DCOM,CORBA,Java-RMI - A Step by Step Comparison
Implement acts_as_threaded without a plugin
Basics of Compiler Design
Rails Tips
Converted to Greyscale using GIMP .. Used a mix of blending options on the green and red channels while discarding the blue channel (too much noise) ..
Topics : veli, trivandrum, kerala, india
Containing Heterogeneous Types
Lakme Peach Moisturizer
instant poetry.
On a tightrope “Being on a tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting. — Karl Wallenda”
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The most informed Indians ?
CSS Compressor By Moraes Topics : ajax, css, compressor, beta, bandwidth, save
8 Legs.
Puthu varshashamsakkal :-)
Happy Mother's Day !
TCS to expand in Thiruvananthapuram
Nano headset!
I was wrong
The cult
Passing thoughts -6
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Anonymous
Maatrangal
Easy Role-Based Authorization in Rails “Once user authentication has been added to your Rails app, authorization isn%u2019t far behind. In fact, very basic authorization functionality exists the moment you implement user authentication.”
Memory: Making Your Influence Last “Therefore, memory is not simply recall, but reconstruction of the past.”
Thinking Cap using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation “Professor Allan Snyder and Dr. Elaine Mulcahy say they have completed experiments that proved they could increase the creative function of the brain using magnetism.
The device works by using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to temporarily shut down the left hemisphere of the brain, where speech and short-term memory are supported.”
The top 10 “new” hot colours I liked Ruby Wine Topics : 10, colour, hot, new, top
Web Design Dashboard
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
This is a screenshot of tamizhan.com running the nucleus content management system.It is aggregating posts from del.icio.us and flickr as well.
Topics : tamizhan.com, screenshot, nucleus cms, plugin, delicious, flickr
Zook's research finds, more than one in three Fortune 500 companies “completely transformed their core business, some even reinventing themselves completely,” and the pace of business change continues to accelerate.">Core Businesses Are Changing: Are You Ready?
Using Vim as a Complete Ruby on Rails IDE
War is never an answer
December.
D-Bus Tutorial “D-Bus is designed for two specific cases:
* Communication between desktop applications in the same desktop session; to allow integration of the desktop session as a whole, and address issues of process lifecycle (when do desktop components start and stop running).
* Communication between the desktop session and the operating system, where the operating system would typically include the kernel and any system daemons or processes.”
imaginati0n.com
The Count of Monte Cristo
Add a little more random to your product
100 Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs
The Photographer's Shadow - A Flickr Group Pool Topics : flickr, group, photographer, pool, shadow
Greying of Kerala to cause headaches
An excellent Boys review
Ruby EventMachine - The Speed Demon
The dot doesn't matter
scrAPI toolkit for Ruby “So how about scraping HTML with style?”
If ...
Highest tennis court in the World
Woork: 10 Beautiful icons set for web developers and designers
Adobe Open Source “In the beginning the programmer created the language and the code. And the code was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the screen of the computer. And the programmer moved upon the keyboard of the computer. And the programmer said, let there be Photoshop: and there was Photoshop. And the programmer saw Photoshop, that it was good: and the programmer divided the Command Parameter Modeling Code from the Underlying Framework”
Redesign and an explanation
The .in domain name.
Information Gateway
25 Cinema 4D Tutorials for Spectacular Animations “Cinema 4D is a high-end 3D graphics application capable of procedural and polygonal modeling, animating, lighting, texturing, and rendering.”
The Best Programming Books “Top Books Every Programmer Should Read”
Writing a parser
Barely controlled chaos Topics : _why, book, chaos, editor, ruby, wiki
Developing Erlang at Yahoo “The slides can be viewed online and there is a PDF available.”
The Apu Trilogy Topics : apu, ray, satyajit, trilogy
100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps for Productivity “Read on for 100 of the best apps that will increase your productivity with Adobe AIR.”
The Last Bite “The World Bank recently announced that thirty-three countries are confronting food crises, as the prices of various staples have soared. From January to April of this year, the cost of rice on the international market went up a hundred and forty-one per cent.”
Carousel Prototype Extension
Day and night.
Google News Alerts
Give your résumé a face lift
How the BPO industry will change our lives
oru kochu kinaavu
Background Scores in Tamil Movies: Iruvar “When the Iruvar Maniratnam and Rahman join hands, not only the songs but also the background score is special and this movie is a sample of that and I hope everyone will agree”
The Best and the Interesting “My hope is, at some point in my life, I will hit such a stride, some skillset I have where the best of me just happens as a matter of course. I'm good at some stuff, bad at others, but I would love to hit some point, in a few years, where I throw out perfection as calmly as a child tosses a ball. It's something to strive for.”
The Reality Distortion Field
Naked Objects “Most people who believe they are doing object-oriented design and development are doing no such thing, because they are ignoring the most important principle of object-orientation. We describe that principle as 'behavioural completeness': an object should completely model the behaviour of the thing that it represents. Instead, most people continue to design business systems that separate procedure from data, albeit dressed up in the language and technology of object-orientation.
Why is this distinction important? Because behavioural completeness is the key to realising the principal benefit of object-orientation: the ability to cope with unforeseen changes in requirements.”
Amazing serve
After the first meeting...
10,000 Watt smile !
Avan....
India & China will fight it over to become the next America
dragtable: Visually reorder all your table columns “That's it! Your table will instantly become interactive.”
The Indian PC
Music from Tibet Topics : tibet, music, soothing
Concatenative language “There are two terms that get thrown around, stack language and concatenative language. Both define similar but not equal classes of languages. For the most part though, they are identical.
Stacks are a pretty fundamental concept in computer science, and many languages use stacks internally in the implementation. Any language that allows recursive definitions uses some type of call stack to save return addresses between function calls, and often the same stack is used to spill values which cannot be allocated in registers. However, this is just implementation detail, and this call stack is not exposed directly to the programmer (except in languages with first-class continuations; I'll touch upon this later).
