Posts Tagged ‘tutorial’

Warehouse installation tutorial

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Today I got to the office, and the first thing that popped into my eyes when I opened Twitterrific was this:

Rick Olson announces that Warehouse goes open-source

Rick Olson announcing that Warehouse is now open-source. Damn, it HAS to be Christmas! I have always loved the products that Active Reload builds, mostly because they follow the “do more with less” and “keep it simple stupid” principles, but also because their web-applications look awesome, thanks to Justin Palmer, the self-taught and self-proclaimed Design Ninja (I’ll have to agree with him on this one).

I have always wanted to give Warehouse a spin on my projects (professional and personal), but never got around to buy it because I was afraid it could be of no use for me (you guys have to find a way to distribute trials or something). Now that it’s open-source, I am going to try and provide a guide on how to install it.

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How to build your on-demand video site with PHP

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Browsing DZone today I found an interesting article from IBM’s developerWorks site, which supposedly teaches you how to build an on-demand video site with CakePHP.

My first thought was that, being Belacena built with the same technology, I could learn one thing or two and make it run 10x as fast (OK, maybe not, but you get the point). So, I signed in (AKA got a user and password from BugMeNot), and started reading part 2 (part 1 covers the basics about video optimization for the web, creating the database tables, and extracting CakePHP). Let’s just say I was disappointed, because I have big expectations on everything that comes from IBM.

So, in sum, their 3 part tutorial teaches how to scaffold in CakePHP, tweak the views a bit, and that’s pretty much it. You can see the resulting site here. If you feel that article is worth reading, you can start here.

If you have any suggestions on more advanced topics, let me know, and I’ll consider writing about it.

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