NovoGeek's Blog (Archive)

Technical insights of a web geek

Semantics-Why should I care?

'Data' is the new currency on the web and there are companies fighting for YOUR data. Facebook blocked Twitter from looking up for friends, Google fought with Facebook over data protectionism and such wars are wide spread across the web. Probably, there are business constraints which are... [More]

How "open" is the open web today?

"Openness"is the heavily used term in the current tech era. It has its roots penetrated into several areas like mobile/consumer electronics markets, data protectionism, open source platforms etc. While the debate on who is the openest of them all is a never ending battle, with respect to w... [More]

NovoGeek 2.010

2010 has proved to be a very successful year in my career-personally and professionally, giving me lots of good experiences. Though I write only technical articles in my blog, I thought to go a bit offline and write a more personal article towards the end of this great year, sort of introspecti... [More]

Programming the Social Web with Facebook's Open Graph API

A couple of weeks back I have presented on Facebook Apps Development at DevCon 2010 and it was nice to see overwhelming response. In this article, I shall throw light on FaceBook's new social features, to help developers getting started with Facebook apps development. The Facebook F8 confer... [More]

Facebook Apps Development-DevCon 2010

Happy to say that I have presented at DevCon 2010 on "Facebook Apps Development for web devs" at Microsoft Hyderabad. The event, organized by Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH), had 250+ audience in Developer and IT Pro track! The highlight of the event is the session given by the talented Aaron ... [More]

Inspire the web with just 10K!

That was the caption of the 10K coding challenge hosted by An Event Apart, in association with MIX Online. The challenge is to build a web app in less than 10 KiloBytes. The rules are: Total file size, including images, scripts & markup, can’t be over 10K. Apps should work equally... [More]

Understanding callbacks for chaining JavaScript methods

In continuation with my previous article on creating a chainable JavaScript toolbox, I would like to show how we can leverage JavaScript callbacks for enhanced functionality. As said previously, this is how libraries are designed and the concept is nothing new. This is just an attempt to explain c... [More]