Archive for July, 2007

20 Indispensible MySQL Resources

Anyone who’s spent more than 5 minutes on the MySQL documentation will realise it leaves a lot to be desired. The same goes for many of the 3rd party apps latched onto this platform which offer mediocre functionality and anything beyind the basic comes at a huge premium.Well here’s a set of 20 resources, tools, [...]

Peepcode Killer

Railscasts – This can’t be good for Peepcodes sign ups?  Competition is all good though – especially when we start getting something for nothing.   mmmmmm knowledge! . [UPDATE: As you’ll see form the comments it looks like RailsCast is sponsored by PeepCode so maybe its not a killer but a parent? Surrogate mother? Either way [...]

Ignore the User

I vaguely remember reading something about this in the essays that 37Signals released some time ago called Getting Real.  Now as it was many moons ago and the human mind is fantastic at mangling memory I could have got this completely the wrong way around but here’s my take on it…. At the company I [...]

Slicehost

It may be a bit premature posting about a host when I haven’t even moved any of my sites over to them yet but I’m just utterly besotted with everything at Slicehost. Made more for the geek wanting a VPS than a rank beginner they provide some great features, a really friendly & energetic community [...]