pkc

Hi,

I am resident of Indian and have an account in Indian Bank. I am planning to launch a saas product which requires recurring payment(typical subscription service). Supported currency will be USD. Please let me know viable payment gateway options.

I feel current block diagrams are not very self explanatory. For ex., you want to know brief details about block and know internal details of a block then need to go through rest of document.

"Interactive Diagrams" tries to solve this problem by allowing users to interact with block diagram to know more details about it. Specifically it will answer following kinds of questions -

* Briefly explain what a block is all about.

* Allow user to see internal details of the block in the same diagram itself and go back and forth between different blocks.

* Also allow to see the system block diagram in different views. For ex., it can have different tabs with one tab for "data flow view" of the system, another tab "control flow view", another for "architectural view" etc.,

From these concepts I developed an app which outputs an interactive diagram as flash file(.swf) as the output. The example block diagram can be seen at - http://roorky.com/misc/shapes.

For example single click on "Network" or "File System" block will popup a description box. Double clicking on "Network" or "FileSystem" blocks will change the diagram to internal details of "Networking" or "File System" in linux kernel. You can navigate between different block diagram through "Back" and "Home" links displayed at the bottom of the page.

I am looking for answers to following questions -

* Do you think there is a need for such kind of diagrams or tool which creates such diagrams?

* Is there a better way to solve this problem if its a problem?

Hi,

I am getting quite comfortable using Ruby on Rails but keep hearing about performance problems that comes with Ruby. So when looking for efficient implementations of Ruby came across JRuby. Also ability to use any Java library is a huge advantage for our current project.

Has anybody used JRuby successfully for their rails project? More interested in any problems faced because of JRuby?

Hi,

We are brainstorming an idea which is a variation of existing web conferencing solution. We are finding it hard to "implement dialing in via telephone" feature as we lack experience in this field. Is anybody here attends or hosts web conference without telephone(using computer mic and speaker, i.e., VOIP)? Or do you know companies which are interested in this kind of solution for lesser price?

Thanks -- pkc

Which tools like IDE, editor do you use to develop your webapp? Paid ones as well as free ones. I am particularly interested in applications using frameworks like Ruby on Rails, DJango or CakePHP.

Is it possible for a language to be both compiled as well as interpreted.

* During development we can use interpreter to rapid application development * In production environment same code base gets compiled to machine code or bytecode for performance reasons

Is it possible? Or is it a stupid idea?