20 Reasons Why Every Web Designer Needs to Learn Rails [ROR Network]

 

She told me her husband was being downsized. He was 52 years old, been with the company for twenty. He was a COBOL man. Nothing but a COBOL man his entire career. But the company needed more than a COBOL man. So they let him go.

That is a true story. It’s about ten years old. But it’s not an uncommon story, especially in today’s rapidly-changing tech environment and somewhat dismal economy.

In fact, you probably know somebody that’s been let go or overlooked because of a lack in a certain skill set. The only difference is that you don’t have to wait until your early fifties to get downsized.

Today that can happen at 30. Even 25.

Enter Ruby on Rails

Typically the guy or gal with the most developing tools under their belt wins. It leads to the sweetest projects. The most perks. The best salary.

This is where Ruby on Rails (RoR)—and learning the framework—comes in. If you’ve been building websites for long you have no doubt heard about RoR. It’s a full-stack framework that covers both front and back end design. It’s at the heart of sites like Twitter, 43Things and Basecamp. Major Brands like Amazon and eBay even have RoR projects. And in the hands of a versatile developer RoR is a potent tool. Let me show you how.

1. Stalled Career

I don’t care how old you are. An old dog can learn new tricks. An old dog NEEDS to learn new tricks if he wants to stay current, marketable and in demand.

If your current job has hit a snag and you find yourself bored (and maybe even threatened with a layoff), then taking the time to learn Ruby on Rails may be just the thing you need to put a jolt back into your step. And give your boss something to think about.

2. Tired of Other People Getting Hired

Don’t you hate it—going through the interview process only to find out that someone else was picked instead of you? It could’ve been for a promotion at your current job or at a new company.

What’s worse is when you are job hunting and you stumble across dozens of opportunities (regarding the demand for Ruby developers, see no. 16)—but you aren’t qualified for because they want RoR experience and you don’t have it. That’s not a good feeling.

3. Bored

If you are like me, then you are unapologetically curious, incorrigibly creative and easily bored. This probably also means you are super-duper smart, hyper competitive and a sucker for a good challenge.

Learning Ruby on Rails just might be what you need right now. And why not—it’s a heck of an effective way to kill time.

4. Get More Things Done

The language (Ruby) on the framework (Rails) means that you can accomplish more with less, better structured code. Since code can be re-used changes are easy, making iteration and experimentation painless. Learning Ruby on Rails will help you knock out that killer idea listyou’ve been sitting on for months.

5. Eliminate Lame Tasks

Rails is built on Ruby, the dynamic and object-oriented language. This means that you can better use your time. For instance, RoR will handle all database communications, provide a template system for handling page sections and layouts, process Ajax updates and a wide set of plugins that make feature implementing easy. In other words, RoR takes care of the boring stuff while you can focus on the cool.

6. Building a Complex Website

Building a website is probably the most common scenario in which you would use RoR. However, you could also use PHP. Why use one over the other? The argument goes like this: if you are just adding simple functionality to a basic, straightforward website, then use PHP. On the other hand, if you are building a complex website or app that involves a database then you’ll want to use Rails.

7. Plan on Building More Websites in the Future

Learning a new language and tool takes time and effort. So if you think that you might be able to use Ruby on a single project—and don’t think you will have to use it again—it’s probably not worth the effort.

However, if you plan on continuing to build complex websites and applications then the investment in learning Ruby on Rails is probably worth it.

8. Serve a Particular Market

Some developers like to work in a particular market. So they build a set of specialized skills that suits that market. This will lead them to usually being hired by designers who don’t have expertise in a set of skills like RoR. This means you won’t be working for clients. You will be hired for your particular skill set by an agency.
The other scenario is that you work directly for the client. They don’t care whether you use PHP or Ruby. They just want you to build them a website that will do X, Y and Z. It’s your job to figure out how to effectively do that, so knowing both PHP and Ruby is a must.

9. Join a Great Community

Even though RoR is a relatively new framework, it has certainly built up a robust community full of nice people who want to help you learn. These communities are where best practices are shared, reinforced and even questioned. You will feel comfortable asking just about any question.

The Rails Community is one of the main reasons to learn Rails.

10. Collaborate with Other Developers

Just like web designers have universal standards they have to obey, reliable Photoshop workflows and proven CSS tricks, the same is true for Ruby on Rails. The way apps are built are getting more uniform as the Ruby community continues to grow, so working and collaborating with other developers is way easier than it was before.

11. Learn to Code

Maybe you don’t know how to code at all. You could be a writer who is bored (see no. 3) and wants a hobby. Or you could be an entrepreneur who’s got an idea for a new web app and you want to see if the thing has any legs to run on.

Thus, you want to learn how to code.

