In Ruby on rails, methods that generate urls from named routes are not globally accessible. For example, you can’t access them from console (script/console). If you want to use these methods from such places, then the rails documentation for ActionController::UrlWriter suggests two ways of doing it. According to this documentation, you can: Include ActionController::UrlWriter in [...]

Few days ago I came across a story here. In this story, an assembly line worker suggests a simple, low-cost but highly effective solution to the problem for which engineers had developed a complex and expensive solution. Why am I referring to this story today? Because, I notice lot of people having a misconception that [...]

Today I came across an online tool that allows you to see the screenshot of pages in the google search result. You can give it a try at “Veesual.com” While I found the concept to be interesting, I was wondering what could be the use of looking at screenshots of pages in search result. What [...]

If we want to share a file or photos while chatting with our friends on internet using IM tools like GTalk, we use file sharing services available online. These services allow us to upload a file to their servers and give us a link which we can share with our friends. But what if you [...]

It is really embarrassing to send an email with an attachment and actually forgetting to attach the file you were supposed to mail along, isn’t it? In my case, I often forget to attach files to emails if I’m typing it in hurry. Sometimes, I even end up receiving replies from recipients of those emails [...]

Gone are those days when users had to learn all the shell commands (Dos or Unix), to be able to use their PCs. Now you have Graphical User Interfaces or GUIs which allow you to do all those tasks simply by pointing and clicking at icons or menus with that small device near your keyboard [...]

Many big guys have participated in discussions regarding agile and waterfall model. Hold on big guys, look at this video where two kids have nicely presented the debate on agile vs. waterfall.

They say that something is better than nothing. To some extent even I don’t disagree with this statement. But sometimes, you might end up collecting a lot of that ‘something’ which may not serve your purpose at all. You might end up collecting so much useless information and advice that you will actually feel that [...]

Every software developer knows the importance of his or her own mind. Well, I feel that software development itself is an excellent mind game where an active mind can help you to drive the design and development of your software effectively. If you are involved in the development of software for a domain where requirements [...]

Everyday, thousands of students join engineering colleges thinking that they are going to be “Professionals” after completing around four years of course. Once I asked some students the reason behind joining computer engineering in college. One of the answers that I got was “To become professional software developer”. On the other hand, I have noticed [...]