08 May 2013
As you may already know Sinatra is a great Ruby framework for building small web apps and APIs. Although it's very different to Ruby on Rails, there are sometimes cases where the choice of which framework to use can
30 April 2013
Know what this means? Die hard Drupalists do. $ curl -I https://blog.twitter.com/company | grep 'expires:' expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT It's Dries' date of birth and one of the clear ways to tell if a site is running Drupal or not. After using Drupal for
25 April 2013
Yesterday Heroku announced the launch of a hosting region in Europe. Much like their US based service the Europe one is also running on AWS, but this time it runs from Ireland. Creating a new Heroku app on the Europe region is just as simple as always. heroku create --region
18 April 2013
The Views module is the most powerful tool for a Drupal developer, and so much loved that from Drupal 8 the Views module has made it's way into Drupal core. As for Drupal 7, Views is still a contributed module and not all that famous for it's performance. This
08 April 2013
Many search engines are now making use of rich data on the web page to display more information in the search results. From an SEO point of view add this rich data will make your content more desirable to click, but will also future proof you for any other
05 April 2013
Heroku is famous as a Ruby hosting platform, supporting frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Sinatra. They also advertise that they support, Java, Python, Clojure, Scala, Node.js and Play. Although what is rarely mentioned within the documentation is that Heroku supports PHP. Here's
29 March 2013
After working with Sinatra and Ruby on Rails for some time it has become clear that although based on some of the same foundations (Ruby and Rack) they are very different frameworks, and have very different uses. Sometimes it is hard to choose between the frameworks when the
29 March 2013
Getting to be the number one search engine result is very hard, but getting on the first one or two pages for you niche isn't that hard. It just requires a little bit of work, a few simple steps and some trial and error. Here are 10 SEO tips
25 March 2013
Last week Phase2 launched their new site and blogged about it. As a company that is mainly focussed on Drupal, they made sure to add few paragraphs on the fact that their new site is not Drupal, and that they decided to use Wordpress. There were
04 March 2013
Last week I tweeted about media queries, and that break points (the number of pixels when the media query takes effect) should be when the design breaks. This got a few questions, comments and remarks, so maybe a blog post is required. Isn't it common sense that media query