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Beste Belgische Ruby en Rails bedrijven,

Het wordt tijd dat de scholen weten dat er werk is in België voor Ruby en Rails developers. De enige richting in Vlaanderen, waar ik weet van heb, die deze taal aanleert tijdens de uren is nMCT, en zij zoeken stageplaatsen.

Laat dus massaal weten dat er ook stageplaatsen zijn voor Ruby en Rails geïntereseerden, zo weten de studenten dat hier ook toekomst in zit en gaan er misschien meer zijn die de stap durven zetten naar Ruby en Rails.

Haast jullie, want het schooljaar begint bijna! Registeer je stageplaats hier

Avast!

I’m happy to present you the fifth edition of Arrrrcamp.

After the success of last year I’m aiming to an ever better conference. More room for more pirates. More treasure to collect, more cocktails to drink, and more fun! Ticket sale is open as from today, and speakers and sponsors are invited to get in contact.

I’ve planned the 2011 treasure hunt on October 7th. This year, I even got a bigger ship. The venue is still the Zebrastraat in Ghent (I got bigger conference rooms, no worries), the formula hasn’t changed (good talks and some networking time) and I hope for the same atmosphere as last edition (cocktails and fun).

I can already present two fellow deckhands, John Long and Jim Gay. Both of them are Radiant Core developers, with John Long being the founding father of Radiant, and Jim Gay the current captain of the Radiant project. I happily raided their ship and convinced them to share their treasures and piratry-knowledge.

All preparations have started, but I still have some holes left and right to fill. If you are interested in speaking, or you know some people we should contact, contact me! There is a call for papers open, feel free to submit your talk.

If you want to sponsor Arrrrcamp, please get in touch. Me and my crew want to make the experience as good as possible for attendees and speakers, but this costs some money. We value our sponsors, and we are convinced that our sponsoring deals are good value.

Book your seat now! As from today the early parrot ticket sale is open at the reasonable price of € 65 per ticket. Normal ticket price will be € 95 once the first batch of tickets is sold.

So, start warming up your liver, feed your parrot and brush your eyepatch, ‘cause we are ready for our next adventure. Stay tuned through this site, and follow the captains parrot babblings through Twitter.

The captain!

Carierwave is an awesome gem to manage your uploads. It is pure Ruby, so it isn’t strangled in Rails or ActiveRecord. It is easy configurable, but I missed one option.

It doesn’t support to change the quality of your uploade images. But if you use RMagick or MiniMagick, you can use this snippet.

# rails carrierwave initializer that gives you a quality option in your uploader. use:
#  version :medium do
#    process :resize_to_fit => [640, 480]
#    process :quality => 95
#  end

module CarrierWave
  module MiniMagick
    def quality(percentage)
      manipulate! do |img|
        img.write(current_path){ self.quality(percentage) }
        img = yield(img) if block_given?
        img
      end
    end
  end
end

If you are using RMmagick, just replace self.quality(percentage) with self.quality = percentage. With thanks to matwiemann for sharing this solution