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Ruby on Rails started the framework race, so we’ve been trying several of them. Since we are PHP developers, we tried CakePHP. We liked it, but its configuration is complicated. We stumbled upon CodeIgniter and were surprised how easy is was to install; in, fact it’s zero config! Here’s a summary from EllisLab: “CodeIgniter is [...]

Here is my list of hardware and software tips & tricks which might help you avoid making very common mistakes with your computer. They are universal, meaning that I ALWAYS see people making these mistakes. Very few people make any effort to improve their PC skills/experience; perhaps this computer best practices list might help! Hardware: [...]

Here are a list of web development cheat sheets we have found: CSS cheat sheet: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/download/css-cheat-sheet-v2.png Regular Expression cheat sheet: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/download/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet-v2.png PHP cheat sheet: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/download/php-cheat-sheet-v2.png MySQL cheat sheet: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/download/mysql-cheat-sheet-v1.png HTML cheat sheet: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/download/html-cheat-sheet-v1.png HTML character entities cheat sheet: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/download/html-character-entities-cheat-sheet.png Javascript cheat sheet: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/download/javascript-cheat-sheet-v1.png Ruby on Rails cheat sheet: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/download/ruby-on-rails-cheat-sheet-v1.png

If you ever had two monitors on your desktop computer, and that could include your laptop when it is on the desk, you would never go back. First of all, on a Mac, all you need is a second video card, which comes with most towers and laptops. So, let’s say you had two 19 [...]

Disaster Recovery Planning is like an insurance policy. I’m in good health, nothing bad ever happens to me, if bad happens I will recover just as fast as everyone else. Well, if you say that you fail to understand insurance. We all get sick sometime, our facility can catch on fire, a flood can prevent [...]