In JavaScript, when you define an object, you can attach it’s functions in two different ways. Inside object’s constructor function, using this.func = function(){...} Using prototype. i.e. Obj.prototype.func = function() {...}. In both approaches, the function func() will be accessible to all the instances of your object. But which one is the best way to use? In short: Use prototype ...

Working with web applications in NodeJS is great. Using the same language and libraries on the client and server simplified the thinking. And NodeJS has fast tests and restart for a super quick edit-verify cycle when you’re coding. I like to write tests to verify the server-side and client-side logic, but do you know that the whole solution really is ...

Recently I had to integrate a Node.js based server application with a C# DLL. Our software (a web-app) offers the possibility to execute payments over a POS terminal. This latter one is controllable through a dedicated DLL which exposes interfaces like ExecutePayment(operation, amount) and so on. As I mentioned, there is the Node.js server that somehow exposes the functionality of ...

jQuery is one of the most used JavaScript libraries, if not the most used one, which allows to make great things with the big set of little tools it offers to the web developers: HTML/DOM manipulation, CSS manipulation, HTML event methods, effects and animations, AJAX, utilities, … One of the key aspects of jQuery is the possibility to extend it ...

A good while ago I was looking for good ways to do client-side routing and templating in ClojureScript. I investigated using a bunch of JavaScript frameworks from ClojureScript, of which Angular probably gave the most promising results but still felt a bit dirty and heavy. I even implemented my own routing/templating mechanism based on Pedestal and goog.History, but something felt ...

The backbone application that I am currently working on has a document section and a sidebar section.           To represent the above structure in Backbone, I came up with following views. ApplicationView – the container for the sub views. DocumentView – represents a current document being edited/displayed. SidebarView – shows relevant information for the document that ...

You all know Twitter Bootstrap, don’t you? It’s the awesome library to make your web application looks pretty good without spending many hours on CSS. We are using Bootstrap based design in our current project that also uses AngularJS and as we are planning to have many new pages, we decided that’s the earlier we introduce some components to our ...

Last week, I suddenly stopped receiving email notifications on this blog hosted on openshift. I came to know after some reading that commonly used cloud hosts such as openshift, aws, etc. are usually blacklisted by most email servers, hence its not a good idea to use them to send mails. In any case, why should I depend on my hosting ...

Sometimes, the exciting part in configuring a virtual software server (web or application) is the activity to understand how it works and how can you manipulate it the way you want. For this post, I would like to give a basic how to on relocating (or pointing) your apache to scan a specific directory as its DocRoot directory. :) The ...