Archive for the ‘programming’ tag.
Seminar: Strengths and weaknesses of various programming languages – 28th March
What: A presentation on the strengths and weaknesses of various programming languages, and how to choose one for your application, by Dhananjay Nene When: Saturday, March 28th, 4pm Where: SICSR – Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research – Map Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. No registration required. Details: Confused about [...]
Improve your web based software development and maintenance ROI with dynamic programming languages
After we carried a few quick articles on why you should learn more about Ruby and Ruby on Rails (take 1, take 2) last month, we decided that we wanted to give people a much deeper article on why these new languages (Ruby, Python, PHP) and frameworks (Rails, Django) are setting the web world on [...]
Why Ruby is cool – take 2
Image via Wikipedia Earlier today, we had an article by Nick Adams on why you need to learn Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails. That post attracted a detailed comment by Ravindra Jaju which elaborated on some of the themes touched upon in the original article. Since it brings out nicely the power of Ruby, we decided to [...]
Why you need to learn Ruby and Rails
Image via Wikipedia With increasing visibility for the Ruby programming language, and the passion that people show for Ruby-on-Rails for web development, we felt that we would like to delve a little into what makes Ruby so cool and Rails so hot. Especially, in light of the fact that Ruby Fun Day is happening in [...]
Open-source Code Camp last weekend – A report
The Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG) had organized a code camp on Saturday, with the intention of getting a bunch of developers to get together and develop code, talk about code, answer each others’ coding questions on specific coding projects. Aditya Godbole one of the PLUG members who attended, posted this overview of the event [...]
Code Camp – A hackfest organized by PLUG
What: A two-day hackathon, with (possibly) a focus on developing open-source and/or linux software When: From 22 November 9am to 23 November 10am (overnight!) Venue: Bhaskaracharya Prathishthan Registration and Fees: This event is free and open to all. No registration required Details Code Camp is a 24-hour hackfest organized by the Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG). [...]