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Create an online webservice fast with Sinatra and Heroku

01/09/2013 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

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…

Push your code onto your EC2 instance with Git

26/06/2013 Ola Løvholm Comments 6 comments

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…

Start with Ruby on Rails

24/10/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

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…