Watch this, do whatever it takes

What would you say to the world if you knew that this is the last chance that you have got to share everything that you want the world to know. If you knew that you have only a month or two left before you will say your final goodbye to the world. Yes, this was the last lecture of Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch and he knew that he had only a few days left of his life as he was about to die from pancreatic cancer. I don't want to try to interpret and misinterpret his words, so go ahead, watch this video and see for yourself what you can learn from it. If you can't stop those few drops of tears from your eyes, it's ok, it shows that you are still alive.



Thanks Abbas for sharing this.

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Ruby on RAILS jobs, immediate requirement

I got this mail a couple of days back from Anu and basically she wanted to know if I was looking for a job.

I am sure there are many of you who are Ruby on RAILS expert and would be interested in taking up on this opportunuty.

Here is the mail(posting this mail here with Anu's consent):

Hello Mr Kumar

We need ROR expert and looking at your description i am sure you are good with Ruby.

I am from London and our company in London deals with real estates as i mentioned. The company we are outsourcing is in hyderabad in Punjagutta. Work will primarily be on ROR to develop one of our websites called Link Up properties (www.linkprop.co.uk), we are trying to reconstruct the whole website with all advanced features. I assure you will love this Job. We are looking for 2 ROR experts so if you are interested or have anyone with relevant experience please come back to me.

Please feel free to contact me, the salary will be to your expectations once you are selected. Please forward this email to any one with ROR expertise and if you are interested do come back. This job will start a.s.a.p

Will wait for your feedback

best wishes
Anu

You can write to Anu at: kanumuria [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] in

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Barcamp5 at Google Hyderabad, pics and little RAILS

Passionate RAILS developer Sumanth Krishna (sorry, if thats not the correct spelling) talking about RAILS and its usefulness for startups, the above picture from Barcamp5 at Google Hyderabad lists a few of Sumanth Krishna's recent favorites RAILS applications.


Ruby on RAILS in 10 points, yes thats almost all you need to know :).
Click on the "Read more" link below to have a look at a few more interesting pics and read..


Mantra of Ruby on RAILS framework, follow the convention and forget about the configuration.


This whole flow stuff looks complicated at the first glance but this makes life of a web developer so easy, everything has its own space to live in, there is no mess in RAILS unless you really want to mess it up.


If you are still lost in the sea of resources and trying to figure out where to start. The above stack of books is enough keep you busy for months. Though "Agile Web Development with Rails, second edition" is not included in the list above, I would recommend it to anyone who is still trying to figure out where to start with Ruby on RAILS. Thanks Murali for sharing this list.


For all those looking forward to get their hands dirty with RAILS, March 8th 2008 is the day. Yes you heard it right, there is a workshop on Ruby on RAILS scheduled to take place on 8th of March.


Nanda Gopal, founder and creator of www.atuitu.com and Sumanth Krishna smiling at the usual discussion going among the audience- "RAILS, django and CakePHP, which one is better??" You know the answer, don't you ;).

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Who is it god for? MyBlogLog Profiles Going Dynamic

So, this email I got from yahoo, it seems their MyBlogLog service is going dynamic. It means that yahoo will start aggregating all the content that you create/generate on other services like Twitter, Last.fm, Digg, and YouTube and will display a link to those content maybe along with a small snippet and description on your MyBlogLog profile page.
Is it good?? yes for yahoo it is good they get more content for free :)
Is it good for you as a MyBlogLog user?? depends.. All these big players are finding all the possible ways to get hold of user created content and expand their internet assets.

Hello, MyBlogLoggers:

It took a long time for word to get out about our changeover to
Yahoo! IDs. Lesson learned. This time we're reaching out to you via
old-fashioned email.

In a couple weeks, we'll be launching a new feature called New with
Me. This feature will use the URLs on the Services tab of your
MyBlogLog profile to aggregate your latest activity on sites such as
Twitter, Last.fm, Digg, and YouTube. As a result, your profile page
will look different - publicly available updates from the services
you have listed will be merged with your existing information. Your
latest Flickr photos, Last.fm tracks, and YouTube videos, will all be
in one place. Updates from your contacts on MyBlogLog will be merged
and available as well. Simply put, the New with Me feature will
transform your static profile into a dynamic one.

MyBlogLog respects your privacy. We will aggregate and display only
information that is publicly available. If you're uncomfortable with
MyBlogLog aggregating and displaying publicly available information
from a particular service, you can remove that service from your
profile at any time.

Of course, we hope you're excited about the broader distribution of
everything you produce on the Web. If you use any of the sites
featured in the Services tab, you know the value of being able to
display all your activity in one place.

Your MyBlogLog profile, About Me widget, and Email Signature were the
first steps in distributing your Web identity. New with Me is the
next, pulling together a unified picture of who you are on the
distributed social Web. We have lots of cool things planned for this
feature -- I hope you'll use it to help build the next generation of
the Web.

For details, please check out our FAQ on this feature.

As always, check our blog for the latest news from us.

See you online!

Ian Kennedy
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

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