January 05, 2010

Mnesia Quickstart

Basic introduction on Mnesia Mnesia is a RDBMS. But it belongs to the nosql category of RDBMS. Reason being the query language is not sql but Erlang....

December 29, 2009

Jumping through hoops to represent trees in Database

Recently I have been working on a project where we have to represent hierarchical data in Database. Unfortunately we do not have much choice with the...

December 27, 2009

Coroutines - back to basics

Ruby 1.9 Fibers has got me reading about Coroutines. Thought I should put all my understanding somewhere, as I read and understand coroutines in more...

May 10, 2009

Document Oriented Databases

History Relational Databases have been the almost the only way applications persist data. In the days when code was written mostly with COBOL even...

January 24, 2009

Consume REST webservices in java using rapa

I have been reading about REST webservices for quite a while now. But rails still seems to have the best support for consuming REST webservices...