Yearly Archives: 2011

Hello everyone and welcome to CloudSpring! CloudSpring is the newest addition in the SitePoint family and will be bringing you Tutorials, News and more on all things related to Cloud Computing. If there’s something you would like to see comment below and we’ll be sure to make it happen. Maybe […]

Images can cause major headaches for web app developers, especially if your app allows users to upload their own images. They are problematic for two reasons: Images are Bulky Compared to most other types of data you store (other than video), images take the most space. Images Need to be […]

By now, most of the world has defined cloud computing to match their own use of new services and solutions. Every impacted stakeholder in the organization has their own definition of the “cloud” although they may not know what it means in general to IT industry stakeholders. To the developer, […]

The cloud is not just for programmers anymore. Most cloud providers have simple, intuitive interfaces for managing cloud products and services. As a web designer, understanding how you can use these services can make your work life much better. Let’s review some of the common misconceptions that prevent web designers […]

Getting Started with AWS PHP SDK Amazon AWS S3 is a robust storage solution for the internet. It can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. With S3 you get access to highly scalable, reliable, secure, fast, inexpensive infrastructure […]

In this 4-part series of tutorials, I’m going to take you through the process of creating a fully functioning To Do List app called ‘Just Do It’, using Sinatra and DataMapper. Hopefully, this will help to demonstrate just how quick and easy it easy to use Sinatra. Let’s begin with […]

By Adrian Jones 17th Aug 2011 User Experience 8 Oh Google Maps… where would I be without thee? Probably still driving down a back road half way to New Mexico by now. And all I wanted was to go to the corner store. But this isn’t an article on my lack of […]

In just the past few years, cloud computing has moved from novel idea, to industry standard – and for good reason. Whether your looking for security or scalability, the cloud is fast becoming the solution of choice for hosting. The best part is anyone can make the switch; you don’t […]

The previous articles in our WebMatrix series have taken you through using the Web App Gallery to build an ecommerce site and find the right CMS, building dynamic websites with WebMatrix, and hosting, publishing and generating traffic with WebMatrix. In all of that, we acknowledged but didn’t go into much […]