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  • Testing with MiniTest
    07/04/15
  • Decorating Sorcery's current_user with Draper
    02/11/12
  • Ruby: regex scanning in a case statement
    22/05/12
  • Running a different ruby with Passenger 3.2 and RVM
    11/05/12
  • Showing Ruby, Rails and git info in your app
    02/04/12
  • From 11.34s to 0.625s for opening a .rb file in Vim
    21/03/12
  • Fast specs - Run your specs in less than 1 second
    13/10/11
  • RSpec speed-up (24.6%) by tweaking ruby garbage collection
    24/09/11
  • Rake with namespaces and default tasks
    04/04/11
  • Narf: A Ruby Micro Test Framework
    11/02/11
  • Firefly 1.1.0 adds QR Codes for your shortened URLs
    02/10/10
  • Resque: how to requeue failed jobs
    23/08/10
  • Firefly 0.4.3 and Firefly Client 0.4.0 released
    06/06/10
  • Upgrading to Mongoid Beta 6
    30/05/10
  • Bundler + Passenger with Rails 2.3.5? Yes, please!
    17/05/10
  • Ruby version and gemset in your Bash prompt? Yes sir!
    25/04/10
  • Really? Another Sinatra URL Shortener in Ruby?
    28/03/10
  • Installing the Nokogiri ruby gem on Debian
    25/03/10
  • Shields up! Rrrack alert!
    22/03/10
  • Epic TextMate Theme
    24/11/09
  • Valerii: 32-base string encoder and decoder
    13/10/09
  • IMDB Ruby Gem 0.4.0 Now available at RubyForge!
    14/06/09
  • Speaking at Rails Underground
    14/06/09
  • has_one - find all that have no associated object
    07/06/09
  • Ruby Gem: IMDB
    03/06/09
  • warcraft-armory 0.1.0 Released
    07/02/09
  • RSpec'ing with Time.now
    05/11/08
  • BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App
    28/09/08
  • ActiveRecord Read Only Model
    17/08/08
  • Skinny Controllers and Overweight Models
    17/08/08
  • Zoek jij 'n uitdagende baan??
    06/06/08
  • Debian Etch: RMagick LoadError
    10/04/08
  • Rails Snippet: Caching expensive calls
    09/04/08
  • Ruby on Rails plugin: Throttler
    07/02/08
  • Rails: calculated column caching
    06/12/07
  • RailsJobs.nl - Ruby on Rails Jobs in The Netherlands
    27/11/07
  • Using Iconv to convert UTF-8 to ASCII (on Linux)
    21/08/07
  • Action Mailer: All mail comes from MAILER DAEMON
    20/06/07
  • Ultimate List of Ruby Resources
    10/06/07
  • Installing RMagick Ruby Gem on Mac OS X 10.4.9
    29/05/07
  • Ruby: Sort an array of objects by an attribute
    28/01/07
  • Why Ruby Rocks - Convince your fellow developers
    19/01/07
Ariejan de Vroom

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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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