Author Archives: andy

A daughter!

It has been very quiet on this blog, but not so much here at home. On March 2th 2008 our daughter Mia Morena Elisabeth Lo-A-Foe was born. Mia is a healthy baby girl who regularly eats every 3 hours, around … Continue reading

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A baby girl!!!

It has been very quiet on this blog, but not so much here at home. On March 2nd 2008 our daughter Mia Morena Elisabeth Lo-A-Foe was born. Mia is a healthy baby girl who regularly eats every 3 hours, around … Continue reading

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has_many_polymorphs tagging snafu

I’m working on a Rails 2.0.x project which is a port of a 1.2.x based one. Since acts_as_taggable was obsoleted in 2.0.x I’m using the ultra wicked has_many_polymorphs plugin which comes with a neat Tagging generator. I ran in a … Continue reading

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JRuby saves the day

So I’m rewriting yet another subsystem which consists of a mismash of several languages and programmer ego’s (hardcore C being the largest one, aargh) to what else .. Ruby. Everythings going smoothly. Every line of Ruby code replaces about 10 … Continue reading

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GMail expanded

Today I noticed the following: GMail’s mailbox growth rate is still faster than my fill one, sweeeeeet!

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Keeping things in perspective

Someone pointed out an article on How programming can ruin your life. I really enjoyed reading it and could definitely find myself in some (but not all) of the conclusions. The best remedy is IMHO replication. Nothing like your own … Continue reading

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4 years in the making: SCO Group Files Chapter 11

Not much to add, except mwuhaha.

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NuSOAP together with PHP5-SOAP

Every once in a while I get to fix/add stuff from my PHP days. Today I installed php5 on a fresh Ubuntu Feisty install I need to host a NuSOAP based service API to a client. However, the Ubuntu php … Continue reading

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Torturing Ruby (and laughing at your own code)

While cleaning up some code I ran across some obscure code of mine from my Ruby youth. I remembered reading about an ultra cool Ruby tool the other day so I decided to give my code a good flogging. The … Continue reading

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Old new job

I accepted a job offer 2 months ago at IndependentIP as “technical teamleader”. My “proefperiode” just finished and I’ll definitely be staying on, really love the way the company works. Lots of smart and funny (as in: haha) people working … Continue reading

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