http://developers.inxsasia.com/~hemant/blog

So here goes my code, without much talk:

<form action='updater' method='post' enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table>
<tr>
<td> Tag :</td><br>
<td><input type="text" name="picture[tag]" /></td>
</tr>
<% for i in 1..5 %>
<tr>
<td> File :</td>
<td>
<input id="<%= "picture_#{i}_filename_temp" %>" name="<%= "picture[#{i}][filename_temp]" %>" type="hidden" />
<input id="<%= "picture_#{i}_filename" %>" name="<%= "picture[#{i}][filename]" %>" size="30" type="file" />
</td>
</tr>
<% end %>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><%= submit_tag "Upload" %></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
and here goes my controller code:

def updater
user_id = session[:user].id
Picture.current_user_id(user_id)
tag = params[:picture][:tag]
logger.info("And tag is #{tag}")
params[:picture].each do |file_id,attr|
logger.info("Somehow we reached inside the loop and file is is #{file_id}")
begin
file_id = file_id.to_i
if file_id>=1 and file_id <=5
logger.info("File ID is #{file_id}")
picture = Picture.new(attr)
picture[:tag] = tag unless tag.nil?
picture[:user_id] = user_id
if picture.save
logger.info("Picture saved")
end
end
rescue
logger.info("#{$!}")
end
end
redirect_to :action => 'list'
end

And here goes my model code:

class Picture < ActiveRecord::Base
file_column :filename, :magick => {
:versions =>
{
:small => {:crop => "1:1", :size => "155×155!" },
:thumb => {:crop => "1:1", :size => "50×50!" },
:medium => { :size => "640×480" }
}
}

validates_presence_of(:filename, :message => "Please enter a filename")
def self.current_user_id(temp_user_id)
@current_user = temp_user_id.to_s
end
end
Note that, i am not using file_column_field tag helper…because somehow it doesn't like file arrays…so i rather stuck to my own devices.I am not in mood of much typing now..so if you have doubt…feel free to mail me.

I cleared written and first stage of interview and i feel a little proud of it(*damn it*). In the second stage, they realised – “Hey, you are a Chemical Engineer” and they showed me the door. “Thank you, very much – Hemant”.

The HR guy was really sorry for me, I guess he was more sorry than actually i was.I told him, – ” Its ok, it happens”.

They asked all kind of questions…. Algorithms, Data Structures, Mutlithreading, Context switches, Sharing of data between threads and processes.

We talked about GTK+,QT and Mono. They had “Linux For you” magazine in their office. And what else, “Linux” was all over my resume. And their feedback was, “You are strong in problem solving, but a little weak in CS fundametals”.

That will run as a charm on all platforms. This quest has led to the development of languages and tools that target a runtime(CLR or JVM), in stead of a machine readable compiled code. But they are far from perfect. John Carmack once said about Java – “Write once, slow everywhere”. This is largely true, isn’t it. As the raw power of a PC hardware increases the needs of softwares running on them is also increasing.

 Windows Vista will have many apps and libraries that will run on .NET framework. They will use, 3D engine to render menus, buttons etcetra. Wonder, why you must have 512 MB of ram for running Windows Vista.

Same is true with Linux. Once upon time, you can have GUI running on a PC with 32Mb of RAM. Now, if you are running something like Suse-10.0, then your system will crawl at 512MB. you see the difference.

 Perhaps, the needs of softwares is increasing far more exponentially than the supply of raw power by hardware vendors.

Reasons? Plently, but that is not our topic of discussion. The question is, do we have the perfect language that we want. If you would ask me, i would say partially yes – C++. Yes guys, C++ is the language that has got all you need.

No matter how much MS promotes .NET, they will still write MS Office using C++ only,same is the case with Adobe and many other ISVs. Unfortunately, just because C++ was never promoted by a big corporate godfather, like the way Java and C# is getting promoted, people have started to think that C++ has become redundant, obsolete.

As per my knowledge C# is the easiest language I have ever seen, so may be Microsoft is getting their ideas a bit right.They claim, they are giving the software for free because they think it will allow hobbyists and students to develop software of their choice without burning a hole in their pockets. Yeah, C# is very easy language, though there are some quirks around Attributes,References and remoting yet I feel this is probably the best language to start with. Beginners can learn it pretty quickly. On the other hand, open source world, faces a challenge like never before…ASP.NET2.0 is a significant revolution in the area of Web development. One who has used ASP.NET, will probably never like PHP, unless he has scarce resources like me. Now giving away express editions for free means, you can keep using the software forever without any major hiccups. Now, this open source evangelist is in a predicament, who loves .NET and hates Microsoft. What to do? I started with .NET to explore the art of enemies, but as Gandalf said – ” Exploring too deep into arts of enemy can poison your mind, you should not keep the knowledge , which is not fit for you”. But yeah..I hope Mono will catch with MS, and Monodevelop will crash less often. If we can have a GUI designer on the lines of QT designer or if we can create web forms from Monodevelop.(Don’t say use stetic and all)

So here i am, back to square one.. with all my hope. I keep my doors open, like the old tradition of keeping house doors open so Lakshmi may come. I have done all that was in my capacity, but alas, my hope still eludes me. Was very attentive and enthusiastic during induction program and listened to all the questions that had a female voice attached ,but alas God has strange way of playing tricks on me.Soon i found out that, all the good chicks were busy messaging their boyfriends, only those few without a boyfriend and obviously without …. were actually listening and asking questions. And those still few left were being chased like celebrities.

Someone gave me this idea that many mod girls go to pub. So i went to one, soon i found that, i was out casted for my incompetency of being without a girlfriend and was thrown “up”(Bikes ans Barrels). I thought of telling that fella on the door(do we have a term for him?), that let me in boy.. if you wont let me try, how will i succeed! Need i tell more? I spend rest of the evening washing my wounds with as much Vodka as i can get. Guys,We had a college T-Shirt that proclaimed 99% of girls are beautiful and rest all are in my college. Well you can say that for my company now. Chennai as a whole doesn’t fair better either. Boy..i came, i saw and i feel dejected( not rejected yet). Then i saw these naughty posters floating around – “Babes day out”. i rubbed my eyes twice and pinched myself. “Babes?”. Nah.. they mean babies..or a wait minute, do they have some secret vault that is going to open. i thought an invitation will come to attend the event. Since, i live very close to the ECR road, i was very anxious. Created a filter setting in the outlook so that it doesn’t get lost in the regular trash that i receive. But nothing came. Then “the day” came and went as every other day. I was thinking all day – those few lucky ones ,who got invitation,must be enjoying there at ECR road. Then last week i saw several pictures of the event, again in the regular trash that i receive, including the honorable magazine that you are reading. I zoomed and zoomed the PDF and kept searching for pretty faces but no avail. If there was any hope left, it was if not dashed but certainly appreciably sized down by this fiasco of “Babes day out”. So yeah guys, hope is great. You see.. i still have “hope”( there is another pervert/obvious reason of saying this). Now that i am used to the charm of Metro and would like my dusty Patna or cow infested REC Trichy back, i can’t have it. Yet i have hope, that someday.. somewhere..