Blog & Portfolio of Tim Adler http://toadle.me en-us Mon, 21 May 2018 20:49:37 +0000 Mon, 13 Oct 1970 16:45:00 +0000 1800 The NES Mini Classic is a wonderful little box. It captures most of the old gaming feeling by putting you close to the screen and giving you authentic feeling controllers. That all while displaying everything in a modern fashion on a up-to-date HDMI... http://toadle.me:4567/2017/02/03/how-to-add-more-games-to-you-nes-mini-classic-using-hakchi2-and-a-mac.html Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 A while ago I wrote a little piece that was ment to safe people from the SSL-certificate problems that might occur using RVM. For the past year this problem has not gone away and still exists today. Since I just had to fix it on Windows, I thought... http://toadle.me:4567/2016/08/23/fixing-failing-ssl-verification-windows.html Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 There is a big gap in understanding between developers and business-people. Sometimes we are not aware of this gap, for example when we engage in emotional arguments about "how long things will take" or "if refactoring or features are more important... http://toadle.me:4567/2016/02/07/the-one-it-skill-i-wished-everybody-had.html Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 You know, I really like videogames. I also really like structured data about stuff. e.g. IMDB or TheMovieDB. When it comes to data for videogames the best place for structured data is hidden in the editorial content of Giantbomb. They also offer a... http://toadle.me:4567/2015/09/19/a-new-rubygem-for-the-giantbomb-api.html Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 "Concurrency is a bitch" this famous quote by any developer ever can haunt your everyday work like crazy. Why? Because mainly race-conditions and concurrency does not fit the "normal" way of thinking about code, which normally works like a cursor that... http://toadle.me:4567/2015/09/11/rspec-with-capybara-fails-with-not-found-while-serving-ajax-requests.html Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 You know, I often get a very strange itch, when on a long-distance flight: After let's say 3-5 hours after take-off, when I've watched the first 0815-movie, looked through the stuff on my iPad, tried to connect to the non-existing wifi - I sometimes... http://toadle.me:4567/2015/08/13/product-development-speed-is-just-a-feeling.html Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Today is a really sad day for me. My beloved Podcast-Client Instacast has closed down due to „no money left“. I normally can remember very vividly things or places that that I’ve been to when listening to spoken words. Therefore the following list... http://toadle.me:4567/2015/06/14/the-best-podcast-episodes-since-2010.html Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 I just returned from a world of hate and am going to tell you my war story, in order to spare you the trip. Just this morning when starting to work on some ruby-code again I tried executing a rake task that in the process does a simple HTTPS-connection http://toadle.me:4567/2015/04/16/fixing-failing-ssl-verification-with-rvm.html Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Ich gebe gerne vorweg etwas zu: Der Absturz von Germanwings 4U9525 ist schrecklich in seinen Auswirkungen und mysteriös in seinen Umständen. Dass ein deutsches Flugzeug ohne äußere Einflüsse abstürzt ist zudem noch äußerst ungewöhnlich und deshalb... http://toadle.me:4567/2015/03/29/die-katastrophe-und-die-berichterstattung.html Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Bei mir es so ungefähr 3 Wochen her: Da hörte ich auf dem Weg zum Reifenwechsel die erste Folge von Serial. Das war so um ungefähr 10:37h. Ich bin sowieso anfällig, weil ich seit Jahren begeisterter Podcast-Hörer bin. Nun gut. Sagen wir gegen ungef... http://toadle.me:4567/2014/12/15/mehr-content-fuer-serial-hoerer.html Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:07:00 +0000