After being totally consumed for around 2 months – I’m now finally able to sit down and write few words about the recent part of my learning journey. I’m writing these few lines from Calgary, AB, Canada – after accepting a position with Commerx Corporation – a one-stop web development firm. The past few months were very stressfull; mentally,...
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A Great paging pattern has been implemented by Unspace. The ‘Pageless Endless’ pattern uses Ajax to load the ‘next’ result page content at the bottom of the current (single) result page. Easy and simple, I like it. Similar patterns have been around (Rico’s Activegrid et al), but, this is the least intrusive I’ve seen. Demo: Live FilterVia: Quoted-Printable powered...
Breaking the silence – this was posted by “tprentis” on IBM forum for DB2 on Rails Toolkit I’m a recent convert to Ruby on Rails. My organization has several (over 50) iSeries machines on our WAN. As MIS manager, I plan to start pushing RoR development in the near future but really need that DB2 iSeries connector running. Please...
After boarding the Royal Jordanian (RJ) plane heading for Amman, and while waiting for the take-off we were asked by the stewardess to hand in all what we have of, not knives, not nail clippers, not sprays, not cork screws, not shoes, but rather hand in all of our Guavas! Some people have boarded the plane with some guava...
I’m off to Amman, Jordan, to meet the team behind iToot. We’ll be mostly talking RoR, the web, and whatever we’ll come up with. I first came to know itoot from their posting on jobs.rubynow where they announced a need for a RoRailer. We started corresponding back in April, but things didn’t materialize except in the last couple of...
I arrived at Amman’s (Queen Alia’s airport) at 8:00 PM. George & Karim were waiting there with a sign carrying, not my name, but rather “Ruby on Rails” – all in red . As they haven’t seen me in person, they figured out that a RoR sign will get them a real smile or a nice wave and it...
Following the wonderful post at svn for the “most beautiful thing”, I felt the urge to wander in the opposite direction. What’s the Ugliest thing you’ve seen lately ? Feel free to have multiple replies. Technorati Tags: ugly, opinions, poll, svn, beautifulpowered by performancing firefox Trip to and back from work. Sometimes I HAVE to close my eyes, that’s...
Remember the idea I once had? (as if I have dedicated reads 🙂 .. Well, it’s resurfaced again. As I was reviewing itoot, I wanted to know what itoot bloggers are really talking about. So, another Mashup? pretty close. My idea was to aggregate the feeds, parse them, pass their contents to an auto-tagging service/API, then put the result...
While talking to a good friend last night, we came up with a new DD acronym. Introducing the SDD or “Stability Driven Development” 🙂 . Although, it was meant to funnily describe how some people regard their careers in the context of their responsibilities, the same idea can be used to come up with really genuine DD names: BDD:...