This tutorial shows you how to get up to speed with Ruby on Rails by installing Ruby on Rails, a development environment and showing you how to make a website using it all. 1. Download Instant Rails  2. Install 7-Zip  3. Install Instant Rails  4. Install Java  5. Install JEdit  6. Configure JEdit for Ruby  7. Create Rails Application  8. Make Members Page  9. Setup Database  10. Install Firefox SQLite Manager and Add Data  11. Display Data from Database on Page 

This tutorial shows you how to get a PHP development environment set up on Windows in about 30 minutes including download time, all with free tools. This is the FAST, JUST-GET-IT-DONE way to get PHP and MYSQL working on your computer and get up to speed working with Eclipse so you can start developing PHP/MySQL sites. (You might also be interested in my more technical version of this tutorial where you install Apache, PHP, MySQL manually and make dozens of settings in the config files thus learning lots about how it all works, etc.) 1. Install 7-Zip  2. Install XAMPP Lite  3. Install Java  4. Install Eclipse  5. Make PHP Page  6. Use phpMyAdmin  7. Access MySQL from PHP  8. Make Font Smaller  9. Code Assist Features  10. Templates  11. Other Eclipse Features  12. Debugging  13. Make Your Development Environment Portable 

This tutorial shows you how to download and install Android to get you started developing applications for it. 1. Download and Install the Android SDK and Test the Emulator  2. Install Java  3. Install Eclipse  4. Install the ADT Plugin in Eclipse  5. Create Hello World Application 

This tutorial shows you how to download a trial version of VMware, download a free Ubuntu image, install it on your VMWare, then download and install the free VMware Player and connect your virtual Ubuntu Linux in your network so that you always have a Linux machine in your network at your disposal, great if you are learning Linux. 1. Download VMware Workstation Trial  2. Install VMware on Windows XP  3. Download an Ubuntu Image  4. Create an Empty Virtual Machine  5. Make your ISO file be the virtual machine's CD drive  6. Install Ubuntu on the virtual machine  7. Install Software updates  8. Access Windows files from Linux with Samba  9. Access Linux files from Windows with WinSCP  10. Install Putty and access Ubuntu's command line from Windows  11. Setup your Windows printer as a network printer in Ubuntu  12. Deinstall VMware Workstation  13. Download and Install VMware Player  14. Use your Ubuntu machine in VMware Player  15. Zip your Ubuntu machine to a USB stick  16. Get an account at LinuxQuestions.org 

This tutorial shows you how to manually install Apache, PHP, MySQL etc. to get a PHP Development Environment on your computer. (You might also be interested in my fast and automatic version of this tutorial which uses XAMPP Lite to quickly install all of these components automatically) 1. Install Apache  2. Install 7-Zip  3. Install PHP  4. Install MySQL  5. Install phpMyAdmin  6. Install Java  7. Install Eclipse  8. Install PHPEclipse  9. Install Subversion  10. Install TortoiseSVN  11. Install Tortoise Plug-in  12. Install Datapod  13. Setup Repository  14. Setup Eclipse Project and Test SVN  15. Create a web site with Datapod 

This tutorial shows you how to install the Java 6 JDK on Windows XP and teaches you how to write a HelloWorld example in Java by using the NetBeans IDE. 1. Download Java  2. Install Java  3. HelloWorld at command prompt  4. Download and Install NetBeans  5. HelloWorld in NetBeans  6. Arrays  7. Multidimensional Arrays  8. ArrayLists with Generics  9. HashMaps with Generics 

This tutorial shows you how to download a trial version of VMware, download the free OpenSuse DVD, install Suse on your VMWare machine, then download and install the free VMware Player and connect your virtual Linux machine in your network so that you always have a Linux machine in your network at your disposal, great if you are learning Linux. 1. Download VMware Workstation Trial  2. Install VMware on Windows XP  3. Download the OpenSuse DVD  4. Create an Empty Virtual Machine  5. Make your ISO file be the virtual machine's CD drive  6. Install Suse Linux on the virtual machine  7. Get Online  8. Set resolution to 1024 x 768  9. Make icons normal size  10. Deinstall VMware Workstation  11. Download and Install VMware Player 

This tutorial shows you how to download a trial version of VMware, download the free Fedora CDs, install Suse on your VMWare machine, then download and install the free VMware Player and connect your virtual Linux machine in your network so that you always have a Linux machine in your network at your disposal, great if you are learning Linux. 1. Download VMware Workstation Trial  2. Install VMware on Windows XP  3. Download the Fedora DVD 

This tutorial shows you how to install Perl 5 on Windows XP and get a Hello World program going so you can start learning and trying out examples of Perl. 1. Download Perl  2. Install Perl  3. Create Hello World program  4. Learn More 

Datapod is a free PHP framework which helps you make quick databased-backed websites. 1. Download Datapod  2. Customize Your Site  3. Create a DataItem  4. Make Display Page for DataItem  5. To Be Continued