It is almost 3 months since I wrote anything on this blog! I almost forgot that I had this blog It is another year and let me restart this blog. You see, that is my new year resolution

I have been exploring couple of new stuff recently. I have been neck deep in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Ruby is a very compact and expressive language. More importantly, the code you write in Ruby style automatically appears elegant.

On the rails, I have mixed feelings. From the initial look, rails looks a lot more productive than say J2EE. But when it comes to a large project development, I don’t see much of a difference. The productivity in Web applications is more dependent on your team than the technology you choose!

Talking about productivity, another tool I have been exploring is the Yahoo’s User Interface toolkit (YUI). This is a great way to add AJAX capabilities to your Web application. I have been developing server side components based on these and it turned out be real good. The documentation is pretty good but there is still scope for improvement.

On the J2EE front, the new Struts framework (Struts2) is getting stable. I think the upcoming version 2.1 is perfectly suited for any Web application you are planning in future. One feature of Struts2 is the out of the box support for portlets. If you are planning on a large enterprise application suite, portlets is the way to go.

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