Large development@Rails

With my recent Googling, I could crawl through few sites, blogs and data analytic graphs. I was shocked to know the jumping intercourse relation of web development with RoR, Specially on the blog http://www.railsonwave.com/ about the migration of site http://www.yellowpages.com/ from JAVA to Rails with so many positive results. I won’t make you to go through the blog and read each and every line unless you want…

Yes I am up with few highlights :

· Yellowpage has got 23 million visitors a month, this shows the Rails is fit for a large application in terms of performance.

· From 125.000 lines of code in Java, mainly written by external consultants from 2004 to 2005, to at least 20.000 lines of code in only 3 months of development from a team of 4 developers.

Sites those are developed in Rails and could be matter of a crown here, I would love to list few of them: (Yeah all of them has got 10+ million visitors@per month)

· http://www.yellowpages.com/

· http://www.revolutionhealth.com/

· http://www.43things.com/

· http://odeo.com/

· http://twitter.com/

Few more can be highlighted here:

· http://www.spock.com/

· http://penny-arcade.com/

· http://chowhound.com/

Ruby security vulnerabilities

Multiple arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Ruby have been revealed by the Apple Product Security team which could lead to Denial of Service attacks. A total of five vulnerabilities have been reported, with versions impacted being:

1.8.4 and all prior versions
1.8.5-p230 and all prior versions
1.8.6-p229 and all prior versions
1.8.7-p21 and all prior versions
1.9.0-1 and all prior versions

Upgrading to either 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7-p22 or 1.9.0-2 is recommended.

Details could be found at

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/6/21/multiple-ruby-security-vulnerabilities

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/06/20/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities

Top-Paid CEOs (Tech’s)

Forbes, as it does every year, has released its list of top executive salaries.

NAME | COMP | 1Yr. compensation | Rank@CEOs

Lawrence Ellison | Oracle | $192.9 M | 1

Nabeel Gareeb | MEMC Electronic Materials | $79.6 M | 6

John Chambers | Cisco Systems | $54.8 M| 19

Mark Hurd | Hewlett-Packard | $27.6 M| 56

Jen-Hsun Huang | NVIDIA | $24.6 M| 61

Samuel Palmisano | IBM | $24.3 M | 63

Wendell Weeks | Corning | $22.6 | 72

Joseph Tucci | EMC | 20 M | 87

William Sullivan| Agilent Technologies | $17.4 M| 102

Paul Otellini | Intel | $16.3 M | 109

Steven Jobs | Apple | $14.6 M | 120

Jonathan Schwartz | Sun Microsystems | $13.5 M| 130

RailsConf 2008

May 29-June 1, 2008
Portland, Oregon

RailsConf is the official event for the growing Rails community.

HR managers go for web2.0 to attract talent

At a seminar on “Innovative Hiring Strategies” organized by CII, recruiters said they are junking traditional talent tapping methods, and increasingly targeting social networking websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Jobster to identify and attract quality human assets. They said while the bulk of senior and middle level hiring may still be through employee and headhunter referrals, the situation is fast changing.

According to P. Rajendran, director and COO, NIIT, employee referrals account for 30% of their recruitments. He says with web2.0 gaining popularity, this number could go up 60% in future.

According to a survey by Kelly Services, 40% of the respondents found their most recent jobs online. So, companies are actively looking at social networking websites, in addition to web portals.

With recruiters increasingly relying on social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook, to get the right man for the right job, what will happen to the traditional headhunter?

Rank of programming languages & TIOBE

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here

Rank Mar 2008	Rank Mar 2007	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Mar’08	Delta Mar’07	Status
1	1	=	Java	20.651%	+2.61%	A
2	2	=	C	15.593%	-0.04%	A
3	5	++	Visual Basic	10.795%	+2.65%	A
4	4	=	PHP	10.138%	+0.68%	A
5	3	–	C++	9.776%	-1.33%	A
6	6	=	Perl	5.781%	-0.64%	A
7	7	=	Python	4.593%	+0.70%	A
8	9	+	C#	4.143%	+0.78%	A
9	12	+++	Delphi	2.697%	+0.94%	A
10	10	=	Ruby	2.661%	-0.11%	A
11	8	—	JavaScript	2.462%	-1.02%	A
12	14	++	D	1.107%	-0.16%	A
13	13	=	PL/SQL	0.747%	-0.80%	A
14	11	—	SAS	0.630%	-1.22%	A-
15	18	+++	COBOL	0.615%	-0.03%	A-
16	21	+++++	Pascal	0.554%	-0.01%	B
17	17	=	Ada	0.485%	-0.17%	B
18	16	–	Lisp/Scheme	0.434%	-0.29%	B
19	19	=	FoxPro/xBase	0.423%	-0.18%	B
20	25	+++++	Lua	0.385%	-0.01%	B