So what makes stack languages different? The key concept here is that there are multiple stacks: all stack languages have a call stack to support recursion, but they also have a data stack (sometimes called an operand stack) to pass values between functions. The latter is what stack language programmers mean when they talk about "the" stack.
Most languages in widespread use today are applicative languages: the central construct in the language is some form of function call, where a function is applied to a set of parameters, where each parameter is itself the result of a function call, the name of a variable, or a constant. In stack languages, a function call is made by simply writing the name of the function; the parameters are implicit, and they have to already be on the stack when the call is made. The result of the function call (if any) is then left on the stack after the function returns, for the next function to consume, and so on. Because functions are invoked simply by mentioning their name without any additional syntax, Forth and Factor refer to functions as "words", because in the syntax they really are just words.”
Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them
Announcing Dolt, a drop-in Libtool replacement which cuts build times in half
Kerala selected for 'India Today' award
A Liger is a cross between a Lion and a Tiger Topics : liger, lion, tiger
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
Higher-Order Ruby
koi jab tumhara
How to Rid Your Home of Cockroaches
A Butler “Gene woke and nudged her once”
“This is why Erikd insists on the fact that writing quality code in functional languages requires from people coming from OO backgrounds to discard old habits and ways of thinking and to ignore object oriented and imperative programming features for as long as possible.”
Creeps
BBC opens up its content The licensing looks a bit draconian though .. Topics : api, bbc, content, open, feed, license
Introducing the Catenator
Air-India announces special fares on local sector
Artists who are similar to Enya
iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo.
Things Caches Do “I want to talk about gateway caches — or, “reverse proxy caches” — and consider their effects on modern, dynamic web application design.”
Template Metaprograms
iTunes Export M3U Playlist Exporter
The Flash Timeline Clock Topics : clock, cool, flash, time
Is Object Orientation Working? “A database is essentially a truth reasoning engine. You take a collection of facts, a series of inference rules and you use these to ask it questions. A object orientated language is essentially about setting up classes of object; templates, if you like, from which instances are created.”
Star Entrepreneurs
Eight Ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer's The Art of Controversy State a false syllogism Topics : advice, controversy, opponent, tips, win, argument
rediff.com
Twitter Quote “when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
Quantum physics says goodbye to reality “reality does not exist when we're not observing it”
On Ruby “Ruby is remarkably, perhaps irresistibly, attractive”
Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1
The Top Ten Most Beautiful OS X Apps
Experimental del.icio.us Posting Interface Thing Generator Topics : bookmarklet, del.icio.us, tools
The ABC List Topics : blogebrity, blogger, famous, list
Site Update
Relativity/Quantum Mechanics “One concept of time is the idea that there is a state called the present which divides the universe into two different realms: the past which cannot be changed from the future which cannot be exactly known. The second concept of time is that it is the reading off a clock. These concepts are fundamentally inconsistent with one another.”
Ambition
The blog is better than the movie Topics : blog, darth, george, lucas, star, vader, wars
Table Tennis Advanced Techniques
Words of Wisdom
Die every day
Nostalgia.
The Semicolon Wars “Every programmer knows there is one true programming language. A new one every week”
bahaaro.n phuul barasaao, meraa mahabuub aayaa hai
Blogs Opening Iranian Society?
D-BUS “At the protocol level D-BUS can be used as a peer-to-peer message transport for applications to communicate directly with each other. The real power of D-BUS comes from the bus daemons which act as routers for messages. There are two standard buses that a developer can rely on always being around. These are the system bus and the session bus.
The system bus is a global daemon that any application running in any context can use as a transport. It is a single point where applications can export services that anyone can use. Only one system bus daemon can be run at a time.
The session bus is a bus local to the current user's session. It is used for communication between applications running within the same X session. For every login to X, a session bus daemon is started.”
How iPods Work
Continuations Demystified
An interesting philosophy...
C++ 0x: The Dawning of a New Standard “It's been 10 years since the first ISO C standard, and 2009 will bring us the second.”
BackgrounDRb “BackgrounDRb is a small framework for divorcing long running tasks from Rails request/response cycle. With HTTP it is usually not a very good idea to keep a request waiting for a response for long running actions. BackgrounDRb also allows for status updates that in combination with ajax can render live progress bars in the browser while the background worker task gets completed.”
Capitalism is not the answer
A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails “Over the last few months I have analyzed a number of Rails applications w.r.t. performance problems”
Sleeping On A Bench.
An Introduction to Vim Macros “Justin Lilly has created a 3-part series on using Vim macros, Vim is a powerful editor that has a bit of a learning curve.”
Refactoring to REST
The balance of power is slowly shifting towards the young Here is a link to the mp3 of the talk. Topics : graham, paul, education, hiring, power, startup, youth
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library “"What's so wonderful about our knowledge of the human body is how remarkably constrained it has been over time,"”
Basic journey of a packet
Indians smash cell-phone sales record “A new world record has been set in India. On October 19, an auspicious day to purchase new products in the country, mobile-phone maker Nokia reportedly sold more than 400,000 handsets, a number not achieved in a single day anywhere else in the world, including China, one of the most rapidly growing mobile-phone markets.
The firm's previous sales high was about 100,000 phones in a single day.”
Theory Introduction to Programming Languages Filed for future reference.
mail.yahoo.com
Happy Birthday
Blogs play cupid
The Nature of Lisp “I've achieved an almost divine state of mind, an instantaneous enlightenment experience that turned my view of computer science on its head in less than a single second.” Topics : lisp, programmer
A gentle introduction to Template Metaprogramming with C++
Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.
Baghdad Burning
How to start a company (Private Limited) in India ?
U never know what's in store ??
Happy new year!
