Oct 20 - Oct 27 - Deploy Railway Flask - FREE Docker Courses for Dev and Local LLMs + Flask

    Welcome to another week. I'll go over all the content I published from October 20th to 26th, starting as always with the completely free courses and books to get you started in this beautiful world of programming.

    Community courses and books

    I've finished the community book phase, at least for now, and have started with the community courses, also free and without registration.

    Here I always remind you that these two courses are still in development (although paused for now):

•         Create Online Store with Django    
•        Create Online Store with Laravel    

    Both have an active mode so you can directly test the application and see the quality of the project. I'm leaving the link in the description. The example you see is the Django version, but its equivalent also exists in Laravel.

    New Courses in Progress

    I am currently working on two completely free courses:

•         JAM AI → LLM locally and connect to a Flask app    
•        Docker for Beginners → For Dev.    

    Everything 100% free and Ad-Free (in the Academy).

    JAM Course: Local LLMs

    The first course is about JAM, an assistant that allows installing and using local LLMs.

    For now, we are learning:

•         4B, 8B models, etc.    
•        Activate server mode    
•        Basic configurations    

    There are already more than 8 classes available on academia.desarrollolibre.net, completely free.

    Docker Course for Development

    I also started a simple and direct tutorial to use Docker without dying in the attempt.
    100% focused on real development, not unnecessary theory.

    Other published content

•         I re-recorded the installation part of the CodeIgniter 4 course.    

    Youtube and Blog

    Publication about Gemini CLI + MCP + MySQL, with a real demo connecting AI to databases.

    Configure your first MySQL MCP in Gemini CLI - https://youtu.be/jtJu8aDR5II

    Deployment of Flask and FastAPI apps with Railway, explained step-by-step in a single article.

    Deploy of a Flask project in demonstration mode with Railway - https://youtu.be/hysMCwX08sI

    I'm updating old Flask articles and improving the learning path:

    https://www.desarrollolibre.net/blog