Dan Pereda - Yeah! You found me. » Webmaster http://danpereda.com A Blog of Business, How-to, Rants, Reviews, and What I like to do. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:04:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Burning the midnight oil to learn to program Ruby on Rails and Ubuntu 10.04 http://danpereda.com/2010/05/burning-the-midnight-oil-to-learn-to-program-ruby-on-rails-and-ubuntu-10-04/ http://danpereda.com/2010/05/burning-the-midnight-oil-to-learn-to-program-ruby-on-rails-and-ubuntu-10-04/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 05:39:25 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=320 My current busy schedule doesn’t give me much free time to learn new things, but I burning the midnight oil to learn Ruby on Rails. I don’t like to make things easy on myself either. I forced myself to use Ubuntu (10.04).

I spent the last few nights not doing much in the way of learning ruby and rails. I was really focused on getting my Ubuntu 10.04 development environment up and running. i also took a detour to learn about GIT and github.

GIT and Gihub are not hard, but there is not that many resources that teach you what GIT is and how it work from the ground up. Most if the information out there just assume you know what it is and WHY you need to use it.

I did get rails and everything working from the Command line, but I also install Radrails and there was some glitches getting it to work. I got thru a few chapters of the book and have an outline of the DEMO shopping cart system working. Hopefully now I can pick up the pace and start working on my own ideas soon.

]]> http://danpereda.com/2010/05/burning-the-midnight-oil-to-learn-to-program-ruby-on-rails-and-ubuntu-10-04/feed/ 2 Whew, Just got got back from the Philippines. http://danpereda.com/2009/09/whew-just-got-got-back-from-the-philippines/ http://danpereda.com/2009/09/whew-just-got-got-back-from-the-philippines/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:25:27 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=254 Sorry all, I was away from my main computer and a reliable internet connection while I was away in the Philippines. I didn’t have a chance to update my blog or really work on my existing projects. I have received a few requests for an affiliate template in Magneto, so guess I will finish that up, and get that out soon.

I have really been working my Video making while I was abroad. I didn’t get much of a chance to review the footage in country, but now that I am back I can see alot of my filming mistakes.

I did get in some poker games over there. it was nice to play some low stakes live. .40-.80 cents low.

one thing about the trip is that I have a list 1000 pages long of new things I want to do. New projects and such. So More coming soon.

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This worked for me when I was getting Google base error: Expected response code 200, got 400.

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What I mean by an affiliate site is that when you click on the buy it now button you are taken to a 3rd party website to complete the sale. Magento does not do this out of the box, it took a long sleepless night for me to figure out how to do this. Not too many people are willing to share how they did this either. I have to thank Platinumtackle.com for their help.

I will be releasing the template that I created to do this very soon. I need to test it some more and finish building my new site.

Please Leave a comment if you are interested in this template.

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On 6/10/2009
I started doing some of the samples on the Android Dev site. At first it was pretty easy, but soon the instructions starting using terms that I didn’t understand. It was now time go back to where I should have started and learn Java. I was soon following some beginner tutorial videos, but found the Videos really skipped the Meaning of certain terms and ideas. I needed a book. Tho I am generally not a fan of the For Dummies books, the Java for Dummies (4th ed) really helped clear up some confusion I was having. I was now able to read some of the more complex examples.

I am still working at learning Java. I am working thur the book and online videos. I am also reading an Android book, but all the concepts don’t make sense yet.

I am getting there, it is a piece of cake……mmmmmmm I want some cake now,

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My main host is 1&1 Hosting. They host the majority of my websites. They offer a great vaule and give me the rights to do what I need.  Their customer service is the only thing that is lacking, but it is getting better.  I have been with them for years and have had very little down time.

I have been doing some testing on my 1&1 Hosting account with Magento. The site runs pretty fast, but I will be moving to a more dedicated hosting plan when I take the site live.

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Get it and love it

http://techie-buzz.com/download-manager.php?id=2

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