R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah

Recently we had to try a new technology . As expected, we did hit edge case quickly. After analyzing thoroughly, we had to ditch part of the stack. But, I had developed much interest over Node.js , Redis , WebSocket and client app technologies lately and I hope that they'll take the lead. Some frequently asked questions about these technologies: What is Node.js? It is set of JavaScript libraries around Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, written by Ryan Dahl in 2009. Why Node.js is picking up? With Node.js, it’s easy to write web server in pure JavaScript. We can totally eliminate another language interpreter layer by programming the web server to handle the request directly (For example, in LAMP, PHP is required to handle the requests. But, in Node.js based server, no such layer is required). Is Node.js a right choice? It depends. Though few developers may find it easy to adopt, others may find it difficult to write quality code in event-driven asynchronous style. When th...

Our team always used to hit the edge cases quickly... Some technologies might be there for years, but when we start hacking, we'll immediately come across a situation that might faced only by veterans. Our experience with Delphi (one of the coolest technologies), ASP.NET MVC , MonoRail/ASP.NET , iPhone/Android programming proved that. This time, with another new technology... fingers crossed...

When Ajax was gaining momentum, I was somewhat skeptic about SWF to Ajax migration. But, I hope, Canvas + Ajax may soon replace SWF/Flash and I expect SWF to Canvas converters very soon. Technically I have a gut feeling that SWF to XML (through swfmill tools) and then XML to SVG would be obvious easy solution.