Searching in vain !!!

I was thinking long to join with some local user communities, so I can learn and contribute. But to my disappointment I am not able to find a local group, i.e. which is based in Chennai, for java or either OOAD.
Through the index of user groups given in java.net site, I was able to find [...]

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Searching for UNIX utilities in Windows

UNIX utilities like wc, ps, top, awk, xargs, grep, find are proven to be handy for many data crunching purposes. It helps a lot to manipulate the text information; those who are used to UNIX/Linux environments may feel bad when they turn to windows. Even in my case, I used the telnet sessions to connect [...]

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Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails
This framework/model is derived from the project of making the site “BaseCamp” in ruby. BaseCamp is project management site, well known to many. It also offers some other self management tools like, BackPack, Tada lists, and others.
Ruby is a framework, very good enough for applications which are basically CRUD. (Web-apps which are basically [...]

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Dynamic/Static Languages

Dynamic/Static Languages
Once it was felt that type-checking is proved to reduce the commonly occurring errors. But now-a-days it is more seen as a culprit for productivity.
Read this:
By Uncle Bob (Robert C Martin) =>  http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4639
But don’t think it will replace the static typing languages; it will better evolve, & static typing languages to co-exist with dynamic.
Virtual Machine [...]

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Ruby & Perl Syntax Compared

Ruby & Perl Syntax Compared

much more looks like perl, bcos perl has extensive library support so we can do what we want in minutes. Ruby looks similar on this
Is ruby similar to perl except it is object oriented, Just checked out OO Perl, it even looks good, but not yet explored the Ruby’s OO features, [...]

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