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2024

August

• August 10, 2024 » Ignore Rust's target build directories in Deja-Dup

2022

December

• December 23, 2022 » The Fediverse never Forgets
• December 13, 2022 » New Project: Fedetivity Automate your Mastodon Account

November

• November 08, 2022 » The Fediverse is Inefficient (but that's a good trade-off)

October

• October 12, 2022 » Blog comments on a static site via social networks

September

• September 28, 2022 » Value Objects in Rust
• September 19, 2022 » "How do I test X" is almost always answered with "by controlling X"
• September 06, 2022 » Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software

August

• August 30, 2022 » Exponential compound interest on Technical Debt. And how I avoided it.
• August 23, 2022 » My Reasons For Using Rust (as a Ruby developer)
• August 16, 2022 » Event Source your Spreadsheets for Flexibility and Maintainability
• August 09, 2022 » It's not Ruby that's slow, it's your database

March

• March 08, 2022 » The Waning of Ruby and Rails

2020

January

• January 10, 2020 » Dutch government killing Post-a-Coin, my crypto startup

2019

October

• October 19, 2019 » Using Bitwarden to store Ansible-vault password

2018

September

• September 19, 2018 » The Private Blockchain Fallacy

February

• February 15, 2018 » Making a case for JavaScript, in-browser Mining
• February 09, 2018 » Bitcoin turning into a multi layered system is the most interesting thing in crypto in 2018

2016

April

• April 06, 2016 » Simple time logging on top of git flow

2015

May

• May 09, 2015 » Add sorting to your product page in Spree

February

• February 19, 2015 » When FactoryGirl leads to bad habits
• February 03, 2015 » Selecting a Good WYSIWYG for Rails: it's all about use-cases

2013

October

• October 06, 2013 » I am a webdeveloper (using Ruby, Rails and other Open Source)

July

• July 31, 2013 » So, I am starting as Ruby Developer at Savvii

March

• March 21, 2013 » Please, Ruby devs, join() your paths
• March 04, 2013 » Drupal Imagecache security vulnarability with DDOS attack explained

February

• February 10, 2013 » Tagadelic: TDD, OOP and seeking maintainer
• February 04, 2013 » Testing colored output with Cucumber

January

• January 08, 2013 » Make cucumber open the browser with the current page

2012

November

• November 19, 2012 » Developing a tiny ecommerce site using microframework Slim

October

• October 23, 2012 » Fix SEGV for Vims command t on Ubuntu 12.10
• October 22, 2012 » Spree e-commerce on budgethoster Site5
• October 15, 2012 » Why outside in Webdevelopment is Better; why Designs should be Leading.
• October 05, 2012 » Programming on a Non-English Project; best practices
• October 01, 2012 » After almost twelve years of Drupal, I am saying goodbye

August

• August 03, 2012 » git deploy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deployment

July

• July 02, 2012 » Standardising the technology stack (or CMS) is silly

June

• June 21, 2012 » Map capslock to escape in Ubuntu Linux

May

• May 30, 2012 » Leave some Ink in the Well
• May 24, 2012 » A new blog

March

• March 23, 2012 » Why not to use -dev versions of Drupal-modules.
• March 23, 2012 » Several reasons why I prefer Github over Drupal for Hosting my Drupal Projects.
• March 15, 2012 » How the Code Consultant Bot tought me about a potential solution to Drupals' deployment horrors.
• March 01, 2012 » A better way to variable_get() and t() in Drupal.

January

• January 03, 2012 » CDPATH, add paths to your "cd" which are accessible from anywhere on your system for autocopletion.

2011

December

• December 08, 2011 » HJKL cheatsheet

September

• September 18, 2011 » I was wrong: It was not a leak in a Drupalsite.

May

• May 29, 2011 » Mailcatcher for Drupal and other PHP-applications - The simple version
• May 28, 2011 » Mailcatcher for Drupal and other PHP-applications

March

• March 29, 2011 » Simplest authentication in Rails: Basic Authentication with a logged_in? helper.
• March 16, 2011 » Minor sidenotes for Tagadelic users, regarding SA-CONTRIB-2011-013

February

• February 03, 2011 » Why I chose to disclose a security issue and not report it to Drupal securty team.

