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SQL: Ordering with NULL values

Ariejan de Vroom — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:33:00 -0600

First seen at Kabisa Blog: SQL: Ordering with NULL values This post tells you how to sort NULL values in a column to the bottom and sort the remaining non-NULL values. This is really great in...

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Evoluon Eindhoven

Ariejan de Vroom — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:55:30 -0600

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RSpec’ing with Time.now

Ariejan de Vroom — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:58:40 -0600

I’m currently writing some RSpec tests that use Time.now. I want my model to calculate a duration and store the future time in the database. I’ve already specced the calculation of the...

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BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App

Ariejan de Vroom — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:00:13 -0500

For the impatient: http://github.com/ariejan/baseapp Got issues? Feature requests or patches? http://baseapp.lighthouseapp.com/ Every Rails developer has at least once developed an application that...

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JRuby with Thomas Enebo

Ariejan de Vroom — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:01:10 -0500

This morning I attended another JRuby talk, this time with Thomas Enebo. It turned out to be, almost default, Sun JRuby talk. There was one interesting difference, though. Normally we are shown how...

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Panel Discussion with DHH and Rails Core Members

Ariejan de Vroom — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:55:22 -0500

Yesterday evening we attended a panel discussion with DHH and Rails Core Members Jeremy Kemper and Michael Koziarski. DHH elaborated on default choices (like database, templating system and test...

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JRuby with Nick Sieger

Ariejan de Vroom — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:06:01 -0500

A tutorial on JRuby with Nick Sieger holding your hand is just great. This guy knows JRuby inside-out and he has an answer to even the most difficult of questions. After a short 15 minute...

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RailsConfEurope: The first tutorial

Ariejan de Vroom — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:37:30 -0500

Today, RailsConfEurope 2008 started! Well, at least if you signed up for Tutorial Day. The first tutorial I’m attending is about Hacking Rails Internals. At first I thought about this as a...

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Leaving for RailsConf Europe 2008

Ariejan de Vroom — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:16:53 -0500

Today a delegation of Kabisa is leaving for RailsConf Europe 2008! We’re going by train this year and we hope to arrive this afternoon around 5. I’ll keep regular updates here on...

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Skinny Controllers and Overweight Models

Ariejan de Vroom — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:02:18 -0500

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...

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