6 Mistakes Of Beginner Wantrepreneurs
When talking to beginner tech entrepreneurs (wantrepreneurs for want – haha – of a better term), I have seen some common misunderstandings or misconceptions. I cover those in this video. Sadly, I had to find out a lot of these the hard way. Try and learn from my (and other’s) mistakes!
Stimulus, Hotwire, Bootstrap 5, Rails 6 – and a viewer question!
In this episode I tackle (kind of) a question put forward by a viewer on another video – handling the showing of duration in Rails. To do that I create a new Rails6 app and plug in Stimulus.js, Hotwire/Turbo and Bootstrap5. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction – Explanation 02:33 Environment 03:15 Create Rails app 04:04 Install Hotwire/Turbo…
Rails 5 Gem to Rails 6 Engine
With Zonmaster (https://public.zonmaster.com) we are/were stuck on Rails 5 because the tenanting gem we use (Milia) isn’t Rails 6 compatible. Let’s fix that! Sorry for the rambling, I don’t have a lot of time to structure the videos so I just start and go! I’m working on a new project that hopefully some day I…
7 Habits of Successful Internet Entrepreneurs
Straight talk from an Experienced Tech Entrepreneur. There’s certain habits that will accelerate and elevate the chances of you being a successful internet entrepreneur. In this video I cover the lessons I’ve learned through my startup career over 20 years as a successful tech entrepreneur.
Why Ruby on Rails in 2021?
It’s 2021, so why am I still using Ruby on Rails to develop new services? Find out inside. HINT: It doesn’t matter!!!
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…
Think Frameworks, Not Languages
For whatever reason we find it easy to get distracted by thinking about the programming language, when we should be thinking about the best frameworks written in each language that will give us a boost when it comes to developing solutions.