Now, you don’t need any programming experience to learn Ruby. However, much of what you learn about Ruby will be lost on you if you don’t. It’s sort of like knowing the answer to an arithmetic problem—but not knowing how you got the answer.

12. Become a Better Coder

More than likely, though, you are a coder. A good one. But you want to become better. Well, learning Ruby is one way you can do that.

However…

People can argue until their faces are blue about which skill sets are the best: PHP, Java, Python or Ruby. But at the end of the day I think they would all agree that what really counts when it comes to being a better coder is to have an understanding of multiple server-side languages, whether it is Python, Java, Ruby or all of the above. The more the merry because doors will open for you where they might be otherwise shut.

13. You Already Know PHP

I know some passionate RoRs who will say hands down that you do not want to learn RoR until you’ve got a handle on PHP. This doesn’t mean you have to master PHP. All you need is just a basic understanding of how to get a few things done in PHP.

But if you already know PHP, then the transition to using RoR is seamless. See, the nice thing about RoR is that you don’t have to code from scratch every time you need something done. That’s what an effective framework does. But it still helps if you know what’s going on at a lower level. So, if you are a PHP pro, then I recommend you jump on RoR right away. You’ll learn it pretty quickly.

14. Express Your Ideas through a Computer

Famed Ruby evangelist _Why wrote in his book _Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby, “I’ve noticed that many experienced users of Ruby seem to be clear thinkers and objective. In contrast to: heavily biased and coarse.”

Like many programming languages, Ruby will teach you how to express your ideas and stories through a computer. The language is like a tool that allows you to link your mind to the real world. In fact, you may discover that Ruby is a fantastic language that lines up with your own mental model of the world. In other words, if you struggle getting your thoughts out of your head, then Ruby just might be the right tool for you.

15. Build Your Personal Brand

There’s a reasons there is a demand for Ruby on Rails developers: it’s the fastest and most efficient way to build apps for the web. And big brands to brand-new startups are tapping RoR developers to get that speed and agility.

And get this: that demand is likely to continue. So learning to build sites with Rails is a valuable step in your web development career.

16. Won’t Be Using WordPress and Co.

PHP is the programming language for Drupal, Joomla, Magento and WordPress. So if you want to develop for those, you will need PHP. Not Ruby.

However, some suggest their future is uncertain. So, if you are in it for the long haul and want to progress with the web, go with a more progressive skill set like RoR. Again, it is probably help for you to learn PHP first if you don’t know that language already.

17. Stay Current with Web Changes

I think it’s become clear by its popularity that Ruby is where the web is headed. Scratch that. Ruby is where the web is now. And that demand is only going to continue.

There are so many things that make Ruby popular. Console tools like irb allow you to test any code at any time—before adding it to a file. Huge in terms of efficiency and accuracy, as is the fact that you can unit test, which provides huge productivity boosts. Just like PHP had its heyday, RoR is having it’s now.

18. Re-Use Software Down the Road

One of the stellar beauties of RoR is that you can use and re-use software for different projects. This is what RoR creator David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals) had in mind as he built their flagship product Basecamp.

During the development he took the apps underpinnings and created building blocks for future use. He made the framework extensible, expandable, and multi-purpose. Think plug-and-play.

He then shared the software with the open source market where the framework was improved and extended. Nearly ten years later it is now a solid and reliable software development platform that’s powering some of the most popular and powerful sites out there.

19. You Know Ruby (the Language)

Learning Ruby (the language) before Rails (the framework) is a wise move because it helps the developer to understand what is going on under the hood. Sure, the framework can do all the heavy lifting when it comes to building a web app, but it helps to understand how and why.

20. Learn the Better Language

That’s a loaded statement, so let me explain. As I mentioned above, there really is no “better language.” What there is are advantages and disadvantages.

For example, Ruby is a lot easier to read. One familiar comparison I’ve heard thrown around a lot is that Vanilla JavaScript is to jQuery what PHP is to Ruby. Ruby, like jQuery, is concise and logical. They both make sense and are easy to learn.

PHP, like Vanilla JavaScript, is a little long-winded and complex enough to cause your brain to hurt when you are trying to learn them. But PHP is way easier to learn than Vanilla Javascript, and Ruby is even easier still.

Conclusion

No doubt learning a major new skill set is no easy task. It takes time and sweat and discipline. You can’t take such an effort lightly. But if you do decide to take the plunge it will be worth it.

Not only can RoR provide you with a vast array of benefits like cutting through the headaches of web application development, but, more importantly, it can help you become that software developer that everybody wants. And who doesn’t want that?

Can you share any other reasons why web developers should learn Ruby on Rails? Any reasons why they shouldn’t? Would love to hear your thoughts.

