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As the application scales in size, controlling communication between components requires enough thought to ensure there isn’t too much or too little of it. In this post we will look at the various ways of communicating in AngularJS 1.x . Some of these techniques may still apply…

Now we all know AngularJS is an awesome framework to build large Single Page Applications . At the core of angular is a little thing called the HTML Compiler . It takes text as input (most likely from your templates) and transforms it into DOM elements. In the process it…

On March 5th and 6th I attended ng-conf 2015 , which was held in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was great to meet several people building Angular apps as well as speaking first hand to the people behind Angular and TypeScript . On the technical front, I found a few resounding…

If you see my Archive page, you will notice a complete void for 2014, a year where I did not post at all. So what happened? Well, besides taking those much needed sleep-breaks, I was busy building QuickLens : a Mac App that provides a set of tools to explore User Interfaces…

It’s no secret that QuickLens is built using RubyMotion . RubyMotion is a fantastic toolset to build your iOS and Mac Apps using the Ruby tool chain. It compiles down to the Objective-C runtime and has no interpreter overhead. The performance profile is also great. It’s an…

Alright, this blog has been quiet for a few months. But that doesn’t mean that I have stopped writing. On the contrary, I am doing more of it as a contributing author at NetTuts+ . The topics are quite varying but are all related to Web Development in one form or other. A…

A seemingly simple language yet a tangled mess of complexity. If you are picturing a giant CSS file from your website, you are on the right track. Yes, CSS can start out as a really simple language to learn but can be hard to master. The CSS chaos starts slowly and seems…

These are some of the common idioms I find myself using again and again. I am going to keep this as a live document and will update as I discover more useful idioms. Disclaimer : I’ll be using the Underscore library in all of my examples Array.join to concatenate strings…

The ExpressJS framework is one of the simpler yet very powerful web frameworks for NodeJS. It provides a simple way to expose GET / POST endpoints on your web application, which then serves the appropriate response. Getting started with ExpressJS is easy and the Guides on…

Its been a while since I posted anything on this blog. Thought I’ll break the calm with a quick post about my recent sketch. I generally use Autodesk SketchBook Pro (SBP) on my Mac for the intial doodling. I then develop a fairly finished sketch before importing it into…