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Recreating Jane 9 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
So the Ender movie is coming out. That’s… well, it’s coming out. This had me thinking about the book series and one thing from there struck me as being more science than fiction nowadays (don’t worry...
I've taken up Exercising 23 Jul 2013 | 06:40 pm
I have been having fun participating in Exercism.io - a collaborative code improvement site started by Katrina Owen. The rules are simple: You get an exercise with a README and a test suite. You make...
Internet Explorer 6: The legacy 19 Jun 2013 | 11:40 am
Internet Explorer 6 is dead (almost). It has been for while, we’ve buried it, danced on its grave, and paved over the cemetery. And good riddance. But the most-hated browser in history wasn’t all bad...
Import GPX data to PostGIS 7 Apr 2013 | 06:45 pm
Here’s how I imported geo data from a bunch of files containing GPS traces in GPX format into a PostGIS database for further analysis. Assumptions OS X Mountain Lion MacPorts PostgreSQL 9.1 Insta...
How to install PostGIS on Mountain Lion 5 Apr 2013 | 02:14 pm
I recently needed to run some geographical analysis and PostGIS seemed like a perfect fit for this. So off I went to install it, here’s how. Assumptions OS X Mountain Lion PostgreSQL 9 installed vi...
Idea: Twimeshift 18 Mar 2013 | 12:48 pm
Having cut the cable TV cord one of the few things I kind of miss, is the real time snark insightful comments on Twitter during live events like the Oscars or X Factor. Here’s an idea; You enter a Tw...
One RSpec stub, many return values 13 Mar 2013 | 02:02 pm
Using RSpec Mocks it is trivially easy to stub a single method: It is also easy to have different stubs for different arguments: However, the other day I needed to stub out the same method many time...
Danish Ruby and Rails apps of 2012 18 Jan 2013 | 05:04 pm
While the danish Ruby on Rails community isn’t as big as it should be, we’re far from an inactive bunch. With help from the Ruby user groups in Copenhagen and Aarhus I’ve compiled this list of danish...
Popular posts of 2012 2 Jan 2013 | 03:28 pm
I know you’ve all been waiting for this, and this is in absolutely no shape or form an attempt at bolstering my Google juice, no sir, so here it is, the definitive list of the most popular content on ...
How we took our tests from 30 to 3 minutes 7 Dec 2012 | 11:59 am
One of my client projects have grown a fairly large test suite over the last years and it has become way unwieldy. Our original CI server took more than 30 painstakingly slow minutes to complete a tes...