 

10 Favorite Things About the Ruby Language[ROR NETWORK]

I work with Ruby every single day, and over time have come to really enjoy using it. Here’s a list of some specific things that I really like about Ruby. Some of them are obvious, and some are shared with other languages. The purpose is to share things I like about Ruby, not to compare and contrast with any specific language.

1. Dynamic Typing

There are very good things about statically typed languages, such as compile-time verifiability and IDE support. However, in my experience, dynamic typing really helps get projects bootstrapped and smooths along changes, especially in the early to middle stages of a project.

I’m very happy that I don’t need to create a formal interface for my new objects to implement simply to enable me to easily swap out that class for another later on.

2. Duck Typing

This is effectively just an extension of Dynamic Typing. In Ruby, methods that expect to be able to operate on String objects don’t do checks for is_a?(String). They check whether the object respond_to?(:to_str) and then calls to_str on the Object if it does. Similarly, objects that represent Paths in Ruby can implement a to_path method to provide the path representation.

In Rails, we use this technique for objects that have “model” characteristics by expecting them to respond_to?(:to_model). This allows us to support any object in relevant contexts, provided those objects can supply us with a “model” representation of themselves.

3. Awesome Modules

Ruby provides a language feature similar to “traits” in Scala, Squeak, and Perl. Effectively, Ruby modules allow the dynamic addition of new elements of the class hierarchy at runtime. The use of super is dynamically evaluated at runtime to take into consideration any modules that might have been added, making it easy to extend functionality on a superclass as many times as desired, without being forced to decide where super will land at class declaration time.

Additionally, Ruby modules provide the lifecycle hooks append_features and included, which make it possible to use modules robustly to isolate extensions from one another and to dynamically extend classes on the basis of feature inclusion.

4. Class Bodies Aren’t Special

In Ruby, class bodies aren’t a special context. They’re simply a context where self points at the class object. If you’ve used Rails, you’ve probably seen code like this:

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Basevalidates_presence_of :post_idend

It may look like validates_presence_of is a language feature, but it’s actually a method being called on Comment that is provided by ActiveRecord::Base.

That method can execute arbitrary code, also in the context of the class, including creating new methods, executing other pieces of code, or updating a class instance variable. Unlike Java annotations, which must be run at compile-time, Ruby class bodies can take runtime information into consideration, such as dynamically supplied options or the results of evaluating other code.

5. String Eval

This is likely a heresy. I’m not referring to arbitrary runtime String eval here, but rather String eval that is used to create methods early in the boot process of a Ruby application.

This can make it possible to take Ruby-defined structures, like Rails routes or AOP-definitions, and compile them into Ruby methods. Of course, it is possible to implement these things as add-ons to other languages, but Ruby makes it possible to implement these sorts of things in pure Ruby. It is, to a large degree, a self-hosting language.

6. Blocks and Lambdas

I’ve said this a few times and I’ll repeat myself: I don’t consider languages without anonymous lambdas to be powerful enough for me to use day-to-day. These constructs are actually extremely common, and found in languages as diverse as Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, Clojure, and of course Lisp.

They make it possible to implement block-scoped constructs that look like language features. The most common example usage is for File operations. In languages without lambdas, users are forced to use an inline “ensure” block every in the same lexical scope that they originally opened the file in, to ensure that the resource is closed.

In Java:

static void run(String in)throws FileNotFoundException {File input = new File(in); String line; Scanner reader = null; try { reader = new Scanner(input); while(reader.hasNextLine()) { System.out.println(reader.nextLine()); } } finally { reader.close(); } }

Among other things, the Java version needs to wrap the creation of the Scanner in a try block so it can be guaranteed to be closed. In contrast, the Ruby version:

def run(input)File.open(input, “r”) do |f| each_line {|line| puts line } end end

Because of the existence of blocks, it is possible to abstract away the need to close the File in a single location, minimizing programmer error and reducing duplication.

7. Combo Attack: Self-Hosting Language

The combination of several of the above features produce real-life examples of ways that we can “extend” the Ruby language in Rails. Consider the following:

respond_to do |format|if @user.saveflash[:notice] = ‘User was successfully created.’ format.html { redirect_to(@user) } format.xml { render :xml => @user, :status =>ted, :location => @user } else format.html { render :action => “new” } format.xml { render :xml => @user.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity } end end

In this case, we’re able to seamlessly mix methods (respond_to) with normal Ruby code (ifand else) to produce a new block-scoped construct. Ruby’s semantics for blocks allow us toreturn or yield from inside the block, further blending the boundaries of the code-block and language constructs like if or while.

In Rails 3, we introduced:

class PeopleController < ApplicationControllerrespond_to :html, :xml, :json  def index @people = Person.find(:all) respond_with(@people) end end

Here, respond_to is provided at the class-level. It tells Rails that respond_with (in index) should accept HTML, XML, or JSON as response formats. If the user asked for a different format, we automatically return a 406 error (Not Acceptable).

