Month: August 2009

  • Find “similar things” in Ruby

    For several Ruby on Rails projects I had to come up with “similar” results. These are often results (video’s, products,places, hobbies, etc) with the greatest number of tags. Say, you are tagging car pictures on a website, and have the following: image1.jpg -> [“honda”,”s2000″,”convertible”,”black”] image2.jpg -> [“honda”,”civic”,”blue”] image3.jpg -> [“lexus”,”is300″,”blue”] image4.jpg -> [“s2000″,”honda”,”convertible”,”silver”] image5.jpg ->…

  • Starting a UAE business now 40.000 USD cheaper

    Gulfnews tells us that those who are willing to start a business (LLC, Limited liability company), do not have to cough op the 150.000 AED (40.000 USD). With the current economic situation, this is not a bad step at all. More than 80 % of businesses in the UAE are LLC’s, so it’s a good…

  • Etisalat’s spyware patch – funny video

    Catboy, a radio DJ at Dubai 92, released a funny video on Etisalat’s spyware patch for Blackberries. (more here, here and here) Simply awesome.