Friday, November 14, 2008
Yesterday in my post about web development frameworks, I mentioned I would be revisiting my previous post on whether to learn Python or Ruby. So this post is a continuation of that earlier discussion. I’m bringing up the topic of Python or Ruby again as I have been thinking about web frameworks since watching Cal [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
When I created my first website back in 1998 it was purely static HTML that I created with Adobe’s DreamWeaver application. Next I discovered dynamic websites built using php and MySQL databases, so my next few sites were all written in php and accessing a MySQL database for the content. I have to confess that [...]
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Its a computing tradition to have your first program in a new programming language output ‘Hello World’, best not to go against tradition:
puts ‘hello world’
This has uncovered an issue with the WYSIWYG editor built into Wordpress which is stripping out the name part of the pre tags that is used by the google syntax highlighter. [...]
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
I’ve really needed to get round to learning a powerful object oriented scripted or interpreted programming language to replace windows batch files (which I currently use) for a while now. As Microsoft seems determined to gut their functionality with each new Windows release and I find myself wanting more functionality and power than batch scripts [...]