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Week 1

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

First post!

This week, I started working on a publishing system for xaop’s docbook files.
On committing files to repository, a script will check for c hanged docbook files, transform them into beautiful html and pdf and publish the m in the appropriate location within retrospectiva.

To publish or not to publish

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The Progress…

After a second week of work, the docbook-publishing-project’s core is nearly finished, despite some major problems I encountered. DocBook transformations now support files with images and xincludes, files can be transformed into multiple html-files (based on chapters and sections) and transformed files are now sent through another queue to the actual publishing script which saves the files and fetches the required images.

RailsConf Europe 2007

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

XAOP is committed to staying at the forefront of development and know-how in the field of programming technology and passing on this knowledge to our customers through state of the art products and services.
That’s why we’re attending Railsconf Europe conference in Berlin.
Perhaps we’ll see you there?

Dementia

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Where are my memories?

After last week’s cool segfaults, I now encountered a more subtle problem: a large memory leak. Again, the problem’s cause lies deep within l ibxml-ruby and ruby-xslt.

Class vs. aspect oriented source code organization

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Organizing the source code of your library or application well is extremely important. Well laid-out source code helps maintainability and readability, both very important aspects of software that is to last. Class oriented source organization was made popular by Java and adopted by Ruby on Rails, and is an accepted industry standard. Ruby code organization is file oriented. This allows most any code organization a programmer could want, opening the road to—god forbid—even better organizations. This article focuses on aspect oriented code organization.

Rails & Oracle - Case Sensitivity

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I ran into a small problem today while making an ajax based filter for a table. (Kinda like this example: http://dev.nozav.org/ajaxtable )

I want this query to be case IN-sensitive ofcourse, but in Oracle this is apparently not so by default.

First Belgian Ruby User Group meeting

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Posted by Peter Vanbroekhoven on 09/03/2007

Something great is on the brink of happening. Something all of Ruby speaking Belgium has been waiting for. A void in our Ruby loving heart is about to be filled. If you listen carefully, you can hear the joyful whistle of this joyous event speeding towards you. No, I’m not talking about the convoy of Coca-Cola® trucks, I’m talking about the first ever Belgian Ruby User Group meeting.

XaoP has taken it upon itself to organize the first Belgian Ruby User Group, or BRUG meeting. This is the occasion for Ruby users to meet kindred spirits, to indulge in general nerdiness with a strong focus on Ruby and Rails, to share all of Ruby’s goodness with people who know how to appreciate it. And the DateTime we are going to be doing all that on is Wednesday, October 3 at 19h.

The program for our first meeting will consist of bonding, a presentation on metaprogramming in Ruby, and sandwiches. Future activities may include working on projects in groups, pair programming, and pizza. If this sounds like fun, head over to the brug-talk mailing list where we hang out outside BRUG meetings and join us. If we are to put Ruby on the Belgian map, if we are to build a bridge between Ruby and our tiny country, then we need all of you Ruby enthusiasts to join what we hope will be a vibrant community so we can show everyone that Ruby lives here in Belgium!

RubyConf 2007

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The main Ruby event every Rubyist world-wide has been waiting for all year is coming up. The Seventh International Ruby Conference, also known as RubyConf 2007, will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA on November 2-4.

This year’s agenda is impressive to say the least; three days of plenary sessions in the morning, two tracks and a workshop or clinic running concurrently in the afternoon. Imagine starting your day with talks from the main developers of the three most promising alternate Ruby implementation, and ending it with Matz’s keynote speech which, as tradition dictates, will allow us a glimpse of his vision on the future of Ruby. With Ruby 2.0 coming up Real Soon Now™, this is a most exciting time for us Ruby lovers.

Every person of authority in the Ruby community is going to be there. This is where Ruby’s future is decided. This is where Ruby history is made. This is where XaoP just has to be too. So we can’t but send our own delegation there to absorb all the Ruby goodness and bring it back with us to Belgium. See you in Charlotte, maybe!

How To Browse Oracle Databases from within Netbeans

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:05:54 GMT

I started using Netbeans about two months ago for Ruby and Ruby on Rails development. Before, I was working in Eclipse with the RadRails plugin and it’s not very likely I’ll ever go back to it. It was good, but Netbeans is just a little bit better in everything.

But that ’s not what this post is about, in fact, there was a feature that I couldn’t get to work in Netbeans: the database browsing from within the IDE, and more specific for an Oracle database. Today I gave it another try and guess what, it’s working now :-). It turned out to be pretty easy, but I suppose I’m not the only one who is having difficulties with this, so here ’s how I did it:

(Video) How to create a Domain Specific Language ?

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

On 3rd of October 2007, XAOP organized and hosted the first Belgian Ruby User Group(BRUG) meeting.

More than 20 individuals interested in developing, promoting, fostering, strengthening, and improving the Ruby programming language and Ruby community attended this meeting.

Interested to become a member ? Sign up to the mailinglist.

If you were unable to attend :