Posted on Feb 4th @ Home
The System Preferences application on Mac is universal since Snow Leopard: it can run in 32-bit or 64-bit but not at the same time. That's why you have to restart the application when you want to open an older Preference Pane. Today I tried to upgrade the LazyPoken prefpane as it was still a 32-bit build and the next Mac OS X will probably no longer support the 32-bit System Preferences appl...
Posted on Jan 31st @ Home
The following returns the amount of days in a given year and month, including leap years. (Date.new(year, 12, 31) << (12-month)).day The beauty of Ruby. Credits to Tim Morgan for his snippet.
Posted on Jan 9th @ Home
I needed some avatar images in a recent Ruby on Rails project. File uploading in Rails is never easy but the paperclip gem makes it so much easier. Now, paperclip has a fallback method when an image is missing. Defining the default image saves you from writing duplicate tests in your views to handle the missing image cases. You can specify the default URL like this: has_attached_file :ava...
Posted on Nov 18th @ Home
When you have multiple Macs – like your laptop and a desktop computer or home and office computer – it's hard to access your files from another computer. Ever tried mailing files to yourself? Dropbox is a free application that synchronizes files immediately to all your computers over the intertubes. You can even access the files via their website. Sync application data So far ...
Posted on Nov 12th @ Poznań
Back from a few days in Poznań, Poland with the Belighted team for the RuPy 2009 conference. RuPy is a two day conference about Ruby and Python. It's the Ruby stuff we wanted to see. Cells and Apotomo One note wothy talks was the one by Michał Łomnicki and Nick Sutterer about Cells and Apotomo, Rails plugins for creating reusable web components. It's one of those things ...
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| Rails Rumble reflections | Aug 25th |
| Moving my ISP: from Telenet to Dommel | Aug 8th |
| Favorite iPhone apps | Jul 16th |
| Updating bundles with Sparkle | Jun 4th |
| Fishy EcoStrip | May 30th |
| ZooCamp Antwerp | May 26th |
| A Belgian web conference | Apr 22nd |
| Sharecard for iPhone | Mar 31st |
| Wikipodium meeting Gent | Mar 27th |
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I am just an ordinary 27 years old guy who likes the web. Living in Leuven, Belgium, studying and working in IT.