 | Level: Intermediate Martin Streicher (martin.streicher@gmail.com), Chief Technology Officer, McClatchy Interactive
19 Aug 2008 Web developers are enjoying a renaissance. After spending
much of the previous decade toiling on server-centric code, programmers are now putting
code front-and-center, turning the Web browser into its own computing platform. Much of
the renaissance must be attributed to ingenuity. The newest generation of tools and
application frameworks automate and simplify the drudgery of building, deploying, and
maintaining a Web site. There are also more tools than ever, and all the most
innovative tools are open source. This tutorial provides an expansive survey of the free
software available to developers to create and deploy Web applications.
In this tutorial
This tutorial describes the wide variety of programming tools available on
Linux®. Further, it demonstrates how quick and easy it is to
start developing on the platform and showcases some of the latest
innovations in open source tools.
Objectives - Learn how to install a Web server, a database, and several
programming languages on Linux.
- Learn how to combine the above pieces to build an application,
first in PHP, then in Ruby on Rails.
Prerequisites
This tutorial is written for all software developers interested in adopting Linux
as a development platform and for developers who want to explore the expansive
variety of software development tools available for free as open source. To
follow this tutorial, you should have a general familiarity with using a Linux
command-line shell and some programming experience. Some experience installing
and configuring software on Linux is helpful, but not required.
System requirements
To run the examples in this tutorial, you need a Linux box with at least 300 MB
of free disk space. Root access to the machine is required to install a number
of the software packages. The examples shown in this tutorial were created on Ubuntu
Desktop Linux 8.04.1 running as a virtual machine in Parallels on Mac OS X
Leopard. Ubuntu is not required; however, the examples use Aptitude, which can
be found in any Debian-based distribution.
Duration
1 hour
Formats html, pdf
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