The Book

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Chapter 6b - the layman's introduction to database migrations in Ruby on Rails

Submitted by jgrubb on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 9:19pm

This is not for programmers. This is for myself, because when I first started poking at Rails 6 months ago, I didn't have any idea why I needed to edit a migration file, much less what a migration was, except that it must have something to do with a database. I only knew that because of the command

Chapter 6a - Version Control

Submitted by jgrubb on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 8:32am

So it's been a while, eh? Not too much in the mood to write about what I've learned when most of what I've learned is how much I have to learn, y'know? Anyway, I've been back into Ruby on Rails lately, since Ruby has got to be the dead simplest real programming language out there. Oh yeah, and I have a major project cooking on Rails, but I'll elaborate later. Let's talk about version control...

Chapter 5 - Domains

Submitted by jgrubb on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 11:12am

Bollocks!!  Do not buy a domain from Yahoo.

I just want to make sure that shows up in the description of search results, if there are any.  Now a parable...

Chapter 4 - The API

Submitted by jgrubb on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 2:49pm

Facebook made this announcement yesterday through the Developers section of their site:

Today we are excited to announce an important step toward greater openness through Facebook Platform.

Chapter3 - devPlatform

Submitted by jgrubb on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 12:18pm

As in, what does that mean, anyway?  I'll try and keep it short.

When I spoke of Ruby on Rails the other day as the 'hotsh!t dev platform of the day', I realized that it would need some clarification.  So let me clarify.

Coding pretty much anything is a massive, time consuming job.  That's part of the reason that computer languages have evolved from 1s and 0s to Fortran to C to C++ to Java to Ruby: if you were to try and write the Twitter website in assembly language (binary), you'd be there coding for a very long time.  If you were to try and write Windows 7, you couldn't do it.

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