Fotsies Technology Blog

In this article, I’ll be going through the creation of virtual Ruby development environments. Using this sort of approach when developing applications allows you to start from a clean state at any time and also have vastly different environments setup for various projects on the same server. I must say that the brilliant RVM is about as good as it gets when it comes to virtual development environments. RVM can install Ruby for you and contains a very complete virtual environment experience with bash completion and even automatic switching of environments based on the project directory you are in. [Read More]

Well, it’s almost here folks! Windows 8 arrives this Friday and many people are nervous. I was too the first time I used it; in fact, I hated it! But things have changed significantly for me now. I’m currently running Windows 8 Pro RTM (via MSDN) as my main OS and couldn’t be happier. I’d go as far as to say that I couldn’t see myself going back to or missing Windows 7 in the future at all. [Read More]

Hello there, my name is Fotis but most my friends call me Fots or something more insulting … but I’ll usually respond to just about anything :) I like computers … oh who am I kidding, I freaking love them! I think they are probably the meaning of life or something of that magnitude. I mean really, how cool are these things!?!? Welcome to my blog which is dedicated to technology with a focus on coding, desktop computers and servers with a little tablet thrown in on the odd day. [Read More]