January 2008

Rocket Science

Obie Fernandez, the author of the now de facto Rails book, The Rails Way, have recently launched HashRocket, a Ruby on Rails consultancy with a unique business model: Your application in 3 days or your money back OK! That money-back part is of my imagination. The reason I’m writing this is the “great” message on their homepage. BUILDING A...

Rails vs The 7 Frameworks

This has nothing to do with comparing 8 different frameworks. It’s just to tell the horror story of one of our down-the-drain projects. The client came with an old product that he needed to add new features to. The product does, what is best described as CRUD operations. Nothing challenging, nothing difficult. It maintains a set of data for...

When your clients run your business

I just need to get something off of my chest. Some of the companies that I’ve worked for/with, rely heavily on their clients as the only true measure of performance. They would take client satisfaction as a reflection of how they themselves perceive their operations and businesses. This is just plain WRONG. Unless an organization have the established mechanisms...

On-Ruby Contest Winner

Pat Eyler from On Ruby has notified me that I won his Holiday Blogging Contest. My entry for generating a Rails site map was apparently the best Rails how-to in those posted. It won me 3 books from Apress.This is my first online win EVER, and being it a Rails-oriented win, makes it even sweeter. Thanks Pat. Thanks Apress.

Bilal Tamer Helmy Salama

As another great addition to this blog, I here introduce to you “Bilal”, our newest addition to the family. Bilal was born on the 31 December 2007, at 8:10 PM in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, at this hospital. It’s funny that Bilal was meant to come to this world on the same day (31 December) as his beautiful sister.He was...