Today i found an IDE for ruby on rails by aptana. Well aptana studio is based upon eclipse so they are also offering eclipse plugin to download. What i like about aptana studio is code compeletion with type inferencing feature and integrated unit testing. It has ability to detect all of your installed gems and also have options to update selected or all gems. There is lot more to explore about. you can download apatan studio and eclipse plugin for Ruby, PHP, Adobe AIR. Here the download like.

Click here to compare the list of features with NetBeans and 3rdRails IDE.

While moving around flex and php i found so many resource of my type combination applications, it’s CakePHP + AMFPHP + Flex. CakePHP is well known framework based over MVC architecture. AMFPHP is a free open-source PHP implementation of the Action Message Format(AMF).

What i like about AMFPHP, Can be easily integrated with CakePHP framework. Right now i’m bit busy so can’t give try to this. but soon i’ll give it serious try and post here continuously.

Ohloh, a company that ranks the nation’s top open source coders, is opening its service to let other developers to track and rank their own teams. What they do is assign something calle KudoRank to each coder based on the activity done by that coder. Because these are all open source projects, the number of lines of code by each developer can be counted and thats how the KudoRank comes up (its a number between 1 and 10).

I just read about this and I find it quite an interesting thing to do. More info here .

Its interesting how they count the number of lines of code.

I was curious to find out how other people write posts on their blogs. I assume its mostly via the web admin interface or via a secure email address which posts to the blog. This is what I used to do as well. However, recently, I found out about Windows Live Writer, which, to be honest, is really cool. It is a desktop tool that allows you to write offline posts, preview them using your blog’s stylesheets and then post them when you are ready. It is packed with a lot other features. I think this is really useful as the editors in a webpage are always a bit dodgy when you write long posts. The best part is , it supports most of the blog softwares out there, including Wordpress which I use. This piece of software from Microsoft does look really neat.

I just installed Wordpress to start looking into it and as I started blogging more and more, I didn’t get a chance to change my blog software.

By the way, I am writing this post from within Windows Live Writer.