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gary4gar

440 karma · joined March 6, 2011

Ruby on rails Freelance Consultant
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gary4gar··on Do you love Rails and Ruby? So do I, please mentor me!
I have got basics of rails under the belt(https://github.com/thoughtbot/trail-map/blob/master/trails/r...) but still there is plenty to learn. so lets collaborate, share our learning experiences, give/get advice & solve problems. This way we can help each other.

Skype: gaurishs

Google Plus(for hangouts): https://plus.google.com/111797581157961256980/

gary4gar··on Ask HN: Open Source projects for a C and C++ begginer.
Check KDE - Its a DE and collection of various software. There are mentors available, so its great for beginners to get started.

http://kde.org/community/whatiskde/ http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/development

gary4gar··on Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app
Number of tests(Unit,Integration etc) is 0!
gary4gar··on Convince Me Why I Should Ditch PHP for RoR
Don't switch. Instead try of building something in Rails, like do attempt the tutorial at railstutorial.org.

Then, if you like it. Switch. if you don't, atleast you would learn trick or two which could help you in PHP dev as well.

gary4gar··on PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile
This article is perfect example of PR Speak passed on as news.

in the article head, it says "PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile" but then nowhere in articles author mentions about this except in the end where it says "Coming soon"!

WTH?

gary4gar··on I only got that job because I’m a girl
And the site went down....any mirrors?
gary4gar··on Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)
Where I am, its already 28th(GMT+5.30). what timezone?
gary4gar··on Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)
tried ordering an e-book & it asked for payment. i assume there a special promo code that needs to applied?
gary4gar··on Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)
Site down?
gary4gar··on Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github
Access is denied. any mirrors?
gary4gar··on Servers Too Hot? Intel Recommends a Luxurious Oil Bath
No risk of short-circuits?
gary4gar··on DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform
Thanks for pointing that out :)
gary4gar··on DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform
I like how the registration form shows the form validation errors inline: http://i.imgur.com/U5QL1.png

Looking at the source view(https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/blob/master/...) it doesn't seems there is some extra markup, unless I am missing something.

So, How can I implement the same in my rails app?

gary4gar··on DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform
it is missing integration tests, though
gary4gar··on Ask HN: Best Rich Text Editor JQuery Plugin.
For mathematical equations & symbols in browser, checkout:

http://www.mathjax.org/

gary4gar··on Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
i read that in news but can't find the link. so removed it
gary4gar··on Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
He is not going to make it to Ecuador. Only thing Assange can do now is sit inside the embassy for indefinite period of time, until Ecuador gets bored with assange and figures he is not worth the damage of ties with Uk. another possible outcome is rather extreme -- UK goes on offences and arrests assange from the embassy.

Either way, it would be interesting how the whole story will play-out.

gary4gar··on CloudFlare helps save Wikileaks' bacon
I think this move will help establish cloudflare as a strong brand. Great marketing!
gary4gar··on What hardware do Full-time Linux users use?
Get ready for Project Sputnik: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/dell-l...
gary4gar··on AppFog Pricing Released
Tried again, that error is gone but now I get another error. opening the app url in browser generates a '404 - page not found'

Further, trying to update the app using 'af update' generates following error --> Starting Application 'appname': ..........................Error (JSON 503): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="u...

seems like you have lot of bugs waiting to be fixed ;)

gary4gar··on AppFog Pricing Released
Doesn't work.

Created a new App & yet that newly created app doesn't exist in dashboard. Tried creating app Multiple times, but same result. Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/Z8Krw.png http://i.imgur.com/wocw7.png

I would wish them luck!

gary4gar··on Google Open Sources Collaborative IDE
thanks for detailed reply :)
gary4gar··on Thoughts on Rails, Node, and the web apps of today
Tried running Sinatra on jRuby?
gary4gar··on Show HN: Cloudflare marking all traffic from Pakistan as threat
Add US to the list that cloud flare completely blocks:

http://i.imgur.com/ZacUI.png

gary4gar··on Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
If this is real, then Microsoft would is going to get into a long legal battle. I hope this is some technical glitch & not some random angry guy at Microsoft
gary4gar··on Google Open Sources Collaborative IDE
Hey, screencast looks good.

what tool do you use for recording screencasts & for onscreen text?

gary4gar··on Show HN: Recruit web developers by having them build a web app
Can you share the app?
gary4gar··on Ampex - concise readable Ruby blocks
After reading the article, Discovered that instead of

  ["1","2","3"].map{|s| s.to_i}
    => [1, 2, 3] 
we can also do

  ["1","2","3"].map(&:to_i)
    => [1, 2, 3] 
This worked for me on Ruby 1.9 out of the box. And I think its an useful shortcut especially when its part of core ruby language & works WITHOUT using any external gems.
gary4gar··on OpenShift by Red Hat
the rubyist in me is happy to report that openshift is written largely in ruby. so all ruby programmers should try running openshift in their own machinea
gary4gar··on Slideshare acquired by LinkedIn
$119Millon Sale price - 3Millon Funding = CRAZY RETURN!

I Love that equation!

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