ruby on rails: basic commands
This is a very basic guide for those who are interested in learning ruby on rails. I assume you have already installed ruby on rails and have basic knowledge. Many beginners using ruby on rails will not use any IDE, rather they will use command line if installed on MAC or linux. So here I will list seven important commands which you really need to know inside out and are used throughout the development of a project. I will use Demo as project name and users (model) as a table in the database.
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free social networking icons
As social networking is growing at an alraming rate more web users, including organisations are displaying social media icons on thier website/portfolio to direct users to thier social network. Every website now uses social media icons to alert the user that they are also part of the social network such as facbook and twitter. So I would like to share free icon set which I have used for many of my clients.
Download: SocialMediaBookmarkIcon (403KB)
Free web hosting server
Do you have a website(s) to host? looking for a cheap web hosting server? At the same time you want to save some money and manager your site from where ever you are as long as you have Internet connection? If the answer is yes, than look no further because now you can completely host your websites for free using 000webhost. It provides top class free web hosting services and there are no hidden costs, no adverts, and no restrictive terms. Lighting fast speeds, maximum reliability and fanatical user support are just a few of the features you’ll receive. For a full feature list click here.
Tips for good web design
As a web developer I am always satisfied with a good and unique design. As the web is becoming overrun by mirror blogs, regurgitated posts, and mile long inspiration lists, it’s time for everyone to start creating unprecedented content and something unique. How often do you come across a site, which looks similar to another site you have seen in the past? Or how often have you read content which happens to be on multiple sites? I am sure the answer to that will be quite often, well in my case it is.
In this article I will explain useful tips on how you can create something unique. Before I start I would like to say that these tips are just basic and starting point of developing something different, and I am sure there are many more tips which you can take in consideration when designing your web site and content.
MODx CMS
In this article I will be discussing about MODx CMS, yet another open source CMS written in PHP. After working with Joomla and Drupal I discovered MODx in my latest job. MODx is fast, flexible, Ajax and SEO content management system allowing you to have nice looking URLs. MODx is very simple and easy to use compared to Joomla and Drupal and offers super simple templates in HTML/CSS/JS or even any library you want.
As the community of MODx is growing more developers are getting involved developing professional sites using MODx due to its flexibility and simplicity. In contrast with other CMS, MODx has all the tools and features that will aid you to build your website within few hours. Below is a list of features.
ruby on rails: intro
Rails is an model-view-controller (MVC) Web framework written in the Ruby programming language. One of its biggest appeals is being able to quickly develop CRUD-based Web applications. One of the big advantage of Rails over other frameworks is that it values convention over configuration. If you follow the correct conventions, you can avoid lengthy configuration of files, you spend less time writing boring config files and more time focusing on coding business logic.
Bondadams
Bondadams offers a full range of legal services to major corporations, growing enterprises and wealthy private clients. Bondadams website was developed using an opensource CMS called joomla.
website Bondadams.com
My first blog
After reading tons of blogs of professional bloggers I have decided to setup my own blog where I can share my knowledge and experience to web users. I have been planning to setup my own blog for quite some time but did not manage to take time out, but hey, here it is my blog is finally ready and I am writing my first blog on my own site. Currently my site is very simple and KISS. As soon as I get time I will try to update my site adding more design and colour.
I think this is enough for the first intro blog. Visit my site for more blogs 