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This is probably my last post for this year, and it’s not about Ruby on Rails! Or web development! It’s about how to burn a DVD-Video from the Linux console.

I know, there are tons of fancy apps (with a decent GUI) that allow you to create DVD-Video disks from Gnome or KDE. But, my Linux machine has no monitor attached and I don’t care for hogging up resources by running X.

We (Laura and I) wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy 2008!

I hope to welcome you back on Ariejan.net in 2008. Happy Holidays!

Oh my! Bad news! Startrek.com is shutting down! I’ve been around Startrek.com quite often to check up on my favourite characters and learn more about the great Star Trek universe. If there is an online petition to keep the site up and running, I’d sign it!

The team behind RSpec, a Behavior-Driven Development based “testing” library, have announced the release of RSpec 1.1.0. This will be of particular interest to Rails 2.0 developers as support has now been added, along with interoperability with Test::Unit. RSpec 1.1 also includes a Rails tool called “RailsStory” that allows you write “user stories” that can be tested out on the fly.

Close to 6 years after the release of phpBB 2.0, we are given a new version which includes an enormous number of new features, tightened security, extensive bug fixes, optimisation for mobile devices and search engines, and remains free under the GPL.

Flickr has provided an attractive place to show off your photos and get constructive feedback from the community. However, their advanced comment and tagging system leaves out the vast number of people that simply peruse the site. But today Flickr unlocked those stats for Pro users.

It may seem easy for some, but for others, installing MySQL on Ubuntu or Debian Linux is not an easy task. This article explains to you how to install the MySQL Server and Client packages on a Ubuntu/Debian system.

First of all, make sure your package management tools are up-to-date. Also make sure you install all the latest software available.

As a web developer, you probably know all about browsers. They suck. Well, some more than others. But, if you develop apps for Windows users, you’ll have to test your app with Internet Explorer.

Zoals je waarschijnlijk al wel weet, werk ik al een tijdje bij Kabisa, en ik ben op zoek naar nieuwe collega’s!

Ben jij een een ICT’er (liefst met Java of Ruby ervaring, maar dat is niet vereist), laat dan even je gegevens achter op jobs.kabisa.nl.

James O’Kelly has put together a comprehensive tutorial going through all of the stages necessary to install and configure Nginx and Rails together to run applications on an Ubuntu server. James’ blog RailsJitsu.com is definitely worth a look (and perhaps to subscribe to!) as he seems to have a knack for regularly putting together good Rails (and especially Mephisto) focused posts.