http://www.fromdelhi.com Every.Dog has_a :blog Sun, 30 May 2010 13:09:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So it's that time of the year again. It's the time for RailsConf. It's the time for another visit to the US. And it's the time to write another blog post. The RailsConf2010 is from 8th to 10th June in Baltimore, MD. This will be my fourth US Railsconf. Two years in ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2010/05/30/railsconf-2010/ I started writing this blog post 31K feet above the ground – somewhere between James Bay and Hudson Bay in Canada aboard the AA292 from Chicago to New Delhi. I finished it and published it a good three weeks later - after things had settled down upon my return to ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2009/09/21/bizconf-round-up/ A quick post to let all of you know (ok, the 5 of you who read my blog know) , that I will be in US for a long trip. Ok, it's only two weeks, but that'll be the longest I'll be away from home, in these last few years. I ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2009/08/05/bizconf-and-agile2009/ Just got this email from PacificLeo announcing MoMo Delhi 7th Edition: Hi Guys I am Very excited to inform you that we have finalized the schedule for next meet up of Mobile Monday,Delhi. This will be our seventh Meet up.Its scheduled for Saturday ,11th of July 2009. Theme ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2009/07/04/mobile-monday-delhi/ The First Ruby FunDay was held at Impetus Technologies, Noida on 22nd November 2008. There was a lot of Ruby and a lot of fun. It was an exciting event with a good number of developers in attendance. People from various companies already working on Ruby formed the largest part of the attendees. ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2008/11/25/ruby-event-in-india-1/ Due to the way template handling works in Rails 2.2, activeScaffold does not work on edge rails anymore. Thanks to Dr.Gaffo there is fix for the problem in his fork of ActiveScaffold. Get the edge branch of his fork at http://github.com/gaffo/active_scaffold/tree/edge which is compatible with edge Rails. Even after this ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2008/11/18/getting-activescaffold-edge-rails/ Sanjiv Augustine a well known International Agile expert is in NCR and is giving a free community talk on the 15th Nov. The event will happen in Gurgaon and Noida (evening and morning). The event details and signup is at http://agilencr.wikidot.com/agile-expert-series-sanjiv-augustine. So if you yourself are or know ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2008/11/13/agile-expert-series-in-delhi/ Here's announcing the first Ruby and Rails Full Day event in India. It has been in the making for months if not years, and now finally it is going to happen on 22nd of November 2008. We invite all Rubyists and Rails Lovers in India to participate and give us the ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2008/11/01/ruby-fun-day-the-first-full-day-ruby-and-ruby-on-rails-event-in-india/ I had this interaction with somebody who applied for a job at Vinsol What is disturbing here is the attitude of Indian developers towards contributing to open source projects, and belive me, this is fairly rampant. Contributing to open source projects matters more than your marks in school to us and ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2008/09/30/would-you-hire-this-ruby-on-rails-developer/ I am subscribed to an email list run by Bob Proctor, which sends an "Insight of the day" email daily and this is what I received today: Quote: "Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2008/08/20/a-political-and-spiritual-leader-is-an-oxymoron/