2010

December

• December 31, 2010 » Clean and maintainable pattern for blocks development in Drupal 6

November

• November 10, 2010 » Counter queries for complex, none-distinct SQL in Drupals Pager system.

October

• October 27, 2010 » Drupal filetypes for Ack grep.
• October 13, 2010 » Four troublesome notes with Drupal module-updates and upgrades.

September

• September 13, 2010 » Drupal needs you to conform, a framework will conform to you.
• September 08, 2010 » Toggle your webservers' production environment by using symlinks

June

• June 23, 2010 » The problem of Drupals exponential complexity
• June 18, 2010 » Grid Systems, Drupal and Semantics (why CSS frameworks are not that bad in Drupal)
• June 10, 2010 » Design principles for creating Good Classes let you write Good Drupal Modules.
• June 04, 2010 » Why I withdraw my Pledge to have Tagadelic ready for Drupal 7
• June 03, 2010 » Small but Useful modules: are they worth the pain?

April

• April 19, 2010 » The first rule of coding for Drupal: never forget about the option to write your own code.
• April 15, 2010 » "Pick up where you left last X" by not committing last changes, good branches and pseudocode.
• April 14, 2010 » Load Rubygems environment variables on startup (requie 'gemname' gives 'not found')

March

• March 29, 2010 » Piwik 0.5.5 out. New plugin: AnonymizeIP
• March 25, 2010 » "Drupal ceases being a Content Management Framework", says John a The Onion webdeveloper.
• March 09, 2010 » iDEAL codesprint at the Drupaljam

February

• February 20, 2010 » Git mirror for Basetheme Genesis
• February 10, 2010 » Will Drupal become the next editorial tool (and cease being a community tool altogether?)
• February 05, 2010 » Drupal Databasedump for incremental backups.

January

• January 05, 2010 » Lots of missing files in development of Drupal? Switch off Drupal's error handling
• January 04, 2010 » Ideal Payment API
• January 02, 2010 » Manage remote git modules in your gitted Drupal with submodules

2009

September

• September 12, 2009 » Dabr.nl released. Mobile frontend for Twitter
• September 06, 2009 » Getting Tagadelic ready for Drupal 7 (and on github, wohoo!)

August

• August 04, 2009 » Reply on "Drupal is Shit" by Nathan Whitworth

July

• July 25, 2009 » Good commit messages

February

• February 16, 2009 » Localization server local pakage generator from SVN (hacked up script)
• February 08, 2009 » Wizzlern, the new Dutch Drupal Trainers, but how to share?

2008

October

• October 11, 2008 » Five serious security issues and configurations, I found in recent clients sites

September

• September 14, 2008 » Help your Drupal projects: do not 'subscribe'
• September 03, 2008 » Use hook_requirements to help admins find and install 3rd party code

August

• August 19, 2008 » 5 reasons why not to use panels (and 4 reasons to use them)
• August 15, 2008 » Help maintainers maintain

July

• July 31, 2008 » HOWTO include krumo in devel module with svn externals
• July 10, 2008 » Waaraan moet een goede Drupal partij voldoen? Hoe vind ik een goed Drupalbedrijf?
• July 03, 2008 » Quick and Dirty Vitalist to Rememberthemilk migration script.

May

• May 01, 2008 » Developing on Drupal CVS HEAD

February

• February 11, 2008 » I am giving a theme workshop at FOSDEM 2008
• February 11, 2008 » Drupal CVS Quickref Sheet

2007

November

• November 19, 2007 » Dutch host moving to PHP5
• November 17, 2007 » Theme workshop voor DrupalJam 2007

October

• October 17, 2007 » Online Internet Explorer screenshot makers

September

• September 27, 2007 » Snipplr Drupal's code snippet feed
• September 26, 2007 » FeVote test for tagadelic
• September 16, 2007 » Making Drupals clean URLS work on lighttpd

July

• July 26, 2007 » Good CMS (Drupal) designers are rare: ten points on how to find your perfect designer
• July 10, 2007 » Overridability: A good parameter in chosing your platform

June

• June 14, 2007 » How ajax pushes usability away. And where usability really starts: at the bottom.

May

• May 01, 2007 » Help maintainers maintain. And helping contributors help the maintainers.

April

• April 19, 2007 » Flexinode for 5.x roadmap.

