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2 – Learning the Ruby Basics, the right way | From PHP hobbyist to pro Ruby developer course 28 Feb 2013 | 05:18 pm
This forms part of my “From PHP hobbyist to pro Ruby developer” course which I’m trialling at the moment with Remi. The purpose of this unit is to learn Ruby, and a little about professional code cons...
From PHP hobbyist to pro Ruby developer course – 1, Setting up the hipster blog 22 Feb 2013 | 05:12 pm
This is the first part of a longer course I’m developing for an Intern I’ve hired who we are guiding through the process of becoming a ‘pro developer’. In time these notes will form part of a larger p...
Ruby hosting in the cloud – Elastic Beanstalk vs Heroku vs EngineYard 24 Jan 2013 | 05:58 pm
Three platforms stand out for cloud based hosting – Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku and EngineYard. Here I present my experiences with the three, and thoughts on which might be best to use under various fac...
How to authenticate APIs – HTTP Basic vs HTTP Digest 18 Jan 2013 | 08:44 pm
A comparison of the pros and cons of the three main secure ways of authenticating an API, in plain business terms. We cover: HTTP Basic Access Authentication over SSL HTTP Digest The answer, as usual,...
Creating a true REST API 16 Jan 2013 | 11:51 pm
A guide to creating a REST API, which will enable you to build API's in a cost and resource effective way that follows clear standards. I take you through the core principles you need to know to build...
Why multivariate testing isn’t always a good thing 2 Jan 2013 | 10:25 pm
Multivariate testing isn't always a good thing. It comes with many pitfalls and risks I've laid out here.
Introducing FlexSlider2 manual direction controls extension 20 Jul 2012 | 10:20 pm
FlexSlider2 is a jQuery plugin that allows you to easily insert rotating banners, image galleries and app examples. They also automatically become responsive. The problem with FlexSlider2 Out of the...
Running a local webserver from a Dropbox folder on OS X 21 Feb 2012 | 02:19 am
I wrote a article a few years back on setting up virtual hosts on OS X so you can have lots of urls pointing to different folders on your mac, for testing websites. A good practice I have found is to ...
How to install static frameworks on Xcode 4 12 Jan 2012 | 03:11 am
I had some issues installing OCMock on Xcode 4, and found the method to be documented differently in a number of places. Fortunately I’ve worked out how to do it and it can be applied to any static fr...
Native vs Web with PhoneGap – which to use 14 Dec 2011 | 02:55 am
I’ve been talking to people about native vs web for years, and don’t fall down on one single answer. I thought it was time to get these thoughts down on paper. I’ve framed the discussion around a seri...
