Reviews
PswGen Progress Report
Actually, it’s more of a lack-of-progress report, I’m afraid.
Mr. Fry, please explain?
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Stephen Fry. The man’s a genius. I’m also a fan of eBooks (a full review of my marvellous magical Kindle will follow shortly). But this just upsets me. You’re charging me MORE for the electronic copy than the hardcover tree-killing version?
Simply the best curry in town…
I’ve raved about this place before, and I’ll probably do it again: Aziz Khan restaurant in the Compton Acres shopping precinct.
First Rails, now Cake!
After my brief flirt with Ruby on Rails (see previous post), I decided to have a play with CakePHP too. A similar concept, implemented slightly differently, with (obviously) PHP doing the heavy lifting rather than Ruby. So what’s the skinny? According to book.cakephp.org, CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP. It’s a [...]
Riding the Rails
I had a little work project to do recently, a simple online database-updater. Nothing fancy, two small related tables, fairly standard master/detail stuff. So just for a giggle (and ‘coz I’m a geek) I thought I’d take RoR for a test-drive. Woohoo what a ride! Within about 15 minutes, following an online tutorial, I’d installed [...]
