The Ruby programming language has recently become widely adopted with the advent of key web frameworks and applications. The big player, being Ruby on Rails has wide-spread it’s usage infectiously. I’ve always been a loyal PHP fan – having used it for five years now. I did not want to spend time learning another programming language again. I tried Cake and other popular frameworks but they are still to immature to consider for a large-scale application.

Finally the digg link, (should be close to 1000 diggs) on the front page tempted me to try an interactive hands-on demo. Its too simple, easy and fast. I’m going to test-drive rails soon on a small application and see whether it shapes up to the endless hype floating around. I might even end up hooked. Time is money, simple is good.

Query: Its almost impossible to create a folder called ‘con’ in Windows XP.

Answer: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 are all Windows reserved device names from the early days of DOS. You learn something new each day.