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  • How to order your Kindle from the Netherlands
    02/02/10
  • Sign the petition: Stop EU Software Patents
    19/01/10
  • The epic e-reading experience: Amazon Kindle
    17/01/10
  • Epic TextMate Theme
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  • Epic vs. Awesome
    13/10/09
  • IMDB Ruby Gem 0.4.0 Now available at RubyForge!
    14/06/09
  • Speaking at Rails Underground
    14/06/09
  • Best Practice - The Git Development Cycle
    08/06/09
  • ActiveRecord: Skipping callbacks like after_save or after_update
    07/06/09
  • has_one - find all that have no associated object
    07/06/09
  • IMDB 0.3.0 now including console utility - query IMDB from your console
    07/06/09
  • Install Hpricot on Ubuntu
    05/06/09
  • Ruby Gem: IMDB
    03/06/09
  • Speak louder! I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am!
    22/05/09
  • Second RubyFest Speaker: Geoffrey Grosenbach
    06/05/09
  • Available for iPhone Development
    28/04/09
  • Compacting a SQLite3 DB file
    23/04/09
  • How to create a DSA OpenSSL certificate
    19/04/09
  • MacBook Pro: Black Screen of Death (or is it just faking?)
    05/04/09
  • May 14th: RubyFest!
    31/03/09
  • warcraft-armory 0.1.0 Released
    07/02/09
  • Pagerank 3, 19k Hits/Month
    30/01/09
  • How To Start A Rails Edge App The Easy Way
    04/01/09
  • Twitterlicious!
    27/12/08
  • Google FriendConnect now on Ariejan.net
    03/12/08
  • Export CSV directly from MySQL
    27/11/08
  • SQL: Ordering with NULL values
    14/11/08
  • RSpec'ing with Time.now
    05/11/08
  • BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App
    28/09/08
  • JRuby with Thomas Enebo
    03/09/08
  • Panel Discussion with DHH and Rails Core Members
    03/09/08
  • JRuby with Nick Sieger
    02/09/08
  • RailsConfEurope: The first tutorial
    02/09/08
  • Leaving for RailsConf Europe 2008
    01/09/08
  • ActiveRecord Read Only Model
    17/08/08
  • Ruby on Rails: UUID as your ActiveRecord primary key
    12/08/08
  • Photography Heaven
    11/07/08
  • How to digg-proof your WordPress blog
    09/07/08
  • Zoek jij 'n uitdagende baan??
    06/06/08
  • The migration that cannot be undone: Irreversible Migration
    06/05/08
  • Permanently redirect WordPress pages
    15/04/08
  • Debian Etch: RMagick LoadError
    10/04/08
  • Enabling Trac Email notifications
    09/04/08
  • Here we go again: WordPress 2.5
    09/04/08
  • Rails Snippet: Caching expensive calls
    09/04/08
  • Attack of the Killer Bunnies
    15/01/08
  • Kabisa Blog
    13/01/08
  • For You: Merry Christmas and a Happy 2008!!!
    20/12/07
  • Wil jij mijn collega zijn? - Kabisa is hiring!
    07/12/07
  • MySQL: (Re)set the auto-increment value of a table
    30/11/07
  • RailsJobs.nl - Ruby on Rails Jobs in The Netherlands
    27/11/07
  • Party time!
    17/10/07
  • Google increases storage!
    08/10/07
  • Flash not clearing after a request?
    26/09/07
  • Wordpress 2.3 released!
    25/09/07
  • Rails 2.0 New Features
    24/09/07
  • Whooop - here it is! The new Ariejan.net!
    24/09/07
  • RailsConf Europe 2007!
    17/09/07
  • 10 reasons why Microsoft's 10 reasons not to use Google Apps suck
    11/09/07
  • Content_for, yield and making sure something gets displayed
    01/09/07
  • Blueprint 0.5 Rails Plugin released
    31/08/07
  • BlueprintCSS Rails Generator
    27/08/07
  • Super Simple Authentication Plugin and Generator
    24/08/07
  • Using Iconv to convert UTF-8 to ASCII (on Linux)
    21/08/07
  • I’m back in business!
    20/08/07
  • Kabisa, RailsConf Europe and Ariejan.net
    20/08/07
  • I’m Back!
    01/08/07
  • Ariejan.net - What’s next?
    16/07/07
  • Clear DNS Cache on your router
    07/07/07
  • How to write a Rails Plugin (for controllers)
    06/07/07
  • Some DNS problems with Ariejan.net
    06/07/07
  • Got updates?
    03/07/07
  • How to create and apply a patch with Subversion
    03/07/07
  • How to force data to be downloaded as a file from your Rails app
    02/07/07
  • ActiveScaffold + acts_as_taggable + Auto Complete
    01/07/07
  • AJAX Rules! 80 JavaScript Solutions for professional coding
    21/06/07
  • Action Mailer: All mail comes from MAILER DAEMON
    20/06/07
  • Rails production server setup and deployment on Ubuntu/Debian
    20/06/07
  • Geslaagd! / Passed my final exams!
