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
