July 2009:

Recently we had to make an emergency move from our old servers (where we had been for 5-6 years) to our own dedicated server because of technical difficulties in the heads of the nerd’s who managed the servers killersites.com had been sitting on. I will spare you the details of my server migration ordeal for…

In my last post I wrote about how Ruby’s early problems around 2006-2007: – incomplete libraries – difficult web server integration .. had played a role slowing its adoption. The main thrust of the piece was to point out that despite the explosion of interest, Ruby and Rails had failed to make much of a…

In 2006 I created killerphp.com because I wanted to make it easy for web designers to learn PHP. I thought PHP was THE predominate web programming language and I felt every web designer should include PHP as one of their core coding skills: – html – css – php – javascript. Then Ruby came along…