I’ve written a book called “Jump Start Rails” that covers getting up and running with Rails 4.0. The book is already available from my publisher’s e-learning site, along with a video course to support the book. Here, I’ll give you an overview of what to expect from the book/course.
Read More »CentOS 6.4 and PHP 5.3
By andy
In the first article, I described how I set up CentOS 6.4 including with Apache to get ready for web development. In this article, I’ll describe what I did to get CentOS and PHP 5.3 up and running.
Setting Up CentOS 6.4 For Web Development
By andy
CentOS 6.4 has been out for a while, and two production servers I use frequently both run CentOS. Where Linux is concerned, I’ve tended to stick with Ubuntu. So, I decided to have a go at setting up CentOS for web development. Here’s the first part of how I got on.
a Kindle Review
By andy
I’ve been using either my iPhone or an iPad as an e-book reader. I decided that it was time to try a Kindle, since I do a lot of reading. Here’s what I found.
Read More »Pagination With MySQL and Sinatra
By andy
I came across a situation the other day, where I needed to do some work with MySQL. The web app in question was originally written in PHP, but the stuff I was doing needed some rapid prototyping. Enter MySQL and Sinatra. Here, you’ll see one way to use MySQL and the will_paginate gem to paginate records from the database.
App Review – iA Writer
By andy
iA Writer for Mac is now at version 1.4. It adds two of the most sought after features I have been looking for in this app. Now they are there, it puts iA Writer firmly in the position of my favourite writing app – on any device.
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