I’ve got a review copy of Twitter BootStrap Web Development How-to By Packt Publishing and I’ve just managed to go through the book. The book is authored by David Cochran and because I’ve been using bootStrap in few of my projects, I was quite interested in going through the book, which I believe is the […]
In my latest project, I’ve been working on a HTML5 Mobile App for iPad and one of the things we wanted to get rid of was the 300ms click delay that Mobile Safari has. There is a reason for the delay to be there in first place, i.e. the browser is waiting to see whether […]
After having heard lots of good things about RequireJS in the past few months, I recently started playing around with RequireJS which is a JavaScript file and module loader, which improves the speed and quality of your code. After reading about it a little bit, the biggest advantage of using RequireJS, that I can see, […]
This is a very common Javascript question that confuses a lot of people (including me). You can use both function.call() and function.apply() in Javascript to execute a function but what’s the difference? Let’s look at the documentation of call() and apply() first. According to the documentation, .call() means :- Calls a function with a given […]
At the beginning of this year, I decided to learn a new programming language. My 2 choices were Ruby/Rails and Objective-C. Ruby is something I have been trying to get into for quite a while now and I have heard lots of good things about it. However, until you do a real commercial project, you […]
I have been working on getting google analytics data using the Google Core Reporting API using OAuth2. After the initial oauth dance is done, I store the access token and refresh token in the database to be able to regenerate valid access token from the refresh token. This is termed as offline access. This is […]
I am a big fan of Bootstrap and recently upgraded one of my projects to v2.1.0 which was released on August 20, 2012. I have been using a custom background image for the top navbar all this while and after the upgrade, I noticed that my navbar was now white background in IE 8/9 (didn’t […]
Managing multiple remotes with Git is a pretty common thing, I would say. However, I never had the need to do it, until today. I think it’s a totally awesome thing that you can change code locally and push it to different remotes with one command and every one is happy. Since my particular requirement […]
I have upgraded to Mountain OSX Lion 10.8 since it’s release yesterday and although the installation went pretty smooth, I am noticing some issues with my Apache setup. I use Railo with Tomcat as the servlet engine and Apache as the webserver. If you have a similar setup, here are the minor things you would […]
One of the sites I am working on works differently on the desktop than it does on the iPad. And whenever I make a change, I end up having to test on both my iPad and my Mac which is OK most of the times but if I am doing more than 5-6 changes, then […]
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