Using .NET, PHP, or Ruby you probably should have your code somewhere nice and safe. These days there is no better place than Github. It is the place to start, maintain, and contribute to software projects or to even run your own private repositories or even setup some private repositories for a business. But enough... Continue reading →

A few steps when setting up Gemsets with RVM. With a few other commands that can often be helpful. Just a quick Friday night entry… cheers! Functionality by line: Get a list of the current available gemsets. Creates a gemset called theNameOfTheSiteToCreate. Lists the name of the current gemset. Delete the gemset named theNameOfTheSiteToCreate. This... Continue reading →

Years ago I worked with Linux (Redhat 3.2, SUSE, Gentoo, and Slackware among others) and also played around with PHP. I’ve never really gotten too keen in PHP, mainly because it just seemed sort of a mess. But when I needed something to get the job done and didn’t want to wait on the bureaucratic... Continue reading →

Of all the cloud providers out there, AppHarbor easily provides the smoothest deployment experience for .NET available today. I did this in one shot, including a few mistypes, and still deployed an ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application to AppHarbor in 3 minutes and 50 seconds. Continue reading →

First a few tidbits on the latest SDKs. For the latest Windows Azure SDK go check out the Microsoft MSDN Site. For the latest for AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK check out the AWS .NET Site. These two SDKs are great for customers who want to build on the bare bones X platform. Now whatever... Continue reading →