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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 [...]

Write a DVD-Video from the Linux console

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 [...]

For You: Merry Christmas and a Happy 2008!!!

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!

Startrek.com Shutting Down

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!
Curlsman writes to let us know that the fan site [...]

RSpec 1.1 Released: Now Supports Rails 2.0

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 [...]