Design Patterns in JavaScript
My latest tutorial, Design Patterns in JavaScript, just got published over at Nettuts+. Check it out. If you have any questions, feel free to comment here or on the thread over at Nettuts.
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The crazy world of code
Here’s a great comment by @eranation. I call it the crazy world of code: I agree, I can’t keep up. I just finished learning backbone.js and now I’m found out on that it’s old news, and I should use ember.js, cross that, it has opinions, I should use Meteor, no, AngularJS, no, Tower.js (on node.js), […]
Lift
We’re launching Lift today so that all businesses can take advantage of technology to increase their bottom line. UI Design, Web/Mobile Development, and consulting. No bull, just great work. Check us out.
Web Scraping with NodeJS
My new tutorial – Web Scraping with NodeJS – is up on Nettuts+. I go through basic scraping methods but the real gold is in the second half, where I talk about using PhantomJS to scrape dynamic pages (pages with AJAX content). Check it out!
Why web developers are software engineers, too
A fantastic article by Nicholas Zakas (@slicknet): Yes, anyone can be a coder, because that just means you write code. What makes you a software engineer is that you’re paid primarily to write code that ends up being used by your customers. The fact that your code isn’t Java or C++ doesn’t make you any […]
AWS Outage
Software developers around the world are weeping tonight because AWS is down. This means Heroku is down, and that means a whole bunch of other sites are experiencing some serious outage. To be honest, this is upsetting but it happens. Guess which site is not down though? Good ol’ tilomitra.com, running on old-school shared hosting […]
10 things I learned while interning at YUI
My article “10 things I learned while interning at YUI” just got published over at Nettuts. Check it out! I’m a big admirer of Nettuts and Envato – they do a great job educating new designers, developers and entrepreneurs.
Good Code
Story of my programming life!
Metro
Completely agree with Microsoft on this one. I am starting to prefer WP7’s UI over parts of the iOS user interface, and it is vastly superior to Android in terms of design and user experience. I think it’s time Apple made some adjustments to the iPhone interface because it’s starting to look a little dated […]
Photos from New Zealand and Bora Bora
I wanted to share some photos from my recent trip to New Zealand and Tahiti. I spent a week around Auckland and Rotorua before flying out to Bora Bora for a week. Pictures View New Zealand Album View Bora Bora & Tahiti Album Videos Here’s an awesome video of me swimming amongst the coral reefs. […]
Cricketainment iPad App Sneak Peek
Some shots of a native iPad app that I have been making. I finished designing most of it, and have implemented the screens below. More details coming soon.
Investment books worth reading
I’ve been catching up on some reading now that my university is done. I’ve been learning about investments and the stock market – something I knew very little about a few days ago. I just finished reading these two books. They were very easy to understand and quite inspiring. I recommend them to anyone who […]
Choose for Change
Update (May 24, 2012): Choose For Change is live now. I was unable to help with the design process near the end because I was on vacation. However, I was bored today so I decided to do another mockup for fun. Not sure if we’ll have time to implement this, but here it is:
Presenting Peekaboo
Today, we presented our final year design project, Peekaboo, to the University of Waterloo. I thought it was only fair that I post it online on the same day as well.
Peekaboo is an iOS app that lets you find out more about people around you. It accomplishes this by using facial detection and recognition. Simply snap a picture and Peekaboo tries to find out who the people in it are.
Apple’s Philosophy
From a recent interview with Jonathan Ive of Apple: Something I found very interesting was Ive’s response to the question,”When you are coming up with product ideas such as the iPod, do you try to solve a problem?” His reply: There are different approaches – sometimes things can irritate you so you become aware of […]