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The best IT books hand-picked for you!
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 [...]
Spread your word… on Ariejan.net
Hey there! As you may have noticed, I’ve been running advertisements on Ariejan.net lately. I’ve just added some very interesting new features. Feel free to check them out.
125×125 Banner Buttons
You may now place 125×125 Banner buttons on Ariejan.net. I’ve currently made two spots available, but more can be added if there’s demand for that. [...]
How to: Compile packages on Debian/Ubuntu by hand
In some very rare situations you may find yourself in the need to recompile a Debian (or Ubuntu) package. Luckily for all of use, the great Debian packaging system makes this a piece of cake.
Let’s say we want to recompile mod_python for apache 2 to hook in to python 2.5, instead of the default [...]
GIT: Using the stash
I bet the following has happened to you: you are happily working on a project and are in the middle of something. You are not ready to commit your changes, because you your tests don’t pass yet. Then your client calls with a bug report that needs to be fixed right now. (You know how [...]
Ruby on Rails plugin: Throttler
For those of you who have missed it: I’ve released a plugin yesterday that allows you to throttle your Rails app.
Read the original announcement and installation/usage instructions
Read how you can put Throttler to good use in your app
The Presidents of the United States of America Live
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 [...]
Your help is needed! - Railsjobs.nl
Since I started Railsjobs.nl some time ago, I’d like to ask you a simple question. Thanks for putting in your $0.02 :)
What are you looking for?
A (freelance) Ruby on Rails job
I want a Rails job, but I still have to learn Ruby on Rails
A (permanent) Ruby on Rails Job
Any job in Software Engineering
I’m not looking [...]
Roles: Admins pretending to be users!
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.
Harm did a very nice write-up on how [...]
Kabisa Blog
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
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 [...]
