Ariejan.net

We all know “The Flash” to be a very useful tool in almost every application we write. What does “The Flash” actually do?

The flash provides a way to pass temporary objects between actions. Anything you place in the flash will be exposed to the very next action and then cleared out.

Well, that’s all nice, but what if you notice that your flash is not cleared, and is shown in one or more subsequent requests as well?

Well, I finally made the big leap into (semi-)professional photography. I bought a Canon EOS 400D Digital SLR Camera. (That’s the XTi Rebel for you American folk) This nifty machine allows me to take very beautiful pictures, and I already had a little practice yesterday.

Today Wordpress 2.3 was released (see the release notes). I’ve already updated Ariejan.net, of course, and I’m now able to use all of the following neat new features:

• Tagging (you can convert your categories to tags if you like)
• Update Notifications when new versions of your plugins or WordPress are released

As David Heinemeier Hansson already told us all during his RailsConfEurope 2007 keynote, it’s time to take off the party hats. It’s no longer at time to celebrate all the new stuff we get. It’s time to celebrate what we have already.

With this statement DHH ends the revolution of Rails. During the past three years a lot of new and exiting features were added to Rails. However, now the time has come to evolve Rails further. No more new and exiting stuff, but fine tuning. Making things even better than they already are.

Wow! Here it is then! The fully restyled, revamped and repimped Ariejan.net! (I hope you like it). So, “what’s changed?”, you may ask.

• I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.3, which has very sexy tagging support.
• A new template with a bit more of my personal taste included (blue!)
• A major division of articles: Blog posts (which are regular messages from me to the world) and featured articles (which are the good stuff you come for).
• I’ve finally written the about page (although a photo is still missing)
• I’ve got Flickr support lined up – ready to go when I can afford myself a Canon 400D SLR Camera (or Rebel XTi for you American folk). (help me out?)

Well, after a long trip, I arrived at my hotel yesterday in Berlin. Today I, and my mates from Kabisa, have joined RailsConf Europe 2007. I don’t think I’ll be giving a full, in-detail report of everything that happens, but I will let you know anything worth your (and my) time.

You may have already read the 10 reasons why Microsoft thinks the enterprise should not use Google Apps. Well, here’s my response:

You may have heard of a very nice Rails technique that used content_for and yield to stuff custom blocks of content into a layout. For example, in a view you could add a block like this:

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