Dan Ahern

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05 Oct, 2008

Tech Demo

Posted by: danahern In: database| mac| projects| ruby

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 [...]

03 Oct, 2008

Database Explaination

Posted by: danahern In: database

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”.
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