When all is said and done, nobody looks back and says I spent too much time with the people I love. It’s usually the opposite.
Bill Heaton's Life List
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1. Get better with AJAX
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2. Paying off debt
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How I did it: I bought Simply Rails 2 and coded the example digg like site, 'shovel'. Then got very excited about rails and bought the Agile Web Development with Rails book; and built the example store application. Since I'm a huge fan of twitter I built my own short URL site for tracking clicks on the links I post all around the web - rant.cc . Starting to feel confident, I build out a new site in the agile style called prayerlife.net the concepts are… Read how I did it…
How I did it: First, I searched for tutorials online; then I used scripts from a project I found called pressConnect. I installed a fresh installation of WordPress on my local machine running MAMP. I configured the pressConnect script to work with my MySQL database, then I tested the XML output. Next I had to review ActionScript, learning to work with XML in Flash. I used a couple other scripts and a menu offered at http://tvwonline.net/lab/ - I built … Read how I did it…
