Saleh Blog

The software development framework Rails has earned a vocal following and created loyal users. Hal Fulton a Ruby expert explains what this community did right, and how others can learn from it. You can read this article from here.

So you’ve checked your clock for the third time in the last ten minutes. It just past two in the morning and you have to get up at seven to get to work. You’ve tried everything to get to sleep but something between life stresses and that fourth cup of coffee you had are keeping you up. What do you do?

ScottHYoung tells you the rest here

I found this website after surfing some blog feeds. nibbles tutorials are short tutorials that teachs you a specific feature at a time.

Charlie Key wrote a great article on how to bridge between Flex and Javascript. Bridging means Javascript and Flex’s Actionscript codes can interacte with each other. Great blog, I’ll add it to my feeds!

Google has launched an interface for iPhone users that makes using Google on your iPhone super easy. It’s powered by the AJAX search API, and also supports image search. Here is a sample.

And that’s the real news here: they’ve rolled out image search for the AJAX search API. Anything build on this API benefits from fast access to image search results, a full suite of raw, javascript-accessible properties and customization of the results using HTML and CSS. There’s a demo below, along with a picture to the right of what it looks like on the iPhone.

Ajaxian posted:

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We recently got pinged about a job request that we just had to post about 🙂

If you like coding in Ajax, and know how to shoot a gun, this could be for you.

Title: Web Developer
Salary: $200K plus DOE
Taxes: No Federal taxes taken out for the contractors that accept a 12 month. (6 month contractors will have taxes taken out)
Location: Iraq
Start date: ASAP with 2 weeks training (one in Washington DC and another in Ft. Bening GA)
# of Openings: 1
Summary:A principal Department of Defense agency is looking for programmers, developers or coders to code, support field deployment and maintenance of a new database application which will be used by Army units in Iraq. Scope These are full-time positions (12/7) located at one of the major US Bases in IRAQ. Deployment will be period of 6-12 months. Training on the application software will begin prior to deployment and will take place in Virginia. These positions are available for full time employment or for independent contractors. These positions are available now.
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Kinda risky job to stay in US base in Iraq, so they had to raise the salary. But damn, that’s a good salary! It’s like a dream coming true.. big salary and the job I love. But I don’t want to work with any organization that has any relation with killing people like the army.

BrianArmstrong written an interesting article about how to finish a book in a week without additional time out.