A great post from my friend, Rajesh Kumar, on what makes Waterloo unique: Waterloo’s message, at least within the confines of the University’s walls, is this: Learn to deal with shit thrown at you from all directions. And be able to do it all at the same time with minimal resources. Get a whole bunch …
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May 9, 2013
Developing a web app vs. a native app
There’s a lot of back-and-forth between developers on whether one should focus on developing web apps, or native apps when it comes to mobile platforms. I’ve done a bunch of thinking on this, and having developed both types of apps, I wanted to share my point-of-view. I’m mostly going to be referring to iOS and …
Read MoreMay 3, 2013
Cricket Time
A quick little NodeJS app that makes it easy for me to check cricket game timings, and watch live games. Check it out. Rationale Going on popular cricket sites like Cricinfo just to check what time the next game was starting to get annoying. Game times on those sites are hidden away and require multiple clicks …
Read MoreMay 3, 2013
node-boilerplate
A starting point for every new NodeJS app that I make. I’ve been creating a bunch of websites running on NodeJS lately, and have become more opinionated in my stack. Generally, I use the following: Express 3.x Handlebars as my view engine (via express3-handlebars) YUI on the client (and on the server, if I need …
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I'm a front-end engineer on the YUI Team at Yahoo! This is where I share my thoughts on code, design, startups and show off my little projects.