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DevCamp: Acknowledgements annd thanks

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
First, thanks to all the participants for being so involved. I hope all of you felt you participated in at least one good session or discussion and generally...

Loading classes from strings in Ruby

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
When working with Ruby, every once in a while you'll find yourself messing with a bunch of strings which are the names of classes. Given these strings,...

Ping

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
This is my first chance to catch my breath in over three weeks. Things have been quite chaotic and all I've been able to make time for on this blog is the...

DevCamp picks up steam

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
So it's official - Martin Fowler has confirmed that he'll be participating in DevCamp Bangalore. DevCamp seems to be picking up steam with over twenty sessions...

BangPyper and BdotNet meetings at ThoughtWorks Bangalore on 26th January

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
The BangPypers (Bangalore Python User Group) will be meeting at 4:00pm on Saturday, 26th January to discuss the Django web framework.The BdotNet (Bangalore...

DevCamp Bangalore is happening in February

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
It's official now - DevCamp Bangalore is happening on February 9th 2008. The wiki is now up and registrations are open.DevCamp is an un-conference whose...

The way programming should be - easy

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
As developers, we spend most of our lives writing code - eight hours a day (usually more) at work; perhaps a few more hours at home and on weekends. In...

ViewData causing NullPointer exceptions in ASP.Net MVC?

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
Thought I'd share this strange bug (of the black magic variety) I found. It had me stone walled for four days while I tried to figure what I was doing wrong...

Ruby's new as a factory

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
Ruby's new is often described as being the perfect implementation of a factory method. In C++/Java/C#, you're forced to do something like User.build() or...

Ruby blocks redux: Ruby 1.9.0, Ruby 1.8.6 and JRuby 1.0.3

over 4 years ago by Sidu on Work at the dining table.
I was stuck at home for the better part of a week (food poisoning, oh joy) and I figured I might as well taking another look at the behaviour of blocks...