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Ever wonder what goes inside a busy day of an entrepreneur living up to his entrepreneurial functions and activities? Basically... a lot. The very first thing that would enter his mind when he wakes up in the morning is how to show efficiency and effectiveness to the client the benefit of his presentation. Then he would walk into his office and meet with them. He would emphasize the importance of patronizing his ideas. When they shook hands with it, an entrepreneur knows that's the start of a brand new day. - Sumanth

Very true to every word of the article... The gist... "Time has come for small startups to kick butt." - Sumanth

collection of various Mahatma's stamps from different countries. - Sumanth

Sanitize before saving or before displaying? Or both? Should you sanitize text before saving it or before displaying it? It's nice to not need to worry about doing anything extra in your views. However, if a field escapes your notice, you may be open for an attack. I think your first line of defense should be model-level sanitization, but auto-escaping HTML is good backup. Doing both covers your bases at a cost of extra processing. - Sumanth

A central tenet in The Silver Lining is that the tough times today are actually a hidden boon for innovation -- scarcity will drive discipline, forcing innovators to focus on critical assumptions and make quick decisions. - Sumanth

If you're the new boss, how do you make sure that you don't repeat the bad habits of the old bosses who drove you crazy? My advice is to develop solid answers to five make-or-break questions for aspiring leaders - Sumanth

6 Networking Mistakes And How to Avoid Them.... - Sumanth

From the page: "Ruby is a fast language, and a great one in so many ways, but nothing in this world is truly free. Itâ€s very easy to do things that seem inconsequential but that later can bring your application to a grinding halt. In this post, Iâ€ll outline five important ways that you can avoid some of the most common problems Rails apps encounter." - Sumanth

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Rasta is a keyword-driven test framework using spreadsheets to drive testing. It's loosely based on FIT, where data tables define parmeters and expected results. The spreadsheet can then be parsed using your test fixtures. For the underlying test harness, Rasta uses RSpec so in addition to reporting results back to the spreadsheet you can take advantage of RSpec's output formatters and simultaneously export into other formats such as HTML and plain text. - Sumanth

handy post on ruby csv :) - Sumanth

Good article of jquery slider plugin to similate codaslider ;) - Sumanth

good presentation on sinatra usage over twitter API :) - Sumanth

cool jquery plug-in - Sumanth

Good design - Sumanth

What makes a successful entrepreneur? Are there specific qualities that one needs to have? Most importantly, are there specific questions that one needs to answer, in order to understand what lies ahead? Here are some questions (courtesy WallStreetJoural) that might help you in deciding whether to take `that' plunge or not: - Sumanth

Ajax pagination This is the most popular feature request for will_paginate library. Reasons why the core library doesn't support this are: 1. pagination is a concept decoupled from HTTP requests and rendering; 2. Ajax pagination is done differently across web frameworks; 3. Ajax is done differently across JavaScript libraries (not everyone uses Prototype); 4. The JavaScript side of the Ajax pagination concept is not trivial at all. - Sumanth

Cool list of social networking web startups ;) - Sumanth

Simple snippet to control style with jquery - Sumanth

Great analysis and comparison of various urls shortening services :) - Sumanth

good quotes from successful people - Sumanth

few handful tips to beat the recession and get most out of the employees... - Sumanth

Great team of developers spread ed across Europe and Asia to offer quality consultation services for web applications/products ... - Sumanth

Cool and handy collection of php components. - Sumanth

A nice tool where the conveniently upload images, share or mail the images :) - Sumanth

Interesting survey regarding Ruby on Rails(learning/developing/deploying/tools...) - Sumanth

Rails Logging Tips Ruby on Rails comes prewired for logging using Logger from the Ruby Standard Library. This article demonstrates how to use the Rails logger, how to create your own logs, and offers some tips for debugging with console logging. - Sumanth

If you live in the United States, don't forget to set your clocks an hour ahead before you go to sleep tonight as Daylight Saving Time goes into effect tomorrow morning at 2 am. While the practice has been around for many years, working out times for the various time zones in the States can still cause confusion, particularly this weekend, and especially as not all states observe Daylight Saving Time. Enter Google and its 'time' shortcut. - Sumanth

Web Accessibility principles - Sumanth