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  • Testing with MiniTest
    7 Apr 2015
  • Decorating Sorcery's current_user with Draper
    2 Nov 2012
  • Ruby: regex scanning in a case statement
    22 May 2012
  • Running a different ruby with Passenger 3.2 and RVM
    11 May 2012
  • Showing Ruby, Rails and git info in your app
    2 Apr 2012
  • From 11.34s to 0.625s for opening a .rb file in Vim
    21 Mar 2012
  • Fast specs - Run your specs in less than 1 second
    13 Oct 2011
  • RSpec speed-up (24.6%) by tweaking ruby garbage collection
    24 Sep 2011
  • Rake with namespaces and default tasks
    4 Apr 2011
  • Narf: A Ruby Micro Test Framework
    11 Feb 2011
  • Firefly 1.1.0 adds QR Codes for your shortened URLs
    2 Oct 2010
  • Resque: how to requeue failed jobs
    23 Aug 2010
  • Firefly 0.4.3 and Firefly Client 0.4.0 released
    6 Jun 2010
  • Upgrading to Mongoid Beta 6
    30 May 2010
  • Bundler + Passenger with Rails 2.3.5? Yes, please!
    17 May 2010
  • Ruby version and gemset in your Bash prompt? Yes sir!
    25 Apr 2010
  • Really? Another Sinatra URL Shortener in Ruby?
    28 Mar 2010
  • Installing the Nokogiri ruby gem on Debian
    25 Mar 2010
  • Shields up! Rrrack alert!
    22 Mar 2010
  • Epic TextMate Theme
    24 Nov 2009
  • Valerii: 32-base string encoder and decoder
    13 Oct 2009
  • IMDB Ruby Gem 0.4.0 Now available at RubyForge!
    14 Jun 2009
  • Speaking at Rails Underground
    14 Jun 2009
  • has_one - find all that have no associated object
    7 Jun 2009
  • Ruby Gem: IMDB
    3 Jun 2009
  • warcraft-armory 0.1.0 Released
    7 Feb 2009
  • RSpec'ing with Time.now
    5 Nov 2008
  • BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App
    28 Sep 2008
  • ActiveRecord Read Only Model
    17 Aug 2008
  • Skinny Controllers and Overweight Models
    17 Aug 2008
  • Zoek jij 'n uitdagende baan??
    6 Jun 2008
  • Debian Etch: RMagick LoadError
    10 Apr 2008
  • Rails Snippet: Caching expensive calls
    9 Apr 2008
  • Ruby on Rails plugin: Throttler
    7 Feb 2008
  • Rails: calculated column caching
    6 Dec 2007
  • RailsJobs.nl - Ruby on Rails Jobs in The Netherlands
    27 Nov 2007
  • Using Iconv to convert UTF-8 to ASCII (on Linux)
    21 Aug 2007
  • Action Mailer: All mail comes from MAILER DAEMON
    20 Jun 2007
  • Ultimate List of Ruby Resources
    10 Jun 2007
  • Installing RMagick Ruby Gem on Mac OS X 10.4.9
    29 May 2007
  • Ruby: Sort an array of objects by an attribute
    28 Jan 2007
  • Why Ruby Rocks - Convince your fellow developers
    19 Jan 2007
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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