Me.Tech()

I started using friendfeed recently and have been using ff to post links and other interesting artifacts I find on the net. The ease with which I can post links from ff not only  increased my posts on ff, and indirectly on twitter, but also the frustration of my friends. Now instead of going directly [...]

Over the last two or three years, I have seen introduction of many new psuedo programming languages(if I can call it that) that help users build applications over the web. Most of these languages are built to work with or as a service. I shall wildly switch between a web service and also the langauge [...]

I have been blogging for about three years now, started here in Nov of 2005. But, the day I saw wordpress, was the day my blogging actually took shape. After a controversial blogpost saw a lot of activity on my personal blog, I decided to share some of the plugins that I think helped complete [...]

I recently gave a tutorial on Ruby on Rails at my school. Its pretty comprehensive and most of the material I used for the tutorial is present on my personal Wiki. Please find the tutorial on my wiki here  http://riteshnayak.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ruby_on_Rails Also, people who are using rails 2.0, please go the 2.0 section directly. If you [...]

Reached home early yesterday and read an article about Yahoo BOSS and its open nature. In my effort to kill time, till dinner, I sat and read through the documentation for BOSS and it turns out its the easiest open search ever. I used the Google Coop as my site search but, somehow the techie [...]