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Another step forward for Pennyworth
December 28, 2018Pennyworth gets another update and can now handle references from Contentful, which means that pages now are more flexible and extensible and posts can soon handle media such as images and videos more properly.
Read articleChristmas is just around the corner and Pennyworth got pages
December 21, 2018Finally I got to sit down and finish of the pages functionality for Pennyworth. Well, that's not entirely true, there are still some features I want to add. But, Pennyworth now have simple page support, just need to create a Hugo theme that can handle it.
Read articleWas asked to speak at Stockholm Contentful Meetup in March
December 14, 2018The lovely people at Contentful asked if I wanted to give a presentation at the next Stockholm Contentful Meetup in March.
Read articleWhen should you go public with your project on GitHub?
October 11, 2018As most developers and companies for that matter I'm depending heavily on open source projects. What would world look like if Linux, Apache and MySQL for example would have been proprietary products? And no alternatives around?
Read articleAlmost ready to go live with Pennyworth!
September 21, 2018Things are moving forward and it is almost time to go live with Pennyworth!
Read articlePosting from Contentful using my iPhone
March 3, 2018This is me trying out blogging from the phone using the Contentful interface.
Read articleImageOptim - A great tool for reducing image file sizes
January 31, 2017Since Yahoo retired their image image optimizer SmushIt, there haven't really been any good alternatives. Sure there are a plenty of so called cloud services, but most of them feel shady and does not perform in the way that I want to. I found ImageOptim a few months back and I think it is awesome!
Read articleAstrid the Editor - A Side Project Turned Product
January 30, 2017Astrid is a editor for Hugo to make it easier to manage, create and publish content generated by Hugo. It all started as a side project and is now turning into a real product based on Electron and Ember.
Read articleSlack promises landscape mode for iOS
January 21, 2016Apps that does not support landscape mode is something that I really get hung up on and now finally one of my favourite apps, Slack is finally going to support landscape mode. Hopefully sometime before the end of 2016.
Read articleUsing the Element classList to manage classnames in HTML5
January 19, 2016Working with class names in your DOM has been a real breeze much thanks to jQuery class methods and the refined selectors that jQuery provides. Adding and removing classnames in vanilla JavaScript has traditionally not been that easy, it has not been really difficult, just cumbersome. The Element.classList changes this radically and if you have some basic experience with web development then the interface of the DOMTokenList will make you feel right at home.
Read articleStrutter is out, Hugo is in
January 11, 2016Sometimes you just have to make up your mind and make a choice. I've been working on Strutter off and on now, for almost a year, never really finding the time to finish the last ten percent to make the project presentable. I've learned a lot about Ember and I've gained more knowledge of both Ruby and Padrino together with a bunch of new techniques.
Read articleOptional named parameters in Padrino routes
January 11, 2015It is not very well documented and I'm not sure its even is in the docs, but Padrino supports optional named parameters in routes.
Read articleHoliday morning coffee
December 26, 2014Short update on Strutter and just how nice things are this fine winter morning on the 26th of December 2014.
Read articleAnother year, another blog and projects to come
December 17, 2014As I've written before and something that I still talk about is web publishing. This site and blog has been powered just in the last 18 months of various tiny projects and I've used them all in production. I enjoy writing Rails applications, but I've really taken Padrino to my heart for some odd reason. So it is quite understandable why I'm writing yet another blog app / project.
Read articleReleasing my first ever own Ruby gem Padrino Sextant
September 15, 2014My first ever Ruby gem, Padrino Sextant was release on September 13, 2014 and it has been downloaded 91 times in the past 48 hours. Which I think is awesome!
Read articleGuess100 is now available through NPM
September 15, 2014A few weeks back I wrote a simple guessing game called Guess100 for NodeJS. Inspired by my newly published Ruby gem Padrino Sextant I thought I would package Guess100 as NPM package.
Read articleNested resources in BackboneJS
September 7, 2014How to use nested resources such as embedded documents and one to many relations using BackboneJS
Read articleCSRF tokens in Padrino
August 30, 2014Out of the box CSRF tokens have been available for Padrino since the 0.11.0 release and was given an handy update in the 0.11.4 release. It can be a bit difficult to find the actual information and documentation on how to use CSRF tokens in Padrino.
Read articleLooking forward to all the goodies in Padrino 1.0
August 26, 2014Thoughts and reflections regarding Padrino, the ruby web framework after listening on the 170th episode of Ruby Rogues.
Read articleA simple guessing game diving into Nodejs
August 23, 2014Diving into Nodejs with a guessing game bu coding and releasing a custom version of Guess the Number game named Guess100 coded to be specifically run on Nodejs.
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