Building a Social Network Site in Rails “the”
Bhutan
DUM
Early retirement
The $25 million Boone County creation museum Topics : creation, debate, evolution, god, man, science
Patterns in Nature (Photo Galleries)
Torque launches arm to tap mobile media market “Started a little over 18 months ago by a group of engineering students from Thiruvananthapuram, Torque has developed an array of solutions and services in the wireless space. It has developed Campaign Manager, a one-step solution to create, manage and run mobile phone-based promotional campaigns across the country.”
Passing thoughts -4
Valmiki's Ramayana
Making money online ?
An introduction to Ruby/DLX “Now, you can obviously use these great libraries by writing a binding for it in Ruby. This has the advantage that it is fast, however, it requires you to maintain the binding. This means that the binding needs to be updated whenever you or some upstream party updates the C library. This is a real pain, and it also requires you to deploy the updated binding to all the target machines. Because the bindings are written in C, this requires compilation which is not all too great, especially if you consider that ruby is an interpreted language. Part of the fun of programming in ruby is that you don't need to recompile. Wouldn't it be great if you could just import C library calls in Ruby directly ?”
Armored Against Turmoil, Lebanon Lures Investors “Lebanon's very instability, its 15-year civil war and frequent political crises, appears to have bred the banking sector's fiscal prudence, analysts say.”
China sees 60 million bloggers by year's end “The expected 60 million bloggers would account for more than half of China's 110 million netizens”
The meaning of Life ?
REST & Rails
Army Launches Operation Olympic Medal
A 100,000 Swiss franc ($83,000) blanket to reduce the summer melt Topics : blanket, glacier, melt, reduce, summer, swiss
Ruby Advent Calendar : 25 Days of Ruby Joy and Celebration
The Dojo toolkit is impressive! Topics : authoring, dojo, javascript, ajax, toolkit, widget
How I Learned to Love Testing
Web Input Completion Kit Must use to rewrite my tag autocomplete plugin .. Topics : autocomplete, google, suggest, javascript
+5 Insightful comments on slashdot.org Topics : slashdot, +5, insightful, comment
Technical Debt “Remove cruft as you go. Build simplicity and clarity in from the beginning, and never relent in keeping them in.”
Rim jhim gire saavan
Rafat Ali Launches Content Sutra His paidcontent.org is among my daily reads. Looking forward to this one .. Topics : ali, rafat, bollywood, content, media, paid, sutra
This is heaven for a seinfeld fan like me :)
Igniting India's mind By A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM
Five tips for developing Rails applications “Pimp your rails console with colors, history and tab completion”
We keep passing the baton between California and India Topics : 24, california, day, hour, india, portalplayer, tcs
Free CSS Templates
The Lazy Way to Success “The paradigm-shifting concept is "Smart Laziness" where success comes through cleverly avoiding work but still getting the job done.”
Nucleus.
The philosopher series - 1
The Myth of Superman “For Superman, it's mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent thats the disguise the thing he aspires to, the thing he can never be. He really is that hero, and he will never be one of us. But we love him for trying. We love him for wanting to protect us from everything, including his own transcendence. He plays the bumbling, lovelorn Kent so that we regular folks can feel, just for a moment, super.”
Olympics and India
Thiruvananthapuaram based Toonz Animation has a great website!
Tuple Spaces
Cloud Computing Promise & Reality “To me, cloud computing is the natural evolution of the Internet and World Wide Web”
Why communism must go away
Finland
Opacity change using Scriptaculous
How to install RESTful Authentication on a Ruby on Rails 2.0 application
Blog of the day.
The road to self-esteem is, indeed, paved with gold “They remind us that, essentially, our bodies are made up of the same elements as Usain Bolt, and the fact that they seem to be made from marshmallows and potato skins is entirely due to our own sloth and greed.”
Six Principles for Making New Things “The Reddits pushed so hard against the current that they reversed it; now it looks like they're merely floating downstream.”
C is Predictable
The World's 10 Most Magnificent Monasteries “While all monasteries are beautiful and mysterious in their own way, there are some that stand out from the rest.”
Introduction to BackgrounDRb
An exhausting week....
Juggernaut “The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection and push data to the client.”
Generic Programming Techniques “Generic programming is about generalizing software components so that they can be easily reused in a wide variety of situations.”
HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR RUBY “HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR RUBY”
“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, to present-day scientific figures such as Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, have spent endless hours over this simple ratio and its properties. But the fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians. Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics.”
Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, The World's Most Astonishing Number
WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI
A blogger's last entry helps solve his murder The full story about the investigation .. Topics : arrest, blogger, entry, last, murder
Virtual Machine Opcode Resolution, Performance Tests
Programmer's rant: What should and should not be added to C/C++ “premature optimization at the level of language and framework choice is not evil.”
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LinkedIn Architecture
Being Indian abroad
Happy Diwali!
A Zen Moment “You can see the path you couldn't see before.”
Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt “Consider a photo of someone you think is you eight years ago.”
Google ROCKS !
Malcolm Gladwell's Method “I fill my life with people from diverse backgrounds.”
Web Application Testing in Ruby “The format of this example will be to show the Ruby test case scripting code in a box as you would see it in a text editor, with an explanation after it.”
A Little Kid
If you're not blogging, you're wasting your life “You should be sharing the things you learned so other people will learn from it and maybe teach you something new.”
Gadling
Moving on
Living In India : A new community blog
Space Based Programming
This guy is good
List of cognitive biases “A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgement that occurs in particular situations (see also cognitive distortion and the lists of thinking-related topics).”
Funny Firefox Videos Topics : europe, firefox, fun, videos
Poetry
Ruby language features
Interesting. As is every single one of google's ideas ;) Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will .. Topics : google, web, accelerator, world, domination
Hadoop Summit and Data-Intensive Computing Symposium Videos and Slides | Yahoo! Research
Streamlined - Real world scaffolding “Streamlined is an open source framework for quickly creating data-centric applications with Ruby on Rails.”
