Rails 1.0

Rails 1.0 is out. A similarly great project should be at a 2.0 release with such features. But Rails folks seem down to earth. Thanks guys. The release celebrations included launching a remake of ruby on rails website inspired by 37 Signals.

Del.icio.us is down – Yahoo is up

del.icio.us was down today. It was spitting out SystemError with “raw code” into my browser. Well, this made me think about those $40M Yahoo! have paid. I guess a large user community is something that is hard to get, and apparently worth a little. My Next Plan: Come up with an idea, put something together quickly, invite many people...

Del.icio.us Yahoo!

Keeping up with the flux in technologies and Web 2.0 should be a full time job. Really! I can hardly find the time for the piling feeds This is just in (into my eyes at least) – After Flickr –Yahoo! has bought del.iciou.us (who would’ve thought). Despite the fact that I don’t really like del.iciou.us (usability wise), yet I’m...

Working for a manufacturing company? Share Your Experience.

Yesterday I had a phone interview slash discussion with the CEO of href=”http://www.globe-soft.net” target=”_blank”>Globe Soft (Ilater knew that he’s the CEO from their website, he didn’t introducehimself). To cut the story short, the advertised position was for asenior J2EE Developer, a few minutes into the discussion I recognizedthat the company wanted a code monkey rather than a “senior” staff...

Google Netherland is the default

Google is redirecting me to Google Netherland (google.nl). Has someone hacked their locale directing modules?I changed browser default language a couple of times, and it was responding correctly to those language change, I used both IE and FF but still I’m directed to Google Netherland I got you Google!!

Enterprise Ruby on Rails

Yet again Ruby on Rails vs Java stack argument. But this time it’s a true and tried case study for using Rails to write an enterprise-class health care system – CenterNet (or at least part of it) and its comparison with the use of Java stack. The system according to the mailing list post is N * 1,000 dedicated...

Facial Recognition, on a desktop near you

A smile was drawn on every face I showed the alpha site of Riya! The idea is magnificent: Let Riya client go through you photos (desktop, web, etc…), Feed Riya with the names of people on some of the pictures, and Voila! you can search your photos (and future ones) with the names of the people/the places/the scenes/the signs...

12 Weeks With Geeks beats The Apprentice

What an idea! A documentary about a group of interns at Fog Creek, during a real world assignment of designing, developing and delivering Copilot in 12 weeks. Boondoggle Films presents a journey through the world of software development from the perspective of a unique upstart, four quirky interns, and the world of The Geek. Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks...

Measure Map

I was finally invited to preview Measure Map, a wonderful blog management tool (alpha release) from Adaptive Path. The tool has many nice features (and more yet to come)- Number of Visitors (daily). Links (both in and out, with friendly search terms). Comments (Daily). Browsers. Countries (Compete with flash map). Popular posts Visiting Times. Events (yet to come). I...