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Packt Author Award 2009 – Vote for my book!

~3 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
It’s a year to the month since I published my first book – Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects. I didn’t even realise it — time really does fly. Just...

Third party user authentication with Ruby in a just few lines of code

~3 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
Some time ago (8 years to be exact) when I was still chest-deep in Java and working in elipva, I wrote Tapestry, a centralized user management system and...

Clone TinyURL in 40 lines of Ruby code

~3 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
I’m officially hooked. After writing 2 blog posts on cloning popular web applications on the Internet, I was raring to take on another one. TinyURL looked...

Why it is difficult to accept the realities of a downturn

~3 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
I bought a 17″ Sony Flatron monitor for $535 in 1999, one of my prized possessions that accompanied me during the few years which I hopped from rented...

Umbrellas to work, or why engineers should get married

~2 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
When I was working in Yahoo at Suntec City, I used to take the MRT to work every day and my route is completely sheltered right to the doorsteps of the...

How to hire the best engineers without killing yourself

~2 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
Garena, where I work now, is in an expansion mode and I have been hiring engineers, sysadmins and so on to feed the development frenzy for platform revamps...

How to hire the best engineers – part 2

~2 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
In my previous blog post, I came to the conclusion that If you’re a hiring manager with a 100 candidates, just interview a sample pool of 7 candidates...

Toilets and engineers

almost 2 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
It started with a lunch conversation that slowly turned into a coffee time mini-debate. You see, I moved into a new job recently at the Applied Cloud Computing...

Toilets and engineers

almost 2 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
It started with a lunch conversation that slowly turned into a coffee time mini-debate. You see, I moved into a new job recently at the Applied Cloud Computing...

How to hire the best engineers – part 2

~2 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
In my previous blog post, I came to the conclusion that If you’re a hiring manager with a 100 candidates, just interview a sample pool of 7 candidates...