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Here are some late updates of things I’ve been up to in the past three months since my last blog post:

I released a Rails plugin named SimplySearchable, never got the chance to blog about it yet and still hoping to get the time to release a new version.
I had the chance this year to present [...]

Few days ago Cloves Carneiro Jr. my partner and co-founder in SpinBits got his first book out, . It’s a Rails book, published by Apress and co-authored with Jeffrey Allan Hardy, the man behind Quoted Printable, and Hampton Catlin the one behind HAML the famous templating engine for Rails..
If you follow Ruby and Rails blogs [...]

It is always exciting to see more of Ruby and Rails here in the Middle East and specifically in Dubai, UAE. Since our first (and only) RailsUAE meetup six months ago we didn’t have much activities, but now with the Google Group and its active members, we start having more discussions and what’s more important [...]

Yes!! Finally and after a very long period of time I’m back. I didn’t know how to face you guys, the great readers of this modest blog. With every day passing I was more worried on how to come back and how to explain, then I realized that I should come back first and blog [...]

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Yes, it is the end, but not the end of laughter as in The Doors song, it’s just the end of my silence and the fresh start over of this website, with many things cooked up and ready to be served.
So I’m back, back [...]

What a wonderful thing to see how Ruby is getting better attention nowadays, a programming language that was known only in Japan and created by only one man is now known globally, not only in USA and Europe but also in south Asia, India and here in the Middle East too.
“PuneRuby is a non-profit organization [...]

You may have heard about the “Art for Art’s Sake” slogan and movement that had spread widely in Europe in the 19th century, this concept of doing the art for the sake of the art itself not just to make money or to satisfy anybody but just to satisfy the art passion and the desire [...]

During the last few years software development has taken a completely different direction, we used to look for softwares as stand-alone applications, search for what is compatible with our operating systems and what’s really affordable for us to buy, now things have changed dramatically, everything is getting “webified”, things that we never expected to be [...]

Lately I had several discussions with many friends on what is the best market for web business firms to target, is it the local market, or the international market?
In any project and in every company during the planning stage, the owners and the creators start by studying the markets and see the benefits of each [...]

As you may have seen from the date of my last post I haven’t published any new post for over two weeks now, which I should have an explanation to, and this is what I will try to do here.

In the last couple of weeks, in addition to the heavy work load I had, I [...]