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Served to you by Unicorn 30206 using Ruby 1.9.3 on Rails 3.2.1 running @c40f723
  • Removing untracked files and directories with git 10 Jan 2012
  • Recursively fixing file and directory permissions 13 Dec 2011
  • Upgrade postgresql-8.4 to postgresql-9.1 on debian 22 Nov 2011
  • Deploying a third-party Rails application - like Gitlab 18 Nov 2011
  • Contributing to Open-Source with Github 09 Nov 2011
  • Fixing a slow starting Terminal or iTerm2 on Mac OS X 08 Nov 2011
  • Installing Node.js and NPM on Ubuntu/Debian 24 Oct 2011
  • Automatically switch between SSL and non-SSL with Nginx+Unicorn+Rails 22 Oct 2011
  • Rails 3: Customized exception handling 14 Oct 2011
  • Fast specs - Run your specs in less than 1 second 13 Oct 2011
  • Testing Rails 3 scopes revisited 09 Oct 2011
  • Properly testing Rails 3 scopes 25 Sep 2011
  • RSpec speed-up (24.6%) by tweaking ruby garbage collection 24 Sep 2011
  • Capistrano and the custom maintenance page 19 Sep 2011
  • Lighting fast, zero-downtime deployments with git, capistrano, nginx and Unicorn 14 Sep 2011
  • Git: checkout a single file from another commit or branch 13 Sep 2011
  • Git: remove, reset and rollback commits 08 Sep 2011
  • Git Log: What did I do yesterday, exactly? 24 Aug 2011
  • Git: Squash your latests commits into one 05 Jul 2011
  • Your Mac slow? Disable Spotlight in Snow Leopard 27 Jun 2011
  • Git: What files were changed since the last release? 24 Jun 2011
  • Crowd sourcing your BitCoin mining 23 Jun 2011
  • Vows and CoffeeScript 10 Jun 2011
  • Rake with namespaces and default tasks 04 Apr 2011
  • Rails 3 + Devise + Uploadify = No Flash Session Hacks 27 Mar 2011
  • Narf: A Ruby Micro Test Framework 11 Feb 2011
  • Using your Firefly URL Shortener with Twitter for iPhone 07 Feb 2011
  • Hot: Firefly 1.3.0 URL Shortener released 01 Feb 2011
  • Rake task to sync your assets to Amazon S3/Cloudfront 01 Jan 2011
  • Now powered by Heroku 31 Dec 2010
  • Public Readable Amazon S3 Bucket Policy 24 Dec 2010
  • Why did error_messages_for disappear from Rails 3? 15 Dec 2010
  • Hide "Last login:" on bash login 25 Nov 2010
  • Clear your MySQL password 26 Oct 2010
  • SenTestCase: XCBuildLogCommandInvocationSection error in XCode 3.2 12 Oct 2010
  • Setup a PPTP VPN connection on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 12 Oct 2010
  • Setup a Ubuntu VPN server 11 Oct 2010
  • Firefly 1.1.0 adds QR Codes for your shortened URLs 02 Oct 2010
  • Precompile SASS to CSS for deployment to Heroku 28 Sep 2010
  • Mass convert WMA to MP3 using ffmpeg and ruby 11 Sep 2010
  • Resque: how to requeue failed jobs 23 Aug 2010
  • Rename a git branch 09 Aug 2010
  • Using multiple clipboards in Vim 09 Aug 2010
  • How to enable SSH Forwarding on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 29 Jul 2010
  • Screencast: Firefly URL shortener in less than 2.5 minutes 12 Jul 2010
  • Cherry-Picking specific commits from another branch 10 Jun 2010
  • Uploading files with Curl 07 Jun 2010
  • Setup your own Firefly URL shortener in 2.5 minutes 06 Jun 2010
  • Firefly 0.4.3 and Firefly Client 0.4.0 released 06 Jun 2010
  • Upgrading to Mongoid Beta 6 30 May 2010
  • Bundler + Passenger with Rails 2.3.5? Yes, please! 17 May 2010
  • Firefly 0.4.1 released 30 Apr 2010
  • Ruby version and gemset in your Bash prompt? Yes sir! 25 Apr 2010
  • A new day, a new Firefly 14 Apr 2010
  • Get ready for Firefly 0.3! 13 Apr 2010
  • Detect browser Web Sockets support 05 Apr 2010
