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Railsconf Europe Day 1
In Berlin they know what summer means, and how to taper off softly to winter. The day started sunny with a hint of freshness. So i started off towards the Railsconf in a pretty good mood, despite the...
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Railsconf Europe day 2
Grayer skies for day 2. Also a bit the worse for wear from the night before. Caffeine for the soul. DHH did the keynote – and while he didn’t say that much (information content), what he said was...
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Railsconf Europe day 3
The sunny morning found me schlepping my luggage to the conference building. Last day of the conf, always slightly less relaxed, with the flight to catch and the check-outs to manage. First keynote was...
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libxml-ruby on Debian
If, like me, you get the following error message: Install the library or try one of the following options to extconf.rb: --with-xml2-dir=/path/to/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/path/to/libxml2/lib...
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Ruby to MSN
So for work i’m looking into making a chatbot for an application. Apparently these days teenagers like MSN, so if that’s your market, that’s where you go. Anyhow, it turns out it’s pretty easy to do...
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Random tinkering
Last few month, i haven’t had time to throw more than a cursory glance at whatever was going on in the Rails community. I’m only starting my next job on the 19th of january. I’ve decided to try and...
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RailsUnder talk: internet of things
Rails Underground is proving to be extremely interesting – I’ll do a separate post about the talks I enjoyed later on. Although to be honest the first day passed in a haze of nerves for me, since i was...
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Rails Underground
I really liked Rails Underground, for several reason. First, where some Rails conferences (like last Railsconf Europe) was a bit disappointing in the levels of the presentations, here all technical...
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Segfault in Ruby
Note: the following works with C-based ruby, not JRuby or IronRuby, obviously. This is a sight most rubyists will fear: the segmentation fault. You’re running your tests quite innocently, or your web...
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Choosing an authorization framework for rails
At my main customer’s we needed to choose an authorization framework. This is for a complex enterprise application, and requiring fine-grained authorization on: roles actions model: most users can only...
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