Hercules - a Liger - Part Lion, Part Tiger - 10 feet tall - Runs at 50 mph Kaal would have been watchable if they had used ligers instead of tigers ;) Topics : 10ft, 50mph, hercules, kaal, liger, lion, tiger
Reloaded !
Laying Tracks
Connectionism from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy “A seductive but naive idea is that single neurons (or tiny neural bundles) might be devoted to the representation of each thing the brain needs to record.”
India on par with china ?
India bridges digital divide
The Moving Finger Writes
I dig...
Defining Cloud Computing
Life and growth
People do not believe something is saved if it happens too quickly Topics : human, intuitive, javascript, xmlhttprequest, mind, understanding, usability
./method coming in PERL 6? Syntactic sugar! Topics : method, perl, 6, self
A nice set of programming articles
Code Generation: The Safety Scissors Of Metaprogramming
God's Own Country.
Bangalore
How to Stand Out in Any Job “Leadership rarely involves telling people what to do. Instead, it's usually about helping people and teams create synergy and accomplish great things by working together.”
Streaming programmatically generated content from Rails
Do you want to know how rich you are ?
Sathish Chimes in
How Computers Boot Up “The solution is the venerable unreal mode.”
The best one yet !
New kid.
Ourvie.ws
Vikram's many faces in Anniyan Topics : anniyan, movie, shankar, tamil, vikram
The Operating System Resource Center Topics : os, operating, system, tutorial
In the mirror
More people in India travel by train in a day than travel by air in a year Topics : india, people, travel, airline
A History of Decision Tables “Tables are easy to read and can convey more information in a smaller space and clearer format than flowcharting, pseudo-code, narratives and other conventional documentation techniques. They are also easier for both analysts and users to construct and alter than conventional system analysis techniques. The non-analyst user can be given an empty decision table and be asked to fill it out himself. He can provide information to the systems analyst which would normally require intensive interviews and a great deal of time to obtain.
Tables can be used to automatically generate source code in any programming language which supports if/then/else or switch/case control constructs. While the time saved by generating code would be worth the effort of learning decision tables, there are other benefits.”
Innovation in Startups Topics : hackathon, innovation, jotspot, startup
Minutes of a meeting
Remote Scripting with IFRAME Need an XmlHTTPObject alternative (for cross domain scripting). Filed for future reference.
I am back :)
Pablo Neruda - Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Linux backdoor ?
Aquarium for Ruby “Aquarium is a framework that implements Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) for Ruby. The premise of AOP is that some concerns in an application will cut across the natural object boundaries of the problem domain. Rather than scatter duplicated code in each object to handle the cross-cutting concern, AOP modularizes the specification of which execution points are affected (called join points) and the actions that should be invoked at those points.”
The Number Game.
Self-Sufficient Headers In C++ “A good C (and C) coding standard is that every header file should be self-sufficient.”
A great wired article on MIT Open Course Ware
An Introduction to Lean Thinking for Software “Lean is the technology that can recognize and eliminate waste - activities which don't produce additional value.”
Life Is Elsewhere Book Review “The title of the novel is a quotation from the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, which was also used by André Breton in the last paragraph of his surrealistic manifesto in 1924. The expression also became a slogan used by the protesting stidents in Paris May 1968.”
The Brahma Hypothesis.
Song of Love
Why women stop thinking when they go shopping
Vijay Chegu
Multicasting in Ruby
rajini style :)
The three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris Topics : hubris, impatience, larry, laziness, programmer, three, virtues, wall
Breathing Techniques that reduce Stress “When you can control your breath, you can control everything.”
Getting Things Done Using Javascript Topics : gtd, javascript, wiki, tiddlywiki
70 Amazing Houses from Around the World
Life etc
Cobra vs Mongoose
POVCOMP 2004: Hall of Fame I used POVRAY to design my final year's magazine cover Topics : 1999, povray, cet, cover, final, magazine, year
Favourite ads...
Is there a place more beautiful than swizterland ?
Threaded Code “Threaded code is a technique for implementing virtual machine interpreters”
Vande Mataram
Punar Janmam.
Blogging from Word 2007.
Google I/O Session Videos and Slides
More is Less
via (I am rice) “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
%u2014 Elbert Hubbard”
Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System “The Smalltalk-80 programming language includes dynamic storage allocation, full upward funargs, and universally polymorphic procedures”
The Bhagavad Gita in Pictures
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop CS2
Unknown to you
Metaphors “Metaphor is an attempt to understand one element of experience in terms of another.”
Valve announces Steam Cloud “At a conference on Steam and the future of PC gaming at its Seattle headquarters today, Valve announced that it would be introducing a new feature to its digital distribution platform that allows remote storage of all game data for Steam games.”
Something new
The world @ 2050
Why I started blogging....
God is an intermediate layer.
Cog VM Blog “Conceptually every method or block activation in Smalltalk is represented by a context object, each of which has its own small stack holding its temporaries and intermediate results. Each context points to its caller via a sender slot. ”
Best background music for programming
Rails.vim “TextMate may be the latest craze for developing Ruby on Rails applications, but Vim is forever.”
Interesting.
Tamizhan
Goodbye
Cluster Computing and MapReduce - Google Code University
Glory is as ephemeral as smoke and clouds Topics : america, china, glory, kaifeng, most, important, newyork
:)
If China can have its blog empire, why can't India ? Topics : blog, china, denton, empire, india, jason
Endless
Our saga continues....
The End of Wall Street's Boom “model for home prices had no ability to accept a negative number”
:(
Why Apple is the best retailer in America “The subject won't sit still for its portrait.”
Random Links
The Kernel Boot Process “May your uptime be long and untroubled.”
Dilbert pokes fun at IIT grads - The Economic Times
Food for thought
MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth Topics : earth, google, imagery, msn, satellite, virtual
Kalavaara Halli Betta hike
Being a woman !!
