Laran Evans

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5 Reasons Your Data is a Mess

By laran | Published: 2009/12/01

A few essential reasons why managing your data seems so hard.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Data Management | Leave a comment

Configuring ZendServer to use Pear on OSX 10.5

By laran | Published: 2009/05/12

PEAR and Zend do some of the same things. Learn how to get them to work together happily on your Mac.

Posted in PHP | Tagged osx, pear, PHP, Tech Tips | 2 Comments

Rails ActionMailer the right way

By laran | Published: 2009/04/08

Get results faster when developing with ActionMailer by knowing the best places to find help.

Posted in Ruby and Rails | Tagged ActionMailer, documentation, guides, rails | 4 Comments

What’s missing from bug and task tracking

By laran | Published: 2009/04/08

Comments on the state-of-the-union for time management applications.

Posted in Time Management | Tagged bug tracking, task tracking | Leave a comment

Hadoop-Based MapReduce on Amazon EC2

By laran | Published: 2009/04/07

Amazon continues to push the envelope for cloud computing by offering Hadoop via EC2.

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, Cloud Computing | Leave a comment

InfoQ: The Essential Source for Technology News

By laran | Published: 2009/04/07

A bump for a great source of news for the software development community.

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Installing Magento on Dreamhost the easy way

By laran | Published: 2009/04/05

Magento can be a bit tricky to get started with. I’ll show you how to get up and running quickly.

Posted in System Administration | Tagged dreamhost, magento, PHP | Leave a comment

Great source for sample code

By laran | Published: 2009/03/24

Being a rock-star programmer doesn’t mean writing everything from scratch. I’ll give you some hints on where to look for sample code to get you started.

Posted in Software Development | Tagged code, Programming, resources | Leave a comment

Learning Python: Hour 1

By laran | Published: 2009/03/24

Think of it as part one of the shortest Python tutorial ever!

Posted in Python | Tagged Programming, tutorial | Leave a comment

Modeling Relationships with Google AppEngine

By laran | Published: 2009/03/21

Even if you’re a data-modeling guru, you’ll need a few tips to understand how to model entity relationships using Google AppEngine. I’ll get you up to speed quickly.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged app-engine, data modeling, google | Leave a comment
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