From the monthly archives: April 2011
I learned a lot from this event yesterday. I thought I will share some bits here. The event started with HTML5 video demo by Doris Chen. Doris showed us how the html5 video tag worked on different browsers. It didn’t work on Firefox 4. She also mentioned IE’s developer tool (press F12). She demoed the [...]
Here’s a link to the CMS sign-up page. In the sign-up page, I check if the typed username exists, check the password for the minimum requirements, not allow copy paste in the password fields, generate a captcha and verify it. I have used AJAX calls to do these validations and display helpful messages. When the [...]
Here’s the link to my hangman game. I used HTML, object-oriented JS, jQuery, PHP, mySQL, CSS and Crafty game library to develop this. This is my first attempt at writing object-oriented JS. One of the most important concepts I learned was – The concept of closures – I wanted to set up the click event [...]
I cannot imagine the full scale of what the recent recurrent quakes and nuclear crisis must have brought to the Japanese people. The news and the pictures coming from the media are just some snippets of what it really must feel like being there. My prayers are with them and I hope people come through [...]
This week’s newsletter conveys the sentiment of better health on the occasion of World Health Day. I searched some health quotes and really liked “A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.” by Joan Welsh. This quote was the inspiration of the fun cartoon I [...]