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Making Light window & Ajax Pagination to work simultaneously on a single module

2009-07-06T14:04:00.004+05:30

Here is one more simple tip to make both Ajax Pagination & Light Window work together. It's not that great solution but a simple thought which would not strike when you are struck. Before moving ahead with problem and solution, few words on light window & Ajax pagination. Light Window: A javascript library that relies on porotype & scriptaculous for it's effective visuals. Ajax Pagination: A

Recruitment Pains -1

2009-06-22T12:33:00.001+05:30

Note: Expressed here are my personal views and experience.All these five years I never felt that recruitment was such a pain. I am not referring to freshers but to the so called experience guys 2+. Was trying to help my friend in getting a good Ruby on Rails resource. Though this was not the first time, and I have done even at all my previous companies but I should say it's a totally, shockingly

toghq: extensible open source social networking platform

2009-04-18T21:30:00.008+05:30

It was couple of back in January, I decided to write on the RoR based social networking applications. And I had taken the widely accepted bunch of apps and made a nice and useful doc out of it here. I have been getting pretty good response on this post @ Scribd & slideshare. To continue with my exploration, from couple of weeks I was playing with toghq. A beautiful one and easy to extend. I

Web Accessibility principles

2009-03-05T01:27:00.004+05:30

I was going through my juniors work on Ruby on Rails. I was helping them to build some interesting web applications. And then the discussions lead to design, usability and accessibility of the application. As they don't have enough exposure on web applications, I quoted few articles and books to say UI is as important as functionality. Of which, I highlighted the "Ten Principles for Web

"memcached" "libmemcached" gem installation for rails app

2009-03-02T19:20:00.005+05:30

It's been so hectic with the installations on ubuntu.sudo apt-get install memcachedthen I realised that "libmemcached" also needed. Got the latest tar http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html and installed.then went on to install the "memcached" gem.Unfortunately, this did not go as expected but raised lots of issues!rlibmemcached_wrap.c: In function ‘_

Twitter based Applications

2009-01-26T20:21:00.003+05:30

It's been quite a while I wrote about Twitter, in the context of micro-blogging and Ruby on Rails applications.http://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com/2008/07/websites-weblogs-micro-blogging-what.htmlhttp://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com/2008/07/twitter-whats-truth.htmlI thought it's worth to maintain a separate blogs, to collect the fast releasing applications based on "Twitter".I welcome your

RoR based Social Networking apps compared

2009-01-23T04:45:00.002+05:30

Ruby on Rails and Social networking are probably few that took limelight when WEB2.0 bug was bit! You hear/find/discuss... everywhere on these, and I thought it would be good idea to club the both and do a comparison withing social networking Applications based on Ruby on Rails.RoR Based Social Networking Apps Compared Publish at

Qucik Fix: ActiveRecord Migrations reset_column_information

2008-12-31T19:30:00.006+05:30

Few days back I had created few migrations that would rename existing table and again create a table with old name.user should be renamed as "old_users" create a new table "user"restore the data with different column names in the "user" def self.up rename_table :users, :old_users create_table :users do |t| t.column :created_at, :datetime end Temp.find(:all).each do |user|

Quick Fix: YAML syntax & Fixtures issue

2008-12-31T02:32:00.006+05:30

Today I got a mail from one of my juniors who was struck with some strange problem. While he started playing with built in unit tests in one of his rails project, he got an errorErrno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - ramesh I was bit confused with this error and asked him to send me a screen shot of the error so that I can understand it better. And here he sent the following snapshot,Well

Usability Tip: Ajax loading/busy indicator

2008-12-30T02:43:00.011+05:30

What is Ajax?In a nutshell, "With Ajax,web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page". Now that these requests are happening at the background, user should be aware that the application is trying hard to retrieve the data. But, How do we do that?This is where we can use Ajax loading/busy

Tweak: updating ruby gems

2008-12-18T06:06:00.000+05:30

Recently was helping my friend to setup a twitter based application on server. And gems needed to be updated as ruby gem "twitter" needs rubygems of >=1.2.0 And as usual passed the update query and after a few minutes there is an interesting message saying "nothing to update". There seems to be a minor tweak to achieve this. A two step tweak which needs another gem installed and then

Range Class in Ruby

2008-12-08T04:26:00.000+05:30

"Range" is an interval with starting and ending values. In ruby ranges can be created either by "literals" or directly through the "Range::new". And of the literals, x..y & x...y. The main difference of the two mentioned literals, inclusion/exclusion of end values in the range.x..y: includes the end values(1..5).each do n puts n, ' ' end(1...5).each do n puts n, ' ' endIn

