Ionic is an open source framework to build mobile apps using html, css and javascript. Apps built using Ionic can be compiled using cordova and deployed on android and ios devices with a common codebase. The same codebase can be deployed as a mobile website as well. This is a huge advantage as you do…
Read More Deploying an Ionic app as a mobile websiteThis is the most common one, but reiterating – Travel light. You won’t be using a lot of stuff you think you need. It is extremely useful in cases where you have to walk carrying your luggage, which is not an uncommon occurrence. I remember running a km with my 9kg backpack to catch a…
Read More My top 10 travel tipsIn Feb 2017, I travelled to Mexico and Colombia which are only Spanish speaking countries with very few English speakers, especially outside the tourist areas. I don’t speak Spanish and had no prior experience with the language. I learnt few words and phrases on the go to help me communicate basic stuff. The guide below…
Read More Spanish hack while travelingBeing born and brought up among the Himalayas, I’ve always been in love with mountains. Staring at them, while appreciating their sheer size and greatness, gives me immense peace. Although my main reason for visiting Norway was to experience the Northern Lights, seeing the pictures of Norwegian landscape was more than enough to visit this…
Read More Norway – The land of fjordsLast week I was trying my hands at Meteor, a full-stack javascript based framework for building web apps. It’s built on top of nodejs. Unlike the traditional way of building web apps, the client and the server are truly integrated here and share most of the code as well. I was greatly impressed by the…
Read More simplypoll – An open source online polling app built with MeteorAngularJS has been out there for quite a while now and is getting increasingly popular. It is a very powerful Javascript MVC framework for building well-structured and maintainable web applications. This tutorial is not an introduction to AngularJS but to demonstrate how quickly one can build a simple well-structured web application. This is targeted towards…
Read More Building a Simple Quiz App using AngularJSRecently somebody talked to me about creating a slot machine. I looked on the web and could not find any good slot machine implementation in javascript. So I decided to write a quick one. My implementation uses jquery and a couple of jquery plugins for animation. Spritely is a wonderful jquery plugin for background animation.…
Read More Slot machine in JavascriptA trie, or prefix tree, is a multi-way tree structure useful for storing strings over an alphabet. It is very efficient and handy and can be used for various purposes like auto-complete, spell-check, dictionary search, etc. The basic idea of a Trie goes as below: We have a root node which represents an empty string.…
Read More Trie implementation in JavascriptThis weekend I spent a few hours to write the classic game of Snake in javascript. There are already many versions of Snake available on the web. This was just some fun way to practice javascript. I used YUI 2 for event and dom handling. I have already written a few games in other languages…
Read More Snake in JavascriptToday I read about YUI 3 Caching Utility. It allows to cache frequently used data in javascript memory (Basic caching) or HTML5 localStorage object (Offline caching). Although we can implement our own caching mechanism in javascript, the YUI caching is general purpose and also provides a set of events. Moreover it can be easily integrated…
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