March

• March 26, 2007 » Drupal on Twitter
• March 01, 2007 » Emerce about the Drupal convention

February

• February 28, 2007 » Drupal's statistics suck.(less?)
• February 17, 2007 » HOWTO turn Drupal into an authenticate-only site with users from an LDAP directory.
• February 14, 2007 » Using RSS to stay informed about a post
• February 13, 2007 » webschuur accidently reverted to an old backup
• February 06, 2007 » Flexinode fields no longer found recursively
• February 06, 2007 » Flexinode 4.7 third preview release
• February 03, 2007 » Top 10 mistakes made by Drupal newcomers

January

• January 27, 2007 » Flexinode image field fixes
• January 27, 2007 » Flexinode 4.7 preview release
• January 23, 2007 » Comment spam getting smarter and Drupal-focused
• January 16, 2007 » Story of a Drupal-Beleiver installing Joomla! 1.5 Beta
• January 11, 2007 » The history of Drupal Theme Garden
• January 11, 2007 » How to make (Drupal) blogs more conversational
• January 09, 2007 » Fancy Rays in inkscape
• January 06, 2007 » Swirly curls in Inkscape
• January 05, 2007 » Disallow anyone but you, to reach the update files
• January 02, 2007 » Flexinode bug list now resembling reality...

2006

December

• December 26, 2006 » The CMC and CMF landscape
• December 25, 2006 » Flexinode update
• December 23, 2006 » 2007: Web3.0 the Distributed Collaboration Web
• December 22, 2006 » Tagadelic for Drupal 5.0
• December 21, 2006 » Drupal and the carpenter: Drupal can do you harm?
• December 20, 2006 » Congrats to you
• December 18, 2006 » Wikimedia already using Drupal
• December 15, 2006 » HOWTO: render special classes around nodes with certain terms (in certain forms)

November

• November 14, 2006 » What to choose: Flexinode versus CCK!

October

• October 21, 2006 » Normalising users and people
• October 13, 2006 » HOWTO create a real menu trail in primary and secondary links
• October 05, 2006 » Videocast: how to use tagadelic URLs to create fancy tagclouds.

September

• September 19, 2006 » Choosing your system architecture for large scale Dupal deployment.
• September 12, 2006 » whitepaper Taxonomy and freetagging as the spine of the site
• September 01, 2006 » Feedbakc on deliciously Drupal theme

August

• August 25, 2006 » Hours for hire, a sponsor experiment, Reverse Job Offers,

July

• July 28, 2006 » To Drupal or not to Drupal, why we chose not to use Drupal for a photo shop.
• July 27, 2006 » Quality control for contributions.
• July 14, 2006 » Ancient, sure. But does it show regression?
• July 06, 2006 » Using jQuery to build 'collapsible form descriptions'.

June

• June 21, 2006 » Iteration 02: Layout of the page.
• June 19, 2006 » Iteration 01: Whats in a name, define the framework
• June 19, 2006 » Iteration 00: The kickoff

May

• May 25, 2006 » Filtered input formats, I finally settle down with markdown.
• May 24, 2006 » quicktags release, highlighting the hooks!
• May 11, 2006 » Sympal scripts vs. or with Civicspace installer
• May 09, 2006 » Drupal with apache in a chrooted jail

April

• April 27, 2006 » Integrate PHPBB/Vbulleting etc. into Drupal? Or not?
• April 23, 2006 » the globalize.t for Drupal?
• April 21, 2006 » Theming system railfrog
• April 12, 2006 » Modular modules, how to make modules play together
• April 01, 2006 » «Drupal is for developers, or is it not?» Free quoted from tux mag.

March

• March 02, 2006 » Ultimate Inline images: Sympal.

