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Presenting at tomorrow’s BarCamp Memphis!
The second annual BarCamp Memphis is finally here! Tomorrow I’ll be heading to the MASE building to listen in to soome good presentations, panels, and wide-open discussions (“core conversations”) about technology development, new media, and entrepreneurship. My two scheduled sessions are: “Social Tools in the Enterprise” with Ryan Hinricher. Ryan and I are going to [read more...]
Formatting as code: Haml versus embedded Ruby
Digging deeper into Rails programming styles The last Sharing at Work post showed how to set up a Rails development environment using a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine. This week, I’m in the midst of developing my first ground-up public-facing web application using Ruby on Rails. Learning a new way to dynamically generate HTML My Rails development [read more...]
Get started building web apps with your own Ruby on Rails virtual development server
Today we’re going to take a detour into web programming using Ruby on Rails. The hardest part for me has been getting the development environment up and running. Some guides will walk you through setting up Ruby and then Rails directly on your Windows machine, but I abandoned that pretty quickly. You’ll soon grow tired [read more...]
Get started building your own web apps with the Google App Engine
I’ve only been at this for an hour or so, and already I’ve gotten a dev environment installed and working properly on this Vista laptop. This is a big step up from my attempts to install & run Ruby on Rails via Ubuntu Linux. I’m stepping through the Google App Engine howto docs if you [read more...]
Building a web application using Amazon Web Services, Day 1
Let’s get online and start a business! Last week we discussed the possibility of starting one’s own web business using the inexpensive and scalable Amazon Web Services as a backend. This type of distributed computing is beyond the scope of work I’ve done in the past so this should be interesting and it [read more...]
