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Programming related posts (tutorials, how to etc)
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I just released stup, a tool for easily keeping organized daily notes in the terminal. You can find it on GitHub here.
Creating a Linux Desktop application with Ruby

Lately I was experimenting with GTK and its Ruby bindings and I decided to write a tutorial introducing this functionality. In this post we are going to create a simple ToDo application (something like what we created here with Ruby on Rails) using the gtk3 gem a.k.a. the GTK+ Ruby bindings.


Using elasticsearch in a Rails application

In this tutorial we are going to create a Ruby on Rails application that will use elasticsearch to allow users to store and search their content. The sample application will be a stupid simple blog and the data will be, what else, posts. The integration with elasticsearch will be accomplished via the elasticsearch gems for Rails and we will use Kibana to view and check our index configuration.


How to create a favicon from an image
Quickly create a favicon with imagemagick from an image (png, jpg etc)

DuckRails v2.0.0 docker image

DuckRails now has its own docker image and so you can run the application without having to setup anything related to databases, secret keys etc. https://hub.docker.com/r/iridakos/duckrails/


Mom dad I want to be a computer programmer
My first attempt to create a comic...

DuckRails - Open source development tool for mocking API endpoints
An introduction and a guide for installing and using DuckRails, a development tool for mocking API endpoints easily and dynamically. Docker image available.

Rails sample API & UI application consuming it

I recently created a simple Rails 4 API named LofoCats API and a simple UI application consuming it named LofoCats UI (yes, I like cats, what else is new?)


Being a developer

I can’t really remember the first time I saw a computer. I do remember though that “working on a computer” was the first thing that came to my mind when I was asked “What do you want to do when you grow up?”.


Rails radio buttons and required boolean attributes
How to deal with required boolean attributes and radio buttons in Ruby on Rails.

Testing execution of filters with RSpec
I was working on my application and I wanted to write some RSpec tests for some controllers having `before_filter` for some actions....


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