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Tech Talk: April 2010

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010. This was the third season of the Great Indian Developer Summit and like the previous conferences, this one too saw developers, technologists, evangelists and motivation speakers come from all parts. Yes motivation speaker! There were a couple of sessions on cloud computing by Amazon and Adobe. But they just scraped the surface. We have heard enough about it. Some practical exercises would have been really useful. The presentations will be up on the devsummit. A technical enthus...

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Tech Talk: March 2007

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007. I had done a study on the size and effort metrics and performance of an application developed on Rails vs that on Struts. Here are the observations:. Ruby VM: Ruby is right now an interpreted language. But a project (code name Rite) plans to make it byte compiled. This would improve the execution speed of Ruby based programs. Choice of web server: WebRick was used as the web server for this application. Apache and Lighttpd are the suggested web servers for better performance.

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Tech Talk: February 2007

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Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Last week saw techies from all around the country and outside flocking at the International Convention Center in Hyderabad. It was the Sun Tech Days symposium, a worldwide developer event organized by Sun Microsystems and touted as the mini Sun One conference! Event of this scale can of course not do without sponsors and the list included some of the big names from the industry like AMD, Oracle, VmWare, Accenture, SAS, and NIIT. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A technical enthus...

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A worm tells...: December 2009

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Monday, December 7, 2009. My rating: * *. Thursday, December 3, 2009. Nothing Lasts for Ever. Title: Nothing lasts for ever. This was the first Sydney Sheldon book that I read. I must have either picked up one of his worst books or he's not my kind of author. I was disappointed by his lack of attention to details and casual writing. An author has the task of describing in visual details the characters of the story, the scene and the incidents. Sydney fails in all these areas. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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A worm tells...: June 2010

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Friday, June 4, 2010. Title: The Odessa file. My rating: * *. Well it's not often that you come across a thriller that you take to the loo that makes you forget the main purpose of your visit until your legs go numb and your wife's madly banging on the door. Little does she know that you were in the middle of a plot so intriguing and involving that you think little of the job long done. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog. View my complete profile.

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Tech Talk: January 2008

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Wednesday, January 02, 2008. Merb - A new Ruby framework. Merb (Mongrel ERB) seems to be a new addition to the Ruby based frameworks. Like Rails, it complies to the MVC architecture. But instead of having all the components as part of the core, it relies more on plugins. It therefore claims to have a lighter footprint which can be extended through plugins. This makes it ORM agnostic, template language agnostic. Plugins are available for ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Sequel ORMs. Learn more about it here.

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Tech Talk: April 2007

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Thursday, April 12, 2007. The idea of a web based source browser instantly appealed to me. I heard about OpenGrok. In one of the sessions at the Sun Techdays and tried it out right away. OpenGrok is a web based source browser with cross referencing and freetext search. All that I need to do is to configure the path of the codebase and run OpenGrok. OpenGrok generates a war that I dump into tomcat and that's all! OpenGrok uses exuberant Ctags. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

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Tech Talk: March 2008

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Saturday, March 22, 2008. Which language should I learn next? I had always looked at programming languages as means of achieving the ends. Probably that's why I was stuck with Java for the last four years. That was until the Ruby bug bit me and I was awed by its features. Really learning a new language can be both fun and a learning experience. This blog on Dobbs tell us which languages to focus on. Learn as many languages as you can. Slashdot has some interesting comments on it:. Monday, March 03, 2008.

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Tech Talk: December 2006

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006. For a precise definition. I recently completed a project involving Ruby on Rails. Having worked with Java for the last three years, I could not help but compare it with Java. I was wondering if any of the language and framework features could be implemented in Java and the numerous frameworks based on it. Blocks and closures are impressive language constructs that allow customization and extension of other language constructs (like the looping constructs) and APIs.