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Emulating .val() function in jQuery

Delving into the implementation details of a JavaScript library has always been an enjoyable experience. A group of us were emulating the $(“#id”).val() method provided by jQuery. jQuery provides a val() function on input elements. A val() function returns the […]

Data binding using KnockOut.js

Data binding using KnockOut.js

In the lines of Backbone.js and Node.js, there’s yet another JavaScript library ‘KnockOut.js’ that’s been making noise in the development circles. KnockOut is a JS library that implements a Model-View-View Model(MVVM) pattern. KnockOut helps you bind the data to the […]

Grails, Scala, Node js on the cloud

The urge to create a number of utility applications for personal and official use led to the use of Google App Engine. But Google App Engine forced us to stick to writing Java/Python code. After having worked in Groovy and […]

Interesting read-Spoon feeding programmers

Interacting with a number of developers every week keeps reminding me of an article about Spoon feeding programmers in Java Programming Forums. You can easily categorize the developers into the smart ones and the ones that need to be spoon […]

Mobile development and Node.js

In an earlier post on Node.js, you saw how it can really improve the productivity by using it’s standalone JavaScript runtime to execute the scripts. The Node.js home page provides a six liner example of creating a simple Web server […]