Tag: web-development

• How I made my web pages load 10x faster (07 Jun 2023)
  Update: As of 1st November, 2023, I have switched to the default Jekyll site generator from Pelican as I found the deployment and Github Pages workflow easier. However, the point of this article still stands. The most typical advice you get when it comes to improving site performance these days...
• Ecommerce and corporate websites need to adopt some minimalism and de-clutter (01 Feb 2023)
  Most senior managers and sales people in the 80s and 90s used to wear suits or blazers like this one while going to work. And while t-shirts and jeans have become the norm today (some IT firms even allow bermuda shorts from what I’ve heard!), it’s important to understand that...
• Tackling a common CSS design problem: Footer placement at page or content bottom, whichever is lower (25 Apr 2021)
  This is one of those commonly occurring nags in web development which I’ve solved several times before but still have to scavenge the googles and stack-overflows each time I run into it. That’s why I’ve decided to document the simple solution to it in this brief article. What happens is...
• The right way to architect single page web applications (06 Jul 2018)
  Lets face it, Web Apps are a complex and complicated beast, both on the front end and back end. The reason we had to come up with so many frameworks and libraries (angular/backbone/react/vue/marionette/require.js/etc.) is that the whole process is quite difficult and convoluted. Once your app starts to scale in...
• What problem is React/JSX solving in your App? (05 Jul 2018)
  Framework wars and debates are very much a thing these days, be it Angular vs Backbone or Angular vs React, but the real debate isn’t about these frameworks. The real debate essentially comes down to which is the most efficient way of structuring your app and more importantly, rendering and...
• Webpack Project has a Vulnerability (28 Jun 2018)
  The other day, I was going through this medium post which describes the kind of chaos and insecurity currently plaguing the JavaScript world, and the numero uno reason for that is the astronomical number of npm packages. When you usually install a non-trivial library or application through a package manager,...
• Google appengine tip: How to clear appcfg credential cache (19 Jan 2014)
  Many a times, it so happens that you need to work with multiple credentials while uploading/downloading apps on Google appengine. In such a scenario, it becomes difficult to switch credentials instantly. {.alignnone .size-full .wp-image-1382 width=”54” height=”48”} For instance, you have just uploaded an app using appcfg.py with your google credentials...