February

• February 25, 2006 » Drupal and i18n, the holy grail?
• February 13, 2006 » Early announcement of sympal distro
• February 12, 2006 » Some tips for adminstrators and multisite providers to make Drupal more secure.
• February 11, 2006 » The typo attitude.
• February 09, 2006 » Quanta drupal documentation. Rough, but a starter.
• February 09, 2006 » Brickslate: Moving phptemplate a step closer to perfection :)

January

• January 31, 2006 » please, on my knees I beg you. freeze me.
• January 31, 2006 » How would Darth Vader sell Drupal to people?
• January 26, 2006 » Getting local getting personal
• January 26, 2006 » Drupals major inconsistency, objects versus arrays
• January 19, 2006 » the forum WTF
• January 19, 2006 » Next generation tags: tags with more context.
• January 19, 2006 » hmmhhhRevisions
• January 11, 2006 » Lego vs Playmobil : Is Drupal that hard, or is building a site hard?
• January 05, 2006 » The hard choice between HEAD and stable. Back to 4.6. (again)
• January 02, 2006 » Strict separation of logic and data (or: why I want to get rid of PHP filters in my projects)

2005

December

• December 27, 2005 » Drupal topsites
• December 25, 2005 » Druby on rails, gaining momentum.
• December 23, 2005 » Druby on Rails (part -1)
• December 22, 2005 » Druby on Rails part 2
• December 21, 2005 » Druby on Rails part 1
• December 21, 2005 » Druby on rails (version 0)

November

• November 30, 2005 » Webschuur codebase upgraded to 4.6.4
• November 26, 2005 » snel

October

• October 30, 2005 » Commander (Quanta) form builder for Drupal
• October 29, 2005 » Dischosting
• October 27, 2005 » Multisite: where to put what: files and directory layout
• October 18, 2005 » Relations Systems Presentions
• October 16, 2005 » Presentation drupal in files communities

September

• September 23, 2005 » jabber at webschuur
• September 22, 2005 » Servers back and running
• September 13, 2005 » Hosting, the foundation

August

• August 25, 2005 » Linode: first impression

July

• July 27, 2005 » Greensnet

June

• June 18, 2005 » webalizer.conf
• June 15, 2005 » Banlist
• June 07, 2005 » Spam handling for a small amount of unix users

May

• May 27, 2005 » Prologic Prologue Presentatie
• May 17, 2005 » Your new drupal site, now what?
• May 17, 2005 » Autmatic add or remove files to an SVN repository
• May 13, 2005 » Aptitude upgrade
• May 12, 2005 » Subscribe a batch of mailaddresses to mlmmj
• May 12, 2005 » Add moderator to mlmmj mailinglist
• May 04, 2005 » Stats show Mozilla leads.

April

• April 30, 2005 » OOPS, DNS offline

March

• March 10, 2005 » Nuke to Drupal: Create static HTML files.
• March 08, 2005 » Nuke to Drupal Theme conversion: define DOM
• March 07, 2005 » Nuke to Drupal Theme Conversion: References
• March 07, 2005 » Nuke to Drupal Theme conversion: Prepare images
• March 07, 2005 » Nuke to Drupal Theme conversion: Prepare HTML
• March 07, 2005 » Nuke to Drupal conversion Start.

February

• February 18, 2005 » Drupal cookies and privacy laws
• February 06, 2005 » Faulty DNS settings took webschuur.com sites offline.

January

• January 12, 2005 » True and non-geek drupal community implentations

2004

December

• December 13, 2004 » List of features in a drupal blog
• December 08, 2004 » browsercam and flickr for reporting

November

• November 15, 2004 » Rethink revision workflow
• November 11, 2004 » CSS template: width
• November 03, 2004 » Search engine optimisation

September

• September 30, 2004 » Vertalen van content met de locales
• September 15, 2004 » Remixreading content types
• September 15, 2004 » Recomended software
• September 09, 2004 » Mysql server down again
• September 08, 2004 » We are experiencing a strange, database bug on RemixReading
• September 08, 2004 » Userposts.module
• September 08, 2004 » Remix Reading uses cliipper.module

August

• August 16, 2004 » nymfauem upgrade to Drupal 4.5 RC
• August 02, 2004 » Vacation

June

• June 30, 2004 » webschuur.com announces the alpha release of drupalCOM
• June 19, 2004 » Brainstorming
• June 15, 2004 » Nymfaeum running CVS and flexinode
• June 15, 2004 » Getting started
• June 11, 2004 » Starting a new track
• June 11, 2004 » Fixed the theme
• June 08, 2004 » webschuur.com layout
• June 02, 2004 » Bler.partyfashion.net is moving

2002

February

• February 02, 2002 » Set of avatars

2001

May

• May 19, 2001 » Project Site for a school project