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They are just tools, people!

October 25th, 2009

Codaset is openly asking its users to comment on what pricing strategy they would like most. I’ve spotted this before, but again, there are two types of users. Those who see a great service and know that it will make their job easier, so they are willing to pay for it. There are also those who want a trillion repositories, unlimited disk space and what not for $1 a month (or less). This post is for the latter group of people.

Some developers claim they need to use all of 37Signals’ apps, have the biggest Github plan available and buy that new shiny 17″ MacBook Pro (or that 27″ iMac, I know). With all those tools and hardware available, how can your brilliant plan not succeed? All the successful people you’ve heard of use them. So, with all that setup, you’re golden! Right? Then they check the price tag. It’s huge!

Pagerank 3, 19k Hits/Month

January 30th, 2009

I just found out Ariejan.net has a PageRank™ of 3! If you don’t know what PageRank™ means, let Google explain:

Skinny Controllers and Overweight Models

August 17th, 2008

All Rails developers know the slogan “Skinny Controllers, Fat Models” and I heartily agree with it. Every conference you go to, you hear it. But there’s a problem! My Fat models got overweight!

ActiveRecord Read Only Model

August 17th, 2008

ActiveRecord is great in providing CRUD for your data models. In some cases, however, it’s necessary to prevent write access to these models. The data may be provided by an external source and should only be used as a reference in your application, for example.

Useless Ruby Gems for your pleasure

August 14th, 2008

The past few days I’v taken some time to find out how to create a Ruby Gem. This has been on my to-do list for quite a while, but now I’m able to tick it off.

Well, what did I make?

Ariejan.net Link Party 07/21/2008

July 21st, 2008

Ariejan.net Link Party 07/17/2008

July 17th, 2008

The best IT books hand-picked for you!

May 30th, 2008

Are you ready to dive into Rails? Want to familiarize yourself with the deeper dungeons of Ruby? Are you an aspiring game developer? Or maybe you just want to learn how to use Git or Subversion effectively?

In any case, I’ve opened up a little book shop with a hand-picked selection of books on a variety of subjects, included Ruby and Rails, Game Development (with Java) and Version Control.