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Kathy Sierra Speaketh: Are Our Tools Making Us Dumber?

February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Lisp, Rails

Ah, I guess I don’t have to give you the link, as most people in the know seem to read her blog anyway. But I think her latest post is especially insightful. I have to agree. I have been using Rails for a while, and yes, it’s a great tool to build web applications is […]

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Rails goes 1.2!

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Rails, Ruby

I was pleasantly surprised to see Rails getting a bump-up in it’s version number (I don’t read the list all that often now, it’s gotten too busy to handle on a daily basis) :
Riding Rails: Rails 1.2: REST admiration, HTTP lovefest, and UTF-8 celebrations
Looks like a lot of work has gone in. Has Rails reached […]

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cl-migrations is go!

November 12th, 2006 · No Comments · Lisp, Rails

Finally, after a little more than a week’s fiddling during my free time, my first (hopefully) useful contribution to the CL community has been released. It’s called cl-migrations, a simple tool to manage database changes, ported from the popular web framework Ruby on Rails. It’s also my attempt to do some real-world programming with […]

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Speaking at BarCamp Chennai

April 1st, 2006 · No Comments · General, Rails

Wow. It’s really nice to see some conference activity in Chennai. Only, this is an un-conference. I will be attending and speaking at BarCamp Chennai on 8th and 9th of April. What is a BarCamp? Check this out.Suffice to say that it’s an informal gathering of geeks, where the only spectators are the speakers themselves. […]

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