Power of plain text, the power of being simple

As we see the convergence of technologies through web, I think plain text is going to play a crucial role in delivering a standard cross platform solution for communication. It has already taken the center stage in form of XML. Debate on simplicity (or human side of technology) and performance will, I think, have a [...]

Orthogonality and its importance in software development

I’ve been lately reading The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas. Been onto a chapter about decoupling requirement in the development of software, I thought of putting few lines on the weblog. Orthogonality is derived originally from Geometry where it is meant to illustrate two lines which meet at right angles and hence [...]

Building Strings in Ruby

If efficiency is important to you, don’t build a new string when you can append items onto an existing string. Constructs like str << ‘a’ + ‘b’ or  str << “#{var1} #{var2}” create new strings that are immediately subsumed into the larger string. This is exactly the thing to avoid. Use str << var1 << [...]

Starting on the formal journey into Ruby!

I’ll be starting with Ruby Cookbook today (it’s evening right now..). I will be discussing Ruby code, Constructs, Positives and Negatives as I encounter them. So expect lot of Ruby (and may be rails) here.
Association with the language: Why I fell in Love with Ruby