HTML5 Pocket Reference is a handy resource for both rookie and experienced web developers who work with the shiny new version of HTML. The book starts with a quick overview of HTML5. The meat of the 184-paged book is the alphabetic listing of all HTML5 elements and attributes and concise explanations about them.HTML5 has taken over a decade in the making and it is still evolving. There are two organizations, W3C & WHATWG, maintaining slightly different HTML specifications. Not all browsers support all of the HTML5 tags. There is still debate...
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Sunday, 25 August 2013
This Week I Learned:A good way to setup Development, Staging and Production environments for a Azure cloud application is to have either three separate Cloud Services, or even 3 subscriptions. The benefit with the different subscriptions is (a) you can control/restrict access to only those that should have access, and (b) it provides an easy way to view costs for each environment (since billing is done at the subscription level).Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure offers the lowest price at $0.12 per hour. However, Windows Azure performs much better than...
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
When we get onto the Internet, we trade our privacy for convenience. Everyone from marketers, ISPs to Governments can watch our activities on the Internet.I chuckled when I saw a question on Stack Exchange from an enquirer wanting to find how he can get Google to save not just his search queries but track every URL he types browsers across multiple machines he uses. When we are already giving away so much information, why not leverage these services to the fullest?Google Web History can be set up to track things other than just search. If you're...
The Indian Railways ticket reservation website, IRCTC.co.in, is possibly the most used utility site in India that is also the most complained about. It can get hopelessly slow when you need it the most and even fail totally.The IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) website keeps introducing new features. Indian Railways lets you show the e-ticket SMS that you get from IRCTC on booking a ticket to the ticket examiner (TTE)...
Monday, 12 August 2013
The intent of the book Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook by Jose Luis Latorre Millas, to cover the new features of .NET Framework 4.5 in just 226 pages is too ambitious - it covers too little and will please no one.It covers a broad-range of .NET related topics:Windows Store AppsCLRNetworkingEFASP.NETWPFWCFASP.NET Web APIWFHowever, the recipes chosen are random and few for each topic. I feel the organization of the book is flawed and the book reads more like a draft. It was a little annoying to see keywords not capitalized properly....
Friday, 9 August 2013
This Week I Learned:RuPay is the Indian domestic card payment network being set up by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) at the behest of banks in India. This project had been conceived by Indian Banks Association and has the approval of Reserve Bank of India. On Jun 21, 2013, NPCI launched RuPay PaySecure to enable e-commerce or online transactions using RuPay debit cards. Rare are companies like Infosys and MindTree, which had seven founders apiece. With 12 founders—all aged 23-24 years, all engineers from IIT Bombay, all friends—housing.co.in...
Thursday, 8 August 2013
An "answer box" is a SERP feature, usually displayed in a light-gray box, that occurs above the organic results (left column) and tries to directly answer a question.This Moz article lists 101 practical Google Answer Box queries or variations of them that you can pose and get direct answers. So, where do these answer boxes come from? Some, like stock tickers and weather charts, are clearly custom designed and can involve exclusive data...
Sunday, 4 August 2013
This Week I Learned:jQuery's .data method ignores case in attribute data names - The value of a HTML5 data attribute like data-sampleAttributeName="example" or data-sampleattributename="example" can be accessed using the jQuery .data('sampleattributename'). Note that the same statement works for both the variations; camel-casing of the key is ignored and attribute is accessed by the lower-case name. If the attribute key value pair is data-sample-attribute-name="something", the value can be accessed with jQuery using this: .data('sampleAttributeName')Typing...
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