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I live in San Francisco and am the Co-Founder of Two Bit Labs where we develop iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile apps for our clients. I love the mix of team leadership and working as a hands-on contributor. My technical passions include Objective-C, Java, Ruby, Cloud Computing, and open-source software.
I also love to sail and my wife, daughter, and I sailed out the Golden Gate in 2007 on our 38 foot Hans Christian cutter (sailboat) on a 3 year cruise. Read about it at http://sailsugata.com.
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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Here's hoping Radrails takes off as a Ruby on Rails IDE
In my hunt for a good Ruby IDE I’ve tried almost all of the Ruby IDE’s I could find. After using a variety of them I’ve lately been switching between Radrails and JEdit with the Ruby plugin. As a Java … Continue reading
Posted in Ruby
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Validation belongs in the domain model, not the MVC framework
In the Java world validation almost always seems to happen in the MVC framework. For example submitting a form causes some validation to occur on the form and then if all checks out the domain objects are populated and saved. … Continue reading
Posted in Software Engineering
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Cloaking, no need to be ashamed
Cloaking, the process of showing a user one view of your page and a search engine crawler another view of your page is (I believe) a fairly common practice that’s been hotly debated in the past and discouraged by search … Continue reading
Posted in Search Engine Optimization
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