debian 25 Mar 2010
• How a little varnish changed my life 24 Mar 2010
• Ariejan.net now in valid HTML5 24 Mar 2010
• Shields up! Rrrack alert! 22 Mar 2010
• How to order your Kindle from the Netherlands 02 Feb 2010
• Sign the petition: Stop EU Software Patents 19 Jan 2010
• The epic e-reading experience: Amazone Kindle 17 Jan 2010
• Epic TextMate Theme 24 Nov 2009
• How to create and apply a patch with Git 26 Oct 2009
• They are just tools, people! 25 Oct 2009
• Git problem: error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename 15 Oct 2009
• Epic vs. Awesome 13 Oct 2009
• Valerii: 32-base string encoder and decoder 13 Oct 2009
• Codaset.com: Github, but better 08 Sep 2009
• Git Tag Mini Cheat Sheet Revisited 05 Sep 2009
• Git Tag Mini Cheat Sheet 04 Sep 2009
• Rails + MySQL: Case-Sensitive strings in your database 03 Sep 2009
• JInput Mac OS X 64 bit natives 01 Sep 2009
• Once and for all: Rails migrations integer :limit option 20 Aug 2009
• Speaking at Rails Underground 14 Jun 2009
• IMDB Ruby Gem 0.4.0 Now available at RubyForge! 14 Jun 2009
• Best Practice - The Git Development Cycle 08 Jun 2009
• ActiveRecord: Skipping callbacks like after_save or after_update 07 Jun 2009
• has_one - find all that have no associated object 07 Jun 2009
• IMDB 0.3.0 now including console utility - query IMDB from your console 07 Jun 2009
• Install Hpricot on Ubuntu 05 Jun 2009
• Ruby Gem: IMDB 03 Jun 2009
• Speak louder! I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am! 22 May 2009
• Second RubyFest Speaker: Geoffrey Grosenbach 06 May 2009
• Available for iPhone Development 28 Apr 2009
• Compacting a SQLite3 DB file 23 Apr 2009
• How to create a DSA OpenSSL certificate 19 Apr 2009
• MacBook Pro: Black Screen of Death (or is it just faking?) 05 Apr 2009
• May 14th: RubyFest! 31 Mar 2009
• warcraft-armory 0.1.0 Released 07 Feb 2009
• Pagerank 3, 19k Hits/Month 30 Jan 2009
• How To Start A Rails Edge App The Easy Way 04 Jan 2009
• Twitterlicious! 27 Dec 2008
• Google FriendConnect now on Ariejan.net 03 Dec 2008
• Export CSV directly from MySQL 27 Nov 2008
• SQL: Ordering with NULL values 14 Nov 2008
• RSpec'ing with Time.now 05 Nov 2008
• BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App 28 Sep 2008
• JRuby with Thomas Enebo 03 Sep 2008
• Panel Discussion with DHH and Rails Core Members 03 Sep 2008
• JRuby with Nick Sieger 02 Sep 2008
• RailsConfEurope: The first tutorial 02 Sep 2008
• Leaving for RailsConf Europe 2008 01 Sep 2008
• ActiveRecord Read Only Model 17 Aug 2008
• Skinny Controllers and Overweight Models 17 Aug 2008
• Useless Ruby Gems for your pleasure 14 Aug 2008
• Ruby on Rails: UUID as your ActiveRecord primary key 12 Aug 2008
• Ariejan.net Link Party 07/21/2008 21 Jul 2008
• Ariejan.net Link Party 07/17/2008 17 Jul 2008
• Photography Heaven 11 Jul 2008
• Ariejan.net Link Party 07/10/2008 10 Jul 2008
• How to digg-proof your WordPress blog 09 Jul 2008
• Ariejan.net Link Party 07/08/2008 08 Jul 2008
• Zoek jij 'n uitdagende baan?? 06 Jun 2008
• The best IT books hand-picked for you! 30 May 2008
• The migration that cannot be undone: Irreversible Migration 06 May 2008
• How to: Compile packages on Debian/Ubuntu by hand 04 May 2008
• GIT: Using the stash 23 Apr 2008
• Permanently redirect WordPress pages 15 Apr 2008
• Debian Etch: RMagick LoadError 10 Apr 2008
• Here we go again: WordPress 2.5 09 Apr 2008
