Building HTML5 Apps with Yeoman and Backbone May 11

In my last few blogs I talked a bit about Yeoman. For me, working with Yeoman has been a real pleasure, so in this blog I will talk about building a small single page HTML5 application with Yeoman and Backbone.js.

The software we need for this exercise...

What motivates programmers May 3

The title of this blog post may sound authoritative but it is far from it. It’s is just a set of observations which I have picked up from my own experiences and introspection when I felt motivated or demotivated on a project.

I have been in the software...

Ajaxify a Form with Backbone May 2

I have been working a lot with Yeoman lately and find it to be absolutely fabulous. It’s make web development a real joy. With a few simple commands I can have a Backbone, Require.js and Twitter Bootstrap application ready. Also, instead to manually...

Puppet in a rush Apr 8

It is a good time to be a programmer now. Barriers are disappearing and technology is evolving not only quickly but also in the right direction. I remember when I started 10 years back, it was common for project to run for 12-18 months with the first...

Building Single Page Applications and CORS Apr 1

A while back I promised some insight on CORS here and it’s about time I delivered. Few things have changed since then, I worked a bit on the Play framework and found it to be quite nice and also a lot of project requests in my day job now ask for a...

Integrating Rails and Node.js via Redis Mar 22

It’s been a while since I blogged, not really for the lack of content but rather the lack of time. I travelled to beautiful Berlin in Jan-Feb and was also doing the Coursera course https://www.coursera.org/course/algo which pretty much ate up all my...

Backbone.js and CoffeeScript - A Perfect Match Dec 13

As I started learning more about JavaScript I was very impressed with CoffeeScript. It felt like JavaScript done right! But with time, as my JavaScript concepts improved I was a bit reluctant to write CoffeeScript. “Why learn one language that produces...

Serving Rails from Windows Dec 2

I was asked to meet quite a “non-standard” requirement lately - the client wanted me to serve a Rails application from a Windows server. The application was not very complicated and has only a handful of users so I agreed to give it a shot. While doing...

Why does JavaScript require Require.js Oct 15

Around a week back I started learning about Require.js after someone recommened it to me. When I looked at the website I was not very impressed. My initial reaction was ”what is require.js trying to solve / why should I use it / how will it make my...

Rails on only JVM Sep 22

Imagine a scenario where an IT operations team is just comfortable with JVM. You also need to deliver a quick five day project and you know that Rails is just the right framework for it. But you do not have the luxury of installing Ruby or even Sqlite...