    19/06/07
  • Buy it now! Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
    14/06/07
  • BASH your SVN and Trac installation!
    12/06/07
  • ActiveScaffold, Acts_as_taggable_on_steroids
    11/06/07
  • Find and Replace with a MySQL Query
    10/06/07
  • Send mail with a BASH Shell Script
    10/06/07
  • Ultimate List of Ruby Resources
    10/06/07
  • Coming up: Ubuntu Development Server Guide
    07/06/07
  • Trac, WebAdmin plugin and global configuration
    30/05/07
  • Installing RMagick Ruby Gem on Mac OS X 10.4.9
    29/05/07
  • Slow connections with ProFTPD
    29/05/07
  • BAT - TER - Y
    28/05/07
  • MERGE request failed on ‘/path/to/file’
    21/05/07
  • FeedBurner acquired by Google!
    18/05/07
  • Rails Snippet: Write like Orwell with to_sentence
    09/05/07
  • Ariejan.net server move
    29/04/07
  • Rails, Resources and Permalinks
    12/04/07
  • TipSnippet: Create a RSS feed
    03/04/07
  • What do you want for AutoFlickr?
    02/04/07
  • 5 Reasons why PC OEMs should offer Linux
    29/03/07
  • Rails Tip Snippet: Create a comma-seperate list
    27/03/07
  • Subversion: How to revert to a previous revision
    27/03/07
  • Speedlinking: Top 28 startup resources
    25/03/07
  • Be productive! 37 things you can do on the toilet
    23/03/07
  • Rails Tip Snippet: Logging informational messages to your log
    22/03/07
  • 26 Things you can do with an old PC
    21/03/07
  • 8 Great ways to use Google for your start-up
    20/03/07
  • How I made 6 figures with Google Adsense in 10 days
    20/03/07
  • Wordpress Plugin: AutoFlickr 1.0
    07/03/07
  • Subversion Cheat Sheet Update: 1.0.1
    06/03/07
  • 4 Unusual uses for Subversion
    26/02/07
  • Subversion Cheat Sheet 1.0!
    23/02/07
  • Ruby: Sort an array of objects by an attribute
    28/01/07
  • New in Rails: Resource Scaffold Generator
    23/01/07
  • Rails: Nested resource scaffold
    23/01/07
  • Updates: Wordpress 2.1, Themes and Social
    23/01/07
  • “Print this page” with Ruby on Rails
    19/01/07
  • Why Ruby Rocks - Convince your fellow developers
    19/01/07
  • Rails: Group results by week (using group_by)
    12/01/07
  • Textmate+Rails: Easy partials for better code
    22/12/06
  • SVN: How often should you commit?
    20/12/06
  • SVN: Merge a branch with your trunk
    20/12/06
  • Show the current SVN revision in your Rails app
    13/12/06
  • Install ruby-mysql on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
    06/12/06
  • Installing Rails on Ubuntu Dapper / Edgy
    03/12/06
  • How to setup a Ubuntu development server - Part 2
    02/12/06
  • How to setup a Ubuntu development server - Part 1
    01/12/06
  • Rails: Security Check-up
    30/11/06
  • The Three Corner Stones of Developerhood
    25/11/06
  • SVN: How to structure your repository
    24/11/06
  • Google Project Hosting: SourceForge Competitor
    22/11/06
  • SVN: How to fix bugs properly
    22/11/06
  • WordPress: Author comment highlighting
    22/11/06
  • CSE-Tool 1.1.0 Released
    21/11/06
  • SVN: How to release software properly
    21/11/06
  • Announcing CSE-Tool: Deploy you Google CSE with ease
    17/11/06
  • Ubuntu 6.10 Live DVD on the Apple MacBook
    15/11/06
  • CUPS: 426 - Upgrade Required
    13/11/06
  • WordpressMu: Don’t allow new blogs
    31/10/06
  • Adsense Resource Inventory
    30/10/06
  • Cheat sheets? Look here!
    30/10/06
  • Confused about CSS Columns?
    30/10/06
  • How does your site look on …?
    30/10/06
  • Do your ads pay your (blogging) bills?
    29/10/06
  • Ruby On Rails for PHP: CakePHP
    23/10/06
  • Having fun with SPAM!
    13/10/06
  • Migrate SQLite3 to MySQL easily
    13/10/06
  • Tagging in ajax_scaffold
    13/10/06
  • Easily create a FavIcon online!
    10/10/06
  • Generate a SQlite-based Rails app
    10/10/06
  • Hi-Res Wallpapers for your MacBook!
    10/10/06
  • Top 5 DVDs you must have
    10/10/06
  • Welcome to Ariejan.net
    09/10/06
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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