Today 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…
Read More Caching in Javascript (YUI Cache)Recently I have been reading about YQL. YQL is a great idea that came out of Yahoo! and is an awesome tool for developers. Basically YQL allows you to fetch information from the web using SQL like syntax. Yahoo! provides a good number of open data tables and many more are contributed by the open…
Read More YQL – Yahoo! Query LanguageOne of the most useful tools in unix is grep. Almost every unix/linux user use it frequently. But not many know about a tool which is better then grep – ack. It makes life so easy for you. Some of the features that made me switch to ack: Lot faster than grep. Default recursive search.…
Read More ACK – Better than GREPSome of the useful applications/utilities I use on my Macbook Pro: Textmate Notepad++ used to be my favorite code editor an year ago when I was a Windows user. I still feel Notepad++ is the best GUI based text editor, very useful and lightweight. But Textmate is equally good and when you get used to…
Read More Useful applications for MacOS XWhile working on my last project (Floating Cart for Yahoo! stores) at Yahoo!, I came across an application called Lightbox. The reason it drew my attention was incompatibility with our application. Our customers who had lightbox were facing issues using the Floating Cart. The problem was not with the lightbox application, but the javascript framework…
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