Pradipta’s Rolodex
Something funny happened last night. A one, Max Archie from Indiana hired an India-based Call Center to find a couple of Ruby developers. Well, by and by, the recruiter mass-mails some 400 developers...
View ArticleConfiguring ntpd to hand out time to local servers
Syncing your servers to public time servers is one of the most common ways of keeping server times in sync. Apparently the less common approach of configuring one server to sync with public servers and...
View ArticleChanging ANSI colors in Terminal on Macs
Probably the most frustrating experience I have had with Macs so far is figuring out how to change the ANSI colors in Terminal (Terminal.app) so that I can read the outputs of man and most especially...
View ArticleRamaze and ActiveRecord
Thanks to the great folks on IRC over at Freenode#ramaze, I was able to not only get Ramaze working with Erubis and Activerecord for a pseudo apples to apples comparison of Rails vs. Ramaze performance...
View ArticleUltraviolet gives new life to Syntax highlighting
I am tired of Google’s Syntax highlighter. If I accidentally switch to Visual mode in the editor and do some edits and switch back to HTML mode, then I lose the class=”code” moniker and I have to go...
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Rails vs. Ramaze Performance Comparison
One of my biggest concerns of late is that my “more than just a little trivial” Rails projects seem to find their way straight into the heavyweight category in no time at all. While I am quite hopeful...
View ArticleWhat makes a top award candidate, anyhow?
In our local Linux user group mailing list, one of the participant asked the group for recommendations for open source software projects that should be considered for a prominent publication’s top 100...
View ArticleGetting Ruby to talk to MSDE
Getting Ruby to talk to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is one thing. Getting Ruby to talk to Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition 2000, has one twist that threw me off for hours. Here, I’ll show you how...
View ArticleA comparison JRuby vs. Ruby MRI with Sequel
For the most part, I stick with Apache 2, Phusion Passenger, and Ruby MRI as my deployment stack. Even so, I regularly foray into other territories to see what’s going on in the wide world of Ruby....
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Ramaze vs. Padrino Benchmarks
I have been developing all of my web-based projects in Ramaze since January 2009 when I switched from Rails to Ramaze. At that time, I did some benchmark comparisons. The other day, I heard about...
View ArticleWeak Password will get you Hacked!
Weak Password will get you Hacked! If you’re like me and you are online a lot, you probably have more website accounts than you can count from Facebook and Twitter all the way to your banking and...
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