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Last login: 9 hours agoSumanth: Sumanth is a 25 year old single guy from Hyderabad, AP, India.; Likes 699 pages, 38 videos, 20 photos • 32 fans • Received 2 reviews; Member since Feb 07, 2006

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Available Kits | Rails Kits: 12:39pm 1 review programming, rails, code-snippets, railskits
http://railskits.com/available-kits/; Rails Kits is here to bring you great ready-made Rails code for you to use in your projects. More than just plugins, these starter kits can act as the foundation of your new Rails application. You can save hours of time, skipping the boring stuff and diving right into the code that makes your application different from all the rest.

Should I switch from PHP to Ruby? | Ask Metafilter: 4:11am 1 review programming, php, ruby, rails, ruby-vs-php
http://ask.metafilter.com/28418/Should-I-switch-from-PHP-to-Ruby; Should I switch from PHP to Ruby? I know this topic has been covered before, but I have some specific questions that I haven't been able to find answers to, here or elsewhere: 1. How complete are the Ruby libraries? and 2. How is Ruby's performance compared to PHP?
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Embarassingly Gushing Praise for TechCrunch And The New CrunchBase API: Jul 16, 10:15am 1 review programming, blogs, api, techcrunch, crunchbase
http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/5927/Embarassingly-Gushing-Praise-f...; Details of crunch base API

Fix for ActiveRecord SQL Server adapter dates [ruby] [rails] [date] [time] [ruby…: Jul 16, 3:48am 1 review programming, date, sql, rails
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2140; fix for sql adapter to customize the date formats...

Cloudy picture for cloud computing - Network World: Jul 15, 10:22am 1 review programming, computing, startups, entrepreneurs, cloud-computing
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/043008-interop-cloud-computing.html?ap1...; From the page: "You can call it cloud computing. You can call it grid computing. You can call it on-demand computing. Just don't call it the next big thing �" at least not yet.

Efforts by Web heavyweights such as Amazon and Google to entice companies into tapping into the power of their data centers are being slowed by a number of factors, according to Interop panelists."

Cloud computing: what it will take for start-ups to succeed - Network World: Jul 15, 10:20am 1 review programming, computing, startups, entrepreneurs, cloud-computing
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/050508-cloud-computing-startups.html; With Google's recent launch of its App Engine, and with the likes of IBM and Amazon having staked claims, cloud computing is clearly a major development in the IT landscape. The benefits are obvious, enabling enterprises to scale rapidly with a level of performance previously available to only the largest companies -- all without adding equipment, software or staff.