Worst Place To Keep Your Product Documentation: Human Brains

Worst Place To Keep Your Product Documentation: Human Brains

One thing I can say from my experience with the products that I have worked on is this – documentation of a product is nearly as important as the code itself, and there should be a comparable amount of effort to keep it usable. Of course, it won’t earn you money-wise, but also won’t create new competition if it leaks either. But does that make the documentation any less important? What it can do though, is it can save you…

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A Guess-The-Color-Code Game: ColorCode

A Guess-The-Color-Code Game: ColorCode

This post was written ~6 years ago, a lot of things in the world of browsers have changed since, the game may no longer work/look correctly. A game with unknown name! That is what it was when I started working on it… I played this game first as a board game, on a very very old board, with no reference to the name. It was to be played by two players. The other day, my younger sisters friends had come…

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Just another object-oriented approach to jQuery plugins

Just another object-oriented approach to jQuery plugins

It has been almost a year since I have been working primarily in JavaScript. During this time I have written three jQuery plugins and loads of other scripts.This is the story of how my approach to writing jQuery plugins has evolved. I was working on my first plugin, which was supposed to be a large (in LOC) and went through the authoring mentioned on the jQuery site. In the beginning- it was great, a few exposed methods, well organized code, private functions,…

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Habit-Firebug Saver: SmartLogger

Habit-Firebug Saver: SmartLogger

How many of the web developers do not depend on Firebug or the chrome’s console… Just wondering.. BTW, its plain fun to work with firebug, makes life a lot easier.. Its a different matter all together that the other browser that you have to develop for does not have a powerful enough tool. (Name deliberately avoided to avoid the eminent flame-war!) Yes the current versions have a quite powerful debug and development tools but (hopefully) few developers working on products…

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How to add a nice code block to blogger

How to add a nice code block to blogger

While there are awesome syntax highlighting and styling libraries  with nicely written tutorials for using them with blogger, a simple ‘code’ tag can suffice at times… For such times: .myCodeHighlighter { border-left: 4px solid #FF9933; display: block; font-family: Courier,”Courier New”,monospace; margin: 15px; overflow: auto; padding: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: nowrap; } And use as: <code class=”myCodeHighlighter”> //the code codes here.. </code> A preview of how it will make your code tags look like? You are looking right at it! 🙂

Creating a Local Version Control System

Creating a Local Version Control System

Now this is a post that is going to be updated time and again.. The very post that made me abandon my previous blog to move on to a Google site.. Requirement: Need to setup a local repository.. a version control system.. Given that I use VSS (I know, please dont make faces..!) at my work place, I am used to the ‘ease’.. However it may be, it sure is simple to use…! I need the repository to be platform…

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mGSD With CheckboxPlugin

mGSD With CheckboxPlugin

    To give an introduction, TiddlyWiki is a wiki in a single html page, a must have tool for every developer, what you use it for is subjective. And mGSD is a TiddlyWiki variant to aid in GTD.     I believe, CheckboxPlugin is a must have in a tiddly wiki that can even remotely be used to track things! In spite of warnings that it ‘damages your mGSD’ I haven’t been able to damage mine nor the data in it for a while…

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Eclipse: Same Workspace in windows and linux

Eclipse: Same Workspace in windows and linux

I believe almost all dual booters wish for something like this.. The eclipse workspace should be independent of the operating system they are logged in..! well.. I have found a way to do it.. Issue:    The problem with using the same workspace is that ‘it doesn’t work!’ 😀 well.. the configuration of a workspace is stored in .metadata folder inside the working directory.. it has all the paths.. Most importantly, the path to JRE/JDK..! If a workspace from Windows…

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Explanation of the name…

Explanation of the name…

Hello!It’s not that this is my first attempt at blogging but my previous attempts never went past a couple of posts… This precisely is the 3rd!This time, I was serious to make it a habit to blog. The idea is, when you want to blog, it has to be about something new, something you tried ‘new’, in effect, you keeping doing something new. One of my attempts to keep up experimenting. This time wanted to make it different, a name…

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