Having decided Ruby on Rails was the language for me I then came across the problem of trying to find a budget hosting service in the UK, this proved harder than I thought.
I started my search at from the Rails wiki site : http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsWebHosts which gave a huge list of options, so I tried to [...]
Railscasts - Free Ruby on Rails Screencasts
Good resource of online rails video tutorials
(tags: rails tutorial)
50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging
Wordpress plugins
(tags: wordpress)
I was going to write up some notes on how to install wordpress but it was so easy it hardly seems worthwhile !
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress has all the information you need to know, the basic process is:
download wordpress (http://wordpress.org/download/
create a database
rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php and edit the database details
upload all the files to the [...]
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