If you dig in a bit deeper, you can see that the respond_to method is defined as:

def respond_to(*mimes)options = mimes.extract_options!  only_actions   = Array(options.delete(:only)) except_actions = Array(options.delete(:except))   each do |mime| mime = mime.to_sym mimes_for_respond_to[mime]          = {} mimes_for_respond_to[mime][:only]   = only_actions   unless only_actions.empty? mimes_for_respond_to[mime][:except] = except_actions unless except_actions.empty? end end

This method is defined on the ActionController::MimeResponds::ClassMethods module, which is pulled into ActionController::Base. Additionally, mimes_for_respond_to is defined usingclass_inheritable_reader in the included lifecycle hook for the module. The class_inheritable_reader method (macro?) uses class_eval to add methods onto the class in question to emulate the built-in attr_accessor functionality.

Understanding all of the details isn’t important. What’s important is that using the Ruby features we described above, it’s possible to create layers of abstraction that can appear to add features to the Ruby language.

A developer looking at ActionController::MimeResponds need not understand howclass_inheritable_reader works–he just needs to understand the basic functionality. And a developer looking at the API documentation need not understand how the class-levelrespond_to is implemented–she just needs to understand the provided functionality. With that said, peeling back each layer leads to simple abstractions that build on other abstractions. There’s no need to peel back the whole curtain at once.

8. Nice Literals

I often forget about this when programming in Ruby, only to crash back down to earth when using a language with fewer, less expressive literals.

Ruby has literals for just about everything:

• Strings: single-line, double-line, interpolated
• Numbers: binary, octal, decimal, hex
• Null: nil
• Boolean: true, false
• Arrays: [1,2], %w(each word is element)
• Hashes: {key => value} and in Ruby 1.9 {key: value}
• Regular expressions: /hello/, %r{hello/path}, %r{hello#{interpolated}}
• Symbols: :name and :”weird string”
• Block: { block literal }

And I think I’m missing some. While it may seem academic, good, readable literals can increase the programmer’s ability to write short but extremely expressive code. It’s of course possible to achieve the same sorts of things as you can with literal Hashes by instantiating a new Hash object and pushing the keys and values on one at a time, but it reduces their utility as method parameters, for instance.

The terseness of the Hash literal has allowed Ruby programmers to effectively add a limited keyword argument feature to the language without having to get approval by the language designers. Yet another small example of self-hosting.

9. Everything is an Object, and All Code is Executed and Has a self

I showed this to some degree earlier, but a lot of the reason that Class bodies work the way they do is a consequence of the unfailing object orientation of the Ruby language. Inside of a class body, Ruby is simply executing code with a self pointing at the class. Additionally, nothing is special about the class context; it is possible to evaluate code in a class’ context from any location. Consider:

module Utildef self.evaluate(klass) class_eval do def hello puts “#{self} says Hello!” end end end end   class PersonName < String evaluate(self) end

This is exactly equivalent to:

class PersonName < Stringdef helloputs “#{self} says Hello!” end end

By removing the artificial boundaries between code in different locations, Ruby reduces the conceptual overhead of creating abstractions. And this is the result of a strong, consistent object model.

One more example on this topic. This idiom is quite common in Ruby: possibly_nil && possibly_nil.method_name. Since nil is just an object in Ruby, sending it a message it does not understand will result in a NoMethodError. Some developers suggested the following syntax: possibly_nil.try(:method_name). This can be implemented in Ruby as follows:

class Objectalias_method :try, :__send__end   class NilClass def try nil end end

Essentially, this adds the method try to every Object. When the Object is nil, try simply returns nil. When the object is not nil, try just calls the method in question.

Using targeted application of Ruby’s open classes, combined with the fact that everything in Ruby, including nil, is an object, we were able to create a new Ruby feature. Again, this isn’t such a big deal, but it’s another case where the right choices in the language can allow us to create useful abstractions.

10. Rack

I’m going to cheat a little bit since Rack isn’t part of the Ruby language, but it does demonstrate some useful things about it. First of all, the Rack library only hit 1.0 earlier this year, and already every single Ruby web framework is Rack compliant. If you use a Ruby framework, you can be guaranteed that it uses Rack, and any standard Rack middleware will work.

This was all done without any backward compatibility sacrifices, a tribute to the flexibility of the Ruby language.

Rack itself also leverages Ruby features to do its work. The Rack API looks like this:

Rack::Builder.new douse Some::Middleware, paramuse Some::Other::Middleware run Application end

In this brief code snippet, a number of things are at work. First, a block is passed to Rack::Builder. Second, that block is evaluated in the context of a new instance of Rack::Builder, which gives it access to the use and run methods. Third, the parameter passed to use and run is a class literal, which in Ruby is a simple object. This allows Rack to callpassed_in_middleware.new(app, param), where new is just a method call on the Class object Some::Middleware.

