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Ruby on Rails – A New Training

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:57:54 +0000

In May, I spent a week in Hamburg giving a training in Ruby on Rails. I’ve already been a team-member on two Rails development projects, and it was as much a joy to teach as it is develop. Ruby is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that particularly encourages simplicity and elegance in its users. Rails […]

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Teaching Web Applications and Arguing to Let Students Loose

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:30:26 +0000

As I mentioned recently, I’ve come to the end of my latest teaching course: a semester in Web Applications at one of Berlin’s universities (see my previous post for more details). As well as theory, there was a practical element to the course, where the students divided into teams to produce their own web apps […]

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More Training: Web Applications

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:28:02 +0000

I just recently finished delivering a university-level course at the HTW (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft) here in Berlin on the topic of Web Applications, and I’m very happy with the way it went. In fact, I intend to blog about it here real soon. Before I do that, let me just briefly advertise the […]

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Which languages should you be familiar with for a career in web programming?

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:04:12 +0000

While doing some research for my latest teaching job, I had reason to find out which are the most widely-used server-side languages used for web programming. The information provided by what seems to be the best source (although there are hardly many of them) gave some surprising results. I knew that PHP was popular, but […]

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Poll: Your favourite web application hosts/technology when using Eclipse

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:34:54 +0000

I’m embarking on a pet project, in short: a Python-based web application using my favourite editor, Eclipse. Being quite new to this, I thought I would poll my readers, especially those Eclipse web app developers among you, for their opinions on the best solutions. I realise I’m giving very few details, but I simply want […]

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