SailsJS with Handlebars
Want to use Handlebars with SailsJS? Find out how it works!
Technical
Installing NodeJS on a DigitalOcean VPS
Lately, I have been hosting a bunch of NodeJS apps on DigitalOcean’s latest Ubuntu VPS. There are a bunch of articles online on how to set up NodeJS and npm on a VPS, but some of these articles are now outdated and others make things unnecessarily complicated. It’s actually pretty simple! I used this guide […]
The State of Gestures
Here’s the video and slides from my talk at YUIConf 2013, where I spoke about the stuff we are working on regarding gesture events. Video Slides
I’m speaking at YUIConf 2013
I’ll be speaking at YUIConf 2013 on Wednesday, October 6th. My talk will be about “The State of Gestures” in YUI. YUIConf will be held at The Hyatt Place in San Jose from Oct 6 – 7. Come on out if you’re in the Bay Area.
Building Beautiful Web Apps using Pure CSS
Slides from my Pure talk at Yahoo Open Hack USA 2013.
Using Handlebars on the server and client
This article talks about how to use Handlebars templates on the client and the server, and how to avoid some pitfalls while doing so.
Share localhost for easier mobile testing
All web developers today should be testing their websites/web applications on mobile devices. I don’t mean simulators or emulators; I mean real-life devices that you hold in your hand. I’d like to share my development workflow, to help you understand how I develop on my local server, test changes on devices, and share the current state of my work with others via URLs.
Launching Pure
Yesterday, I was super excited to launch Pure at CSSConf. Pure is a set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project.
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 […]
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 […]
Start a NodeJS project quickly
If you’re building a web project using NodeJS, there are plenty of ways to start. I have a one-line method to generate project scaffolding that I use for every website that I build using Node. I’ve been creating a bunch of websites running on NodeJS lately, and have become more opinionated in my stack. Generally, […]
tilomitra/prettypages
Make your Github Pages look pretty. Every time I want to make Github Pages for my open source projects, I start from scratch. I decided to fix that today. This morning, I took some time to make PrettyPages, an HTML template that makes it really easy to make nice looking Github Pages. Just copy/paste the […]
Y.Tipsy and Y.Popover
I’m a big fan of tooltips and popovers – widgets that provides contextual information on demand. I see them all over the place but I didn’t find one in YUI that I particularly liked, so I wrote my own. If you use YUI 3 for front-end development, you can now take advantage of Y.Tipsy and […]
Forms and Table CSS
Building native WinJS apps using YUI
My second talk at YUIConf got published a few days ago. In this talk, I look at Windows 8, specifically the WinJS environment. One of my roles at the YUI Team was to make sure the library runs both on Win8 (IE10) and also in WinJS, the new “Metro” style native app environment. Turns out […]