“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
– Albert Einstein
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
– Albert Einstein
This is my attempt to find fellow “Ruby on Rails” developers in Mumbai. If you are passionate about developing web applications in Rails, I would like to meet up with you to share our experience and passion for Rails. Get in touch: jigar.gosar/gmail
About me: I have been exploring Rails since mid 2006. Have developed and launched an application http://www.simplegtd.com, in Jan 2007. Its under active development. Professionally I work as a Java developer.
Until recently, all my computers were configured to run “Windows Task Manager” on system startup. I like the fact that I can monitor CPU usage in the system tray.
And, as usual, some thing better came along. Its called the Process Explorer. Its too good, I replaced my task manager with it. The best part is that I can now monitor disk I/O in system tray. Hurray!!!
Wondering what a process does? just select it and press Ctrl+M for googling it
It can completely replace “Windows Task Manager” by checking “Options>Replace Task Manager”
Shows entire process tree.
Each process can be restarted and even suspended. Entire process tree can also be killed.
The properties of each process shows tones of information regarding it, starting from its tcp connections to its individual cup/disk other resource usages.
Must watch !!! The funniest comedy routine ever. Abbott and Costello perform the classic “Who’s on First”.
A: Who’s on First?
B: Absolutely.
A: Whats the guys name on the first base?
B: No, what is the guys name on second base.
A: I don’t know.
B: He is on third.
Update (28-Feb-08): For “Writing”, I have decided to rely on my default philosophy, “Will do it only when it feels good”. I don’t want to write just for the heck of it.
I have made few attempts at writing. And I got overwhelmed thinking about what to write about; that which will make more revenue, or that which will make me feel good. Also the things that I think might make me feel good, need not necessarily possess that quality. Taking action is the only way to find out. There is infinite choice, which is overwhelming, paralyzing. I did publish an article on a technical topic but couldn’t find enough drive to finish it off. So, I pulled the plug, got it off the blog. Incomplete tasks tend to drain my energy, when left so.
I blamed the size of the article for building the resistance to finish it off. Finally, I decided to start by writing my worst, smallest five articles. I figured if the burden of producing the best is taken off, I can find myself typing again without being overwhelmed, paralyzed. And the small size of articles, is in alignment with keeping the feedback loop small, which can act as a strong motivator. And five is a decent number, which when hit, I can stop and contemplate where to go next.
