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: 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 [...]
Ever since we implemented content filtering mechanisms at AdoMado, our own site was being blocked – and this made me heck curious – why?? Today morning, using Rubular (which is an excellent online regex tool) – I discovered the culprit. And it couldn’t have been more hilarious ) Fixing this… ) PS – a valid [...]
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Problem Scenario I migrated my blog from makuchaku.info to makuchaku.in – and wanted everyone who was linking to my “.info” domain, automagically gets linked to my “.in” domain. Ofcourse, I cannot change all the possible places from where my .info blog is linked. Challenges I want “.in/” to be served when “.info/” is cliked I [...]
Okay, to start off – I really wanted Firefox to come on the top… I’ve been a dedicated firefox user ever since and simply love the product. The fact that it has addons for any conceivable functionality – makes it r0ck even more! However, to my surprise Google’s Chrome beats it hands down when it [...]
The methodology is very simple. Redirect the user to grant access to your app for a particular Google service. Once access is granted, use the authentication token to retrieve information related to the user. I demonstrate this with a very simple & idiotic Sinatra app which actually does nothing intelligent – apart from just outputting [...]
Courtesy – yet again, Ruby! #!/usr/bin/env ruby require "rubygems" require "mechanize" module SMS class OneSixtyByTwo attr_accessor :agent, :uid attr_accessor :urls def initialize(username, password) @urls = { :login => "http://m.160by2.com", :sms => "http://m.160by2.com/SaveCompose.asp?l=1" [...]
Google Suggest – (as put by Google) use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers. An example of this type of popularity information can be [...]
Drawing boards are so much more fun than paper’n pencil