I’m now developing a flexible car database for a couple of hours per week. Our first customer, a Beemer dealer, has a lot of fancy requests. Well, the hired-in Flash developer has these requests actually.

One of them is that they want to save a field...

Very easy to do:

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sudo aptitude install ant openjdk-6-jdk
cd ~/src
svn co http://svn.codehaus.org/jruby/trunk/jruby/
cd jruby
ant
bin/jruby --version

It was a troublesome day today. All did not go as planned.

I had to install fcgid + suexec on one of our servers, I had delayed it too long. So I used my how-to and it still worked flawless. But I noticed I hadn’t mentioned what the right were of...

I wanted to install flash player 10 because flash player nine kept crashing on my Ubuntu 8.10 installation. So I found a nice howto on google an followed it. The article explains how to install it on a 64 bit installation of the Ubuntu operating system...

I think you all noticed my fabulous new sidebar widget: My projects :P

It shows all of my github projects. I directly turned it into a plugin for you to enjoy. You can download and read the documentation in the wordpress plugin directory.

I needed to install a computer for my sister. She want a laptop, but until she has the money for it, she’ll be using one of my old computers.

It’s one with no dvd/cd drive (she doesn’t know that :) ), so I had to install ubuntu over the network.

This will be a short post: I like merb/datamapper better. It’s cleaner and faster.

But, I have to finish a project this week and merb/datamapper is not just stable yet, has less documentation, less plugins, less helpers and less features.

For example...

I’ve been using Ubuntu/Gnome fulltime now for some 2 years I believe. I never found out what the “show desktop” shortcup was. I always used the little icon. But while I was tweaking compiz I found out that the shortcut was d. I Windows it was Super...

I have this public/images/cars directory but it gets overwritten everytime I use “cap deploy”. So in order to have my images/cars directory saved every time, I used this addon for capistrano:

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Because I recently bought a new motorcycle I wanted to sell my old GS500. Most important when selling your stuff online: good pictures of the item you’re selling. So I dusted of my Nikon, gave my trusty Suzuki a nice cleaning and started taking pictures...