Please note these posts may contain outdated information – most of them were posted between 5 to 10 years ago!
If, like me, you don’t like reading on screens that flicker (LCDs – which give you eye fatigue!) then you’ll be pleased to know I have converted The Little Book On CoffeeScript to .mobi format for use on your Kindle. Just download and copy to your Kindle – it’s that easy!
This is an answerback to the recent ‘What the hell is happening to rails?’ post by Steve Coast. He says Rails has become too hard/advanced for beginners, and recommends they ditch learning Rails 3 and go with an older version: If you want to learn rails, don’t get the latest pragmatic programmers book. Go and
If you’ve been scratching your head (or tearing your hair out!) trying to do this then, a) join the club, and b) fear no more! Here’s a quick guide to get you set-up and submitted! Step 1 – Create your MacRuby App First step is to create your MacRuby app in Xcode. Rather than me
If you get this error on submitting your app to the Mac App Store:
Saw this mentioned on Stack Exchange earlier (via @ryanbigg) and as it was a post I was going to be doing anyway (to accompany a forthcoming feature, ‘Best way to learn Ruby & Rails) I thought I’d go ahead and do it now. Ok lets get started… but first it should go without saying that
Looking for some of the best TextMate themes for Ruby on Rails? Well look no further as I’ve done all the hard work for you and have compiled a list of some of the most popular themes 🙂
There are many reasons why Rails is special, but in order to keep things fairly short, relaxed and n00b friendly, I won’t delve too deeply into the mechanics. Instead I’ll cover the things that first drew me to the framework… and subsequently got me hooked! The best technologies One of the biggest draws to Rails
In this guide, we’ll look at moving a MYSQL based website to a new server. For the purpose of this guide, this step-by-step is for a vBulletin based site, but the principles are the same no matter what type of application your site is using (eg Drupal, WordPress, etc). We’ll… Transfer our website files from
XCache is one of the most respected php cachers around, so here’s a little how to guide that I wrote up as a reference for myself a while back. Hope you find it useful… Ssh telnet into your server as root user Grab XCache by typing: cd /usr/local/src wget http://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/Releases/1.2.2/xcache-1.2.2.tar.gz Wait for package to download
There are lots of scripts out there that do a great job of backing up your MYSQL database – so why’s this one any different? And why does it deserve the ‘Ultimate’ label? Well, it… Is one of the few backup scripts that elegantly turns your site ‘off’ whilst carrying out a backup Stores a
