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  • They are just tools, people!
    25 Oct 2009
  • Pagerank 3, 19k Hits/Month
    30 Jan 2009
  • ActiveRecord Read Only Model
    17 Aug 2008
  • Skinny Controllers and Overweight Models
    17 Aug 2008
  • Useless Ruby Gems for your pleasure
    14 Aug 2008
  • Ariejan.net Link Party 07/21/2008
    21 Jul 2008
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    17 Jul 2008
  • Ariejan.net Link Party 07/10/2008
    10 Jul 2008
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    8 Jul 2008
  • The best IT books hand-picked for you!
    30 May 2008
  • How to: Compile packages on Debian/Ubuntu by hand
    4 May 2008
  • GIT: Using the stash
    23 Apr 2008
  • Ruby on Rails plugin: Throttler
    7 Feb 2008
  • The Presidents of the United States of America Live
    25 Jan 2008
  • Your help is needed! - Railsjobs.nl
    22 Jan 2008
  • Roles: Admins pretending to be users!
    19 Jan 2008
  • Kabisa Blog
    13 Jan 2008
  • Write a DVD-Video from the Linux console
    31 Dec 2007
  • For You: Merry Christmas and a Happy 2008!!!
    20 Dec 2007
  • Run Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 natively on Mac OS X Leopard or Tiger
    12 Dec 2007
  • Wil jij mijn collega zijn? - Kabisa is hiring!
    7 Dec 2007
  • Rails: calculated column caching
    6 Dec 2007
  • MySQL: (Re)set the auto-increment value of a table
    30 Nov 2007
  • RailsJobs.nl - Ruby on Rails Jobs in The Netherlands
    27 Nov 2007
  • Bash it! - Number of messages in Postfix queue
    15 Nov 2007
  • Party time!
    17 Oct 2007
  • Google increases storage!
    8 Oct 2007
  • The Glorious Canon EOS 400D Digital
    25 Sep 2007
  • Wordpress 2.3 released!
    25 Sep 2007
  • Whooop - here it is! The new Ariejan.net!
    24 Sep 2007
  • RailsConf Europe 2007!
    17 Sep 2007
  • 10 reasons why Microsoft's 10 reasons not to use Google Apps suck
    11 Sep 2007
  • I’m back in business!
    20 Aug 2007
  • Kabisa, RailsConf Europe and Ariejan.net
    20 Aug 2007
  • I’m Back!
    1 Aug 2007
  • Ariejan.net - What’s next?
    16 Jul 2007
  • Some DNS problems with Ariejan.net
    6 Jul 2007
  • Got updates?
    3 Jul 2007
  • AJAX Rules! 80 JavaScript Solutions for professional coding
    21 Jun 2007
  • Geslaagd! / Passed my final exams!
    19 Jun 2007
  • Buy it now! Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
    14 Jun 2007
  • Coming up: Ubuntu Development Server Guide
    7 Jun 2007
  • BAT - TER - Y
    28 May 2007
  • FeedBurner acquired by Google!
    18 May 2007
  • Ariejan.net server move
    29 Apr 2007
  • What do you want for AutoFlickr?
    2 Apr 2007
  • 5 Reasons why PC OEMs should offer Linux
    29 Mar 2007
  • Speedlinking: Top 28 startup resources
    25 Mar 2007
  • Be productive! 37 things you can do on the toilet
    23 Mar 2007
  • 26 Things you can do with an old PC
    21 Mar 2007
  • 8 Great ways to use Google for your start-up
    20 Mar 2007
  • How I made 6 figures with Google Adsense in 10 days
    20 Mar 2007
  • Subversion Cheat Sheet Update: 1.0.1
    6 Mar 2007
  • Updates: Wordpress 2.1, Themes and Social
    23 Jan 2007
  • Why Ruby Rocks - Convince your fellow developers
    19 Jan 2007
  • The Three Corner Stones of Developerhood
    25 Nov 2006
  • Google Project Hosting: SourceForge Competitor
    22 Nov 2006
  • CSE-Tool 1.1.0 Released
    21 Nov 2006
  • Announcing CSE-Tool: Deploy you Google CSE with ease
    17 Nov 2006
  • Ubuntu 6.10 Live DVD on the Apple MacBook
    15 Nov 2006
  • Adsense Resource Inventory
    30 Oct 2006
  • Cheat sheets? Look here!
    30 Oct 2006
  • Confused about CSS Columns?
    30 Oct 2006
  • How does your site look on …?
    30 Oct 2006
  • Do your ads pay your (blogging) bills?
    29 Oct 2006
  • Ruby On Rails for PHP: CakePHP
    23 Oct 2006
  • Having fun with SPAM!
    13 Oct 2006
  • Easily create a FavIcon online!
    10 Oct 2006
  • Hi-Res Wallpapers for your MacBook!
    10 Oct 2006
  • Top 5 DVDs you must have
    10 Oct 2006
  • Welcome to Ariejan.net
    9 Oct 2006
Ariejan de Vroom

About the author

Ariejan de Vroom is a seasoned software engineer, writing from the trenches, sharing pragmatic take-aways for fellow developers.

When he’s not architecting backend systems, you’ll find him playing bass guitar, restoring his 1994 VW Golf Mk3 Cabrio, or out on family adventures and hiking with his standard poodle Nova.

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