Archive for August, 2007
Blueprint 0.5 Rails Plugin released
A few days ago BlueprintCSS 0.5 was released (read the Olav’s posts here). I’ve updated the plugin accordingly. The most important change is the use of 24 (!) instead of 14 columns.
Installation and usage of the plugin have not changed. See my original announcement for more information.
BlueprintCSS Rails Generator
I think that, if you’re a web developer, you’ve seen the BlueprintCSS framework. BlueprintCSS offers quite a bit of CSS code that allows you to quickly and easily build a grid-based layout, using pure CSS.
That’s, of course, all very nice, but you should be able to plug it in into your Rails app. And now [...]
Super Simple Authentication Plugin and Generator
I hereby proudly announce my Super Simple Authentication plugin and generator.
All right, what does it do? Sometimes you need to protect your actions and controllers, but you don’t want to go about installing restful_authentication or anything like that. Adding a simple password for certain actions would suffice. So, I wrote a little plugin that can [...]
Using Iconv to convert UTF-8 to ASCII (on Linux)
There are situations where you want to remove all the UTF-8 goodness from a string (mostly because of legacy systems you’re working with). Now, this is rather easy to do. I’ll give you an example:
çéß
Should be converted to
cess
On my mac, I can simply use the following snippet to convert the string:
s = "çéß"
s = Iconv.iconv(’ascii//translit’, [...]
I’m back in business!
Ariejan.net is (almost) back in business. With some minor cosmetic improvements to the theme, I’m ready for today.
Tomorrow I will reorganise my tags/categories a bit and add some new fancy plugins that will help searching visitors a hand in finding what they need. (More about that later, I promise).
I hope you like the improved style [...]
Kabisa, RailsConf Europe and Ariejan.net
Hello there! Just a quick post to let you know I’m still alive and kicking! Two weeks ago I started my job at Kabisa and I’ve been very busy with that. I really like working at Kabisa and we have some great things planned for the near future. (We’re currently working on a few client [...]
I’m Back!
All right, I’m back!
Yes, my holiday was nice. Thanks for asking. Now, I’ve been looking at the poll in my previous post and I’ve made up my mind.
1. I’m going to look into writing a blogging system in Ruby on Rails. I don’t want to copy typo or Mephisto or anything, but just put my [...]
