First day with RoR

To be honest, Comparing all other programming languages and frameworks, RoR has taken me more time to get a "Hello World" fired up than any other. Oops! It still doesn't work! Well, I did get things work fine from the command line but the web interface is giving me issues. I already fixed a couple of issues with dlls. The latest one is really having me stuck. The code is a simple hello world as following.

class MyTestController < ApplicationController
def index
render_text "My first Hello World"
end
end


I have also got the screen-shot of the error thrown.




Any suggestions??

Vanilla forum + php - Ajax

The last time I coded something and got recognized for that was in college when I designed the online treasure hunt built out of simple php. It was a great hit. Trust me, coders love it when their code makes feat.
This time I designed something for my team. My lead in TCS motivated me to do something. This time things were much more complicated. I built from scratch an application were in team members are provided with points every month for different activities they do. The login system dual functional. Upon login, the script dynamically decides whether he is an admin or a normal team member. Admins have access to grant/revoke points to associates and team members have rights to view their achievements. I used Mysql DBMS for all the data. The system works flawlessly. I used session management for securing the pages and md5 hash to encrypt passwords. To spruce it up and get the WOW effect I used scriptaculous library. I called this software the Business Intelligence Universe.

I also release one more software the Business Intelligence Tech Forum. I used the open source Vanilla forum software (I heard there is a serious project going on with Drupal-Vanilla collaboration). For starters, Vanilla is a simple forum written in php. It does not have all the great functionalities as other traditional forums. That is just what I wanted so that I could code in new stuffs. I modified the scripts quite a bit to connect to Mysql dbms and display data on the go. IT works like a gem.

I released Business Intelligence Universe and Business Intelligence Tech Forum on Valentines day as that was the deadline granted to me by my lead. To commemorate this we made artistic cut out and put it up at the entrance.

Module decoration in office

We had a module decoration in our office last week. It was a great time for all of us, a break from the mundane lifestyle. I thought the theme chosen was very funny and kiddish, but then the point was not the theme. It was all about having a nice time as a team and getting to know more about each others creativity.

Well the theme was about time. The entrance of the module was decorated with full greenery depicting the past, the central region decorated with the present - things like constructions, air crafts etc. The end was divided into two, heaven and hell. The idea was that if people choose the right path they would end up in heaven else in hell. Well our team sits in the place chosen for hell, hence we built hell. Two consecutive days we stayed back until 12:00 AM to do the work. A lot of spooky stuffs were built. Best was that I could see everyone in the team enjoying whatever they were doing and also a lot of hidden talent came out.

I always have thought IT industries need to conduct such events very often, it keeps the morale high and also improvises productivity in the long run.

Coming back to the event, I was to dress up as Anniyan ( The tamil movie indeed). Hell, did I freak every one out. Even the judges froze the minute they saw me. Following are couple of snaps of me. I myself freaked out when I saw my snaps.


Another...



A piece of art drawn by a colleague. This painting rather than looking spooky, looked artistic.

Century out of my heart!

I want my 100th post to be about my love. It has been 3.5 years since we have been together. She is the best thing that has ever happened to me. By character I am a very short tempered and strange un-social guy. Most of my friends would have realized that by now. The only thing that keeps me normal is her love. Without that I wonder what I would have turned into. In a sentence I can say, she completes me!!

As time passes by, she has supported me whenever I have fallen and has been making me push the limits of endurance. Her subtle, innocent and gentle love has kept me going. We definitely have become truly in-separable. She has always been more than my expectations. Surprised me always. Me, a lazy bone, disappointing her always. But it is a true fact that I love her from the bottom of heart and will keep doing so until the last atomic clock dies.

Wish us the best of luck to fight the odds and to live happily together.

Did I just download 38 gigs in 4 mins??

Well, that is what Vista says at least. Or did I just catch another bug out of vista. :-)

FuNnY

Go to this link and read the comments. Really funny!!
http://www.therawfeed.com/2008/02/third-cable-cut-now-iran-has-no.html

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