Pradeep Sethi's Blog

Category: RubyOnRails

  • MVC Antipatterns : Models Antipatterns

    Here are some excepts from Rails Antipattern book that I have reading lately. Even though the examples are specific to rails, the fundamental principles applies to pretty much any MVC framework. In this post, I list out various Model Antipatterns & their potential solutions. I would be writing about other anti-patterns in next posts ……

  • Complexity is the biggest enemy of successful projects

    Curiosity killed the cat & complexity killed the project !! The importance of simplicity in application development is paramount. Complexity is the number-one killer of projects today, and it comes into an application in many ways, including through excitement over new features, overly clever developers, and unfamiliarity with the Ruby on Rails framework.

  • How to use Delicious to search for useful content

    In this post, I would like to explain an extremely useful use-case of one of my favorite and highly popular tool Delicious. Let’s say I came across a useful URL that is relevant to the work that I am doing or stuff that I am interested in. For instance in this case, I came across…

  • RubyConf India 2010 – Bangalore March 20th-21st

    India’s first RubyConf is happening in Bangalore in March 2010, 20th – 21st. The conference was SOLD OUT. They have added 150 more seats. Register here

  • Free PHP 5 / Rails Hosting for Facebook app developers

    Facebook developers get some more good news. If you are worried about having a reliable hosting space for your Facebook application, you can get it Free. Joyent is giving free PHP5 hosting along with MySQL, Rails 1.8.6 ,Python free for 1 year, if you are a Facebook application developer. Other companies offering free hosting for…

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  • Ruby on Rails – ComputerWorld’s #1 Hot Technology for 2007

    A ComputerWorld article has named RoR as one of the top 5 technologies you need to look in 2007. Only one in the software, rest are Hardware related. It seems like every month a new technology emerges with the potential to change everything. Technology writers and analysts get hyperexcited. Everyone starts patting one another on…

  • RailsConf 2007 Sold Out

    RailsConf 2007 has been sold out within a couple weeks of opening, even though they had doubled the seats this year to 1200. This is the first time when Orielly Media is organizing the official Rails conference. They still have a waiting list for the conference if you want to sign up. See you there.

  • Registration for Railsconf 2007 is open

      Registration for Ruby on Rails Conference 2007 is open now. This year it would be held in Portland, Oregon from May 17th – May 20th. If you want to attend the conference, hurry up as the conference last year was sold out in a week. I have heard that within the first day of…

  • Ruby Book Sales Surpass Perl & Python

    It was just last December that Tim O’Reilly said that Ruby book sales had surpassed Python book sales. Now Ruby book sales have also surpassed Perl book sales.Tim O’Reilly posted the graph below which shows the books sales since 2003 for the most commonly used dynamic programming languages. http://blog.curthibbs.us/articles/2006/08/01/ruby-book-sales-surpass-perl-python