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Create an online webservice fast with Sinatra and Heroku

Create an online webservice fast with Sinatra and Heroku

So you want to explore the posibitilies of the web, and you want to look the static HTML files served from a web server. Here is a short introduction to how you get a dynamic webserver up and running as fast as it gets utilising the Sinatra web-framework and the hosting provider Heroku. Heroku has already have gained cred in the developer society, and Facebook is now recommending Heroku as PaaS (Platform as a Service) when you create services. It is…

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Push your code onto your EC2 instance with Git

Push your code onto your EC2 instance with Git

Here is a little thing that has saved me a lot of work, and which I find quite neat. I use the EC2 as my cloud computer. This page (lovholm.net) is hosted on a shared host, but sometimes it’s nice to have the flexibility to run things that are not supported by shared hosts, such as custom software and all that jazz. When I try out different web-things that are not only front-end or PHP I usually create a subdomain…

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Start with Ruby on Rails

Start with Ruby on Rails

Over the last two months I have been looking into a new way of doing web-development, and found an ingenious timesaver in the relatively new and popular framework Ruby on Rails. It all started as I wanted to add some back-end functionality to some of the technologies I have experimented with on lovholm.net/projects. Front-end development is exiting with new super-fast Javascript engines, expanded possibilities with the new CSS3 implementation, and easy-to-use frameworks such as Processing.js and jQuery. It is fun…

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