Author Archives: ekeretex

Top picks from my bookshelf

Posted on May 20, 2008 by ekeretex

While trying to streamline my growing book collection, I thought to do a post on the books that have been most useful. So here goes: The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez Useful both as a reference book and a source … Continue reading →

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Fireworks Resources and Tutorials

Posted on April 12, 2008 by ekeretex

I’ve got a confession to make – I don’t do Photoshop very well. In spite of my best intentions, I can’t seem to wrap my head around all the stuff expert designers take for granted. I guess I’ve got the … Continue reading →

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F1 2008 looking to be a blast

Posted on March 16, 2008 by ekeretex

The 2008 Formula 1 season has started and the first race was absolutely smashing. For real. Brit Lewis Hamilton qualified at pole position and went ahead to win the race but that’s not the best part of this year’s first … Continue reading →

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What’s with all the ruby frameworks?

Posted on February 6, 2008 by ekeretex

The Rails vs PHP debate has been on for ages with the standard answer being “You can’t compare Rails to PHP – Rails is a framework and PHP is a language. Compare it to CakePHP… or CodeIgniter… or Prado… or … Continue reading →

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From PHP to Rails… and back

Posted on February 5, 2008 by ekeretex

CodeIgniter has been my PHP framework of choice for a while now. I’ve churned out numerous sites based on the framework and even have my own CMS built on CodeIgniter. I have tried out other frameworks (CakePHP, Symphony, Solar) but … Continue reading →

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Restful Authentication with rails 2

Posted on January 19, 2008 by ekeretex

I recently had to build an authentication system into a project and seeing as the restful authentication plugin was getting such buzz, I decided to try it out. The problem was, most of the information I found on the internet … Continue reading →

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Springloops – stressless subversion

Posted on December 31, 2007 by ekeretex

We’ve been using Springloops for a couple of months now and all I can say is ‘Wow!’. Springloops claims to be “a unique source code management tool focused on web development teams. It allows you to code in parallel and … Continue reading →

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Giving up on mongrel_cluster on windows

Posted on December 30, 2007 by ekeretex

That’s it! I’ve given up trying to deploy a Rails app with capistrano from windows. Just spent two days trying to set this up (even tried cygwin) with no luck. The solution? VirtualBox. I have just gone from installing Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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