Tag: tutorials

A Beginner's Sinatra Tutorial

  • May 31, 2010 at 6:00 pm

  • In my desperate attempt to grapple with Ruby people keep introducing me to new and 'better' ways to use it, before I've had a chance to understand what I was doing with the previous one they lauded. Currently under my nose is Sinatra, which would probably be great if I understood what I was doing. [...]

What is RSS?

  • March 4, 2009 at 9:20 am

  • Explaining to the uninitiated why web feeds are useful is something a lot of us find hard to do. So here I’ve attempted to draw an analogy: with fish. I’m not actually going to try and explain what RSS is (or equivalents such as Atom), because it’s a bit technical and has a confusing history [...]

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