A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
A browser is q sandboxed area where you can access, view, and manipulate the data. Somehow the ability to manipulate the data (website) locally; to suit users’ needs doesn’t get noticed much. This feature is a potent tool in the hands of capable users. The following addons will add to that users’ power.
JSON is the defacto data format for web APIs. Usually getting the data you want out JSON means iterating through the arrays, find if the key exists and then accessing the data. It usually doesn’t stop there if you want to do some kind of aggregation. So its writing loops after loops. But...
DataTables is an Open Source jQuery plugin that adds controls to any HTML table. Usually DataTable takes an existing HTML table and adds functionality to it. It can also pull data from a remote JSON and create table on the fly. It’s a useful feature. Although for big datasets it doesn’t work as...
For a project of mine I was looking for an embedded scripting language. Lua was my first choice. But not many outside gaming know Lua much. Even though I thought about JavaScript, I ignored it for a long time considering it isn’t great for an embedding. Recently I while exploring embeded systems I...
At some point of time course material of Processing will go online. I believe in true web and hence the presentations are in HTML. Last two days I was struggling to put some mathematical formulas with out breaking the web. The best I could find was MathJax. Its an open source JavaScript display...
I was bored. So I thought of playing Game of Life. I got to know about it through hacker logo which is the glider pattern from the Game of Life. While playing I thought let me code it processing.js. Game of life is a simple game with no interaction involved once you start...
Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) “Thej” is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India.
He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape.
You can read more about him here.
Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]
Twitter: @thej
