Standout featured in Smålandsposten
I was recently interviewed by Smålandsposten about Standout's profit-sharing model, which has been part of the company for more than a decade. It is o...
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Standout is ISO 27001 certified
As CEO of Standout, I have driven our ISO 27001 work from decision to certification. Standout is now certified according to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, which ...
Install ruby 2.1 on macOS Big Sur
Installing ruby 2.1 on macOS Big Sur may be cumbersome. You should probably not use 2.1 for new projects but if you like me you may have an old projec...
Script with swift
If you are a swift developer you probably know already how to create an executable swift package or an command line tool using XCode. But then you als...
Create ISO image from directory
I was using VirtualBox to run an older version of OS X. I had some files that I needed from my host computer but hadn't set up any shared directories....
Make all new commits verified at GitHub
_A guide to add GPG signatures on all your git commits. Expects that you already have git and HomeBrew installed on your macOS machine._ When you cre...
iOS UI tests for custom URL scheme
UI tests is a great way to test that your application behaves as you expect it to and also to verify that you don't break any features in the future. ...
Implement custom URL scheme in iOS
Custom URL schemes is a great way to enable automation in your application for power users or to allowing users or other developers to go to a view or...
Start Delayed Job on boot and restart on deploy
If you have an rails application that is running delayed job for its background processes you probably would like it to start automatically whenever t...
Yatzy Protocol for iPhone
Yatzy is a game you play with 5 dices together with your friends. If you don't have any yatzy protocol papers you can use an app I created called Yat...
Configure RuboCop for your project
> RuboCop is a Ruby static code analyzer. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide. -- From t...
How to SSH through SSH proxy
At our company we do not want any outsiders to access our servers through SSH. Often we prevent logins to root and prevent logins with password. But t...
How to update locate database on OS X
`locate` is a great tool both on Linux and Mac when searching for files in the terminal. But sometimes the database will be out of sync with whats rea...
Create and apply Git patch files
When working with Git most of us are used to have something like GitHub or Bitbucket where we can create pull requests and assign to people. This may ...
Install Nginx side by side with Apache
Before we start you should make sure your openssl is updated. Run `rpm -q openssl` and if this reports version `1.0.1e` and less than `1.0.1e-16.el6_5...
Fix: Unable to start the Phusion Passenger watchdog
Does this look familiar for you? If it does, then you are on the right place. ``` # /var/log/httpd/error_log [Wed Sep 24 18:21:20 2014] [notice] cau...
Input fields in rake task
Rake is an awesome tool to automate workflows during development or for some other stuff. But lets say we have a task called `customer:add` where we ...
Get pow running with ZSH and Rbenv
Usually I'm using `rails s` with thin or webbrick when developing web applications because I've had lots of issues with pow and file uploads. But when...
Disable OS X Dashboard
If you are like me and never uses Dashboard on your mac. Why should you still have it there? I found out that it can be killed and disabled. First y...