And in case you think the code to implement that would be heinous, here it is:

class Rack::Builderdef initialize(&block)@ins = [] instance_eval(&block) if block_given? end   def use(middleware, *args, &block) @ins << lambda { |app| middleware.new(app, *args, &block) } end   def run(app) @ins << app #lambda { |nothing| app } end end

This is all that’s needed to implement the code I showed above the creates a new Rack application. Instantiating the middleware chain is a simple affair as well:

def to_appinner_app = @ins.last@ins[0…–1].reverse_each { |app| inner_app = app.call(inner_app) } inner_app end   def call(env) call(env) end

First, we take the last element from the chain, which is our endpoint. We then loop over the remaining elements in reverse, instantiating each middleware with the next element in the chain, and return the resulting object.

Finally, we define a call method on the Builder, which is required by the Rack specifically, that calls to_app and passes the environment through, kicking off the chain.

Some facts about java

Hello All ,

This is my First post about java. Everything has its own and very popular history. So when I think about java  the very first question arrived in my mind is how and why java ? Because we have c with us for the core programming and we have c++ for the entire object oriented concept. After going through a long discussion and from the internet I founded some facts which are sufficient for my queries.

So Let’ start with my first question

How we got java?

Java was created by a team led by James Gosling for Sun Microsystems, James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991. Java was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time.

The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling’s office; it went by the name Greenlater, and was later renamed Java, from Java coffee, said to be consumed in large quantities by the language’s creators. However, when Java 1.0 was released to the public in 1996, its main focus had shifted to use on the Internet.java language derives much of its syntax from c and c++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-levelfacilities.

Java is a fully functional, platform independent, programming language it has powerful set of machine independent libraries, including windowing (GUI) libraries.Java applications are typically compiled to byte code (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture.

The most interested thing about java is “write once, run anywhere” (WORA), meaning the code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another.

Why java ?

One characteristic of Java is portability, which means that computer programs written in the Java language must run similarly on any hardware/operating-system platform. This is achieved by compiling the Java language code to an intermediate representation called Java byte code, instead of directly to platform-specific machine code.

Java byte code instructions are analogous to machine code, but are intended to be interpreted by a virtual machine(VM) written specifically for the host hardware. End-users commonly use a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on their own machine for standalone Java applications.

Java is very powerful language but it has its own pros and cons too. so lets discuss some strong and weak points of java.

Pros

• Free.
• The syntax is familiar to the programmers that know any other C based language.
• Java (the platform) has a very large and standard class library, some parts of which are very well written.
• Java provides a platform for behavioral transfer from one address space to another. This is particularly evident in the dynamic class loading mechanisms of RMI (Remote Method Invocation).
• Automatic Memory Management implemented by Garbage Collection
• Explicit Interfaces
• Improving performance
• Good portability (certainly better than that of nearly any compiled alternative)
• Simplified syntax (compared to C++)
• Language design not committee driven
• Lots of available code and third-party libraries
• If you love OOP, the only way to write functions is to make them class methods.
• Many standard interfaces defined in the standard library, which would have been vendor/OS specific otherwise, helps a lot in achieving portability and ease integration/selection of 3rd party libraries. E.g. JDBC, JMS, JCE, JAI, serial I/O, JAXP, JNDI, etc. Some have correspondence in other languages (e.g. ODBC) but not all.

Cons

• Performance: Java can be perceived as significantly slower and more memory-consuming than natively compiled languages such as C or C++.
• Look and feel: The default look and feel of GUI applications written in Java using the Swing toolkit is very different from native applications. It is possible to specify a different look and feel through the pluggable look and feel system of Swing.
• Single-paradigm language: Java is predominantly a single-paradigm language. However, with the addition of static imports in Java 5.0 the procedural paradigm is better accommodated than in earlier versions of Java.

So , this is all about java from my side. This are some very  basic things about java . I hope it will give all of u a good  start with java.

Source: wikipedia

Future in IT field

It is well known affair that the recession came in the software field and lot of people lost their job due to that. But the latest news came in the news would have given hope in the mind of the computer graduates and the current students that the career opportunity for them will be broad for them.

Why should select the Software companies to work?

The development happened in the software department has changed to the good status nowadays that has made the software companies that the recruiting process will be higher in the next year with 70% increased in the total number. It is happy news for the computer graduates. The outsourcing field Also has developed as well as in the computer field said by the leading outsourcing company NASSCOM.

The quantity of employees to be recruited of top three outsourcing companies of India TCS, Infosys and Wipro is increased. So, the job opportunity for the current computer students and the graduates has increased.

