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Installing Ruby on Rails + MySQL + Imagemagick + Nginx + Passenger With Macports OSX

11.08.09 // Software // (1) // 590 views

This was one epic battle for me when i tried to get rails going with Lighttpd. But with that said, i have been spending quite sometime on just getting my development environment up and running on an environment similar to how i would deploy the app. So this is how i managed to get Rails [...]

CakePHP URL Shortener Service Tutorial

08.26.09 // CakePHP // (5) // 2,701 views

If you have just woken up from a 10 year long coma, you might realise that the internet has been dumbed down to 140 characters and services that offer “URL Shortening” are quite widely used. Well today, coma awakened or not, I will be writing out a basic tutorial which will give you an understanding [...]

Django Books For Sale

03.30.09 // Books // (0) // 40 views

That’s right! I have a heap of Django books up for sale! Along with some other web related books. They didn’t sell on Ebay Australia, and I couldn’t be bothered constantly paying for ebay’s charges. If you want to see my selling history on ebay, check out username nightgen. Anyways! These books are up for [...]

How To Setup A Wordpress Blog

03.02.09 // Web Design // (0) // 68 views

I have had some confused questions coming to me as of late by professionally orientated bloggers, quite ironically, about how to set up and install a WordPress powered blog. Firstly if you don’t know what WordPress, or WP, is: It’s an overly awesome piece of open source (free to use, distribute, modify, love) software. It’s [...]

Beginning CakePHP: Chapter 6 Solution

02.13.09 // CakePHP // (0) // 81 views

Using the Time Helper is much like using the HTML helper. Remember when you created a link?
So after adding the Time helper to the PostsController :
var $helper = array(‘Html’, ‘Form’, ‘Time’);
You will need to edit the date in view.ctp:

Date Published:

to:

Date Published:

Yay!
More CakePHP tutes to follow as i go along!

Ubuntu On Mac Without CD-Rom or USB

01.04.09 // Technology // (1) // 804 views

This was quite the saga.
I ended up doing the following:

Buy a Firewire cable, 6-pin to 6-pin and make sure you have another macbook or mac!
On the mac that will be Ubuntufied download and install Refit this is a custom boot loader for Mac and will mac it easy to switch between operating systems on your mac! [...]

Thinking about what tutorial to write next

04.17.08 // Doing Now // (0) // 96 views

what should i write next people?

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Design the Firefox Logo

04.15.08 // Links // (0) // 43 views

This is a tutorial on how to design the firefox logo from scratch with firefox:
http://www.henryhoffman.com/design-firefox-logo-in-photoshop-tutorial.html

Tutorial: How to build a poll system with PHP and mySQL

04.11.08 // PHP // (68) // 41,851 views

If you have been doing the other tutorials on this site you will notice that I have been teaching PHP and mySQL through projects. Projects that you can slot into your website, or if you are building a project, code that you can use within your project. I start from the ground up, assuming you [...]