Viral Apps in Rails

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I am not a computer science graduate but probably feel more confident than most due to my experience working for several people with different nationalities and personalities. In retrospect, I would have not chosen Computer Science as my major even if I knew that 6 years later, it would be my job to do web applications. I would have chosen either Commerce (which I did finish) or Psychology. Why Psychology? If you understand people and organizations, you win. And I think I see a lot of companies who are really good at making apps that attempt to understand people including the company that just hired me (Thank you very much to the project manager and CEO for considering me for the job).

Kudos to Some Inspiring Entrepreneur Programmers

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So I took the time to blog again while waiting for a video presentation upload on an app feature for a client to be done.

First thing that came to my mind recently due to my not-so-normal work schedule (sometimes I work very late at night - 9 P.M to 4 AM GMT +8 or 9 AM to 4 P.M EST) is "what to do" after working on some client projects. I could be teaming up with a senior consultant (with over 30 years experience) in the field of Accounting, Estate and Taxation and sink my teeth into several business books and programming books or I could continue what I have already started when I was seventeen. It's very difficult to decide what to do because sometimes what you want isn't necessarily what is right for you. If you can have a stable job and start your "dot com" business then that's great but the chance of getting burnt out long before you accomplish anything is high. The phrase "part time job" sounds like a better option for me. Or going full time freelance on various small projects is a good way to go too.

Adva CMS - A new state-of-the-art CMS

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Hello. Finally got to blog but I'm still porting some of my old Drupal posts to Adva CMS. And I've got to say I am a recovered Drupal addict.

Comparing Drupal with Adva CMS seems to be more appropriate than comparing the Ruby on Rails framework with Drupal. Today I got a facebook message: "how well-versed are you with Drupal?"

Substruct Rails E-commerce Application for Rails version 2.2.2

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Recently, I have made some efforts on upgrading the current Substruct version to be compatible with Rails version 2.2.2. It was previously working with Rails 2.1.0 only. Check on googlecode. Click here to view the CHANGELOG.

Search Engine Friendly Links in Rails

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If you haven't read the book "Practical Rails Social Networking Sites" by Alan Bradburne yet, there's a chapter there which discusses how you can create a simple content management system and create permanent links for every page created.