About Me
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil……..The main idea is to regard a program as a communication to human beings rather than as a set of instructions to a computer.
Donald Knuth
Nasir Jamal
Born, as a grandchild to an Indian Ambassador, a pain for a merchant navy engineer 
and his wife in a traditional Indian city called Varanasi which is also known as Kashi and Banaras. Spent most of my childhood there and teenage years in Aligarh & Meerut. While I was a teenager and before I started my undergraduate degree I found myself investing money in the Indian share market. So where did I get all that money to invest? By selling a present my brother gave me (guess I thought its better to walk and make money than to just ride).
Anyway, in 1997, by the time I reached adulthood and realised that I finished my MBA and its time to start a real career I moved to Delhi and started an IT sales career. Then gradually moved to software/web development from business development.
Since then I also founded mel-jol.com and sphred.com .
Currently based in Reading, UK and full time working with In4systems Ltd. Utilising Ruby on Rails to web enable a complex asset management desktop application.
Stuff I have worked on:
Ruby On Rails, Javascript, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Sybase, Flash, ActionScript, ASP, ASP.Net, JSP, Commerce Server, Biztalk Server, Linux, Fortran, CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, etc.
Be focused, keep a low profile and the head down until you achieve what you have set out for.
Hi Nasir…After a lot of work I was able to get you here…where are you these days..wanna speak to you…my number is 9871417928 call me up or write me at luckysidhu@yahoo.com
take care
Sent you an email but not sure whether you recieved it or not.
I just found your blog through dzone. Awesome, simply awesome. I’m just starting out with Rails and your articles “Stored Procedures and Rails” and “Not following Rails table and field conventions” are exactly what I’m looking for to answer several questions I’m having.
I’m wondering if you might consider expanding on these two posts in the future? I still wondering if you can use database views within Rails and if so, can you use ActiveRecord with them?
Also I’m wondering what to do with ActiveRecord if you use UUIDs (GUIDs) instead of identities for primary keys in your database.
Keep up the great work. I’ll definitively being zoning your articles.
Thanks tony.
Yes, you can use views/uuids in rails.
I will write a full post about it tonight or tomorrow. Already there now.As far as expanding the posts on “Stored Procedures and Rails” and “Not following Rails table and field conventions” are concerned then please let me know if you have any ideas.