From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Why The Pirate Bay deal is great

by Michiel on June 30, 2009

Today TPB announced it would sell itself to the Global Gaming Factory X AB. This is great for the future of the open internet and might be a step forwards to open up the conservative big copyright watchers and media companies Here’s why: It shows commercial interest in an “illegal” practice started by a wide [...]

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4 Rails gems and plugins you should know about

by Michiel on June 18, 2009

Here are four gems and Rails plugins I generally like to use to build Rails applications. Use them to support authentication, internationalization, haml/sass and model avatars in your new Rails app. Blueprint CSS framework, haml and Sass If you’re still using erb for your standard views you are old school. You should use Compass, the [...]

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Solution for undefined method `alias_method_chain’ after upgrading to Rails 2.3.2

by Michiel on June 11, 2009

Tonight I was working on an old Rails app which I upgraded to Rails 2.3.2. All code went fine and on my local Mac installation all worked perfect. When I tried to deploy to the live environment I got the following strange error: undefined method `alias_method_chain’ for I18n::Backend::Simple:Class At first, I thought this had something [...]

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5 things I do to keep enjoying doing stuff

by Michiel on June 7, 2009

Here’s a list of practical things I do to keep productive. Reset your mind every evening (especially before a work-day): go read a book an hour before you usually go to bed. Read it in your living room or somewhere where you can’t go to bed and can’t get to a computer. I like to [...]

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