Development Environment on a Budget, FEATURED
#01 What’s it about?
The first in a series looking at development environment. Discussing the motivations behind each step and a practical how-to on configuring yours.
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Why hasn’t e-assessment arrived more quickly?
Ken Boston was bullish about the power of technology to transform the educational experience of millions of pupils.
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Firefox 4 – HTML5, CSS3, SVG
Mozilla went to London, England yesterday night to give a workshop about Mozilla Add-Ons and show some of the cool new stuff coming in Firefox 4.
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DEV ENVIRONMENTS
Epic win for a dead format!
Posted on 14 July 2010
I admit it today I used a floppy disk! Who would’ve thunk it? In order to build our dev environment we decided to buy obselete servers from ebay and use them as virtual hosts. The idea being that we could back up the virtual servers easily and just move them about as hardware dies or [...] Continue Reading
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Realtime analytics for Twitter coming soon?
Posted on 13 July 2010
Over at the engineering blog at Twitter; an interesting mention of ‘Cassandra’ has appeared; Reading further into this; it would appear that the guys at Twitter are proposing to use Apache Cassandra for their new realtime analytics product. It remains to be seen whether or not Twitter will be charging for this service, as part [...] Continue Reading
CODE, DEV ENVIRONMENTS
Microsoft’s new Web Development Suite – WebMatrix
Posted on 13 July 2010
Microsoft has announced a complete web development package called WebMatrix. WebMatrix is everything you need to build a static or dynamic website – the package encompasses IIS Developer Express (a dev webserver), ASP.NET (web framework) and SQL Server Compact (embedded database). The package integrates code editor, database editor, web server management, SEO, and FTP publishing, [...] Continue Reading
DEV ENVIRONMENTS
Installing SVN Server on Windows
Posted on 12 July 2010
Subversion server is a fantastic option for source control in your organisation, its both mature, reliable, free and makes Visual Source Safe look like a clumsy oaf. You can install SVN server either on a Linux platform (we’ve had it running nicely on Ubuntu) or on Windows. You can then perform all the required updates [...] Continue Reading
CODE
jQuery Validation
Posted on 09 July 2010
The code sample below is using the plugin ‘syntaxhighlighter’; Usage as follows: [codetype] – where codetype is language (i.e. javascript, c#, etc) //code sample [codetype] Working example follows (check the source of the post in HTML view for more info: $("#CustomerForm").validate({ rules: { FirstNameEdit: { required: true }, LastNameEdit: { required: true }, EmailEdit: { [...] Continue Reading
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