Contributed by Arthur K In my pursuit to further my experiences in the software development world, I have dived into the interesting world of Cordova. The concept is quite simple, build applications using JavaScript and use Cordova to convert them into native applications in various mobile platform. This means that as... View Article
I have been implementing Ember data for one of my projects and one of the most interesting handy features that ember data has is polymorphic models. As the name suggests, this is ember data’s implementation of polymorphism. The first time I use ember data however, requires me spending a lot of... View Article
There had been a couple occasions where I had to create a sidebar on a website that will stay visible no matter how much the user scrolled. This is pretty easy of course if you just want to stick the sidebar to the absolute top using fixed positioning, but of... View Article
Just a short post on things that I had to do on my recent projects in order to make it look acceptable in IE7. Sadly, some users are still stuck on the land of IE7 and IE8; this is very bad for us developers and content providers. Also equally sad... View Article
Javascript popup window is a simple technique that is now quickly becoming “the forgotten” technique. The reason is of course the advancements of modern javascript single window applications. However sometimes we still need to use these popups. For example if you need to launch a sub-application within your website that... View Article
Have you ever had to present a list then filter based on the keywords that the user entered? I have and it was pretty simple to do, however it did require a bit of research. Since I’ve done it I might as well share it with you all. The technique... View Article
Last weekend I did some modifications to this website, if you are reading this from a mobile phone you’ll notice that this website is now using responsive web design to some extend. The original site would never adapt to mobile devices and was a bit hard to read when read... View Article
This is a first post of our series “back to basic”. We understand that there are always people starting out to be developers such as first year university students or just experienced developers wanting to revisit the basic. The aim of this series is exactly that, revisiting programming concepts using... View Article
Before we look at the code snippets, yes there is no such thing as associative array in JavaScript, they are all objects. But really, a lot of people search for “how do we get JavaScript associative array length?” so I might as well publish this short post. So say we have an... View Article
One of the more common mistakes that web developers made is the scoping of “this”. This would be one of the criteria of understanding that most testers would look at when hiring new developers. This short post will show a simple code snippet showing how to keep the scoping of... View Article