Somewhere I heard the speaker say in a ppt on REST that the guys behind the WS-* specs are ** actually bright ** people but somehow kept missing the point. Here is another proof of this statement. I think this juggernaut won’t stop until they have made everything that HTTP facilitates also possible through SOAP. Way to go [...]

One of the major changes I found after switching to a feed reader was the sharp rise in the number feeds I have ended up subscribing to. Its almost like making new friends. And then Metcalfe’s law takes over to bring more friends,philosophers and guides. I am amazed on looking back at the number and [...]

A couple of days ago I started learning python. As I go through the experience of learning another language I want to take a step back and talk about how a person who has siginificant experience in other programming languages might approach learning a new language. Like most folks in the community I too started out [...]

I am not sure how many of us have had this kind of an experience but this happens often to me. Over the last couple of days I have been reading about good performance tuning tips and within myself started wishing that I would get an opportunity to fix one. And (reminds me of Paulo Coelho [...]

After working on RoR for close to an year I can’t stop applying many of the learnings I gathered while I was in that camp. On my current codebase I decided to solve the issue of configuring things differently in different environments with some inspiration from Rails. One insightful way of look at Rails itself is to [...]

A couple of days ago as I was casually glancing over Dzone description of a new google group started by Charles Nutter of JRuby fame for JVM Languages came to my attention. Oflate (more motivated by my rendezvous with parser gens and grammars) I have found myself naturally drawn to programming language internals. I was [...]

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For quite sometime (as far as I can remember I have tracking it now for 5 months) now there has been enough buzz around Apollo, the new cross platform RIA toolkit from Adobe. The Ajaxian even has a video demo of it. I still remember the Aha! feeling I had when I first installed Google [...]

February 4th, 2007 Insights. v2 by Hari in Uncategorized I almost gave up on blogging after my first attempt at it. I found myself being too shy to express my opinions and also struggled to create that perfect ‘article’ (which explains the paltry number of entries). Guess I took it too seriously :). But during this rather long gap [...]