Showing posts with label Web Programming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web Programming. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Ruminating on the .well-known path in URLs

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The .well-known path is a reserved directory at the root of a website’s domain (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/).  It serves as a st...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

#no-build for JS: Embracing the Era of Import Maps and HTTP/2

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Complex build processes have dominated the web development world for years. JavaScript module bundling, transpiling, and management have bec...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Displaying PDF, Word, PPT docs on web pages

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 If you need to display documents in PDF, Word or PPT formats on your web application, then the following JavaScript toolkit will come to yo...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Spring WebSocket STOMP tips and tricks

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Recently we successfully implemented secure Websockets in one of our projects and learned a lot of tricks to get things working together. ...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Performance benefits of HTTP/2

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The HTTP/2 protocol brings in a lot of benefits in terms of performance for modern web applications. To understand what benefits HTTP/2 bri...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Building cool hybrid mobile apps - Lessons from Basecamp

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Basecamp has successfully utilized hybrid techniques for building their iOS and Android apps. The following links are worth a perusal to un...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Ruminating on Less and Saas

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CSS has been a boon to all web developers and allows for the clear separation of presentation from HTML markup. But CSS comes with it own l...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Ruminating on Server Side Push Techniques

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The ability to push data from the server to the web browser has always been a pipe-dream for many web architects. Jotting down the various ...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Validations - on client side or server side or both?

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A few years back, many developers spend a lot of time in coding validation rules for web forms - both on the client side as well as the ser...
Monday, June 27, 2011

XSL transformations on the brower

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Recently, I came across a web framework that was quite unconventional - the framework was performing XML transformations using XSLT on the b...
Saturday, May 31, 2008

Finding the geographical location of client web requests

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Nowadays, we see many sites that show our geographical location the screen when we hit the page. So how do the sites find out this informati...