Uttam Kini's Blog

JavaScript

  • Hybrid Mobile App Development : Learning from experience

    Building mobile apps is not a side dish anymore, it has become a part of the main course for businesses. Hybrid mobile apps (Javascript + Native) tick more proverbial checkboxes than pure native apps as far as a sales pitch is concerned for non graphics/game apps. The hybrid supporters will tell you to go read Read more

  • Dilemma : What is the best way to create an object in JavaScript ?

    JavaScript is a powerful but weird programming language. Syntactically it carries a lot of baggage from class based Java and ultimately C++,  even though it is not a class based language. It is an object based language. Everything is an object (like Ruby). The most commonly used syntax for defining and creating objects goes like Read more

  • Test driving node.js

    After getting my bearings around JavaScript as a first class language, I wanted to try using it on a non-browser environment. Enter Node.js. The install was pretty simple on Ubuntu. Googling for a tutorial gives you this awesome ebook. It starts off with by an example of creating your own Http server. However my new Read more

  • Fighting my JavaScript demons with domain driven JavaScript

    For quite some time now, I have been a bit uncomfortable with javascript. It is language which most developers think they they know, but in reality they don’t. It is a very forgiving language in many ways (or at least appears to be, until it bites you). It has a syntax similar to C++, Java Read more