Archive for September, 2006
September 24, 2006 at 3:39 am · Filed under Personal News
Yesterday, 22nd September, I started my job life in Canada. I have joined here in a company as Senior Web Application Developer. Well, here I start all over again. Although the company is not a big shot company, but still they are growing and in business since 1998. I hope I will be able to contribute my best that be good for the company.
My office is in downtown. The place I live in called Mississauga and the only way to reach downtown at the pick hour (6AM-8AM) is to take train. My brother dropped me off at the station at 7:30AM. Took the train at 7:45AM that reached the downtown Union Station at 8:20AM. As I was not sure what to do next and I did not want to take taxi (like I did during the interview), I started walking. My father and I browsed Google Maps the day before to find out the best path that reaches my office from the Union Station. So I had the route in my mind, that helped me recognizing the street names. On my way I forgot how many blocks will I have to walk and which road will lead me to the office. So I stepped in to a coffee shop, took a cup of coffee and took out my laptop. I had the map saved, so I studied that well, yet again. After walking for 20 more minutes I reached my office. It took me almost an hour walk to reach there. From Monday I will not be walking from station to office, because now I know there are Street Cars that takes $2.75 to travel between Station to Niagra Street (street that leads to my office).
Well, life has started rolling with busy schedule. I hope I can keep up with pace here. Please do pray for me.
Ramadan Mubarak to all of you. Take care and God Bless!
Thanks
September 18, 2006 at 6:12 am · Filed under Playground
Windows Installation steps for Ruby on Rails
You will have to download Ruby installer - click here - and run the installer.
Now next step is to install Rails and to do that go to Command Prompt [Start > Run > cmd]. Run the following command:
gem install rails -remote
This command will look for appropriate version of Rails for the Ruby, download it for installation. This installation process will give some options, select Y for all the givens.
Setup an empty Rails application
To setup a blank/empty Rails application open command prompt and navigate to your project directory:
cd D:/projects/ror/
Now let’s say we want to name our first Ruby on Rails web application “fror” [First Ruby on Rails]. To do so run the following command:
rails fror
This will create a directory called “fror” containing complete directory tree of folders and files for the Rails application.
Test our first Rails application
From the command prompt navigate into the directory that we have just created “fror” and type the following command to start built-in web server, WEBrick:
ruby script/server
Now try to run the URL http : // localhost : 3000/ and this should give you a message like “Welcome aboard”.
September 11, 2006 at 4:00 pm · Filed under Personal News
Is there anything missing? Well there is, a big part of my heart, left behind in Bangladesh. Yes, I’m in Canada
now! Miss everything that I had back home.
I was supposed to fly on Friday but due to some problem with Air India we had to cancel their ticket and buy a new for Cathy Pacific. Flight was scheduled for Thursday night. We (my father and I) managed to buy new tickets, get new endorsements in a day. We still had a lot of packing up remaining. That we started on Thursday morning. I was really happy when Tithi (my fiancé) came with her mother and sister to visit us. They stayed for a long time and Tithi stayed with me until I reached Air Port.
Well it was a very long route to Canada and must say was not a good one. It was very bad and hopeless service at Cathy Pacific. I traveled with Singapore, Thai, Malaysian, British airways before but never had this kind of bad service. Anyway when I first saw my brother after 7 years it was a good feeling. I really missed him a lot. When we left Air Port premises and entered the city, it felt like I was back to Australia. Everything was alike Melbourne. The weather is cold here. But not for my brother but for us it is.
BTW, I’m using my new laptop. Dell Inpiron I6400. My brother bought it for me before I came here. Its an awesome laptop. Here is a small configuration detail:
Intel Centrino Duo T2400 1.83GHz
Windows Home Edition SP2 (Windows Vista capable)
15.4 Inch Wide Screen
1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer4 DVD+R
write capability
128MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1300 HyperMemory™
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini Card (54Mbps)
…any few other stuffs….
And what can I say about internet connection! Back home I used to be happy when
at some point I got 4/5 KBps speed. It was a dream comes true. I remember when
I first downloaded Yahoo Messenger 8 at a speed of 2/3KBps it took me around
3/4 hours (probably more). Here I downloaded it in less than a minute! I’ve
just checked the speed and it gives me download speed of 192KBps and upload of
around 55KBps. Great isn’t it? I’m using wireless connection. Life is lot
easier here if you have a good job and good money. I hope to get a good job
soon. I’m just getting ready to apply for jobs.
Anyway besides all the good things I’m blessed with here in Canada,
I still miss my time in Bangladesh.
I know my country has a lot of problems, but the root belongs there. I will
hopefully go back to Bangladesh
very soon.
Thanks…