It is expected that the importing rate of the software product of India to be increased to 57 billion American dollars within 2011. This import indicates the demand in the IT field and the same indicates that the situation of firing the employees of the IT department will be changed to the situation of recruiting the new employees for the same field. Many IT companies have started the campus interview culture for recruiting the employees directly from the colleges as before. This culture had given lot of confidence in the mind of the computer students before couple of years. The development in the IT field can be the root cause for the development of India totally. It is a proven truth. 2.3 million Indians are working in the Information Technology field presently. The reasons for the Indians to be in the IT field are, they are adjusting to work with small scale of salary, their fluency in English and their foreign collaborating skill.

What is happening in the IT companies?

The software companies, IT companies and the out sourcing companies are doing the following works most probably,

1.Answering the bank customers queries
2.Law and order activities
3.Engineering works
4.Producing the software products

NASSCOM has declared that they are planned to recruit more than one lakh and 50 thousands of new employees in the next year. This recruitment details can be get from the company web sites of the leading outsourcing companies.

Proof for the development in the IT field:

When we are hearing this good news, the curiosity may peep in our mind what is the reason for this development. The new projects got by the leading companies, the economical development of India. When the new projects are received in huge quantities, the quality policy and the policy of the companies can be changed. The changes will be like reducing the time gap between two projects. These reasons are clearly proving us that the IT companies are climbing the ladder again logically.

New IT park in Karnataka:

The Karnataka government has planned to build a big integrated IT park near the airport of Karnaaka. The construction works for the project has been started at the Veda nalli which is a place in Karnataka.

Industries to be built in the integrated park are,
Information Technology Company
Biotechnology industry
Automobile company
Pharmacy technology industry and
Cement Company

Bangalore has been the destination for the most of the graduates of all over India. There are reasons for that. They are,

Bangalore has been the capital for the Information Technology companies because there is lot of leading IT companies in Bangalore.
The next thing is the climate of Bangalore. It is hard to find people who don’t like the climate of Bangalore.
Bangalore is the city that has the huge number of IT companies in India.

10 Fun Microsoft Facts You Might Not Know

Despite ever-increasing Mac sales, Microsoft still has an undisputed dominance over the computer industry.

With such a vast presence, much has already been written about Microsoft: Its history, its products, even its former CEO Bill Gates. For those itching to know even more, we’ve dug up 10 snippets of info that you might not have heard before.

What experimental musician created the Windows start-up sound? How do they celebrate anniversaries? Does Microsoft have a “pest” problem? Have a read of our Microsoft-themed facts, stats and trivia and let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

1. “Micro-soft’s” First Ever Mention

The first ever mention of “Microsoft” was in a letter from Bill Gates to co-founder Paul Allen in 1975. Gates initially wrote the company name as Micro-soft, which made sense considering it’s a portmanteau of “microcomputer” and “software.”

Losing the hyphen, “Microsoft” was officially registered as a company in November, 1976 in New Mexico where Gates and Allen were working with their first major customer, MITS. Microsoft didn’t move to its current campus in Redmond, Washington until 1986.

The Microsoft logo has changed several times over the years, the current “Pac-Man” logo was introduced in 1987, but previous to that was the “blibbet” logo that’s pictured above. The “blibbet” refers to the stylized “o” and was apparently once the name of a burger served in the Microsoft company cafeteria.

2. Brian Eno Composed “The Microsoft Sound”

Pioneering musician Brian Eno was the musical brains behind Window 95′s start up tune, dubbed “The Microsoft Sound.”

The influential musician, who has worked with the likes of David Bowie and U2, told the San Francisco Chronicle that making such a short piece of music was “funny” and “amazing.” Eno likened the process to “making a tiny little jewel.”

Other musical trivia from the launch of Windows 95 is, of course, the use of The Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” in the ad campaign, while a related Eno fact is that he also composed the music for the computer game Spore.

3. Microsoft’s Fave Food Is Pizza

Although not quite at Google‘s level of snack-tastic, free-for-all wonder, Microsoft does offer free drinks. Over 23 million gratis beverages are downed on the corporate campus each year.

Apparently the top two drinks of choice for Microsoft staffers are milk and OJ. There’s also free candy on the Microsoft campus shuttle.

As far as food goes, Microsoft has around 35 cafeterias (one of which is pictured above) serving around 37,000 people each day. Pizza tops the list of most popular meal.

4. Microsoft Uses Codenames

Ever since the company’s first operating system, Microsoft has worked on its projects under codenames, of which Wikipedia has a long list. Apparently Gates was ready to launch Windows under the name “Interface Manager” before he was persuaded to change it by an employee.

Past codenames include “Longhorn,” “Lone Star,” and “Vienna.” While you might be tempted to add “Mojave,” to that list, it’s actually part of a Microsoft ad campaign. The “Mojave Experiment” was a marketing exercise that battled Vista’s poor PR by presenting the software to new users as a fresh product.

