Elf Sternberg
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Archive for June, 2008
10Jun
“If I just knew HTML, I could make a trunkload of money!”
Posted by Elf Sternberg as chat, web development
I’d gone to Borders Books find myself a copy of the Ruby Pocket Reference. I’ve long liked having paper books for some things; I don’t need the tactility of paper for fiction, but for reference it’s absolutely critical, especially when I’ve reached the point of having so many tabs open on the browser that I’ve [...]
07Jun
Using ActiveRecord::Schema to Create Databases Without Rails
Posted by Elf Sternberg as programming, ruby
I spent most of today working on my story website. It’s a pain in the neck to maintain, especially in updates, and it needs more smarts. A lot more smarts. I decided to see how much lifting it would take to get all of my stories, regardless of series or arc, into a database using [...]
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- Tags: activerecord, databases, ruby, schema
The website Elect Tina Orwall runs WordPress 2 on a Gentoo Hardened Linux server running Apache 2 and MySQL 5. The client was given a copy of WordPress 2: Visual Quick Start, which I consider pretty much the only book a client should need to make their site work. If she needs more, you’re doing [...]
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