Sehwag’s record

• First opener in Test cricket to record two triple centuries.
• First player to post two triple hundreds at two different venues – Chennai and Multan.
• Joined the elite club of Sir Don Bradman and Brian Lara as only the third batsman in the history of Test cricket to score two triple centuries
• Sehwag’s triple century off 278 balls is now the fastest in the history of Test cricket
• Virender Sehwag became the first man in the history of the game to be
  involved in two 200 plus partnerships in a single innings of a Test
  match, this is also the first instance when the first two partnerships
  of an innings has been 200 plus
• Rahul Dravid became the 3rd Indian to go past 10,000 Test runs after Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar.
• Dravid created the record of being involved in the most number of hundred partnerships in Tests, 72 in all.

He never cares for a bowler whether scores 10 or 100. His score will always be maintained by seconds’s needle not by minute’s hand.

RoR developers:4 million by2013

According to Gartner, the number of Ruby On Rails developers will grow to some 4 million by 2013. While many of these will be hobbyists, Gartner believes the largest area of growth will be inside the firewall. There’s one problem. Until recently, there have not been any instrumentation or management tools, which IT shops see as a vital ingredient in getting things done. Enter FiveRuns, funded to the tune of $9 million by Austin Ventures.

FiveRuns is offering a hosted management service at $40 per server per month. Its Manage service lets users monitor performance deep into the application, helping developers understand how their application is impacted by databases, operating systems and other web services.

Today, FiveRuns claims 95 customers. I spoke with Investment Instruments, which is developing real estate solutions for the rental market. Its marquee offering for landlords is Rentomatic, which is used by landlords to manage rental units. Its other offering is Rentometer, a service that is designed to provide valuation transparency into the rental market for both landlords and tenants.

They say the value FiveRuns delivers comes from Investment Instruments developers’ ability to get visibility into the Rails environment without having to chase down server logs or find a support person. In other words, the developers can act as environment managers. Investment Instruments also says that FiveRuns gives them the means to take actions on flow queries which they see as an important part of what they need to do in order to optimize a complex environment that also includes integration to legacy systems. Net-net it means time and money saved in the development process.

FiveRuns’ goal is to become a complete Rails management provider but this is not necessarily going to be an easy nut to crack inside the enterprise. I spoke with industry analyst Michael Coté of Redmonk who said: “There is going to be a Rails explosion but there is no assured way to launch a scalable solution to the management problem. Right now, you’ve got to get the attention of the person who is deeply into Rails rather than thinking about the enterprise and that means entering the conversations that are going on in and around the Rails community. If FiveRuns can help stop developers shooting themselves in the performance foot then they’re going to get that attention.”

This is a space that is wide open but as noted, we are very early in the game. There is nothing to stop a Tivoli or CA from breezing into the space and attempting to eat FiveRuns lunch. My belief is that it is the vendor that successfully builds up the conversational community with Rails users that will outrun any incumbent player that tries to flip into this space.

RoR in India

Aspire Systems, India’s leading outsourced product development company, today announced that it has been awarded with an US-based open-source development project on the back of its RoR expertise. The winning of this project demonstrates Aspires Systems’ strength in leveraging newer technologies to further its business goals.

Speaking on the new RoR project, Mr. Sunil JNV, VP (Delivery), Aspire Systems said, “Aspire is very excited about the project and is deploying Ruby on Rails (RoR) for this particular project. We develop products and web applications using Agile development techniques. Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that ensures faster development, easier maintenance with reduced number of bugs and hassle-free configuration.”

Shankar Krishnamoorthy, CTO, Aspire Systems said, “RoR is fast catching up in the market as a preferred technology. RoR simplifies development with several innovative techniques such as scaffolding, convention over configuration, etc. With RoR our customer will be able to initiate and maintain an unlimited number of cases. Our customer can also enjoy better Web 2.0 support when compared to other technologies.”

Ref: http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/pressnews/aspire-wins-large-open-source-development-projects