Papers and Presentations at Adobe Open Source Wiki
MCMXC a.D “It would change the musical world as we know it.”
Ragel wins! “One of Ragel's key advantages is that there is absolutely zero internal function call overhead. This is because the are no internal function calls; everything is done with basic C control structures (for loops, gotos, case statements and the like). Once you're in the Ragel machine you can stay there until you've scanned all the text.”
Holiday fun.
Foreign funds' Sept inflows to India beat '02 total
The Top Ten List Of Top Ten Lists
Lexical Analyser Example
Ruby programming is art “I would dare to say that programming style in Java is enforced by the company code standards, whereas programming style in Ruby comes from the personality and the programming experience.
Ruby programming is art. And it's part of the reasons why it's fun.”
March 20th 2006
Nayakan I would have picked Mouna Raagam as Mani Ratnam's best Topics : mani, nayakan, ratnam
meek
The Game Within the Game “People were complaining that a game was ruining the quality of virtual life inside a game.”
Love and marriage.
Me !
Assumption Reversal “The future is often a reverse of the assumptions of the present.”
500 hours of MS Paint Unbelievable! Topics : art, microspft, paint, masterpiece
Software development magazine “A Decision Table Based Methodology
for the Analysis of Complex Conditional Actions”
Programming Languages and Lambda Calculi
Adam Smith on Outsourcing (1776) “It is maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy...What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry employed in a way in which we have some advantage”
I dig
It's back to boom time for Indian IT
BDD with Shoulda
Will’s Guide to Mashing-up Remote Databases using Page Scraping
Will natural-born humans into an endangered species ? Topics : endangered, human, evolution, natural, species
Simple AJAX Code Kit (SACK) Once I complete the flickr integration, need to AJAXify tamizhan with this kit or the prototype js library. Topics : ajax, code, kit, javascript, toolkit
Truemors by the Numbers “One thing is for sure: no entrepreneur can tell me that he needs $1 million, four programmers, and six months to launch this kind of company. With products like WordPress, MySQL, and Salesforce platform, things are a whole lot cheaper and easier these days.” Topics : entrepreneur, wordpress
Kerala Tourism is a well run government organisation - a not so common occurrence.This new ad, in the Sunday supplement of Times of India (Bangalore Edition), is eye catching. The romance of monsoon is wonderfully conveyed.
Topics : kerala, monsoon, ad
Been a while
Salam's story
My Pithamagan review
SMS beep tone in Nokia is morse code for SMS? Topics : beep, nokia, sms, texting
Why Do We Forget Things? “our memories also vary considerably in their precision.”
Sun sued.
Interesting outsourcing/BPO marketing strategy using blogs
Happiness
A request.
Mukesh Ambani's Makeover Plans for India
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Anbe Sivam
Don't you think, it is a lovely shade of yellow ?
Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india, nice flower
30 Incredible Free Fonts for Designers
The Completely Fair Scheduler “Life is a game, and if you aren't in it to win, what the heck are you still doing here?”
Life is in small things
The last immigrant song ?
Distance.
A tags implementation how to A similar de-normalized approach is what I used. Topics : blog, de-normalized, tags
Business 2.0: Silicon Valley faces Web startup glut “"You can't take Ajax, AdSense, and arrogance and call it a company,"”
SWIG/Ruby Examples
HAL “Traditionally, desktop applications discovered hardware by talking directly to the operating system kernel (the kernel maintains the list of devices attached to the system). This is a tedious process and is not exact because sometimes the kernel doesn't know everything about a device. For example, some digital cameras and portable music players show up as just another hard disk in the user interface. Thus, not many user interfaces have been built for hardware discovery.
With HAL, all the interesting information about certain classes of hardware is easily accessible in a well-defined format. When a new device is added to the system, an asynchronous signal is broadcast on the system message bus detailing what kind of device was added.”
:)
100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques “From the funny to the poignant, these glimpses into the lives of teachers and their students will keep you entertained while learning a little something as well.”
Camel corp
The Ajax transport method “There's more to Ajax than XMLHttp”
Q&A with Krishna Bharat of Google News
Winner of the Personal Visualization Project “From email spam, to beverage consumption, to aches and pains, Tim embraced the spirit of self-surveillance.”
Sachin Tendulkar.
Recursive Fun with Flickr
Metaprogramming Ruby
After two centuries of Western domination, China and India are poised to claim their places
Will you still drink coca cola / pepsi ?
Ruby Cheat Sheets
Techniques for Scientific C++
Short Term Memory and Chunking “Prior to the creation of current memory models, George Miller argued that human short-term memory has a forward memory span of approximately seven items plus or minus two.[12] More recent research has shown that this magical number seven is roughly accurate for college students recalling lists of digits, but memory span varies widely with populations tested and with material.”
Tour de Babel “Every 15 years or so, languages are replaced with better ones”
Blogcadia.com / Bloghosting using the nucleus content management system Jeff is a nice guy and has written some really cool plugins for the nucleus cms. Give him a look if you are looking for a blog provider .. Topics : blog, blogcadia, jeff, nucleuscms
Create your own comic! Topics : character, comic, create
Rails Acts As Taggable On Plugin
FT's Report on India and China Topics : asia, china, emerging, giants, india
3
I Finally Understand Closures! “I have been trying to understand closures off-and-on for what seems like forever now.”
REST Channels: HTTP Channels with JSON support “HTTP Channels is the proposed Comet protocol for leveraging the semantics of HTTP REST for subscribing to resources and receiving resource/data modification notifications and closely integrates with HTTP.”
Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Continuity Topics : einstein, lynd, mechanics, newton, quantum
How can a system that differs sharply from all currently fashionable approaches score any kind of success?
Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB “Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB”
Indian real estate has enormous potential “a housing shortage of currently 20 million units will call for extensive residential construction.”
