Monthly Archives: December 2006

Home office upgrade, new LCD!

Posted on December 21, 2006 by andy

Yesterday the new Dell 24” 2407WFP arrived for my home office, woohoo! I was really torn over which monitor to get, either the Dell 24” or Apple’s Cinema 23” display. The 30% off deal from Dell this week made it … Continue reading →

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Rewriting a (large) PHP application in Rails, part 2

Posted on December 19, 2006 by andy

In my previous post on this topic I described the method we used to convert a legacy MySQL PHP database to a Rails conformant PostgreSQL hosted version. In this article I will tell a bit about how we converted the … Continue reading →

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Rewriting a (large) PHP application in Rails, part 1

Posted on December 13, 2006 by andy

In recent weeks I was busy converting a fairly large PHP application to Rails. The existing PHP application is about 65.500 lines of intermingled PHP and HTML/CSS code. Yep, a classic PHP application without any database abstraction layer, no templating, … Continue reading →

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