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The Bookstore: A Rails 2.0 Tutorial…continued…who wants to play with relational databases? Here’s the section I’m sure you’ve all by dying for; sure, the scaffold was pretty bad ass, but now we’re going to play with something you ALL will enjoy. This segment is going to be a little bit longer than the others, we’ll [...]

Google and its child
As a search engine, Google’s primary purpose is to locate and organize that little thing known as the internet. Acting as the intermediary between information and the end-user, such as yourself, Google allows users to enter a search query and click search.

Google returns a multitude of resuslts: web pages, files, websites, images; [...]

One of the biggest changes in Rails 2.0 is the way the framework pimps RESTful design.
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My thoughts exactly. Understanding what REST was/did/accomplsiehd was a bit of a struggle for me, hopefully, I can do a good job of breaking the concept down into tasty, digestible portions.
Disclaimer:
If you’re [...]

Alexa recently released news that they have “better rankings,” and “improved methodology” and have moved past using their Alexa Toolbar as one of the main sources for its rankings. I have always called Alexa the CEO’s site meter tool as the toolbar itself wasn’t even available for MACs. I think every CEO or marketing manager [...]

Basic Rail’s routing and a journey into the controller
Thanks for tuning in! Last time we spoke, we set up a basic Rails application called the bookstore. Using the new 2.0 scaffolding, we were able to quickly, and effortlessly move from a high-level thought process to a living, breathing model. Now that you’ve toyed around with [...]

I was milling over some old PHP code today, funny, because my friend Norm linked me to David Hansson’s blog post…it looks like PHP is a Friday thing!

After looking at my old code, I thought to myself, hmm, what better time to showcase the beauty of Rails. I made a post on a message board [...]

My first Rails application was the ONLamp: Rolling with Ruby on Rails tutorial, since then Rails has come a long way but I find the beginner resources lacking still. The one thing I’ve learned along the way has been that sample code is invaluable, so today, in celebration of my company’s launch of our completely [...]

April 2nd was the cumulation of four months of work, yesterday we launched Meeta.com our free dating website. Using a rapid development framework, known to all of you guys as Ruby on Rails, we’ve been able to move from conceptual models to a production stable product in a very short amount of time!
Along the way, [...]

Google recently announced a major update to their display URL policy in AdSense ads in an effort to further incorporate landing page quality to their bid and CTR algorithm which determines what position your ad appears and how relevant the keyword that you are buying is to your landing page.
What do I need to know [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates, we are working to code complete our latest and largest Rails project: a free online dating site. Until we launch, I likely will not have time to write any blog posts. When I have more time, I have a wealth of things to share with you all!