Working with Ruby On Rails

Hi
It's a real shame on me to tell you that I am a Rails developer and I haven't mentioned about this in my blog yet. I have been working on this amazing web application framework from June 2009. And its almost 5 months along with this framework and I am really enjoying it. Infact this is my first exposure towards a Web application framework and I am really happy to begin it with Rails. With rails you feel comfortable. It gives you the freedom to think out of the box. Being a newbie to this language and framework, there a lot of stuffs to learn and practice. Presently I am using Netbeans IDE for developing my project and Netbeans has never given any problems to me. It infact seems to be the best IDE for Rails with so much of support and help for Rails framework.
I will be keeping you guys updated about Rails with this blog. So do check back regularly.

Aslam's BlogBuzz: Best On Blogspot Contest

I don't know how many of you might have heard of best-on-blogspot contest. Well let me tell you. This is a kind of contest run by blogspot blog to give recognition to other blogspot blogs. In this contest, bogspot blog owners can submit their blog in various categories when the contest is running. Once the contest begins, various readers can vote for their choice of blogs in various categories and hence at the end of the contest period(normally 2 months duration), the blog with maximum votes will be awarded with prize.


Aslam's BlogBuzz was the part of this contest twice, once in 2008 contest and in Aug-Sep 2009 contest. And I am very proud to say that, both these times this blog was selected to be the winner.


In Aug-Sep 2009 contest, the prize amount was $30 and one premium blogspot($15) theme from OOruc for FREE

Aslam's BlogBuzz >>>>> Aslam'sBuzz

It was Sunday and I had nothing much to do. After spending whole week with Ruby on Rails and Word-press theme design at office, Sunday has to be something innovative. I have been thinking to redesign my blog template for quite a few time. And finally it was today. Woke up bit too late and after the daily basic routine of breakfasts and other stuffs, I was in a complete good mood to give a new look to my blog.


My friends always used to make fun of my blog as it had hell a lot of colors and it was all shabby. But I loved my blog all the time. Why wouldn't I. It has won the best personal blog title twice from one of the blog contests and it earned me few dollars. Anyways it was today that I decided to give my blog a new look after one and half year long time. yes that does explain how busy I have been ;)



Looking for some good and attractive free blog templates online, I finally found this particular template from BloggerTricks.Com Template was cool, after checking it's demo, I decided this will be my new template at-least for some period of time.


In my previous blog template, I had installed Intense Debate commenting widget, and going ahead with this new template had the risk of getting rid of all my previous comments which was stored in IntenseDebate's server. But I had to take this risk to give a new look and feel for my blog. After the final installation, I had to make a lot of changes through this template. It had few problems which I had to fix manually. It did not have "Read More" option in the front page posts, so I had to write manual codes to get it fixed. Also top navigation bar was very dull, so worked on it to give some hover effects as well.


Well as of now everything seems to be fine with the template. I would be sticking with this template now. But I noticed one problem here, and that's whenever someone visits the blog for the first time in any browser, the browser asks them their twitter user-name and password. I think this has to be with the twitter updates widget installed in the template. I will be fixing this issue very soon.


Okay, what do you think about this new template of Aslam's BlogBuzz(Now Aslam'sBuzz)?
Do you find any issue with this particular look, if so please let me know your views so that I can work on it to make it more and more better.


So for now, CiaO ^_^

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 Compared to August, there was a very large increase in the number of visits in September and majority of the visitors coming from the Search engines like Google and Yahoo