Ruby on Rails - RoR

It's been quite appreciable amount of time that I spent on Web Technologies and been involved with many web based products. I was working on RoR. Yes it's the same thing much talked topic among developers and many web gurus.
Ruby on Rails :

Why to re-invent the wheel?
I am not going to talk on
What is ruby?
What is Rails?
Because many had already done enough work on that.

Then Why this post?
Recently I had been to a talk on Ruby on Rails, attended by many people belonging to different groups like from developers to mangers. I was very much inspired by the speaker. Mr. Rajasekhar an eminent speaker, I would say he did really good job by framing up all necessary details for any fresher to start experiments on Ruby on Rails in just 3 - 4 hours of session.
I got an oppurtunity to explain and elaborate the concepts with working examples and live projects here and there between Rajashekar's session.



The session went on so well and also it was a gentle reminder for me to start sharing on RoR.

Geeks watch out this space... more to come!
More about the Session
More about the OpenSource Community

Halloween across TimeLine

Wondering how come a technical blog has a post on Halloween festival!!!

The reason is I am inherently talking about yet another new website.
Website that is more creative, more useful, more informative, more unique and what not all possible features - I would say web2.0 example
Yes it is xtimeline.

Since tomorrow is Halloween day, I am embedding the history of Halloween, just replaced x with Halloween.
Happy Halloween!!!!!!

Quotes Collection just crossed 100 - Quotiki

The concept of bookmarking sites is to collect the favorite website or posts that user likes and make it available all the time. Of course many added features include even sharing them, discussing on them... These bookmarking sites are big hit. So also I feel this Quotiki would be... as I mentioned even in my earlier posts about this, it is the place where the user would collect his favorite quotes, read new quotes, share the quotes, find/submit more info on the quotes he come across.

Why this Post ?
This is my way of telling/expressing my thanks to Quotiki as I collected little more than 100 quotes. You too can read through my collection.

Behind the Scenes - Part 5 general Interview Q&A

As part of Behind the Scenes, today I would like to dwell upon the general Questions that interviewers are fond to ask. It is well known that however technically strong you are, you still need to have good communication, commitment .... Though these are not related to the technical questions they ask you, and answers you give them, inherently interviewers evaluate you basing on how you communicate, your confidence level and so on.
But there are few questions that interviewers ask you to find more about candidates personality, willingness to unlearn, relearn, and many more.
I am here embedding set of such Questions
"How to answer the 64 toughest interview questions?"

Permission-based Marketing - mGinger

From past few days everywhere I am hearing about this new site based on "permission-based marketing" - that is mGinger
It is unique of its kind of marketing. Now you will be paid for reading advertisements that you wanted. Interestingly, you can set the kind of ads you want and read about. Though the CEO says
"People can make anywhere between Rs 300 to Rs 1,600 per month through this and When users get paid by us, whether it is Rs 300 or Rs 500, it can atleast cover their mobile phone bills"

So as usual with new idea there comes the cloud of doubts and allegations about the genuineness of this campaign. Though even I am sceptical about this but still I would like to share the related articles regarding this mGinger.

http://tinyurl.com/28zbvs
http://tinyurl.com/2n4qfs
http://tinyurl.com/2upfag
http://tinyurl.com/22gm8g

Quick References for developers - 2

This is one more useful site for developers to refer the syntax while they code.
Quick References

Earlier Posts:
Cheat sheets -2
Cheat sheets

Behind the Scenes - Part4 Ground work

Whenever a candidate comes for an interview, surely he would have prepared a lot on his subject and he would have brushed through the latest happenings. This will give him lot of confidence, indeed he will be more confident. But when the interviewer asks any simple out of box question they will fall flat. Take it from me interviewers always try to make candidates comfortable, they always put simple and straight questions.

Some of them will be very silly. But for candidates they seem out of box questions. Watchout for some questions like:
-> Which version of the tools that you are working on?
(Good Practice: Know more about your tools that you are daily working with)
-> Which version of the software that you are working on?
(Good Practice: Know more about your software that you are daily working with)
-> Some details about the company.
(Good Practice: Go through the company's site before attending the interview)

Monitor any webpage with Page2RSS

We are all aware of the recent buzz that was created by RSS . RSS helps to get the feeds of the favorite/selected sites that gives away the xml/RSS feed (more on RSS). But what if my favorite sites are not publishing any feeds?
Page2RSS is just a perfect solution. Just enter your favorite site which you want to monitor and it will display a meesage as below:
This page is monitored for updates. There are no any changes detected since 02/05/07 06:57:40.
To receive updates for this page in RSS format copy-paste this link into your feed reader. And add the link to your RSS readers and you will start receiving the changes.
or
You can drag and bookmark the link Add to Page2RSS and click on the bookmarked link if you want to monitor the site you are viewing.
This way we can monitor almost every site that we browse across.

Goals - Revise, Revisit, Realize

Everybody will have tasks/aims/goals in their life, be it personal/career/business. I was reading a book Goals written by Brian Tracy which talks about the importance of having goals in one's life and Brian Tracy also site's that making a list of Goals, Revising, Revisiting them often will help in Realizing them. I stumbled upon few sites where you can make you goals/things you wanted to achieve public/private and keep monitoring them. There are many websites that will help you in this way.

43 Things
eLIFELIST

Online Photo Editing Tools

How many time you felt to brighten/edit those photographs of yours taken on your trips/occassion ? You need not have the Photoshop tool to make these minor changes. You read it correctly, there are enough web based tools that will do the similar job of that of your photoshop. Here I am listing down few of such online photo editing tools:
PXN8
Picture2Life
Fauxto
Picnic
Snipshot
Preloadr
Try them out!