Jun 3, 2010
It become a default assumption in all new web applications (that I have worked on or read about) to have an integration with either facebook, twitter, linked in, or all the three.
Working with these on rails is no longer rocket science as the various plug-in and gems do most of the work for us. I thought it would be appropriate to create a place for my reference as well as that of others to collect some good tutorials that allow us to do these integrations. To start off, I am adding a few good ones that I have referred to or those that have a lucid explanation and are a good read.
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Jun 1, 2010
HTML 5 is all over the place. I started hearing about it first when i was reading about the canvas tag about an year ago. But all the noises reached their pinnacle when the iPad was launched with HTML5 support instead of Flash.
ExtJS.com has put together a nice article explaining HMTL5 in brief (Click here for the article) while diveintohtml5.org gives a detailed explanation on the features.
As the article puts it, HTML5 is just a part of the family of specifications that people end up calling as HTML5.
Some of the highlights of the HTML family are as follows:
Apr 14, 2010
Networking, I have been listening to this word all the time. It may be of the features to achieve success. Have contacts, find new friends, find reason to talk to people etc etc … so that one can have a good network and it can help me in future.
Well this was or may be the idea the social networking sites came into existence. I started with Orkut, then MySpace and now Facebook. Firstly I was amazed with the concept and features provided by these sites but now it has changed.
Wow !! was my reaction when I first logged into Orkut. Within few weeks I found it pretty cool that I have 500+ friends and I can keep contact with them forever. I can see what a friend is upto or can join various fans group, create my own group, plays games and the list can go on…. Read more…
Apr 13, 2010
I use the Pydev plugin to develop Python programs on Eclipse. It’s a free plugin. Here I am listing down the step by step process to install and start working with Pydev.
1) Download the Pydev plugin here
2) Install the Pydev by just following the instructions
3) Once the Pydev is installed open eclipse
4) Goto Window -> Preferences -> Pydev -> Interpreter Python
5) Click on the New Button Read more…
Apr 6, 2010
Might sound hypothetical but a closer look is enough to convince that the internet or the web is slowly but surely approaching towards becoming a brain.
Think of the brain as a collection of nerves, thin pipes with openings to the outside world in form of organs, the eyes, ears, skin, etc.
The internet is also a collection of network pipes with opening to the outside world in form of input devices. Read more…
Apr 2, 2010
Ever since I started working on Ruby on Rails I have been asked by people to help them find links of some good tutorials to learn Rails. Well, the thing about Rails is that it is best learn’t by just jumping into the code and starting out, referring the basic stuff from RubyOnRails.org.
Leaving behind this thought, we at technoticles have started started creating a compilation of some good tutorials available on the web. We will keep updating this list as and when we find more of such interesting and useful tutorials.
Rails Introduction
Rolling with Ruby on Rails – part 1 – by Curt Hibbs
Rolling with Ruby on Rails – part 2 – by Curt Hibbs
Ajax on Rails – part 3 – by Curt Hibbs
Specific Topics
Rails Migrations - IBM developerWorks
Using Facebook Connect with Rails – by Stuart Eccles
Improving Rails Performance - by Stefan Kaes
Deployment related
Creating single executable to distribute Rails applications – by Erik Veenstra
Deploying using Capitrano on Fedora from scratch – Tutplus.com
Apr 2, 2010
There are a lot of business lessons freely available in nature if we study it carefully enough.
Self organization and bottoms up systems as followed by ants and flocks of birds are already widely documented.
Business World recently published a good article about learning from nature about how to invade into existing businesses. The article uses example ranging from Asian carp to the zebra mussel and how they create new opportunities for themselves and those that can adapt quickly enough to help exploit the way they affect things.
Read the complete article here.
Mar 29, 2010
External API is an interesting api that allows communication between JavaScript and the flash player. This is a very important feature for sites that have flash content in conjugation with JS code.
ExternalInterface is a part of this api that specifically concentrates on easy communication between ActionScript and the Flash Player. Read more…
Mar 17, 2010
TECHNOLOGY CREATORS… Time to take responsibility
“To err is human but to really foul things up you need a computer” quotes Paul Ehrlich.
The computer history has witnessed major disasters which had led to loss of people, property and money due to the failure of so called “thinkable machines”.
Failure of technology in a field can lead to major disasters. Therefore “technological disasters” when taken together as a phrase suggests situations in which large numbers of people, property, infrastructure, or economic activity are directly and adversely affected by major industrial accidents, severe pollution incidents, nuclear accidents, air crashes , major fires, or explosion. But is it all due to the failure of a technology? The direct causes of these disasters or emergency situations are identifiable human actions, deliberate or otherwise. In this article we will identify that the causes of these disasters are mostly from the generalized set of human errors and unethical practice of their profession, irrespective of the field of disaster. Read more…
