Here you will find a few of my thoughts; being primarily self-taught, I owe huge amount (if not all) of my knowledge to the blogging, tutorial and open source communities and the fine gents behind them. Hopefully, in sharing what I myself learn, I can return the favour to somebody else.
I recently deployed a CDN (content distribution network) across a range of client sites in order to improve performance. Setup was pretty straightforward, however once the setup was completed the DNS server got hammered…
Disclaimer: Knowing what I know now, this solution seems like a no brainer, but I’m going to post this nonetheless as there didn’t seem to be any articles (from a quick google) that helped me resolve the issue.
My focus these past few months has been to learn both Ruby and Rails as my first ‘true’ programming language/framework. Rails itself is notoriously-not-so beginner friendly, so here I share some of the things I picked up along the way…
Firstly a little of my background… I’ve been coding with HTML, CSS and JavaScript for well over eight years now. During that time I’ve dabbled with my fair share of CMS/forum systems (mostly running PHP) and have actively customised various aspects of each system (requiring a little PHP knowledge), however I’ve never built anything production-worthy from scratch in PHP – I’d simply have no confidence in doing so. The urge to create something from scratch has always been there though – So over the last year or so I’ve been dying to get into a backend language in order to have the ability to release a web-app. Enter Ruby and the lovely framework Rails.
It’s been too long since the last time I updated my portfolio and gave this website got a fresh lick of paint; and how far I’ve come in two years..! So, whats been happening?
Well, for one I’ve had the chance to tackle some more complex projects… Projects involving eCommerce backends, custom WordPress requirements, and of course projects involving Ruby on Rails (my new favourite thing!) Continue reading »