• Rails Snippet: Caching expensive calls 09 Apr 2008
• Enabling Trac Email notifications 09 Apr 2008
• Ruby on Rails plugin: Throttler 07 Feb 2008
• The Presidents of the United States of America Live 25 Jan 2008
• Your help is needed! - Railsjobs.nl 22 Jan 2008
• Roles: Admins pretending to be users! 19 Jan 2008
• Attack of the Killer Bunnies 15 Jan 2008
• Kabisa Blog 13 Jan 2008
• Review: Parking London 03 Jan 2008
• Write a DVD-Video from the Linux console 31 Dec 2007
• For You: Merry Christmas and a Happy 2008!!! 20 Dec 2007
• Run Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 natively on Mac OS X Leopard or Tiger 12 Dec 2007
• How to install MySQL on Ubuntu/Debian 12 Dec 2007
• Wil jij mijn collega zijn? - Kabisa is hiring! 07 Dec 2007
• Rails: calculated column caching 06 Dec 2007
• MySQL: (Re)set the auto-increment value of a table 30 Nov 2007
• RailsJobs.nl - Ruby on Rails Jobs in The Netherlands 27 Nov 2007
• Bash it! - Number of messages in Postfix queue 15 Nov 2007
• Party time! 17 Oct 2007
• Google increases storage! 08 Oct 2007
• Flash not clearing after a request? 26 Sep 2007
• Wordpress 2.3 released! 25 Sep 2007
• The Glorious Canon EOS 400D Digital 25 Sep 2007
• Rails 2.0 New Features 24 Sep 2007
• Whooop - here it is! The new Ariejan.net! 24 Sep 2007
• RailsConf Europe 2007! 17 Sep 2007
• 10 reasons why Microsoft's 10 reasons not to use Google Apps suck 11 Sep 2007
• Content_for, yield and making sure something gets displayed 01 Sep 2007
• Blueprint 0.5 Rails Plugin released 31 Aug 2007
• BlueprintCSS Rails Generator 27 Aug 2007
• Super Simple Authentication Plugin and Generator 24 Aug 2007
• Using Iconv to convert UTF-8 to ASCII (on Linux) 21 Aug 2007
• I’m back in business! 20 Aug 2007
• Kabisa, RailsConf Europe and Ariejan.net 20 Aug 2007
• I’m Back! 01 Aug 2007
• Ariejan.net - What’s next? 16 Jul 2007
• Clear DNS Cache on your router 07 Jul 2007
• Some DNS problems with Ariejan.net 06 Jul 2007
• How to write a Rails Plugin (for controllers) 06 Jul 2007
• How to resolve Subversion Conflicts 04 Jul 2007
• How to create and apply a patch with Subversion 03 Jul 2007
• Got updates? 03 Jul 2007
• How to force data to be downloaded as a file from your Rails app 02 Jul 2007
• ActiveScaffold + acts_as_taggable + Auto Complete 01 Jul 2007
• AJAX Rules! 80 JavaScript Solutions for professional coding 21 Jun 2007
• Rails production server setup and deployment on Ubuntu/Debian 20 Jun 2007
• Action Mailer: All mail comes from MAILER DAEMON 20 Jun 2007
• Geslaagd! / Passed my final exams! 19 Jun 2007
• Buy it now! Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 14 Jun 2007
• BASH your SVN and Trac installation! 12 Jun 2007
• ActiveScaffold, Acts_as_taggable_on_steroids 11 Jun 2007
• Find and Replace with a MySQL Query 10 Jun 2007
• Send mail with a BASH Shell Script 10 Jun 2007
• Ultimate List of Ruby Resources 10 Jun 2007
• Coming up: Ubuntu Development Server Guide 07 Jun 2007
• Trac, WebAdmin plugin and global configuration 30 May 2007
• Slow connections with ProFTPD 29 May 2007
• Installing RMagick Ruby Gem on Mac OS X 10.4.9 29 May 2007
• BAT - TER - Y 28 May 2007
• MERGE request failed on ‘/path/to/file’ 21 May 2007
• FeedBurner acquired by Google! 18 May 2007
• Rails Snippet: Write like Orwell with to_sentence 09 May 2007
• Ariejan.net server move 29 Apr 2007
• Rails, Resources and Permalinks 12 Apr 2007