New standards
A Neutrino feed is a collection of pointers to other syndication feeds I am solving the distributed data problem by aggregating all my content on tamizhan.com. Topics : api, blog, data, distributed, del.icio.us, feed, flickr, remote, tamilizhan.com
CalendarView “The Calendar widget is a JavaScript-based calendar that can either be embedded within a page or popup when a trigger element is clicked.”
Life is Elsewhere
Chad, Eu Tu ?
Cool ideas need an outlet.
The war has begun
What is the Completely Fair Scheduler?
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete “Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud.”
The Other Side
MapReduce: Simplied Data Processing on Large Clusters
The Atheist Blogger “On the first day, man created God.”
Code Generation Templates Using XML and XSL
wow!
Data Decoupling Patterns
( trackback ) ( testing ) ( again )
Give Hawk-Eye a chance
Who am i ?
Amazon.com's AJAX Diamond Search Topics : amazon, ajax, diamond, search, cool
Third Annual Weblog Awards.
Bloggies
Bill Joy's greatest gift to man “People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore”
SBI plans first-ever floating ATM in Kerala
I somehow like this one a lot .. Must be the contrast between the white feathers and the dust ..
A little help can go a long way
Sweet Irony.
FUEL “FUEL is a JavaScript Library designed to help developers build extensions using terminology and interfaces that are familiar to them. FUEL is new in Firefox 3 and will be backported to Firefox 2 as well.”
Lost and never found
India Shining
How The Interpreter Works - Cat Language
Staying Alive
Orson Scott Card “Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
ActiveRecord Tutorial
Tag Clouds Generated Using Amazon AWS If amazon were to blog, this is how it will look like Topics : amazon, aws, blog, cloud, tags
Nee
Cool Programs! Need to check them out when I get some free time Topics : programs, cool
The best indian websites ?
Anonymous
Passing thoughts - 1
A conversation with Dr.Muralidhar Pai.
Passing thoughts -2
India
Memory Management
chit chat
The Shuttle will be a complete beautification of the Wordpress Administration Panel Topics : beautification, interesting, shuttle, wordpress, admin
New York Underground
What is a 'Natural' Pattern? “The whole of human scientific and artistic endeavour can be seen as the attempt to discover Pattern in Nature.”
MattBango.com “Aperture, shutter speed and ISO, the big 3 that usually cause the most confusion early on. If you can get a grasp on how the big 3 work together to affect your exposures, taking pictures will be a much more pleasant experience and will have a lot less frustration.”
Ground-breaking work in understanding of time
Source code generation is unreliable and inadvisable in every language except Lisp
Birds and Frogs
It’s about Cricket Topics : about, blog, cricket, mad
Flickr integration is over
Shopping malls must be banned!
49 Amazing Wallpapers
Watch Wikipedia change in real time Topics : wikipedia, real, time, change
21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
Tuple-Space Based Middleware for Distributed Computing
Blogging Like a Hacker “I wanted to write great posts, not style a zillion template pages, moderate comments all day long, and constantly lag behind the latest software release.”
How brain cells make good connections? It’s a specialty involving vast numbers. There are an estimated 100 billion neurons in the average 3-pound human brain. Connecting them are as many as 10 trillion synapses, the circuitlike chemical pathways that link neurons to one another. “The power of higher brain areas,” said Murthy, “is in numbers.”
Removing the Submit or Save button is likely to cause users to question whether or not their data was stored Topics : asynchronous, javascript, ajax, web, application
The google portal is here Topics : google, homepage, pesonalize, portal
THE WONDERFUL WOMEN IN MY CIRCLE!!
What Geeks Want Topics : cheat, mug, reference, sheet, vi
mindless
Amma's recipes Looking for south indian recipes? Watch this blog for more.
Outfoxed / A firefox extension / Personalize the internet Topics : firefox, extension, internet, outfoxed, personalize
Suresh Pallavur Hariharan.
Let us try this again.
Who is “As Seen On TV” ? For a while, I have been grepping apple related stories on slashdot for this guy's comments. The technical depth in his comments and his cross-domain knowledge are amazing (to say the least). Now the question is how long will apple allow this to continue ? Topics : apple, asseenontv, comment, slashdot
Rs 1,000 Crore Expansion Planned For Trivandrum Technopark Topics : 1000, infosys, outsourcing, tcs, trivandrum, technopark, expansion
Deep Quote lets you link directly to specific quotes in web pages
How to solve Sudoku puzzles
Magic Realism.
SQL Joins Explained “This is not a technical discussion - just concepts.”
Insecure Minds Wired for Pattern-Finding “A perfectly healthy human mind can trick itself into seeing things that are not there, and new research has exposed exactly the sort of conditions under which that happens.”
How to Design a large AJAX Application
Why pop culture loves the 'butterfly effect,' and gets it totally wrong? “Science helps us understand the universe, but as Lorenz showed, it sometimes does so by revealing the limits of our understanding.”
Maldives seek to buy a new homeland
Shoes vs. AIR “To really give you a sense of how sad I am as a human being, here%u2019s what I woke up thinking about”
Why men are happier ?
Ruby Discoveries and Idioms “A place to share useful Ruby code snippets and ideas about using and improving the Ruby language”
My Favorite Free Fonts, by Vukan Karadzic
Wall Street Lays Another Egg “Credit and money, in other words, have for decades been growing more rapidly than underlying economic activity.”
Yippeee !
Searching with find “The find command is one of the darkest and least understood areas of Linux, but it is also one of the most powerful. The biggest problem with find is that it has more options than most people can remember — it truly is capable of doing most things you could want”
Power, prescience, and the paradox of patterns “Language must follow patterns to achieve meaning.”
Images that talk.
