tag:niket.info,2008:mephisto/ Mephisto Noh-Varr 2009-07-18T00:03:45+00:00 niket2009-07-17T17:03:45-07:00http://vision-media.ca/resources/ruby/ruby-flip-flop-or-range-operators http://vision-media.ca/resources/ruby/ruby-flip-flop-or-range-operatorsniket2009-07-16T16:50:27-07:00http://labs.mudynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/icouch.html http://labs.mudynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/icouch.htmlniket2009-07-07T07:02:49-07:00http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/couchdb_and_midgard_talking_with_each_other/ http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/couchdb_and_midgard_talking_with_each_other/niket2009-07-06T12:40:57-07:00http://gmarceau.qc.ca/blog/uploaded_images/size-vs-speed-vs-depandability-2009.png http://gmarceau.qc.ca/blog/uploaded_images/size-vs-speed-vs-depandability-2009.pngniket2009-07-06T12:06:36-07:00http://labs.businessobjects.com/cal/ http://labs.businessobjects.com/cal/niket2009-07-06T11:35:08-07:00http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/niket2009-07-01T02:01:03-07:00http://blog.poundbang.in/post/132952897/couchdb-naked http://blog.poundbang.in/post/132952897/couchdb-nakedniket2009-06-30T14:24:53-07:00http://code.google.com/p/couchdb-lounge/ http://code.google.com/p/couchdb-lounge/niket2009-06-29T14:18:08-07:00http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/index.php http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/index.phpniket2009-06-29T07:04:45-07:00http://html5doctor.com/how-to-get-html5-working-in-ie-and-firefox-2/ http://html5doctor.com/how-to-get-html5-working-in-ie-and-firefox-2/niket2009-06-24T06:13:24-07:00http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mac http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Macniket2009-06-22T14:28:30-07:00http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/09/git-binary-files-and-cherry-picking.html http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/09/git-binary-files-and-cherry-picking.htmlniket2009-06-19T02:12:56-07:00http://robertnyman.com/javascript/ http://robertnyman.com/javascript/niket2009-06-18T14:03:53-07:00http://www.fngtps.com/2009/06/ruby-on-os-x-conference-videos http://www.fngtps.com/2009/06/ruby-on-os-x-conference-videosniket2009-06-17T17:12:45-07:00http://lesscss.org/index.html http://lesscss.org/index.html niket tag:niket.info,2008-07-02:2362 2008-07-02T14:11:00Z 2008-07-02T14:13:25Z At oregon zoo, I was able to shoot this, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niket/2559603890/" title="Oregon Zoo Visit by niket, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3033/2559603890_b702fab14e.jpg" height="375" alt="Oregon Zoo Visit" width="500" /></a> http://niket.info/2008/7/2/best-photo niket tag:niket.info,2008-05-30:2361 2008-05-30T00:15:00Z 2008-05-30T00:23:29Z <p>Before attending Railsconf 2008, I got chance to visit NY. It was good.</p> <ul> <li>Walking around Manhattan .. </li> <li>Visit crowded Apple’s 5th Avenue Store ..</li> <li>Roaming in Central Park ..</li> <li>Walking on Brooklyn Bridge ..</li> </ul> <p>Okay. bullet points don’t do justice!</p> http://niket.info/2008/5/30/new-york-visit niket tag:niket.info,2008-03-27:2359 2008-03-27T21:29:00Z 2008-03-27T21:33:43Z <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/rails/"> <img title="RailsConf 2008" src="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/banners/rails/promote/125x125.gif" height="125" alt="RailsConf 2008" width="125" /> </a> Finally, Registered for RailsConf 2008. and Gathering requirements to attend RailsConf. http://niket.info/2008/3/27/attending-railsconf-2008 niket tag:niket.info,2007-12-05:2358 2007-12-05T19:50:00Z 2007-12-05T20:21:37Z <p>Just today, I heard about live-documents, a product from Bangalore based startup. The guy behind company is Hotmail fame Sabeer Bhatia. I’m still waiting for invitation but I observed few things good and bad.</p> <p><strong>The good:</strong></p> <p>1) Their “About Us” page: I really like what they said</p> <blockquote> <p>InstaColl is a Bangalore-based start-up founded with a singular vision – establish the first “Made by India” product brand that is globally recognized and appreciated.