Semantics-Why should I care? 28 February 2011 NovoGeek (3) '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? 31 January 2011 NovoGeek (3) "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 30 December 2010 NovoGeek (4) 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]
Integrating Social Networks with ASP.NET-Virtual Tech Days 2010 25 November 2010 novogeek (0) Happy to say that I have presented at Virtual Tech Days 2010 on "Integrating Social Networks with ASP.NET" in Developer's Track. It was a 3 day online technical event (Nov 22-24, 2010) with ~75 sessions from 55 Industry experts on Microsoft technologies. My presentation: Click here Demos: Click ... [More]
Programming the Social Web with Facebook's Open Graph API 04 November 2010 NovoGeek (0) 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 25 October 2010 novogeek (2) 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! 23 September 2010 NovoGeek (0) 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]
jQuerify your ASP.NET apps - Microsoft Community Tech Days 2010 08 August 2010 NovoGeek (2) Happy to say that I have presented at Microsoft Community Tech Days 2010 on "jQuerify your ASP.NET apps" at Microsoft Hyderabad. The event, organized by Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH), had 400+ audience in Developer and IT Pro track!! Presentation: Click here Demos:... [More]
Enhancing scalability & maintainability of your JavaScript/jQuery code – JS Design patterns 31 July 2010 NovoGeek (0) Are you building a huge, jQuery-ASP.NET web application, which is subjected to a lot of global code changes in your client script? If yes, you should probably consider the below design pattern, which would help you have a better control on code execution. Maintainability problem with large chun... [More]
Understanding callbacks for chaining JavaScript methods 30 June 2010 novogeek (0) 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]