• TipSnippet: Create a RSS feed 03 Apr 2007
• What do you want for AutoFlickr? 02 Apr 2007
• 5 Reasons why PC OEMs should offer Linux 29 Mar 2007
• Rails Tip Snippet: Create a comma-seperate list 27 Mar 2007
• Subversion: How to revert to a previous revision 27 Mar 2007
• Speedlinking: Top 28 startup resources 25 Mar 2007
• Be productive! 37 things you can do on the toilet 23 Mar 2007
• Rails Tip Snippet: Logging informational messages to your log 22 Mar 2007
• 26 Things you can do with an old PC 21 Mar 2007
• 8 Great ways to use Google for your start-up 20 Mar 2007
• How I made 6 figures with Google Adsense in 10 days 20 Mar 2007
• Wordpress Plugin: AutoFlickr 1.0 07 Mar 2007
• Subversion Cheat Sheet Update: 1.0.1 06 Mar 2007
• 4 Unusual uses for Subversion 26 Feb 2007
• Subversion Cheat Sheet 1.0! 23 Feb 2007
• RoR: link_to_remote with a text_field value as an argument 21 Feb 2007
• Goals in the Park 17 Feb 2007
• My photo’s on Flickr 09 Feb 2007
• Hobo - And you thought Rails made life easy! 29 Jan 2007
• Ruby: Sort an array of objects by an attribute 28 Jan 2007
• New in Rails: Resource Scaffold Generator 23 Jan 2007
• Rails: Nested resource scaffold 23 Jan 2007
• Updates: Wordpress 2.1, Themes and Social 23 Jan 2007
• “Print this page” with Ruby on Rails 19 Jan 2007
• Why Ruby Rocks - Convince your fellow developers 19 Jan 2007
• Rails: Group results by week (using group_by) 12 Jan 2007
• Textmate+Rails: Easy partials for better code 22 Dec 2006
• SVN: Merge a branch with your trunk 20 Dec 2006
• SVN: How often should you commit? 20 Dec 2006
• Show the current SVN revision in your Rails app 13 Dec 2006
• Announcing “Subversion Kick-Start” 11 Dec 2006
• Install ruby-mysql on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger 06 Dec 2006
• Installing Rails on Ubuntu Dapper / Edgy 03 Dec 2006
• How to setup a Ubuntu development server - Part 2 02 Dec 2006
• How to setup a Ubuntu development server - Part 1 01 Dec 2006
• Rails: Security Check-up 30 Nov 2006
• The Three Corner Stones of Developerhood 25 Nov 2006
• SVN: How to structure your repository 24 Nov 2006
• Plugins used on Ariejan.net 22 Nov 2006
• SVN: How to fix bugs properly 22 Nov 2006
• WordPress: Author comment highlighting 22 Nov 2006
• Google Project Hosting: SourceForge Competitor 22 Nov 2006
• CSE-Tool 1.1.0 Released 21 Nov 2006
• SVN: How to release software properly 21 Nov 2006
• Announcing CSE-Tool: Deploy you Google CSE with ease 17 Nov 2006
• Ubuntu 6.10 Live DVD on the Apple MacBook 15 Nov 2006
• CUPS: 426 - Upgrade Required 13 Nov 2006
• WordpressMu: Don’t allow new blogs 31 Oct 2006
• Cheat sheets? Look here! 30 Oct 2006
• How does your site look on …? 30 Oct 2006
• Adsense Resource Inventory 30 Oct 2006
• Confused about CSS Columns? 30 Oct 2006
• Do your ads pay your (blogging) bills? 29 Oct 2006
• Ruby On Rails for PHP: CakePHP 23 Oct 2006
• Happy birthday to me! 17 Oct 2006
• Torrents for your iPod! 13 Oct 2006
• Tagging in ajax_scaffold 13 Oct 2006
• Migrate SQLite3 to MySQL easily 13 Oct 2006
• Having fun with SPAM! 13 Oct 2006
• Google Ads: Can’t click ‘em, but you want to know more! 13 Oct 2006
• Easily create a FavIcon online! 10 Oct 2006
• Generate a SQlite-based Rails app 10 Oct 2006
• Hi-Res Wallpapers for your MacBook! 10 Oct 2006
• Top 5 DVDs you must have 10 Oct 2006
• Welcome to Ariejan.net 09 Oct 2006