5. The Average “Softie”

The average Microsoft employee, or “Softie” as they call themselves, is a 38-year-old male with the average salary for a developer coming in at $106,000.

Microsoft currently employs 88,180 people who work across 32,404,796 square feet of Microsoft’s premises, over 50,000 of which are U.S.-based. The male to female ratio is very high among Microsoft’s American employees with a staggering 76% male workforce.

6. Microsoft Celebrates Anniversaries With M&Ms

All companies have their little in-house traditions, and Microsoft is no exception. It seems it’s customary for Softies to celebrate their yearly employment anniversaries with candy, and more specifically, M&Ms.

Each anniversary, a Microsoft employee is expected to provide one pound of M&Ms for every year they’ve worked. That means if Bill Gates observed the tradition, he should have turned up with 33 pounds of M&Ms on June 27, 2008.

7. Microsoft’s Stock Has Split Nine Times

Microsoft has split its stock nines times since it went public back in March 1986. Put very, very simply, a company will generally split its stock when its share price becomes too high.

Since Microsoft has had six 2-for-1 splits and three 3-for-1 splits, one original Microsoft share would now be equal to 288 shares today. Interestingly the price of Microsoft’s stock at its initial public offering was $21 a share, at the time of writing a share is now around the $23 mark. One original MSFT share would now be worth over $6,000.

8. Microsoft Has a Huge Art Collection

No, we’re not talking about Clip Art. Microsoft is one of the largest corporate collectors of artworks with over 5,000 contemporary pieces including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, ceramics, studio glass, and multimedia works. Microsoft gathers arts from local artists, up-and-coming artists and big names such asCindy Sherman, Chuck Close and Takashi Murakami.

A large proportion of the works are on display at more than 150 of Microsoft’s many campuses, as the company subscribes to the belief that art in the workplace reduces stress, increases productivity and encourages discussions and expression of opinions.

9. Microsoft Asks Strange Interview Questions

Microsoft has a reputation in the industry for asking off-beat, off-the-wall questions during its job interview. The most oft-quoted question is: “Why is a manhole cover round?” Whether this particular example is genuine, or an urban legend, it’s certainly true that Microsoft employs a very unusual, and forward-thinking interview process. It’s even rumored that companies like Google have since emulated the style.

Rather than plain “Where do you see yourself in five years” type questions, Microsoft is more likely to ask you to solve a logic puzzle or think through a problem like “Design a coffee maker that will be used by astronauts.” Obviously, Microsoft isn’t planning to go into the coffee-in-space industry anytime soon, but the process serves to find candidates that can think creatively.

10. Microsoft Holds Over 10,000 Patents

Microsoft holds over 10,000 patents and files around 3,000 every year, ranking as one of the top five patent owners in the U.S.

Although a large majority of the patents relate to obscure elements of software, the 5,000th and 10,000th were consumer-friendly, easily-understandable ideas. The 5,000th was for tech in Xbox 360 games that lets people “watch” a video game remotely, while the 10,000th was for the Microsoft Surface, linking real-life objects with data and images.

Microsoft also rewards its staff members for securing a new patent. Besides a $1,500 bonus, they get a wooden plaque and a decorative black “cube” that features their name, as well as the title and date of the patent.

BONUS: The Microsoft Campus is Full of Bunnies!

Our very own Jolie O’Dell found a great factoid about the Microsoft Corporate Campus, she gleaned while on a recent visit.

“So, back in the mists of time, some people dumped a bunch of rapidly reproducing pet bunnies — leftovers from kids’ Easter gifts — on a grassy knoll near the MSFT campus,” Jolie said. “The bunnies started doing what bunnies do best, that is, making more bunnies.

At one point, there were so many that MSFT staff had to start catching them and having them spayed and neutered! Nowadays, you’ll still see lots of rabbits hopping around, though. Way cuter than Google’s goats.”

It seems the bunny proliferation has been a long term issue. According to a 1998 Seattle Times article, the “Redmond rabbit problem” does not just affect Microsoft, but Nintendo, Eddie Bauer and other companies in the area.

The problem back then spawned the Redmond Rabbit Coalition group (many members of which are now involved in the current day Evergreen Rabbit Rescue) who campaign for a humane solution to the ongoing pest problem.

20 Strange & Interesting Facts About Microsoft, Google & Apple

If you have to pick three companies that take up most of your mindspace, I am sure you would plonk for The Big Three ““ Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

No three companies can be more different, but they affect our lives in the same way.

Microsoft, the oldest of the three, has the iron grip on desktop computing. Apple, next born, is about personal style thanks to iconic products like the Mac and the iPod. Google, the youngest, but arguably the most vivacious of the lot, has a finger in any pie that has to do with the internet (and beyond).

