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This saturday me and a colleague went to our National Airport to take some pictures and look at the planes... But unfortunately after standing in the freezing cold for one hour we only saw one plane takeoff and two planes land... Result, only 2 decent pictures due to the sunset... Check them out here and here.
Building a preference pane with XCode // 2 comments
I always found it hard to setup a preference pane for my application. so I figured out how to do this, and wrote a small tutorial! When you create a preference pane, don't forget to keep the design conform with the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. You can find these guidelines in the Apple Online Documentation. CODING First thing you need...
Simon notified me that my name was mentioned in the top-11 twitter users that refer to pokens in their messages. Not a very special thing, but nice to keep some statistics... Take a look at the blog post at bvlg.blogspot.com.
When you experiment with your camera you must have a boring life according to some people... Well then my life sucks big time... NOT!! Check out the 10to1 mug in the dishwasher at vimeo.
Today I had to wash my car, and because I'm very lazy I decided to go to the car wash... But then I wondered, can I do something a normal person wouldn't do? Yes I can! I recorded the whole process... Check it out on vimeo.
Notify your app when a drive is mounted
Cocoa can be a hard language to learn when you want to develop your application. But not because of the language itself, it's more because of the lack of good documentation from Apple. That is the reason why I'm going to write more and more articles on Cocoa, so I can help the Apple community to create even more stunning apps. This topic will...
Two days ago I migrated the "fousa" rss feed from feedburner.com to the new feedburner.google.com. This resulted in a change to the feed URL. You can now reach the feed at feeds2.feedburner.com/fousa. I hope it doesn't causes to much problems! Don't hesitate to contact me when the feed doesn't seem to work...
Simon notified me that I had to add a link to my "Uploading a rails plugin to github" article. This to inform you how to install git on Mac OS X. Now you shouldn't have to much trouble continuing with the tutorial.
Uploading a rails plugin to Github // 1 comment
I recently looked for a nice SVN repository to store my rails plugins for public use. But I searched the web and found that the most common way was to put the rails code on a github repository. So I created my github account, and then an open source repostiory (named 'plugin-test'). Before you continue with this tutorial, you should check thi...
I added some calculation methods to my simplify_time_calculations plug-in. This enables the plugin to do some correct calculations when you need to calculate the time period from ex. 20h00 till 02h00. Check out the article.
I added a new feature on this website called scratches. They are just some snippets with url's that I would like to share without having to write a big article about it! Hope you enjoy them...
Fix the xml-mapping gem in rails 2.x
In a previous article I explained how to use the xml-mapping gem to map a XML tree to your models. But what I didn’t mention is that a exception is raised when using this gem in rails 2.x. When you try to save the model to an XML file it goes wrong. In rails 2 some methods became deprecated and therefore I created a plug-in that patches the gem....
Using the rbVimeo gem on a shared hosting
For my blog I wanted to display my last 3 movies I posted on the Vimeo website. For this I used the rbVimeo gem I found on the web. But the only problem was that I couldn’t install it on my server. I’m currently hosting my websites on a shared webserver at Joyent. So I tried to find a way to get around this problem. And it turned out to be fairl...