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Please note that is “Made by India” and not just “Made in India” – half the software products in the world are probably already developed to some extent in India but can you name even one product brand made by India…no? We thought so – this is therefore our raison d�tre…</p> </blockquote> <p>Also attached screenshot if those get changed.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niket/2089784114/" title="AboutUs-Instacoll by Niket Patel, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2169/2089784114_40b2be3001_m.jpg" height="217" alt="AboutUs-Instacoll" width="240" /></a></p> <p>2) Offline Plugin: This really cool idea. and indeed must have for product to sell itself in countries like India where still people don’t live 24×7 online</p> <p><strong>The bad:</strong></p> <p>1) Look: Oh, come on… don’t copy UI of products of company who it self expert in copier business. ( but more I think, it make sense actually for them. specially considering offline plugin )</p> <p>2) I suspect that Mr. Bhatia will deal again sometime in future if product get successful . And buyer will make lovely product a bad one again.</p> http://niket.info/2007/12/5/live-documents niket tag:niket.info,2007-09-26:2354 2007-09-26T14:33:00Z 2007-09-26T14:35:30Z <h2>Screenscarping</h2> <ul> <li>why screen-scrapping ? – Don’t until essential</li> <li>build app on scrapped models <ul> <li><a href="http://reform.quickanddirty.dk/">Reform plugin</a></li> <li>reform generator</li> <li>reform record</li> </ul> </li> <li>still lots of manual work</li> </ul> <h2>Making Rails More (Artificially) Intelligent</h2> <ul> <li>New subject for me</li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_network">Bayesian Networks</a></li> <li>Naive Bayes Classifier</li> <li>Genetic Algorithms (Optimize web page revenue from advertisements)</li> <li><a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/sbn">sbn, Simple Bayesian Networks</a></li> <li><a href="http://bn4r.rubyforge.org/">bn4r, Bayesian Networks for Ruby</a></li> <li>Probability Distribution Tables</li> <li><a href="http://classifier.rubyforge.org/">Ruby Classifier – Bayesian and <span class="caps">LSI</span> classification library</a></li> </ul> <h2>Really Scaling Rails</h2> <ul> <li>lessons from twitter</li> <li>not so exciting, all things already discussed over and over.</li> <li>expecting some open source tools within weeks</li> </ul> <h2>Rubinius, Improving The Rails Ecosystem</h2> <ul> <li>I’m glad that I attended this session, pretty interesting stuff and <a href="http://blog.fallingsnow.net/">nice person</a></li> <li>All talk centered arround Rubinius going well.</li> <li><a href="http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2007/08/24/performance-benchmarks/"><span class="caps">MRI</span> vs Rubinius</a></li> <li>worth try</li> <li>some comments and questions are interesting from <a href="http://ola-bini.blogspot.com/">Ola Bini</a></li> </ul> <h2>The Rest of <span class="caps">REST</span></h2> <ul> <li>Starts with interesting history </li> <li><span class="caps">REST</span>, web architectural style</li> <li>Hypertext as the engine of application state</li> <li><a href="http://roy.gbiv.com/talks/200709_fielding_rest.pdf">Rest of <span class="caps">REST</span></a></li> <li>Use your brains! <ul> <li>don�t design-by-buzzword </li> <li>don�t believe everything you read </li> <li>always keep in mind that change is inevitable</li> </ul></li> </ul> <h2>“Best Practices” Michael Koziarski Marcel Molina Jr.