But how well do we know these three that are with us 24×7?
Every great company has a story behind its legend. Strange and interesting facts and anecdotes about behemoths such as these demonstrate that it’s not always about bits, bytes, multi-billion dollar revenues and lawsuits.

Interesting Facts About Google

“We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are ““ but not web pages.” ““ Sergey Brin

• 1. The well known “˜Don’t be evil’ is actually an informal motto of Google. It is a reference to their corporate philosophy which says that you can make money without being evil. It was coined by Paul Buchheit, the man behind Gmail.
• 2. Sergey Brin and Larry Page didn’t know too much about HTML. That’s why thefirst homepage had a very bare bones design. The simple design caused people to just sit there looking at the screen during initial tests. Test users were actually waiting for the “rest of the page to load”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was added as a line as an end of page marker.

• 3. Just so you know: “˜to google’ became a verb in 2006 when both Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary as well as the Oxford English Dictionary recognized it. It of course means – to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.
• 4. Users can search for content in 35 non-English languages, including Chinese, Greek, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian and Estonian. To date, no requests have been received from beyond the earth’s orbit, but Google has a Klingon interface if they decide to make contact one day.

 

• 5. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin assembled their first server to test the PageRank code, they housed ten 4 Gigabyte HDD in a cabinet made of Lego bricks.

• 6. Google’s core search engine ranking system is called PageRank. Each page is assigned a rank that determines its ranking in the search engine results. But the term is not taken from its function; it’s actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page. In the early days it was called BackRub.
• 7. How much energy does a single Google Search take up? Google says it’s about 1KJ (Kilo Joules). In green terms, it’s approximately equal to .2g of CO2 emitted per search. See it compared against everyday activities.

Interesting Facts About Microsoft

“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.” ““ Bill Gates

• 8. The first Operation System Microsoft coded was Xenix, which was a version of UNIX under a different name. But it was MS-DOS made for IBM PCs that gave it a foothold in the software market.

• 9. Bill Gates wrote a class scheduling program for his school. He tweaked the program’s code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students.

• 10. Microsoft fashioned the use of code names for under-development software and systems. For instance, Windows 7 was “˜Vienna’. Wikipedia has a complete list.
• 11. Did you know that you can’t create a folder named “˜con’ in Windows?
• 12. The first Windows virus was called Winver 1.4.
• 13. The name of its search engine “˜Bing’ has its origins in Bingo. Just like the game, it was meant to suggest that something looked for has been found or realized. “˜Bang’ was also proposed because it was memorable, short, and easy to spell. Finally, Bing was chosen for the same reasons.
• 14. Ironically, Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit is one of the largest developers of Macintosh software outside of Apple Inc. Also, Microsoft Office for Mac was introduced for Macintosh in 1989, a year before Office was released for Windows.

Interesting Facts About Apple

“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”““ Steve Jobs (on Mac OS X’s Aqua user interface)

• 15. Fortune magazine named Apple as the most admired company in the United States in 2008; and in the world in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
• 16. The original Apple logo had Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. It was replaced by the one we are more familiar with. To differentiate the silhouette of the apple from a cherry, the “˜bite’ was put in.

• 17. “˜Macintosh’ is in fact a variety of apple. It also was the first commercially successful personal computer that resembles the ones we use today. It was the first ones to have a graphical user interfaces (GUI) and mouse instead of command line interfaces.
• 18. Apple also made one of the first consumer digital cameras. The Apple QuickTake, launched in 1994 was discontinued in 1997. The camera could shoot and store eight photos at 640×480 resolution, 32 photos at 320×240 resolutions, or a mixture of both sizes.

• 19. Apple had a third founder besides Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Ronald Wayne had a 10% stake in the company. He forfeited his share to the new company for a total of $2,300. All three partners worked at Atari before they started Apple. Ronald Wayne drew the first Apple logo, wrote the three men’s original partnership agreement and wrote the Apple I manual. He has never owned an Apple product.

• 20. The flag bearer for Apple Inc, the Macintosh, wasn’t the brainchild of the two Steve’s. Jef Raskin an expert in human-computer interaction started and inspired the Apple Macintosh line. He also coined the name.

There are enough strange interesting facts to fill up entire bookshelves on these three companies. Tell us the ones you know.

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Interesting Facts About India

• India is about 1/3 the size of the United States, yet it is the Second most populous country in the world, with a population of 1,166,079,217. India is the seventh largest country in the world, at 1.27 million square miles.
• India leads the world with the most murders(32,719), with Russia taking Second at 28,904 mutders per year
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• More than million Indians are millionaires, yet most Indians live on less than two Dollars a day.  An estimated 35% of India’s population lives below the poverty line.
• Cow can be found freely wandering the streets of India’s cities. They are