Dan Ahern

Rails Rumble was an amazing experience.  I think I slept about 6 hours over a 56 hour period and while I became grouchy I don’t think I ever stopped having fun.  The fun stopped after the first day of voting.  Starting during the second day of voting I <3 Games plummeted in the rankings.  I [...]

So in preparation for Rails Rumble I’ve been researching a lot of sexy little plugins.  We have also had a need to test this plugins to make sure they’ll work not just locally but in a shared hosting environment (the first time you get burned and spend an entire weekend, 16 hours, trying to figure [...]

Powered By Geek will be participating in Rails Rumble 08.
I’ll be working along side Lynn Wallenstein, Nathan Ostgard and William Harris to create a Rails application in 48 hours.  We’re super excited, and I’m going to try and keep a log of what is going on to post it (we’ll see how well that goes).

What is a database?
You’ve probably used or seen an Excel spreadsheet.  Well, a database looks similar, but it’s a lot more powerful, a database can do things that Excel only dreamed of doing.  A “database” is made up of “tables” which are made up of a bunch of “columns” and “rows”.
Excel Terminology | Database Terminology
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