</h2> <ul> <li>Most interesting talk so far. good chemistry between presenters</li> <li>Not new stuff for people follows <a href="http://www.therailsway.com/">RailsWay</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.therailsway.com/2007/6/1/railsconf-recap-skinny-controllers">Skinny Controllers</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.therailsway.com/2007/6/7/railsconf-recap-named-callbacks">Named Callbacks</a></li> </ul> <h2>JRuby on Rails at ThoughtWorks” Ola Bini</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://ola-bini.blogspot.com/">Ola Bini</a>, very interesting and intelligent guy. I’m impressed</li> <li>JRuby progressing well</li> <li><a href="http://unit-test-ar.rubyforge.org/">UnitRecord</a></li> <li><a href="http://waffle.codehaus.org/">Waffle Web Framework</a></li> <li>I used JRuby in project because I wanted to connect <span class="caps">MSSQL</span> and ruby/unix odbc/mssql over thin internet pipe is horrible. JRuby worked quite well</li> <li><a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/2007/09/announcing_glas.html">Glasshfish Gem for Rails</a> competitor to mongrel, <a href="http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/09/end-is-near-for-mongrel.html">some predicts death of mongrel</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/install4j/overview.html">install4j</a></li> </ul> <h2> Outsourcing to Open Source</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://blog.leetsoft.com/">Tobias Luetke</a> given very interesting talk.</li> <li>community engine is very important to small teams like Shopify</li> <li>though I never used Liquid</li> </ul> <h2>Browser-based Testing of Massive Ajax-using Rails Applications with Selenium</h2> <ul> <li>I’m still learning use of Selenium</li> <li>But its very useful tool and directly tests what matter most.</li> </ul> <h2>Extending Rails to Use the Presenter Pattern</h2> <ul> <li>most boring talk I have attended at railsconf so far.</li> <li>still topic is interesting and worth to try</li> </ul> <h2>NetBeans and Ruby</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/">Arun Gupta</a> was demoing NetBeans and <a href="http://ajax.dev.java.net/">jMaki</a></li> <li>At one point he confused how to migrate down using NetBeans and he doesn’t seems to know <span class="caps">CLI</span> way, thats example of over reliance on <span class="caps">IDE</span> tools. when <span class="caps">IDE</span> fails you fails</li> <li>but it was pretty interesting tech and worth looking at</li> </ul> <h2>Obscure Data Formats, Workflow, and Remote Synchronization</h2> <ul> <li>Very interesting talk</li> <li>more soon ….</li> </ul> http://niket.info/2007/9/26/things-to-remember-from-railsconf-europe niket tag:niket.info,2007-09-11:2351 2007-09-11T10:18:00Z 2007-09-18T16:37:57Z I'm attending <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/railseurope/" title="RailsConf Europe 2007 • September 17, 2007 - September 19, 2007 • Berlin, Germany">RailsConf Europe 2007</a> and following are the sessions I'm looking forward to attend. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niket/1358937071/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1195/1358937071_e457a824a3.jpg" height="493" alt="RailsConf Sessions" width="500" /></a> Most of the sessions are interesting, two exciting days ahead :) http://niket.info/2007/9/11/railsconf-europe-2007-session-schedule niket tag:niket.info,2007-06-17:2349 2007-06-17T09:53:00Z 2007-06-17T09:56:34Z Recently, I was working on one ruby on rails project. where base site has many sub sites based on regions. we required to restrict many queries based on current-region/specific-region. the best solution I figured is add functionality to find method instead of using SQL JOINS. <code><pre> def self.find(*args) if args.first == :first || args.first == :all if args.last.is_a?(Hash) && (region = args.last[:for_region]) && region.is_a?(Region) with_scope(:find => {:include => [:regionals], :conditions => "regionals.region_id = #{region.id}"}) do args.last.delete(:for_region) super(*args) end else super end else super end end </pre></code> I wrote above code in Business model. now I'm able to <code><pre> Business.find(:first, :for_region => current_region) Business.find(:all, :for_region => current_region) Business.find(:all, :for_region => Region.find(params[:region_id]), Any other valid find option ...) </pre></code> isn't it cool? http://niket.info/2007/6/17/override-find-of-activerecord-base admin tag:niket.info,2007-03-30:21 2007-03-30T05:28:00Z 2007-06-15T14:59:30Z <p><a href="http://pragdave.