Anand Chandrasekaran

Thoughts on eBusiness, web strategy, and the net

Transition to Ruby on Rails

Over the past four months I have made an active effort to learn how to program and build apps using Ruby on Rails. For the past three years I had been working with PHP mostly using custom architectures with a couple frameworks mixed in. As most people would, I bought myself a copy [...]

PHP Framework Debate

I know that a lot has been written about PHP frameworks. Now I’m going to throw in my two cents. About a year ago I went though the exercise of selecting a PHP framework for a large internal infrastructure management application I was architecting at a Fortune 100 IT company. At that [...]

Having been at a large technology company, I have worked with massive VMWare infrastructure set ups. For internal applications it is not uncommon to also have production inside a VM at large companies. It really does save on development costs. Imagine shared dev boxes for functional teams working on a large projects. Instead of having [...]

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