On Persistence

A lesson from the Chinese Bambook Tree You take a little seed, plant it, water it, and fertilise it for a whole year, and nothing happens. The second year you water it and fertilise it and nothing happens. The third year you water it and fertilise it and nothing happens. How discouraging this becomes. The fourth year you water it and fertilise it and nothing happens. This is very frustrating.

Portal for corporate rss feeds

PR guru Philip Gomes : ‘The day will come when the online location of a company’s RSS feed will be just as much of a PR pro’s email signature file as his or her email address, home page and phone number’. What we will see in the future is a portal where all rss feeds of companies can sit and will be subscribed by various users.Nooked.com has already come up with a service which does the same.

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails : A simple to use framework that is supposed to churn out web apps at a super fast rate Some info on it : What is Ruby? Ruby is a pure object-oriented programming language with a super clean syntax that makes programming elegant and fun. Ruby successfully combines Smalltalk’s conceptual elegance, Python’s ease of use and learning, and Perl’s pragmatism. Ruby originated in Japan in the early 1990s, and has started to become popular worldwide in the past few years as more English language books and documentation have become available.