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Ruby on Rails (RoR) is in an open source web development framework that is optimized for programmer specifically for rapid development, fast paced productivity and easy code implementation. RoR is a language, and its English. What do I mean by that is it’s basically a plain English programming language. And it is one of a kind. I had the time to study and play around with RoR during my waiting period here in Japan. And I am very impressed on how quick I was able to create a simple web application in just a few hours, and programming terms are very easy to memorize. Basically RoR came from two separate projects, Ruby and the Rails framework, thus became Ruby on Rails. It is quite amazing because, Ruby was first conceptualized on Japan. Which is freaky, Japan is not known for its software, and since programming languages are largely written in English, who would suspect a language by this king would come from Japan. And yet, we have Ruby on Rails. Against the odds, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, a Japanese Computer Scientist and Software Programmer. He started working on Ruby on February 24, 1993 and released it to the public on 1995. “Ruby” was coined after a colleague’s birthstone, which later he realized that Ruby comes after Pearl in several situations, in birthstones Pearl is June, Ruby is July and when measuring font sizes, pearl is 5pt, ruby is 5.5pt. He then thought Ruby was a good name for programming language newer (and hopefully better) than Perl.
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Somebody might have heard of Google Calculator, somebody might not have. So for those who have not yet understand what I am talking about, I will give you a short introduction. Google Calculator, is a built-in calculator into the Google’s search engine, basic mathematical computations as well as advance calculations are translated and evaluated, if the expression is mathematically resolvable you will have a result right on top of the search result. There are a lot of ways to input formulas and expression, a basic example is:

49-19
123*200
567/5
79+149

You can also do a monetary conversion as follows:

500 US dollar to php
10000 yen to US dollar

Querying a constant value for example:

speed of light
pi
elementary charge

Those are a few sample of keywords you can use to activate Google Calculator. And see it in action. For a quick in-depth explanation of other expression possible. You can check Google Calculator.

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There have been rumors of Uchiha Clan’s history theory circulating on naruto forums, the theory tells a Dark Secret within the Uchiha clan, and Uchiha Itachi’s reason of killing his entire clan, leaving Sasuke the only survivor. So here is the complete transcript of the theory:

Hyuuga clan is one of the oldest clans in Konoha.They have been there ever since the establishment of the hidden village.Many years ago there was a girl from Hyuuga clan who fell in love with an outsider. She decided to marry herself to the young man despite the strong protests from her own clan. But this man was no ordinary human. In fact, this man was not a human at all. His name was Sojobo. He was the King of Tengu.
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Disabling all form elements in javascript is quite easy, you only need to loop inside a form object and change the disabled property to true or false. Below is the function you can use to call to enable/disable form elements.

function formElementsDisabled(frm,val){
  frmElem= frm.elements;
  for(i=0;i
      
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In Web Development, software tools are very important. I myself have a collection of small applications which for me makes my work easier and smooth. Here are the lists of software I have used and hope could help other web developer/web designer.

Nattyware’s Pixie
a color picker and magnifier application, this is a free software.

Windows XP PowerToy
there are two application I like the most here Its the ImageResizer which resizes image files just by right-clicking the file. And the Taskbar Magnifier this will enable you to have a magnifier section on your taskbar, this is very useful when looking for details of web output, right on the comfort of your taskbar.

Firefox
as a web developer, I find firefox the most useful browser, the extension support converts this browser to an ultimate web developer application one must have.
Firefox Plugins
Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer
IE Tab
OperaView
Web Developer
Load Time Analyzer
Tidy Browser

EditPad Lite
a handy yet powerful text editor application, this is free of charge

JR Screen Ruler
an on screen ruler, useful when measuring web page dimension.

I hope this list could help you become more productive on your work. This tools helped me and I do not see any reason this can be an additional tool on your swiss knives collection. Enjoy!

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