  • Announcing Firefly, a ruby URL shortener 29 Mar 2010
  • Really? Another Sinatra URL Shortener in Ruby? 28 Mar 2010
  • Installing the Nokogiri ruby gem on Debian 25 Mar 2010
  • Ariejan.net now in valid HTML5 24 Mar 2010
  • How a little varnish changed my life 24 Mar 2010
  • Shields up! Rrrack alert! 22 Mar 2010
  • How to order your Kindle from the Netherlands 02 Feb 2010
  • Sign the petition: Stop EU Software Patents 19 Jan 2010
  • The epic e-reading experience: Amazone Kindle 17 Jan 2010
  • Epic TextMate Theme 24 Nov 2009
  • How to create and apply a patch with Git 26 Oct 2009
  • They are just tools, people! 25 Oct 2009
  • Git problem: error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename 15 Oct 2009
  • Epic vs. Awesome 13 Oct 2009
  • Valerii: 32-base string encoder and decoder 13 Oct 2009
  • Codaset.com: Github, but better 08 Sep 2009
  • Git Tag Mini Cheat Sheet Revisited 05 Sep 2009
  • Git Tag Mini Cheat Sheet 04 Sep 2009
  • Rails + MySQL: Case-Sensitive strings in your database 03 Sep 2009
  • JInput Mac OS X 64 bit natives 01 Sep 2009
  • Once and for all: Rails migrations integer :limit option 20 Aug 2009
  • IMDB Ruby Gem 0.4.0 Now available at RubyForge! 14 Jun 2009
  • Speaking at Rails Underground 14 Jun 2009
  • Best Practice - The Git Development Cycle 08 Jun 2009
  • ActiveRecord: Skipping callbacks like after_save or after_update 07 Jun 2009
  • IMDB 0.3.0 now including console utility - query IMDB from your console 07 Jun 2009
  • has_one - find all that have no associated object 07 Jun 2009
  • Install Hpricot on Ubuntu 05 Jun 2009
  • Ruby Gem: IMDB 03 Jun 2009
  • Speak louder! I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am! 22 May 2009
  • Second RubyFest Speaker: Geoffrey Grosenbach 06 May 2009
  • Available for iPhone Development 28 Apr 2009
  • Compacting a SQLite3 DB file 23 Apr 2009
  • How to create a DSA OpenSSL certificate 19 Apr 2009
  • MacBook Pro: Black Screen of Death (or is it just faking?) 05 Apr 2009
  • May 14th: RubyFest! 31 Mar 2009
  • warcraft-armory 0.1.0 Released 07 Feb 2009
  • Pagerank 3, 19k Hits/Month 30 Jan 2009
  • How To Start A Rails Edge App The Easy Way 04 Jan 2009
  • Twitterlicious! 27 Dec 2008
  • Google FriendConnect now on Ariejan.net 03 Dec 2008
  • Export CSV directly from MySQL 27 Nov 2008
  • SQL: Ordering with NULL values 14 Nov 2008
  • RSpec'ing with Time.now 05 Nov 2008
  • BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App 28 Sep 2008
  • Panel Discussion with DHH and Rails Core Members 03 Sep 2008
  • JRuby with Thomas Enebo 03 Sep 2008
  • RailsConfEurope: The first tutorial 02 Sep 2008
  • JRuby with Nick Sieger 02 Sep 2008
  • Leaving for RailsConf Europe 2008 01 Sep 2008
  • ActiveRecord Read Only Model 17 Aug 2008
  • Skinny Controllers and Overweight Models 17 Aug 2008
  • Useless Ruby Gems for your pleasure 14 Aug 2008
  • Ruby on Rails: UUID as your ActiveRecord primary key 12 Aug 2008
  • Ariejan.net Link Party 07/21/2008 21 Jul 2008
  • Ariejan.net Link Party 07/17/2008 17 Jul 2008
  • Photography Heaven 11 Jul 2008
  • Ariejan.net Link Party 07/10/2008 10 Jul 2008
  • How to digg-proof your WordPress blog 09 Jul 2008
  • Ariejan.net Link Party 07/08/2008 08 Jul 2008
  • Zoek jij 'n uitdagende baan?? 06 Jun 2008
  • The best IT books hand-picked for you! 30 May 2008
  • The migration that cannot be undone: Irreversible Migration 06 May 2008
  • How to: Compile packages on Debian/Ubuntu by hand 04 May 2008
  • GIT: Using the stash 23 Apr 2008
  • Permanently redirect WordPress pages 15 Apr 2008
