From darekbYou know what, this is a political world. So, enemies will seemingly look like your friends until the moment when.. well, its time for the kill! My dear readers, its time to know the enemies! I have met with a few enemies off late. I will go one by one here. If you are a software developer like me, you will often see this enemy, camouflaged variables, methods, classes and namespaces.

FIFA world cup 2010 is almost coming to an end. This is definitely the greatest show on earth and I have been all occupied with the matches... However, the show started almost immediately after I was back from Europe. It was a nice tour, starting a day at Amsterdam. Then to Trondheim (Norway), Stockholm and the best part was the night long sea cruise to Helsinki. An experience to remember for the rest of my life.

I just completed my Winter 2010 semester at school. It was so far a good one. I pushed my papers and presentations on the courses of this semester at http://smsohan.com/#courses If you are interested to read my paper about Tabletop Application Testing or Communication Challenges with Distributed Agile Teams, you are most welcome at my site. However, its time to look ahead to the summer. And I hope this will be a good one!

Bynarylogic's authlogic has gained much popularity for its out of the box solution to ruby on rails authentication. Yesterday, I was working on giving API access to my ruby on rails application so that other apps can use my RESTful services. The authenticated API access usually involves the following steps: API_KEY or a token to identify/authenticate an API call.Authentication of an API caller using the API_KEY.Authlogic comes with in-built support for this.

Well, I didn't know this until late. If you are like me, you have often wondered when you saw those unwanted flash messages appearing after a request, sometimes after ajax requests when you do a redirect, all on a sudden that flash shows up! Well, as you have thought, the Ruby on Rails people have solved this problem way before now. The solution is to wisely use flash.now[] and flash[].

Hello Readers: Wish you all are doing great as the Spring already started :-) Recently my grad courses are keeping me busy with assignments and projects as the term comes close to an end. So, I haven't had much time to spend on blogging other than posting the Ruby on Rails link blog called www.DrinkRails.com. However, for my readers, I thought I would post the recent presentation that I put for the Agile course here:

Image credits to Wink on Flickr (creative commons) I was reviewing a Ruby on Rails source code to see the security implementations they have so far. They are about to launch their product for the first release and wanted to ensure they have the most obvious things checked. So, in a sense it was not supposed to be a hacking job for me, rather to check if the most well known security measures are in place.

All on a sudden, this thing popped up in my mind. What we are calling Ruby on Rails, is this actually "Ruby" on "Rails" or the other way around? Is this upside down? Here's my mental picture of the RoR framework: Image credits to Foo Fighter on Flickr(creative commons) Ruby is a self-sustained language. As a language this is completely ignorant of the Rails Framework. So, I think there is no dependency from Ruby to Rails.

I was taking a look into the fresh ActiveModel module of Rails 3 as of github revision #100644. Here is what I learned: Learned about new feature called autoload. Rails Inside has a small yet useful autoload example here. It is a mechanism to lazy load your modules, so delaying the load unless the module methods are actually called. A call to autoload simply marks it as a potential include, but the actual include takes place only when you first use something on that module.

This is sounding very strange to me indeed! 37Signals is very much known for creating the simplest of interfaces and I really found people finding it very intuitive. But this is strange... now they are asking people to buy a book for $10 to learn how to use Basecamp! Can you believe it? See the sales post (!) here at "Sams Teach Yourself Basecamp in 10 Minutes" is a comprehensive guide to Basecamp Comments Sohan Hi Ashic, thanks for stopping by!