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More Writing on NetTuts+ 13 May 2013 | 02:25 am
Alright, this blog has been quiet for a few months. But that doesn’t mean that I have stopped writing. On the contrary, I am doing more of it as a contributing author at NetTuts+. The topics are quit...
My Key Takeaways from SMACSS 23 Dec 2012 | 07:40 pm
A seemingly simple language yet a tangled mess of complexity. If you are picturing a giant CSS file from your website, you are on the right track. Yes, CSS can start out as a really simple language to...
Common Idioms in JavaScript development 8 Oct 2012 | 12:55 am
These are some of the common idioms I find myself using again and again. I am going to keep this as a live document and will update as I discover more useful idioms. Disclaimer: I’ll be using the Und...
A simple organization scheme for handling routes in ExpressJS apps 15 Jun 2012 | 09:54 am
The ExpressJS framework is one of the simpler yet very powerful web frameworks for NodeJS. It provides a simple way to expose GET / POST endpoints on your web application, which then serves the approp...
Quick sketching using SketchBook Pro + Wacom Intuos 4 7 May 2012 | 01:11 pm
Its been a while since I posted anything on this blog. Thought I’ll break the calm with a quick post about my recent sketch. I generally use Autodesk SketchBook Pro (SBP) on my Mac for the intial doo...
Animating Pie Slices using a custom CALayer 22 Feb 2012 | 08:48 am
It’s going to be a rather long post, so if you want to jump around, here are your way points: First steps A path for the slice Animating the pie-slice Raising the level of abstraction Custom CALa...
Simple helper method for async testing with Jasmine and RequireJS 15 Dec 2011 | 12:40 pm
Unit testing in Javascript, especially with RequireJS can be a bit of challenge. Jasmine, which is our unit testing framework does not have any out of the box support for RequireJS. I have seen a few ...
Using jQuery.Deferred() and RequireJS to Lazy Load Google Maps API 19 Oct 2011 | 12:38 am
In the world of jQuery or for that matter, any JavaScript library, callbacks are the norm for programming asynchronous tasks. When you have several operations dependent on the completion of some other...
Tips for Speeding Up Octopress Site Generation 30 Sep 2011 | 12:42 am
As I blogged about earlier, Octopress is a great framework for writing blog posts and packs in all the features for writing a code-centric blogs. Of course, it goes without saying that the blog also l...
Switching to the Octopress Blogging Engine 13 Sep 2011 | 12:43 pm
I have been using Wordpress for few years now and have been very happy with its features. In the past year, I have tried several times to change the theme on my blog and also semantify my posts by usi...
