http://www.fromdelhi.com Every.Dog has_a :blog Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:26:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, so we had been shouting ourselves hoarse, claiming that Rails is all about developer productivity and joy. So is that all about it?, huh!, was the normal reaction. But isn’t that a big enough reason. Not for many people though. Yes, we accept that there are ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2008/04/26/ride-the-rails-still-skeptical/ I sincerely hope that this news is true. Amazon Kindle is a great device and the way it uses Whispernet(EVDO) or Wifi to download books and back them up on S3, we should soon be saying good bye to paper-books and to ebooks which we have to manually backup. Update: Just ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2007/12/11/amazon-kindle-in-india/ Hey Guys, BarCampDelhi3 has been announced. Better be there or you will miss out the best tech get together in town. I have been involved with both the previous Delhi BarCamps. I have been a planner, speaker, front desk volunteer and a time keeper. I am sure it would be no ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2007/12/04/barcamps-in-delhi/ The ~/works directory holds all the rails applications on my mac book. Some of these are VinSol projects, current and old. Some are my personal projects and some are open source apps like beast and radiant. There is a contribute app also as per HasManyThrough Josh's recommendation. [13:29:11 mjuneja works]$ ls ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2007/11/28/multiple-rails-apps-with-quicksilver/ Aditya is VinSol's first certified Scrum Master. Ever since he completed his training, we have had a much better control over and understanding of the Scrum process that we use for our projects, leading to a much better control over our projects. Thanks to Aditya, the wall just across my cabin ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2007/08/20/scrummaster/ The second delhi.rb meetup was organized at VinSol on Thursday, 19th July, 2007. It was attended by 11 rails enthusiasts. I gave an introduction to Full Text Search and Solr. And then gave a demo of acts_as_solr plugin. Seems it was well received by all. Sur, then presented Advanced Ruby, with a ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2007/07/21/delhi-ruby/ Aditya had participated in a travel widget development competition organized by Opera. It was a tight competition and not withstanding the fact that he started out late, he could still finish the widget and submit it just a few minutes before the deadline. The good news is that his widget "TravelMate" won ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2007/06/19/adityas-widget-travelmate-wins-operas-competition/ The first thing I was recommended when i bought my mac was to install quicksilver on it. And so I did. That really proved to be the best thing to do. QuickSilver is much more than an app launcher. For me it the central point of control from where i control ... http://www.fromdelhi.com/2007/06/01/quicksilver/ PuneRuby Guru Satish Talim recently posted about Companies in India he would recommend for Rails development. Vinsol is mentioned among the companies he recommends in his post. Obviously makes me feel proud. Thanks Satish. http://www.fromdelhi.com/2007/05/02/rails-developers-in-india-recommendation/ Here are the sessions I plan to attend at RailsConf2007. http://myconfplan.com/users/mjuneja/conferences/RailsConf2007 Thanks DrNic for the cool app 8-) http://www.fromdelhi.com/2007/05/01/sessions-i-wanna-attend-at-railsconf2007/