Archive for January, 2008

The Presidents of the United States of America Live

January 25th, 2008

PUSA (C) Presidentsrock.com

Yeah! I got myself some tickets to The Presidents of the United States of America, live at Effenaar, Eindhoven.

To be honest with you, I’ve never been to a real concert before, so this is going to be *very* much fun for me! Among the few albums I bought back in the year 1995 was PUSA.

Your help is needed! – Railsjobs.nl

January 22nd, 2008

Since I started Railsjobs.nl some time ago, I’d like to ask you a simple question. Thanks for putting in your $0.02 :)

{democracy:2}

Roles: Admins pretending to be users!

January 19th, 2008

Most applications have some sort of role system. You have administrators, who can do basically everything, semi-administrators and “regular Joe” users.

Now, sometimes you want, as an administrator, be able to login as a user to solve some problem, or manage settings for a user, or whatever.

Attack of the Killer Bunnies

January 15th, 2008


Bunny killing the garden
Originally uploaded by ariejan

Well, here they go then! Just swooping in, eating all the green stuff from your garden!! Someone stop them!

This was taken in the back-yard at Laura’s parents house. The neighbours have about a dozen rabbits, but they are allowed to walk around as they wish, occasionally finding their way into other people’s gardens.

Kabisa Blog

January 13th, 2008

Well, we’ve got our blog up and running at Kabisa now! Our entire team will be posting interesting Ruby, Rails, Java and Subversion articles that may be of very good use to you.

Check out the blog now on http://blog.kabisa.nl or grab the RSS Feed to stay up-to-date.

Thin: A Ruby HTTP Daemon That’s Faster Than Mongrel

January 11th, 2008

Thin is a new Web server / daemon written in Ruby by Marc-André Cournoyer that uses the EventMachine, Rack, and Mongrel libraries. EventMachine makes it super fast at processing network I/O, Rack makes it easy to integrate with existing Ruby Web app frameworks, and Mongrel helps it parse HTTP. So, yes, the title is slightly misleading. Thin actually relies on Mongrel, but is ultimately faster than it, even against Mongrel’s EventMachine-enhanced guise.

Review: Parking London

January 3rd, 2008

This is a paid review

I’ve been asked to review a service named Parking London. What this service does is two things, really. Firstly, it allows owners of garages and parking spaces in London to offer their spots to others. A location can be specified, with a small description. Of course, the price for the monthly tenancy or sale is added.