The 6 Most Important Experiments in the World “From the smartest artificial brain to the first artificial life”
Nigerians happiest people, Indians 21st
Google App Engine: The missing piece of the Cloud Software revolution
Surprise
Ruby has become “Programming Language of the Year 2006”
Nuvvenaa...
jgrowl “jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser”
How to write a blog in Rails 2.0.2 (not quite in 15 minutes)
“An old Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, ”A battle is raging inside me ... it is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.“
The old man fixed the children with a firm stare. ”This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.“
They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, ”Which wolf will win?“
The old Cherokee replied: ”The one you feed."
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Memoize Those Ruby Methods
Ruby Programming Language Enables Concise Network Programming “Not only is Ruby a high-performance programming language that minimizes software development and maintenance costs, but writing software in it is just fun! Ruby is a very concise programming notation, so you can write programs quickly. The readability of Ruby code also makes it easy to make changes later.”
Emotions don't always translate into words.
Follow your dreams
Unrealised Moscow “The competition for the Palace of Soviets in Moscow was one of the most extensive and impressive of this century. The idea of constructing a building which could be a symbol of the "imminent triumph of communism" in the capital of the world's first state of workers and peasants was mooted in the 1920s.”
Who will be no.1: China or India ?
Yahoo! News Tag Cloud Yahoo's Term Extraction service throws up a lot of interesting possibilities. Topics : api, extraction, tag, cloud, term, yahoo
Google Earth First Look Topics : earth, google, high, maps, resolution
10 Tips for Moving From Programmer to Entrepreneur “Code is 5% of your business”
Ruby Script Beautifier “I have always felt that a language hasn't really arrived until there is a source beautifier utility for it.”
A change of colour!
LightWindow Demo “Check out the ultimate light-'whatever' ;)”
Presentation Files: RailsConf 2008
E K Nayanar
An idea conceived 150 years ago gets the green signal Topics : channel, india, tamilnadu, sethusamudram
When do you plan to retire ?
India
Simple MapReduce in Ruby “Here's a simple version of the MapReduce framework presented in the now-famous Google paper by Dean and Ghemawat. My version of MapReduce is not intended as a usable high-performance framework, but rather as a learning tool. My goal is twofold: first, to learn to write algorithms in distributed/parallel MapReduce style. Second, to see how simply these concepts can be expressed in Ruby.”
MP3 Players.
How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming
Lightweight data exploration in Excel “For in-cell bar charts, the trick is to repeat a single bar “|”. When formatted in 8 point Arial font, single bars look like bar graphs. Here’s the formula behind the bars:”
The Most Important Idea in Computer Science “Lisp is the most important idea in computer science.”
2003
The Philosophy of Less.
Look, ma, no servers
Become a specialist at being a generalist “Almost always, the candidates seem to fall into one of two types - the specialists and the generalists. The specialists are those who come from a strong background of fundamentals.”
Jason kottke
Feb 12, 05
Trixie | Greasemonkey for IE Topics : greasemonkey, ie, trixie, firefox
mehboob
No hopers give a great hope to Irish film-maker “This is a Bollywood kind of script”
Noted Tamil writer Sujatha replies to a blog post! Guru Subramanian's Lazygeek is a high quality regularly updated blog. Topics : blog, getting, lazygeek, popular, tamil, writer, sujatha
Happy New Year!
TopWriteCorner.com
Presentation on Treetop (packrat parser generator)
Sweetie | Cute and clear icons
Adding plugins to your Ruby application
Quote of the day
Javascript Closures A closure is formed by returning a function object that was created within an execution context of a function call from that function call and assigning a reference to that inner function to a property of another object. Or by directly assigning a referen Topics : javascript, closure
Death
Using Amazon's Web Services from Ruby
The idea behind Ajax *does* revolutionize the web paradigm Topics : asynchronous, future, javascript, ajax, slashdot, comment, web, application
Ireland is the best country to live in (2005) Topics : best, country, ireland, life, world
Domain Specific Languages: Molding Ruby “Domain Specific Languages: Molding Ruby”
TableKit
Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life “Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life”
A drop-in replacement for Ruby on Rails’s scaffold generator
“Being in this village has been an experience I will *never* forget, it's changing my life. It's good. I feel it in my heart. I have to follow this new path unfolding before my eyes. It's my destination. It's real life. I love it, I need it.”
Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression “the current young generation will likely be shaped by an extreme crisis”
Gnome's Guide to WEBrick
CodeProject: Parsing and Grammars
7 Questions with Roger von Oech “Look for the second right answer.”
Passing thoughts -5
Technology Rewrites the Book “This is as good as any book in a bookstore”
Better half
At least 46 feared killed in Mumbai blasts
Idle Talk
Why not use commas as tag delimiters ? The tags plugin i wrote for the nucleus content management system uses commas. Topics : intuitive, tag, delimiter, comma
Mental Case :-)
Passing thoughts - 6
'Let Us Keep Aside Non-Issues' by Abdul Kalam
The day after
Learning REST “How do I learn about REST?”
Best Vim Tips
The IndLinux Project : A Linux distribution from India
Bollywood's Long Tail I get a bit annoyed when people equate Indian movies with Bollywood. There is so much happening outside the hindi film industry in India .. Topics : bollywood, demand, distributed, longtail, malayalam, movies, india, tamil, telegu
Ezhuthapurangal.
Shopping and women
Silence
Is Your Brain in a Box? “You know how it goes: The left brain is logical and analytical; the right brain is spatially-oriented and creative. Careers and fortunes have been made off of this one, and people tend to get passionate about it. But the real story is much more complex. While there are clearly differences in how the hemispheres of the brain process sensations, neither side is %u201Cspecialized%u201D to the degree that more popularized left brain/right brain theories suggest. A normal brain acts in an integrated fashion whether it is focused on painting a masterpiece or analyzing a profit and loss statement.”
Dummy post.
:-)
There is no place on earth like india
Do Ocracy “A do-ocracy (also sometimes do-opoly, which is a more obvious pun on %u201Cduopoly%u201D) is an organizational structure in which individuals choose roles and tasks for themselves and execute them. Responsibilities attach to people who do the work, rather than elected or selected officials.”
