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Dan on Rails: Part Three

Ok, now he is really showing us up.
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Dan on Rails: Part Two

In Dan’s successful attempt to outshine all the other PBG bloggers, may we present “Trial By Fire - Part 2” Dan’s latest installment on moving to rails.
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Dan on Rails

In an attempt to keep up with Will, Dan has started a series of articles outlining the things he “wish he knew when he was starting with rails”. Good read for anyone making the jump:
Starting off as a Rails developer I ran into some problems coming from a Java/C++ background. Until Rails I more learned [...]




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More MySQL: Full Text Indexing and RSS Feeds

Will posted a new article over on his blog in his continuing effort to outshine us all:
Full text indexing is an amazing feature. Instead of incredibly costly LIKE comparisons, an index can be created by the RDBMS which contains the full text of the column, or table, in question. For things like e-mail [...]




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Will on Backups

So to show us all up, Will has hit the ground running with a blog post about MySQL backups:
So my first project with PBG is to get a more automated backup system going. I find out that they’re basically using cpanel and other variants to do manual backups on development projects. This works [...]




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Welcoming Will

Powered By Geek is happy to welcome William Harris to the team. Will has been working with our team unofficially answering SQL questions that stump us and attempting to enforce best practices in our projects. Now in a more official role, Will is going to be our “SQL” guy.
Welcome Will … our databases thank you.




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