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/03/sywtwab_2_the_h.html">Writing is skill</a>, many great people born with it. but unfortunately I’m not. so I decided to enhance and sharpen that skill and now on. I’m going to write my experiences in web development. where I faced challenges, how I solved that… blah blah</p> http://niket.info/2007/3/30/breaking-silence admin tag:niket.info,2007-03-30:19 2007-03-30T05:19:00Z 2007-04-04T20:30:45Z <p>Now, I decided to keep my <a href="http://workingwithrails.com/person/6094-niket-patel">working with rails profile</a> as current as possible. and also will try to keep my availability status current.</p> <p>If you worked with me in past. and wanted me to recommend. you can do so by visiting my <a href="http://workingwithrails.com/person/6094-niket-patel">working with rails profile</a>.</p> http://niket.info/2007/3/30/working-with-rails admin tag:niket.info,2006-10-06:20 2006-10-06T10:07:00Z 2007-04-04T20:14:57Z here is promotional video of nip/tuck fancast system. which <a href="http://www.biggu.com/about-big-in-japan/">we</a> developed last month. &lt;object height="350" width="425">&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IqyZSIuoXtM">&lt;/param>&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent">&lt;/param>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IqyZSIuoXtM" height="350" wmode="transparent" width="425">&lt;/embed>&lt;/object> http://niket.info/2006/10/6/nip-tuck-fancast admin tag:niket.info,2006-09-17:18 2006-09-17T08:20:23Z 2007-04-04T10:52:31Z <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niket/245425605/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/81/245425605_aac9149c9c_m.jpg" alt="" /></a> <br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niket/245425605/">munnar – trip</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/niket/">Niket Patel</a>.</p> <p><br /> <p>Today, I uploaded my munnar trip photos. hetal &amp; me enjoyed that trip very very much.<br /> <br /> What I liked in munnar?<br /> Clean Air. which at low availability in gandhinagar where I lives.</p></p> http://niket.info/2006/9/17/munnar-trip admin tag:niket.info,2006-09-07:17 2006-09-07T15:37:49Z 2007-04-04T10:59:18Z http://niket.info/2006/9/7/archive-of-work-sample-code-from-live-sites admin tag:niket.info,2006-08-31:15 2006-08-31T09:03:38Z 2007-04-04T10:59:10Z <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niket/60920821/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/27/60920821_c925072d9b_m.jpg" alt="" /></a> <br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niket/60920821/"><span class="caps">S4200392</span>-2</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/niket/">Niket Patel</a>.</p> <p><br /> <p>A nice sun rise. I would like to live a place where I can see nice sunrise like this.<br /> Oh, Currently I work till morning 5.00AM and wakes up in Mid of Day. I don’t remember when last , I seen a sunrise.</p></p> http://niket.info/2006/8/31/panchmari admin tag:niket.info,2006-08-11:14 2006-08-11T07:13:13Z 2007-04-04T10:54:27Z <p>Today, <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/">SvN</a> has a nice article reading now at 4:30 at night or morning. I’m not a basically designer but sometimes like to read good articles &amp; blogs on design.</p> <p>which leads me to <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives/000737.php">Find the Epicenter</a></p> <p>nice to read both the articles.</p> http://niket.info/2006/8/11/using-patterns-in-web-design admin tag:niket.info,2006-08-04:13 2006-08-04T00:53:00Z 2007-04-04T20:12:29Z <p>I liked the text in <a href="http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/">“About Quicksilver”</a> Dialog box.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niket/446421527/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/249/446421527_9c7370c4af_o.png" height="285" alt="qs" width="196" /></a></p> http://niket.info/2006/8/4/about-quicksilver