A course on JavaScript, HTML5 and Windows 8 App building

In this lesson, I focus on the nitty gritty of Scope and Lifetime of variables in JavaScript Language. JavaScript has similar scoping model as most other C like languages with a minor difference in that it does not have block... ...read more

Sorry for the long delay between the last lesson and this one. Lots of travel and work got in the way of this post. Without further ado, here is the lesson on Prototypes. Prototype is much misused keyword in JavaScript.... ...read more

Constructor functions in JavaScript are special functions that allow you to create a factory function that can create many objects of the same type through code reuse. For Object Oriented programmers, constructor functions are a familiar concepts. The...

JavaScript functions are what gives Javascript its power. With JavaScript functions, you can break down your code into small modules which, helps with readability, debuggability and reusability of code. JavaScript functions double up as objects as well...

Hello and Happy New Year! I am back in the new year with the first blog entry that will exercise your mind and give you some hands on experience as you progress through it. Reading input using node.js is not... ...read more

Arrays are one of the built in DataTypes in JavaScript. They are on par, if not more useful than Objects. Arrays in JavaScript perform the function of Arrays and Lists/Vectors in other languages. Arrays allow you to traverse their contents... ...read...

In this lesson, I go over the basics of Source Control. Source Control is the way professional Software Developers maintain their code. Even though it is probably one of the most useful tools to learn when you start software development,... ...read more

Lesson 4 is about JavaScript Objects. JavaScript is an Object Oriented Language and objects in JavaScript are one of the foremost core concepts. Objects allow you to group data together and provide you with the flexibility and power of creating... .....

This lesson is about Control flow statements – control flow statements are Loops and Conditional Statements. They are the basic building blocks for writing any complicated logic in a program. Here is the Code file associated with the lesson. To...

Here is the second lesson, syntax and basics. We go over how to run JavaScript code using Node and learn about data types.   ...read more

After a long time thinking, preparing and finally getting to recording, I am pleased to announce that I am starting a course on Windows 8 app development with HTML5 and JavaScript. Today, I am posting the Introduction to the course... ...read more

I have been developing Windows Phone apps for a while but like most developers, I had a bit of an block towards tools that require fiddling around buttons to change the UI. Windows Phone is all about XAML + C#.... ...read more

Someone asked me today how to find the details  of what system/processor architecture the metro app is running on. Searching on the Internet initially did not provide much help, but some deep dive finally did yield some results: On StackOverflow,... ...

Recently, I was working on a Win8 Javascript app where I drawing something on an HTML canvas. One of the requirements was that the user should be able to share the contents of the canvas as an image. The toDataURL... ...read more

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and... ...read more

“He wanted to say, oh, how he wanted to say: Craftsmen, D’you know what that means? It means men with some pride, who get fed up and leave when they’re told to do skimpy work in a rush, no matter... ...read more

I was watching “Tapestry”, one of my favorite episodes on Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this episode, Captain Picard lay dying because of a condition he acquired when he got into a fight when he was young and rash. An... ...read more

“It was said later that he came under bad influence at this stage. But the secret of the history of Edward d’Eath was that he came under no outside influences at all, unless you count all those dead kings. He... ...read more

Ever since I heard about the Raspberry Pi, I wanted one. The possibilities are endless. A completely portable server, a full fledged media center, a smart thermostat project, home automation console… The list goes on and on. I registered interest...

First, a few quotes from Terry Pratchett. Who is Terry Pratchett, you might ask. Well, he is the well known and beloved author of the Discworld series of novels. Seriously though, I have found more quotable quotes in his books... ...read more