  • Debian Etch: RMagick LoadError 10 Apr 2008
  • Here we go again: WordPress 2.5 09 Apr 2008
  • Rails Snippet: Caching expensive calls 09 Apr 2008
  • Enabling Trac Email notifications 09 Apr 2008
  • Ruby on Rails plugin: Throttler 07 Feb 2008
  • The Presidents of the United States of America Live 25 Jan 2008
  • Your help is needed! - Railsjobs.nl 22 Jan 2008
  • Roles: Admins pretending to be users! 19 Jan 2008
  • Attack of the Killer Bunnies 15 Jan 2008
  • Kabisa Blog 13 Jan 2008
  • Review: Parking London 03 Jan 2008
  • Write a DVD-Video from the Linux console 31 Dec 2007
  • For You: Merry Christmas and a Happy 2008!!! 20 Dec 2007
  • How to install MySQL on Ubuntu/Debian 12 Dec 2007
  • Run Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 natively on Mac OS X Leopard or Tiger 12 Dec 2007
  • Wil jij mijn collega zijn? - Kabisa is hiring! 07 Dec 2007
  • Rails: calculated column caching 06 Dec 2007
  • MySQL: (Re)set the auto-increment value of a table 30 Nov 2007
  • RailsJobs.nl - Ruby on Rails Jobs in The Netherlands 27 Nov 2007
  • Bash it! - Number of messages in Postfix queue 15 Nov 2007
  • Party time! 17 Oct 2007
  • Google increases storage! 08 Oct 2007
  • Flash not clearing after a request? 26 Sep 2007
  • Wordpress 2.3 released! 25 Sep 2007
  • The Glorious Canon EOS 400D Digital 25 Sep 2007
  • Rails 2.0 New Features 24 Sep 2007
  • Whooop - here it is! The new Ariejan.net! 24 Sep 2007
  • RailsConf Europe 2007! 17 Sep 2007
  • 10 reasons why Microsoft's 10 reasons not to use Google Apps suck 11 Sep 2007
  • Content_for, yield and making sure something gets displayed 01 Sep 2007
  • Blueprint 0.5 Rails Plugin released 31 Aug 2007
  • BlueprintCSS Rails Generator 27 Aug 2007
  • Super Simple Authentication Plugin and Generator 24 Aug 2007
  • Using Iconv to convert UTF-8 to ASCII (on Linux) 21 Aug 2007
  • I’m back in business! 20 Aug 2007
  • Kabisa, RailsConf Europe and Ariejan.net 20 Aug 2007
  • I’m Back! 01 Aug 2007
  • Ariejan.net - What’s next? 16 Jul 2007
  • Clear DNS Cache on your router 07 Jul 2007
  • Some DNS problems with Ariejan.net 06 Jul 2007
  • How to write a Rails Plugin (for controllers) 06 Jul 2007
  • How to resolve Subversion Conflicts 04 Jul 2007
  • Got updates? 03 Jul 2007
  • How to create and apply a patch with Subversion 03 Jul 2007
  • How to force data to be downloaded as a file from your Rails app 02 Jul 2007
  • ActiveScaffold + acts_as_taggable + Auto Complete 01 Jul 2007
  • AJAX Rules! 80 JavaScript Solutions for professional coding 21 Jun 2007
  • Rails production server setup and deployment on Ubuntu/Debian 20 Jun 2007
  • Action Mailer: All mail comes from MAILER DAEMON 20 Jun 2007
  • Geslaagd! / Passed my final exams! 19 Jun 2007
  • Buy it now! Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 14 Jun 2007
  • BASH your SVN and Trac installation! 12 Jun 2007
  • ActiveScaffold, Acts_as_taggable_on_steroids 11 Jun 2007
  • Send mail with a BASH Shell Script 10 Jun 2007
  • Ultimate List of Ruby Resources 10 Jun 2007
  • Find and Replace with a MySQL Query 10 Jun 2007
  • Coming up: Ubuntu Development Server Guide 07 Jun 2007
  • Trac, WebAdmin plugin and global configuration 30 May 2007
  • Slow connections with ProFTPD 29 May 2007
  • Installing RMagick Ruby Gem on Mac OS X 10.4.9 29 May 2007
  • BAT - TER - Y 28 May 2007
  • MERGE request failed on ‘/path/to/file’ 21 May 2007
  • FeedBurner acquired by Google! 18 May 2007
  • Rails Snippet: Write like Orwell with to_sentence 09 May 2007
  • Ariejan.net server move 29 Apr 2007
