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12 Things That Would Make You A Better Software Developer

Jsx — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:53:18 +0000

A few things I learned from my two years experience as a programmer. Some are bits I picked up along the way, but some of these are bits of wisdom (even if not very wise) I learned from my own mistakes.

A word on script injection attacks

Jsx — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:53:58 +0000

The scenario Say your application – whether it is written in NodeJS or PHP or Ruby or whatever – has a form where Joe the User can input data (may be a profile edit page). The data entered by Joe is displayed to other users (Sam and Woody) when they visit Joe’s profile page. This [...]

5-MINUTE MANAGEMENT COURSE via FUN STORIES

Jsx — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:14:22 +0000

Lesson 1 A man is getting into the shower, just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands David, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word, David says, ‘I’ll give you $800 [...]

Get the list of packages that got removed from Ubuntu/Debian

Jsx — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:34:28 +0000

My friend accidentally removed the libxml package from his Ubuntu server. And the package manager automatically removed all the other packages that were dependent on libxml, such as subversion, php, apache etc. Can you imagine the state of chaos it is when php, apache, svn and a whole list of god-knows-what packages get uninstalled from [...]

‘Realtime’ Chat with WebSocket and NodeJS

Jsx — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:02:14 +0000

DEMO (Open the chat in two or more browser windows/computers and check how fast the realtime updation is!) Gmail chat, Facebook chat etc were implemented using a technique – rather a hack – called long polling[1]. It is the technique where the client initiates a request to the server. The server rather than returning the [...]

Web service API Specification Doc Template

Jsx — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:49:50 +0000

Finally I got sick with the webservice spec documents we were using at my previous employer. I searched all over the web for a document template that I could use for laying out our new web service’s API specification. I found several ones – good and bad -, but none were up to my expectations. [...]

New Year Resolutions

Jsx — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 05:19:21 +0000

New year is here and crazy people all over the world are busy making new year resolutions that they know they will stop following just a few days into the new year. Yet here is another stupid guy’s new year resolutions – as a humble tribute to all those out there crazy enough to take [...]

How to geek up your web server

Jsx — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:30:31 +0000

I dislike default. Default is easy, and will always work. But accept it, default is boring. Let’s see how to spice up your web server a little bit. If you want to see how our server is going to look like after we make the changes, click the demo link below. Demo ~ Download Source [...]

Facebook Like Automatic Content Loading on Scrolling

Jsx — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:09:09 +0000

We have all seen the automatic content loading used in Facebook. Let’s see how easily it can be implemented using jQuery. View Demo What we do to achieve this is whenever a scroll event is fired, check if we have reached the bottom of the page, and if we are at the bottom, call our [...]

Do You Love Me?

Jsx — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:46:57 +0000

A Javascript Fun. A funny little javascript program to amaze your non-geek friends with.