Archive for the ‘My Learnings’ Category

Date arithmetic without having to worry about impact on dates, months or years!

Last night, my wife asked a very simple question… - ”In shell scripting, given a date, how can I subtract 5 hours from it?” The question was particularly interesting because the moment you think about any arithmetic on dates, you need to calculate the impact on all the other values. For example, subtracting 5 hours from [...]

Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

Its been very recent that I’m seriously looking into Javascript – and trust me, there is no dearth of stuff that can be achieved with purely client side code (HTML/CSS/JS). With the modern browsers churning out best of the breed in JS environments (both headed & headless), everything is going to come to a browser [...]

Faster HTML and CSS – My Learnings!

Faster HTML and CSS: Layout Engine Internals for Web Developers (@GoogleTechTalks) I think I never cared about these – but the way David Baron from Mozilla describes these, I think I will now. The points he was making started seeming so crucial that I jotted them down as if taking notes – something I never [...]