My new favorite ruby IDE: RubyMine

I've been working with RubyMine since a couple of weeks now, and I have to say that I don't use NetBeans anymore. RubyMine is faster, leaner and does it's job a lot better. If you want more reasons, just ask :) Nobody reads this anyhow lol

Safari 4: Google clonium?

Both Google chrome(chromium) and safari use webkit, but why on earth did apple make an almost 1 on 1 copy of chrome?

Can't say I don't like it :D

Maybe they should work on making the inspect element thing more like firebug.

Google Reader revamp

I just noticed the UI of google reader got a relift.

The subscription folders are more clear and the whole site seems a bit faster

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Wanted: Icons in the favorites list of the iPhone

The Phone-application of my iPhone has this nice favorites list. However it is text-only, and I have all these nice pictures of the people in my phone. So how can I tell the Phone application to show a grid of thumbnails of my contacts?.

sigh.

Phusion Passenger / mod_rails

I was running some mongrel_clusters until today. :) I had read about phusion a couple of times, but only now I took a few minutes to install it.

Some things went wrong at first (no rake in $PATH, missing some packages) but the installer notified me about that. Very nice.

Installing was a breeze, so now our rails apps run in apache with mod_rails (passenger). We still proxy and serve static content with nginx though.

Next step: Enterprise ruby, or some other VM

Hudson rocks

Last week I've implemented Hudson as our buildserver. Previously, we were using Luntbuild (and cruisecontrol).

The installation was a breeze. Installing it as a service was just a click away. We did have some problems with SSL when installing several plugins, so we donwloaded them from theinternet manually.

Hudson is a very neat tool, which integrates with http://www.redmine.org

thumbs up!

A tiny solution to the email problem: Notification headers

This is something I was thinking about some time ago... Some of my emails aren't really emails, but system messages. Stuff like "Import failed or succeeded" or a password change request email. Also, most of those emails are only valuable during a brief period of time (The log email of an importer isn't something you need to keep etc). What if there would be a mail header that specifies that an email is a notification email? We could do things like show a popup only on notification emails, automatically delete them if they're read or when expire.

Just curious if there already is such a header and what you think about it.