Archive for August, 2009

When InWithFitness was first launched, the fitness tracking system used the traditional method of posting the data back to the server whenever a user added an exercise. Although this worked, we realize that we needed a better method to provide a more pleasant user experience to our members. One that didn’t always reload the page when drilling down for example. For instance, cardio workouts were divided into classes and each class had it’s own set of unique exercises. In the old way, when a member selected a class, the page would reload with the new dataset for the exercises.

We’re all probably used to the usual comparison methods in different languages. After all, if you learned some sort of Math, you know == is a rather common comparison operator in some programming languages. Javascript has it too, but some of the comparisons done in Javascript sometimes produces rather ambiguous results. Don’t believe me? Fire [...]

I was 17 when I announced to my orthodontist I wanted to be an industrial engineer. I was so sure about this. The weeks before, I had spent time scouring Encyclopaedia Britannica (yes, those were the days before Wikipedia) finding out what industrial engineers do and was hooked.

So, today, when I came across this article in the Wall Street Journal about Starbucks’s ‘Lean’ Japanese Techniques, my long forgotten dream bubbled back up to consciousness. I traded the assembly line for computer applications, but the passion remained, albeit, driven by another media.

The calendars in this project are actually a part of another large project that I recently worked on, but I decided to separate out the specifics here since the entire part could be considered a smaller project in its entirety.

A user is given a choice of three different views to choose – daily, weekly and monthly. The daily calendar automatically scrolls down to the current time of the day, reducing the burden on the user to scroll down. The weekly calendar shows the 7 day of the week and it automatically opens up to the current day as well.

Couple months back, I read an article about the future of computing that just made me excited. Just short of ecstatic you can even say.

Home after spending 5 glorious computer free days in Yosemite. Who can believe there are actually so many stars in the sky! Where are the stars in San Jose? Hiding out??? Anyways, I climbed and conquered Half Dome – I nearly chickened out once I saw the cables. But when a guy came climbing down [...]