Vagrant and Chef can be used together to allow rapid setup of servers or desktop machines. I often use them to setup development environments, which can be rolled out for a dev team. Using Vagrant means that all team members are working on an environment which is a replica of the production environment, meaning fewer [...]
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Top Startups of 2012
Posted on 19. Jan, 2013 by forouzani.
Another year has ended and founders all over the world have created good and bad startups, and some of them, have created absolutely amazing products. Below are my picks for the top startups of 2012. The selection has been made based on the product or service – not necessarily the business model.
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A Billion Dollar Idea
Posted on 07. Jan, 2013 by forouzani.
As a founder, sometimes you sit back and try to think of the next big project you want to work on. Something with a big market and huge potential. A billion dollar idea.
After reading Paul Graham’s Ideas for startups, it really makes you think on a whole different scale. So here are a couple of [...]
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How to Start Using VIM as your IDE
Posted on 07. Nov, 2012 by forouzani.
I moved to using Vim full-time about 6 months ago. Before this, I had used vim for about 10 years to do small adjustments to files directly on servers, but I never really mastered vim, only learning just enough to get by.
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Free Symfony2 Training
Posted on 23. Sep, 2012 by forouzani.
Symfony2 has a steep learning curve making it hard for developers without experience to become productive rapidly. To quickly convert a PHP developer into a symfony2 expert, I have collated the best resources – think of it as… free symfony2 training.


