Lifestyles, Not Unicorns
Everybody talks about these rare beasts in the startup world – the Unicorns. I’m here to tell you there is another, safer, better way. People get into Entrepreneurship for lots of different reasons. For me it was always about Lifestyle – and not the kind of ridiculous Instagram Lifestyle of being in your 20s (haha…
Datatables & Rails – Basic to Advanced – Ruby on Rails Tutorial
A monster of a video here! I cover using Datatables in a Ruby on Rails 5 app. Going from creating the app all the way up to some sophisticated styling. 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Create Rails app with Dummy Data 11:48 Add Bootstrap 15:10 Add Datatables 20:00 Make it better 33:05 Add Select Box 42:40 Next…
Building Your Own Successful SaaS Business
Software as a Service – SaaS – is THE WAY to go in my opinion. It is the best combination of technical challenge, technical solution and income stream. I have built several SaaS and service businesses – the current one being Zonmaster.com – the best Customer and Review management service for Amazon Sellers (In my…
ElasticSearch and Ruby on Rails – Part 2 – Tips
Part 2 of my look at using ElasticSearch with Rails. This is more a collection of bits that I find I need. 00:00 Introduction 01:20 Non-ActiveRecord Models into ElasticSearch 14:34 The Presentation Model 18:54 Caching 21:11 Change Things! New Indexes and Fields References: Read about the Presentation Model Pattern here: – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2009/february/patterns-wpf-apps-with-the-model-view-viewmodel-design-pattern Check out the…
What Programming Language?
From my YouTube channel So many conflicting lists about top programming languages in 2021, I put together a sensible top 10 that is good for finding a JOB writing software. This may be a channel about being a Tech Entrepreneur, but finding a job is a great way to get practical real world experience on…
Rails: ActiveRecord::Store – What it is and how I use it. (Rails Tutorial)
This time I look at another interesting part of Rails 6 – the ActiveRecord::Store module. It’s a great way to add ‘blob-like’ functionality to your models for those fields you don’t need to search. Some people online just talk – I just do. One of my major SaaS products out there is Zonmaster.com (https://public.zonmaster.com) THE…
