Category Archives: tutorials

[LINUX NOTES] Take your shell with you everywhere – we all SCREEN for I SCREEN

Posted on January 19, 2012 by apprenticecoder

This week I’ll improve my usage of screen and look up byobu too. Here are some reasons why. TABS IN THE COMMAND LINE Modern browsers have used us to the concept of tabs. Interactive web sites are full of tabs. … Continue reading →

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Objects in frameworks – those who get the work done – CodeIgniter notes

Posted on August 1, 2011 by apprenticecoder

I’ve been working with CodeIgniter quite a bit lately, so I thought I’d record what I learn and share some of it too. Most of all I’ve been using a lot of objects. CodeIgniter 2 is very interesting in that … Continue reading →

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MIT 600 part 3a: Iteration, Successive Approximation and Exhaustive Enumeration

Posted on May 8, 2011 by apprenticecoder

Computer programs calculate answers to all kinds of questions. How do they do it? It may look obvious or very mysterious, depending on whether you have already “entered” the logic of computer programming. Once you are in, it’s hard to … Continue reading →

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A 5 rule checklist for web developer internship survival

Posted on March 19, 2011 by apprenticecoder

Finally I’m an intern! A web developing intern! So I’m learning the web and the development on one hand, but also how to be an intern, the best one I can be. Basically, the story is that about a year … Continue reading →

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Django, CakePHP and CodeIgniter, part 3: Models, data, relationships and foreign keys

Posted on March 6, 2011 by apprenticecoder

I have written this post to annotate something I have been studying – which is how do I use Django, CakePHP and CodeIgniter to create database tables for my web application. This approach, especially the comparative aspect, has made it … Continue reading →

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Frameworks part 2: server talks to framework – mod_php, mod_wsgi and friends

Posted on February 9, 2011 by apprenticecoder

What happens behind the scenes when you unpack the web framework, like Django, CakePHP or CodeIgniter, which we did in this previous post, and you see the welcome message in your browser? How does the server get the framework to … Continue reading →

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Django vs. CakePHP vs. CodeIgniter part 1 : downloading – planting the framework tree

Posted on January 31, 2011 by apprenticecoder

I’m studying and comparing web frameworks (Django for Python and CakePHP and CodeIgniter for PHP). This series of posts describes what I learn from it. http://www.djangoproject.com/ | http://cakephp.org/ | http://codeigniter.com/ In part 1, I’ll be writing about tutorials and initial … Continue reading →

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Learning Regular Expressions is fun and easy :)

Posted on December 23, 2010 by apprenticecoder

DON’T BE AFRAID. FOUNDATIONS FIRST, DETAILS LATER The first step towards learning Regular Expressions is to stop being afraid of them. A good idea is NOT to start by consulting your programming language’s documentation page, but by reading a book, … Continue reading →

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