Author Archives: andy

Sold!

We sold our apartment a few weeks before the credit crunch hit hard, phew! We already purchased a new house (new construction) last year. Last week we had to move out of apartment. Unfortunately the new house is not yet … Continue reading

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Getting rid of KPN

So, we moved and I canceled all our subscriptions at the old address. So I thought, it turns out KPN has /dev/null’d my cancellation request for the fixed line twice in a row. Each time customer relations assured me it … Continue reading

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Moving in 3 weeks!

Earlier in the year we sold our appartement and bought a new house. With 2 kids it was simply not fun anymore in our cosy appartement on the 4th floor. We won’t get the keys of our new house, which … Continue reading

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Passenger makes Apache relevant again

After stearing clear of Apache2 for the last year for all production servers I’m now ready to give it another try, thanks to Phusion’s Passenger. I’ve grown really tired of setting up god scripts for all environments and fighting mongrel’s … Continue reading

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iPhone 3G secured.. the wait starts

After reading about all the trouble folks went through in getting an iPhone I felt super lucky!! Yesterday I phoned the local BelCompany store to see if they were getting any delivered. There seems to be a reservation list so … Continue reading

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Rails’ end_of_month fixed

In Rails 2.0.x the end_of_month now properly gives you the end of month e.g. Mon Jun 30 23:59:59 +0200 2008, instead of Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 +0200 2008, which was the case in Rails 1.2.x (see this previous post). Good … Continue reading

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Getting XS4ALL HSDPA/UMTS working on OS X Leopard

Article was updated. See below, the Option software should work out-of-the-box for Leopard 10.5.5 or higher! Last week I received my HSDPA/UMTS/GPRS card from XS4ALL. After the major ADSL outtage fiasco It really dawned on me that not having net … Continue reading

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Massive memory leak in ruby-gettext 1.90.0

Just found out there’s a massive memory leak in ruby gettext 1.90.0, one of our applications started eating GBs of RAM after a couple of days in use. So If you’re using gettext for translating your Rails app take note! … Continue reading

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Meetings

Found here (thanks Jan). Soo true! Happy telecommuter for 2 years now, with the occasional Meeting midweek. I do not expect to be productive (code-wise) on those days.

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Side project: De TV Flat (KRO)

My first Rails 2.0.x project has been running in production for a couple of months now. It’s the website for KRO’s “De TV Flat”, a children/teens program airing every Saturday on dutch national television around 9am (channel Nederland 3) untill … Continue reading

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