Category Archives: Technology

Planting Trees: using railstree plugin in Ruby on Rails

Posted on July 14, 2007 by bond

I was looking for a quick way to build a hierarchical navigation tool in Ruby on Rails. There are good examples to build your own tree in Ruby when you use acts_as_tree and Single Table Inheritance etc., but nothing very … Continue reading →

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Running Free on Rails: Displaying results of find_by_sql queries

Posted on June 19, 2007 by bond

When we construct views of query results using ERb in rails, most of the time we know what we are displaying and how to format it. However, there are a few occasions when we run find_by_sql queries. Even rare are … Continue reading →

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Marc Andreesen refers to the www.softwareinterview.com website

Posted on June 19, 2007 by bond

It did not have the slashdot effect but Marc Andreesen linked to the http://www.softwareinterview.com website in his post on recruiting and the traffic jumped a few hundred visitors the next couple of days. I guess the site showed up in … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails: Confessions of a Closet Coder

Posted on June 3, 2007 by bond

I have been dabbling with Ruby on Rails a little more lately. I have hacked around and figured out solutions for issues that stumped me based on posts from others or from experiments. I will try to catalog some of … Continue reading →

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Social Bypass: Online Networking

Posted on October 15, 2006 by bond

I sometimes feel like I am living in a cave when I keep reading all the magazines and webzines about social networking sites. It is not that I am not online. I have a web presence, developed a website in … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Greased Rails: Adventures in Rapid Application Development

Posted on July 9, 2006 by bond

Even though I work in a chip company, I believe in tools that work on the web so creating, updating and maintaining data is a collaborative process (and less personal overhead ). Having a spouse who works in web tech … Continue reading →

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Comparison Shopping: Research on the Internet

Posted on May 14, 2006 by bond

so much information, so many reviews, so many forums, so little time… Have any of you recently checked how much time you spend on the web doing research about things you are going to do or spend on? Here is … Continue reading →

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It is Alive: Microsoft Interview Questions Site Ported

Posted on February 25, 2006 by bond

The original reason I started looking around for a web hosting company actually came online now. Head on over to http://www.softwareinterview.com to check out the new version of the really old questions page which still generates many emails in my … Continue reading →

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An Experiment goes Boink: Dreamhost Review

Posted on December 13, 2005 by bond

A personal homepage I had started long ago and had been meaning to long overhaul is the Microsoft like Interview Questions database. Last month, I was surprised to hear an intern at my company and an old friend I met … Continue reading →

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