Gayathri
Pyaasa Topics : dutt, guru, pyaasa, rehman, waheeda
“If I let them compute those statistics, they will want to use them for planning”
Rails Toolbox
Feb 5, 2005
Onamashamsakkal !
Metaprogramming and Ruby on Rails
Deliverance from bondage
?
The meaning of Sati in the matrix revolutions
I was waiting and hoping to click the picture at the exact moment the boat was underneath the sun. Looks like I managed to do so ..
Topics : sunset, beach, shangumugham, trivandrum, kerala, india
Mamallapuram / Mahabalipuram.
Dhirubhai Ambani
The Bangalore Blogger's Meet.
Films.
Rockstar's Table Tennis How To Videos
Cubicle Culture
:(
Concurrency “This is a wonderful time to be a software engineer.”
George Dantzig, 1914-2005
To do with the price of fish “One particularly popular tale is that of the fisherman who is able to call several nearby markets from his boat to establish where his catch will fetch the highest price.”
ActiveRecord behaviour with associations
Ah Aah!
Exams
Ruby Blocks Rock! “Blocks are one of Ruby's greatest assets.”
Excellent MySQL Tips Topics : mysql, tips
Dreams
What the Amish are Teaching America “Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done in life.”
Ambanis planning to enter retail ? Topics : ambani, anil, mukesh, reliance, retail
Blog Swara BlogSwara started as a collaborative musical endeavor by a group of Indian bloggers around the world.
A Travel Guide for India. An interesting new startup by a friend of friend.
When Linux Runs Out of Memory
Linux Cheat Sheets
Ajax Edit In Place (EIP) Example
ClassRoom: A Ruby class server (or DRb on steroids)
I've never been to the Grand Canyon, and now I don't have to go Topics : earth, google, high, imagery, maps, resolution, satellite
Free mini pixel icons (DeveloperFox)
Zoomer “Video From a Picture”
Ideas On Creative Career, v1.1 “The initial process of creation has to come from a place of wonder and curiosity.”
Top 11 Rails Plugins
Creating Heterogeneous Containers “Although STL doesn't support polymorphism directly, the technique I've presented enables you to overcome this limitation and create a heterogeneous container while benefiting from the advantage of STL's high-performance and simplicity.”
Reuse good — Abstractions better! “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking.”
Yesterday
Nairomia
How the Mind Works | Video channel on TED.com “At a conference about ideas, it’s important to step back and consider the engine that creates them: the human mind. How exactly does the brain — a three-pound snarl of electrochemically frantic nervous tissue — create inspired inventions, the feeling of hunger, the experience of beauty, or the sense of self — and how reliable is it?”
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
The 100 Best Movies Of All Time Topics : 100, best, movies, time
India Writes U.S. Texts “The circle of knowledge will be complete.”
India's one billion population could leverage growth'
What is Linda? “What is Linda?”
The Choice
First glance at exciting Indian websites
Advanced Programming Languages “it is oriented to researchers on programming languages .”
Chandramukhi is shaping out to be tamil cinema's biggest hit ever Manichitrathazhu was a big hit in malayalam as well Topics : chandramukhi, cinema, jyothika, manichitrathazhu, rajini, tamil, hit
The 50 most significant moments of Internet history “We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped it explode, the litigation it endured on the way and disasters companies have suffered as a result of the Net's popularity.”
Ruby on Rails Reference “This is a "short" Ruby on Rails reference. It's goal is to give you an overview over the most used functions / methods / classes. It's not a tutorial, but as a handy guide when you already know your way around.”
Infoviz Art “Display an unwieldy mass of data in clever visual form and you may gain über-insight into questions you hadn't yet put into words. That is the promise of information visualization, infoviz for short.”
Superators Add New Operators to Ruby “I'm releasing this into the wild to hopefully see what mischief it stirs.”
Google's Data Interchange Format “Protocol Buffers allow you to define simple data structures in a special definition language, then compile them to produce classes to represent those structures in the language of your choice. These classes come complete with heavily-optimized code to parse and serialize your message in an extremely compact format.”
Mea Culpa
TableKit “TableKit is a collection of HTML table enhancements using the Prototype framework. TableKit currently implements row striping, column sorting, column resizing and cell editing using Ajax.”
Classy Flickr Gallery PHP Script Topics : php, photos, flickr, tool
Will Indian IT industry realise its potential?
Of languages and movies
Writing a compiler in Ruby bottom up
you and me.
Remotely hosted Trackback
Small is the new big only when the person running the small thinks big Topics : small, idea, think, big
Addictive little online games
Continuations
Offshoring - The Punch Card Era
SmugMug's AWS Based Architecture
40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download
Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? “There was plenty of time to check it twice.”
Kavidhai
Submersed Songs | Canções Submersas from ∆LEX on Vimeo.
My 10 Favorite Swirls & Decorative Brush Sets
Great going Sania !!
Ghajini Review
My Julieclipse “I will not, however, be okay.”
13 Tips for creating a successful new online product
28th Bharateeya Blog Mela
Passing thoughts-3
Are cities the new countries? “Is the nation state under threat from the rise of the super-city?”
Audioengine 2 powered loudspeaker “In nearly 25 years, it's been rare that I've reviewed an exciting breakthrough product.”
CSS Message Box collection
The decline of the Dollar
A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus with Animated Reduction
Charming Ruby Compiler “The Charming Ruby Compiler (CRC) is a thesis project at the Computer Science Department at Chalmers University of Technology. It's goal is to create a proof of concept compiler from Ruby to C--. The only supported platform at the moment is x86 Linux.”
Ruby On Rails and Flex “For the un-informed, Flex allows you to build Rich Internet Applications, defined in XML and delivered on the Flash player. Let's set one thing straight Flex is Free The SDK and compiler cost nothing.”
Poetry
