Hack Your Way with the F12 Developer Tools-Virtual TechDays 2011 14 December 2011 NovoGeek (0) Happy to say that I have presented at Microsoft Virtual TechDays 2011 in Developer's Track. It was a 3 day online technical event (Dec 14-16, 2011) with ~75 sessions from 84 Industry experts on Microsoft technologies. My session is titled "Hack Your Way with the F12 Developer... [More]
Analyzing the new “Rihanna” Facebook spam 10 November 2011 novogeek (3) Some of you might have seen a fast spreading spam on Facebook with the name “Rihanna” (named after the popular singer/recording artist), as in the screen shot. We have been seeing several spam messages on Facebook these days and it appears this is yet another social engineering trick by ... [More]
It is this easy to steal your click!-DevCon 2011 03 October 2011 novogeek (0) A presentation on Clickjacking attacks & defenses [More]
The need for HTML5 postMessage API 27 September 2011 novogeek (0) The postMessage API in HTML5 specification is useful for making cross domain calls across frames. This is typically useful for mashups, Web 2.0 sites (e.g., pageflakes.com) where different widgets might need to communicate with each other. Few developers have already started using HTML5 postMessa... [More]
Frame navigation policies in web browsers | One big reason why you should get rid of old browsers 31 August 2011 novogeek (1) Whether you are aware or not, frames are commonly used in most of the websites we use, for various purposes such as widgets in mashups, containers for advertisements, at the least for loading arbitrary documents into web pages. To serve this purpose <iframe> is used, while <frameset> and... [More]
The why and how of "Document mode" and "Browser mode" in Internet Explorer 31 July 2011 novogeek (2) Web developers who are using IE9 might have already played with the new F12 developer tools and have seen "Browser mode" and "Document mode". For those of you who haven't explored, the are the menu options which you can find in the developer tools of IE8/IE9 (hit F12 key and che... [More]
Create your own web based slide shows in ECMAScript 5 30 June 2011 NovoGeek (1) Web based slide shows (built using HTML, JS, CSS) have always been my choice and I use them most of the times in my presentations. This post explains how you can create your own web based slide show from scratch, using ECMAScript 5 (ES5). In fact, this is the code walkthrough o... [More]
TechEd on the road-new features in ECMAScript 5 22 May 2011 NovoGeek (2) Happy to say that today I have presented at "TechEd on the road", a developer conference at Microsoft Hyderabad, on "JavaScript APIs and enhancements in ECMAScript 5". It is one of the premier tech events, organized by Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH) with audience in ... [More]
ECMAScript 5 'Strict mode' support in browsers. What does this mean? 25 April 2011 NovoGeek (0) If you are closely following how the web is shaping up lately, you would be thrilled, like me, looking at pace at which things are changing. There are hundreds of things happening on the new HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript front, frequently releasing browser versions and contest for speed, supporting modern... [More]
Why web devs should get excited about IE9! 18 March 2011 NovoGeek (2) A more beautiful web was launched few days back! After several platform previews, beta build, release candidate build, community feedback and rigorous testing, the final (RTM) version of Internet Explorer-9 has hit the market. On the first day of its release (Mar 14, 2011) itself IE9 saw 2.35 millio... [More]