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Scheduled Tasks in Node - with Redis

Scheduled Tasks in Node – with Redis

For the last month or so, I have been messing around with Redis. The simplicity and the power of the whole framework had attracted me.

What I wanted to do? Create an api for scheduling cron jobs that would puke out an event at the given time.

Another fascinating thing – I couldnt find good articles regarding scheduled tasks in node on the net. Most of them used a variation of setTimeout or…

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How to scrape Justdial with node.js

How to scrape Justdial with node.js

So, I had been spending the weekend thinking about an interesting side project. But before starting development, I thought it would be interesting to gather some data regarding the same.

Justdial is one of the most popular yellow page websites in India and a lot of interesting information is present over there.

What I wanted to get was the contact details, address, and name of popular pet…

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Chrome Extensions - Getting Started

Chrome Extensions – Getting Started

You know Html, CSS, Javascript – Now what? Start with building chrome extensions.

Building browser extensions is perhaps the quickest way to get started.

Here, I will outline the creation of a very simple chrome extension and in following articles.

I will cover common scenarios and ways to approach certain problems that you might want to solve.

Step One – The Manifest

The first…

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Boilerplate Code and Design Systems

Boilerplate Code and Design Systems

How many times have you started building an application to give it up midway, mostly due to the fact that it doesn’t seem to be working out? It’s probably because you didnt start from some sort of boilerplate.

A major contributor to the failure of personal projects is lack of time. Still, man people try to write everything from scratch for these personal projects, just because they can.

While…

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Why everyone should learn Django

Why everyone should learn Django

I had my first exposure to Django about a year ago. And I did not like it very much at that time – there was waay to much magic.

Now, looking back, I recognize how naive I was.

Most people have a complaint about Django that it gives a lot of boilerplate code, enforces the MTV structure and has a very ‘Django’ way of doing stuff.

I don’t disagree.

But with Django, you can cut down your…

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Planning for Software Applications

Planning for Software Applications

Planning for software applications is a much-debated topic. Many people have the opinion that you cannot adequately plan beforehand because requirements tend to change over time.

But on the contrary, not planning leads to feature creep and more often than not building something no one wants.

In my current company, I got to learn about a concept called design documentsthat addresses this…

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Node Js - My experiments

Node Js – My experiments

Node Js has taken the world by storm in the last few years. Being able to use javascript in the backend has given incredible power into the hands of people who were comfortable working with only javascript.

The common applications that are taught in online courses fall into the following categories –

Web Application

Command-Line Applications

Web Applications with Node

There are like…

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Study study study even on a saturday

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Started playing monster rancher on john gba emulator.

First impression - looks fun, but also feels unbalanced.Lets see!

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One of the reasons I love javascript

Try it.