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Typo -> Mephisto -> Wordpress

First I tried Typo, then Mephisto and now this blog is running Wordpress. As a Ruby fan I really wanted to use Ruby everywhere, 2 years ago. I’m now at the point where I just want working stuff (kids will do that to you I guess). The migration from Mephisto to Wordpress was very very [...]

Passenger with RACK apps

I started converting various apps running on mongrel clusters over to Apache + Passenger. One component of our production system is implemented as as mongrel plugin so it kind of sucks tot keep mongrel around just for this part. The reason I’m looking to abandon mongrel is because it requires all sorts of crappy monitoring [...]

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 finished. Well it is, but the utility companies still need to their stuff and the [...]

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 would take 5 working days for the request to be processed. I just called them [...]

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 is in the final stages of construction, for another month or two. In the [...]

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 pidfile suckage.

Far too many times have things failed because of a dead worker in the [...]

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 I asked the guy if it still made sense to sign up. He said sure.. [...]

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 thing I caught this, since it used to inside the Nota module of Beldienst. We [...]

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 access for a day actually costs more than the whole wireless plan per month! Think [...]

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! You can grab the current trunk which has a fix for this.