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smartly_caches, smarter than ever

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:09:54 GMT

Please note that the problem introduced here and the technique proposed to solve it can be applied for any RESTful web application. The post might be using Rails terminologies/expressions/code only for demonstration.

script/console Reload Models

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:29:19 GMT

If you are one of those Rails applications developers, then you would have used this command before:

ruby script/console

It is very nice and gives you the ability to load your environment and try it as you wish, but what if you changed anything in the application models? You will find that the console isn't aware of these changes at all!

A Quick Start to Octave

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:20:06 GMT

Two days ago, I have started working on a new web application that manages a power quality monitoring and analysis system. The system consists of multiple sensors that are spread through multiple locations and periodically send readings to the server which pass the data to an Octave script to process and analyze.

A Google Maps View for The iPhone

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:28:37 GMT

If you've been following the development of location based applications under Android and the iPhone you must have seen a lot of comparison charts showing the strengths and weaknesses of each SDK and mentioning the differences. Well, now you can cross one difference off that list!

OpenFire: a Java Jabber/XMPP server

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:34:31 GMT

OpenFire is an open source project from igniterealtime. It is an IM (Instant Messaging) server that can be installed on any corporate private network to provide IM solutions to its community. It uses the popular Jabber/XMPP protocol so you can communicate with it through almost any multi-protocol IM client (Pidgin for example). It has a counterpart IM client, Spark.

Rendering Web Pages Inside Android Activities

Tue, 06 May 2008 16:35:10 GMT

While you create Android activities, you supply the activity view content either through XML or dynamically through the code. But, sometimes the content in the view, specifically the static content (content that does not change with different runs) may be a web page; e.g. "Help" Activity or "Terms and Conditions" Activity of your application.

Open Source Web Analytics

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:10:38 GMT

Piwik is an open source web analytics software that has been launched under a GPL license. Piwik gives you detailed reports on your website pageviews, visitors, search engine keywords, popular pages and more. Their goal is to be an open source web analytics software that is a good alternative to Google Analytics.

Redmine: A Software Project Management Solution

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:30:09 GMT

As a software and web developer, I am always interested in tools that help developers and ease the overall project management process.

For long time, I have searched for the best application that I can trust and use as my all-in-one solution for project management and issue tracking. I have seen many applications that claimed to be the best, downloaded many free tools and signed up for many trial accounts. Examples include EasyProjects.NET, Trac, XPlanner, Bugzilla, Mingle, Basecamp, and Goplan.

YouTube Platform

Fri, 02 May 2008 20:24:48 GMT

Unless you've been living on Mars for the last couple of years, you already know about the Google's video sharing service, YouTube, that lets you upload, search, play, comment and rate videos for free. YouTube also has released some APIs that let you embed and play videos from your website.

Find a Website Value with dnScoop

Fri, 02 May 2008 20:08:48 GMT

I came across dnScoop, an online tool to determine the estimated value of a website depending on several factors. Factors include Domain Age, Page Rank, Inbound Links, Traffic Rank and others.