  • Rails, Resources and Permalinks 12 Apr 2007
  • TipSnippet: Create a RSS feed 03 Apr 2007
  • What do you want for AutoFlickr? 02 Apr 2007
  • 5 Reasons why PC OEMs should offer Linux 29 Mar 2007
  • Subversion: How to revert to a previous revision 27 Mar 2007
  • Rails Tip Snippet: Create a comma-seperate list 27 Mar 2007
  • Speedlinking: Top 28 startup resources 25 Mar 2007
  • Be productive! 37 things you can do on the toilet 23 Mar 2007
  • Rails Tip Snippet: Logging informational messages to your log 22 Mar 2007
  • 26 Things you can do with an old PC 21 Mar 2007
  • 8 Great ways to use Google for your start-up 20 Mar 2007
  • How I made 6 figures with Google Adsense in 10 days 20 Mar 2007
  • Wordpress Plugin: AutoFlickr 1.0 07 Mar 2007
  • Subversion Cheat Sheet Update: 1.0.1 06 Mar 2007
  • 4 Unusual uses for Subversion 26 Feb 2007
  • Subversion Cheat Sheet 1.0! 23 Feb 2007
  • RoR: link_to_remote with a text_field value as an argument 21 Feb 2007
  • Goals in the Park 17 Feb 2007
  • My photo’s on Flickr 09 Feb 2007
  • Hobo - And you thought Rails made life easy! 29 Jan 2007
  • Ruby: Sort an array of objects by an attribute 28 Jan 2007
  • New in Rails: Resource Scaffold Generator 23 Jan 2007
  • Updates: Wordpress 2.1, Themes and Social 23 Jan 2007
  • Rails: Nested resource scaffold 23 Jan 2007
  • Why Ruby Rocks - Convince your fellow developers 19 Jan 2007
  • “Print this page” with Ruby on Rails 19 Jan 2007
  • Rails: Group results by week (using group_by) 12 Jan 2007
  • Textmate+Rails: Easy partials for better code 22 Dec 2006
  • SVN: How often should you commit? 20 Dec 2006
  • SVN: Merge a branch with your trunk 20 Dec 2006
  • Show the current SVN revision in your Rails app 13 Dec 2006
  • Announcing “Subversion Kick-Start” 11 Dec 2006
  • Install ruby-mysql on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger 06 Dec 2006
  • Installing Rails on Ubuntu Dapper / Edgy 03 Dec 2006
  • How to setup a Ubuntu development server - Part 2 02 Dec 2006
  • How to setup a Ubuntu development server - Part 1 01 Dec 2006
  • Rails: Security Check-up 30 Nov 2006
  • The Three Corner Stones of Developerhood 25 Nov 2006
  • SVN: How to structure your repository 24 Nov 2006
  • Plugins used on Ariejan.net 22 Nov 2006
  • WordPress: Author comment highlighting 22 Nov 2006
  • Google Project Hosting: SourceForge Competitor 22 Nov 2006
  • SVN: How to fix bugs properly 22 Nov 2006
  • SVN: How to release software properly 21 Nov 2006
  • CSE-Tool 1.1.0 Released 21 Nov 2006
  • Announcing CSE-Tool: Deploy you Google CSE with ease 17 Nov 2006
  • Ubuntu 6.10 Live DVD on the Apple MacBook 15 Nov 2006
  • CUPS: 426 - Upgrade Required 13 Nov 2006
  • WordpressMu: Don’t allow new blogs 31 Oct 2006
  • How does your site look on …? 30 Oct 2006
  • Cheat sheets? Look here! 30 Oct 2006
  • Confused about CSS Columns? 30 Oct 2006
  • Adsense Resource Inventory 30 Oct 2006
  • Do your ads pay your (blogging) bills? 29 Oct 2006
  • Ruby On Rails for PHP: CakePHP 23 Oct 2006
  • Happy birthday to me! 17 Oct 2006
  • Google Ads: Can’t click ‘em, but you want to know more! 13 Oct 2006
  • Migrate SQLite3 to MySQL easily 13 Oct 2006
  • Tagging in ajax_scaffold 13 Oct 2006
  • Having fun with SPAM! 13 Oct 2006
  • Torrents for your iPod! 13 Oct 2006
  • Easily create a FavIcon online! 10 Oct 2006
  • Hi-Res Wallpapers for your MacBook! 10 Oct 2006
  • Generate a SQlite-based Rails app 10 Oct 2006
  • Top 5 DVDs you must have 10 Oct 2006
  • Welcome to Ariejan.net 09 Oct 2006

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