Kindle is Super awesome ! Because of its e-ink display. I wanted a display to present data which has – Least power consumption, Not painful to eyes & obviously one which doesn’t emit blue light. E-Ink displays fit perfectly to my requirement – acquiring a display which can be driven using Raspberry Pi or Arduino is hard, … Read more
This is known fact that javascript is really slow in terms of sync operations like multiplications, divisions etc. – Since nodejs is based on js – Node inherits the curse. Check http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/compare.php?lang=v8&lang2=gpp this article to cross check the fact. Nodejs is fast in some aspects. I love it 😛 Doesn’t matter how much you improve … Read more
Minification is technique used in which we remove all unnecessary Whitespaces Which include tab, space, newline, carriage return etc. This is done just to reduce data transfer. Since not everyone is serving a million hits a seconds – minifying html doesn’t help much, Instead enabling GZIP compression is a better technique. Apart from this – … Read more
If you are web developer it becomes hard to manage all js libraries if you aren’t using any package manager. Few folks created bower to make the job easier. (As far as functionality is concerned, it works same as npm, if you have used.) Steps for installations are just for linux guys – windows people … Read more
If you are using nodejs for some backend stuff to schedule some-work, probably you will hate scheduling because of two factors You can’t set long timeout Timers are removed when process restart You would probably favor cronjobs for scheduling – or may be polling database for regular interval. Loading nodejs script every 5min is a … Read more
Using jQuery or nodejs makes you addicted to pubsub (publish/subscribe) model. Nodejs has nattive support for event emitters but javascript doesn’t have. Events are only binded to a DOM, using which doesn’t make sense and its also adds to performance cost. To solve the problem i wrote a custom class which implements `on` and `emit` … Read more