Integration Testing: xml_http_request

2008-11-12T01:55:00.000+05:30

I was referring to Agile Web Development with Rails book to implement the Integration testing. And as per the book it xml_http_request "/store/add_to_cart" , :id => ruby_book.idand strangely I was getting syntax error. Seems the book did miss out another parameter which would define the method type. Referring to online documentation, made things clear.xml_http_request(request_method, path,

Ajax even @ home - I am serious

2008-11-08T00:33:00.000+05:30

It's been over two years I heard about this buzz word "AJAX". In fact I came to know about this through one of resumes that I interviewed for php programmers. And once I picked up Ruby on Rails framework, it became pretty common in daily work. Well to cut short and justify title of this post "Ajax even @ home - I am serious". Can't believe? See down ...Have a nice weekend :)

SnappyFingers - a new way of learning through FAQ's

2008-10-16T14:11:00.000+05:30

The way we study, understand, evaluate a particular topic, subject, product is been changing. Ever since the internet boom had made it's mark and search engines like Google, Yahoo... listing down many relevant topics from Wikipedia, webopedia ... useful sites this was seen more prominent.Let me put it this way, just search through relevant topic and keep filtering the appropriate website(s). I

My Experiments with Google Chrome - 3

2008-09-04T15:16:00.000+05:30

This article was shared by Shakti. This is nothing to do with the extensive feature list of chrome, or bugs, or fixes... but on the privacy policy.Google's Chrome Terms of Service take out a royalty-free license for Google of any content submitted by users over the internet...Read it from source... http://tapthehive.s483.sureserver.com/chrome.html

My experiments with Google Chrome -2

2008-09-03T14:07:00.000+05:30

As mentioned in my previous post, the import firefox bookmarks is picking up some random profile. The reason behind this is while importing the chrome could not access the settings of current profile and hence picking up the random profile setting.Can we have importing based on the profile?

My experiments with Google Chrome -1

2008-09-03T13:47:00.001+05:30

I just installed the chrome and started experimenting it. Based on my earlier posts on Add-ons, extensions, profile usage, browser features... one can understand how much I use/love the Firefox browser. As soon as installed the chrome, I started looking for the same. But then I realised it might take some time before I could notice the features that I am fond of.profile usage: I extensively

Google Chrome

2008-09-03T13:24:00.000+05:30

Thanks to my friend Aditya, for sharing Google Chrome the browser from Google. I am always eager about the products that comes out of Google. I am under impression that whatever Google comes out with will have more usability, simplicity, to the point, light weight... and I can go on listing them. From Google's official blog entry, I went through the story behind building the Google Chrome.

RoR course: RSS Maker/Parser

2008-08-27T02:23:00.000+05:30

Download the pdfView on Scribd I would like to share the details of how Ruby supports to generate and read the RSS. Before going into details, let us look into few basics of what we are going to deal with. There will be very few and hardly few people in this web world who does not know about the RSS/Feeds. To keep things simple and elegant: Note: An RSS document is often

Career Steps: How to tell the world what I am ?

2008-07-30T03:07:00.000+05:30

I could not wait for long time to write this post, continuing what I had started in my previous post Career Steps: Tell what "you" are to the world?many might be already thinking of implementing/doing few of the mentioned points. But how you do it makes you really different, isn't it!Register into relevant/interesting groups/forums & be a watchdog there.Actively take part in the technical talks

Career Steps: Tell what "you" are to the world

2008-07-30T01:51:00.000+05:30

I was wondering when thousands of people are obtaining similar (professional) degrees, and developing more or less same skill sets,How one I be picked as best from the rest ?How can I show that I am different from the rest?How can I make it to the top cream?How do I know where am I standing in the skill/domain...?How do I show my expertise?.........Well this how we should start thinking whenever

Websites -> Weblogs -> Micro Blogging -> ? what next?

2008-07-27T03:17:00.001+05:30

I was just recollecting how the internet had changed the people, business, culture, thought process and the list can go on and on... But I am just amazed the ways and means of showcasing, marketing one about their skillset, work capabilites and portrait themselves to this wide world.Websites: where you pile up lots and loads of content in form of pages and users/visitors can go through

Scaling of Twitter - What's the truth ?

2008-07-17T00:54:00.002+05:30

Twitter, there might be very few web browsers who does not know about twitter. For the benefit of those few, Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates.Twitter used to go down due to the page views load. There is been lot of discussions, questions regarding the scalability of the Twitter. And I too faced many people asking the scalability, capability of the Ruby on

Internet Technology Bubble :)

2008-07-11T17:10:00.001+05:30

This video show how smart people utilized the Internet Technology bubble. And the interesting thing is we still have lots of scope. As the pioneers set the stage and now it is very simple for me and you to reach heights soooooooooooooon. Just sharpen your brains and we can be there. Well I towards this elite group.There are many bests in this video!One that caught my immediate attention is