tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15955495573136880952011-04-21T20:09:32.633-07:00Raj's Tech CornerRaj Madhuramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433595591866326214noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1595549557313688095.post-884015137051555982007-09-13T02:04:00.001-07:002007-09-13T02:08:39.844-07:00I always had a doubt on the scalability of Ruby on Rails (RoR). I happened to meet a few RoR evangelists from ThoughtWorks at JAX India 2007 and I asked them about it. However, the answers I got were not convincing. Now <a href="http://www.radicalbehavior.com/5-question-interview-with-twitter-developer-alex-payne/">here</a> is an account of a guy who has encountered actual scaling issues on a production site and is quite honest about it as well!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1595549557313688095-88401513705155598?l=palmvx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj Madhuramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433595591866326214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1595549557313688095.post-34709580648616186352007-09-05T03:22:00.000-07:002007-09-05T04:29:18.486-07:00This piece from <a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/">Stevey's blog</a> was hilarious! - <span style="font-style: italic;">The engineer has formulated a proof that invalidates one of the most fundamental results in Computer Science, specifically that "recursion" and "iteration" are formally equivalent. </span><br />--- snip ---<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The anonymous author of the paper has found that there is in fact one thing you can do using recursion that you can't do using iteration, namely: "You can use it to weed out stupid fugging interview candidates."</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1595549557313688095-3470958064861618635?l=palmvx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj Madhuramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433595591866326214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1595549557313688095.post-28184628493460868272007-08-13T05:22:00.000-07:002008-12-10T07:16:21.652-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sgujleYSL14/RsBPG_yYRSI/AAAAAAAAABo/T-beWTp3b10/s1600-h/yahoo-google.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sgujleYSL14/RsBPG_yYRSI/AAAAAAAAABo/T-beWTp3b10/s320/yahoo-google.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098161759803950370" border="0" /></a><br /><br />There is a really cool syntax highlighter in the <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/">YUI</a> documentation. I was wondering how they did it and clicked on the "?" link, that opened an about page that said "dp.SyntaxHighlighter" Version 1.3.0, with a further link to <a href="http://www.dreamprojections.com/syntaxhighlighter/">http://www.dreamprojections.com/syntaxhighlighter/</a>, which redirected to know where? <a href="http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/">http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/</a>. I thought it was very interesting. Kudos to Yahoo! for not having the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here">NIH </a>syndrome!<br /><br />And also, great job Alex!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1595549557313688095-2818462849346086827?l=palmvx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj Madhuramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433595591866326214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1595549557313688095.post-50769831783307573112007-08-07T02:14:00.000-07:002007-08-07T02:37:47.855-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;">I was playing with <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/">YSlow</a> for Firebug, a neat little tool from Yahoo!. It is actually a plugin to Firebug which analyses the performance of your web pages. My projects barely managed to get a passing grade :(. It was fun to check the performance of various sites:<br><br /><table><tr><td>Site</td><td>Score</td><td>Grade</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a></td><td>99</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo</a></td><td>93</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a></td><td>62</td><td>D</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.netvibes.com/">Netvibes</a></td><td>54</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.myspace.com/">Myspace</a></td><td>58</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.slashdot.org/">Slashdot</a></td><td>51</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.cnn.com/">CNN</a></td><td>35</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.impigertech.com/">Impiger</a></td><td>64</td><td>D</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.infosys.com/">Infosys</a></td><td>51</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a></td><td>79</td><td>C</td></tr></table><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1595549557313688095-5076983178330757311?l=palmvx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj Madhuramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433595591866326214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1595549557313688095.post-79426576983976229572007-07-06T20:58:00.001-07:002007-07-06T21:00:51.156-07:00Hi there. I hope to post technical related stuff in this blog. I've named this blog in honor of the first PDA I owned in 2000, the amazing Palm Vx.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1595549557313688095-7942657698397622957?l=palmvx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj Madhuramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433595591866326214noreply@blogger.com0