Written by Kabisa
Posted by Jonny Kievits on 15 September 2017
As a freelance software developer you’re in a constant struggle between client, project and managing expectations. How to avoid unhappy customers?
Posted by Roel Nieskens on 3 August 2017
What can you do to to make sure you're correctly embedding fonts in your hybrid mobile app?
Posted by Nick van Eijk on 25 July 2017
During a lunch 'n learn, I gave a presentation about GraphQL for my colleagues of Kabisa.
Posted by Jonny Kievits on 21 March 2017
BabylonJS is an engine for visualizing 3D elements within a website.
Posted by Joery Vreijsen on 12 December 2016
A Karaf distribution on Docker creates an OSGi environment which you can easily bootstrap and is also high scalable. Here is how to set one up from scratch!
Posted by Andy Maes on 4 October 2016
Take your first steps into Docker. Follow along from running your first container until building a complete application of multiple containers.
Posted by Tonći Galić on 26 September 2016
Workaround for confusion when list of integers show up as charlist/string in your IEx console.
Posted by Joost Saanen on 22 September 2016
After upgrading my machine to macOS Sierra 10.12 I noticed an issue using the keyboard: when holding a random key the cursor on the screen was not moving.
Posted by Nicole Bekkers on 15 September 2016
Explanation and insight into the 4 Rules of Simple Design
Posted by Pascal Widdershoven on 17 August 2016
This post shows you how to build Github Pull Requests using Jenkins pipelines and (optionally) Docker
Posted by Patrick Baselier on 28 July 2016
Use Ruby on Rails metaprogramming to avoid and ORA-12899 error when using an Oracle database
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 15 April 2016
Hanami: good! Travis: good! Testing your code against multiple databases: priceless!
Posted by Etienne van Delden on 6 April 2016
Tired of fighting to install nokogiri, libv8 or therubyracer on OS X? Me too! So follow these steps for a hassle free bundle install of these three gems.
Posted by Laurens Boekhorst on 7 March 2016
There are various places where you can obtain a prebuilt flight tracker, but where is the fun in that? Let's build one from from scratch!
Posted by Pascal Widdershoven on 29 February 2016
Tutorial on how to deploy a Spring Boot app on your own server in less than 15 minutes, using the open source Dokku PaaS
Posted by Joost Saanen on 1 February 2016
Enabling or disabling the "Press and Hold"-menu in Mac OS X is pretty easy. If you know how to do it at least ;)
Posted by Patrick Baselier on 24 December 2015
Build a static site with Middleman, host on Amazon S3 and managing the deployment process with CircleCI
Posted by Matthijs Groen on 11 December 2015
Lunch and learn session about javascript game development during the lunch breaks.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 27 November 2015
Rails offers some useful generators, one of which creates a new model. But did you know you can get into the specifics right from the command line?
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 2 November 2015
That awkward moment when you realize your cucumber feature tests have become technical debt. What went wrong?!
Posted by Patrick Baselier on 30 October 2015
Kabisa offers you a freely available workshop to learn Ember.js. You decide when to learn and how much time you want to spend.
Posted by Tonći Galić on 22 July 2015
On April 22th and 23nd the Elixir Europe Conference took place in Krakow, Poland.
Posted by Pascal Widdershoven on 9 April 2015
Recently we’ve upgraded our CI environment to be even more awesome. Here’s how.
Posted by Patrick Baselier on 30 May 2014
I think this subject makes a pretty good candidate for a recipe in the Ember cookbook. I suggested this as a pull request, I hope this post will help you.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 9 May 2014
Real programmers use Emacs. No Vim.
Posted by Stefan van Raaphorst on 24 April 2014
Duality as food for thought
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 4 April 2014
Needless to say, as most projects of this size and age, this one has plenty of technical debt. Let's make an inventory.
Posted by Patrick Baselier on 26 March 2014
Creating a backup of a (PostgreSQL) database in your Rails application should be easy. Well, so seems to be playing Eddie Van Halen's Eruption.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 27 February 2014
On February 2014 The Guild kicked off it’s second public edition. With over 50 people attending The Guild was a great success.
Posted by Niels Stevens on 3 December 2013
We, at Kabisa, can proudly announce we have open sourced 2 gems! We developed these gems as part of one of our latests projects.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 5 November 2013
Kabisa wants to make software engineering accessible to everyone. Kabisa is committed to sponsoring Rails Girls events in our region.
Posted by Pascal Widdershoven on 5 November 2013
We at Kabisa are Jenkins users. We live and breathe Test Driven Development, so a CI server continuously running our tests and building our apps is vital.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 5 September 2013
The Guild opens its doors for the first time. With about fifty craftsmen in attendance, this edition was a great hit!
Posted by Niels Stevens on 9 July 2013
Last month I had the privilege of attending the CamelOne 2013 Conference thanks to Kabisa. Looking back the trip to CamelOne 2013 was definitely worth it.
Posted by Niels Stevens on 29 November 2012
Discussing, discovering, and enlightening yourself with tools, tips and techniques: that’s what Devoxx is about
Posted by Niels Stevens on 26 November 2012
This year Kabisa attended the Devoxx University Days in Antwerp, Belgium. There were lots of interesting talks, in this post you'll find a short summary.
Posted by Matthijs Groen on 3 October 2012
At Kabisa we are big fans of pair programming. Unfortunately, we can't always sit fysically together when doing so.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 7 June 2012
Kabisa got to attend EuRuKo, an annual Ruby conference that was held in Amsterdam this year.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 7 October 2011
We're posting this one right at ya from Arrrrcamp 2011 in Ghent. Arrrrcamp is one of the best known RoR events in Belgium.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 3 June 2011
“No architectures to compile” in Xcode 4
Custom Array#uniq for ActiveRecord results
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 24 May 2011
Today I imported an iOS project, originally written in Xcode3 into Xcode4. I ran into an issue that prevented me from debugging the app.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 19 May 2011
Thinking about the code you put in your migrations is very important and will pay you back in less database downtime during deployments.
Posted by Patrick Baselier on 27 October 2010
We started building a Rails 3 application for one of our customers which had to share data with their existing Rails applications, built with Rails 2.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 17 June 2010
When saving images in general, and JPEG in particular, a colorspace is used. The two most commonly used colorspaces are RGB and CMYK.
Posted by Ludo van den Boom on 24 May 2010
Nowadays software engineers can't live without their favorite test frameworks. Kabisa is using Hudson, Cucumber and Selenium
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 16 March 2010
Resque is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Sounds great!
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 8 March 2010
This guide will show you how to quickly set-up a SSL site with a self-signed certificate and automatic HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect.
Posted by Patrick Baselier on 3 February 2010
Running cucumber features with sunspot_rails
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 21 January 2010
Using transactions with Ruby DataMapper
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 11 December 2009
Xen: How to fix “SIOCSIFADDR: No such device”
Posted by Harm de Laat on 8 December 2009
For this article I'm going to install a single (virtual) server to run a standard Ruby on Rails application.
Posted by Ariejan de Vroom on 12 April 2009
If your ruby app is doing SSL, you have probably seen one of the following errors:
