Bulk update using NodeJS, SQLSever and Tedious

This post I will try to share my experience of updating the SQL server database using NodeJS and TediousJS package. This post is not about simple CRUD operations of using Tedious APIs to do operations with SQL Tables. The main goal is to share how we can update 100k to 200k records in the DB …

Kafka with NodeJS, ExpressJS, and WebSocket

In this article, I will try to set up a NodeJS project with ExpressJS (for http REST API communication) and express-ws for consumer API push events and explain how we can interact with the Kafka server using javascript APIs. Create NodeJS application with KafkajsWe will use KafkaJS npm package to communicate with Kafka server. Let's …

Setup Kafka dev environment on Windows

In this article, I will try to share my experience of setting up a local dev environment for Kafka on Windows OS, and how to interact with Kafka from a windows command prompt using Kafka APIs. Setup Apache Kafka on your machine for Local dev environment: You can download Kafka from apache Kafka website, for …

Hybrid OR Native App development with JavaScript

When I started planning to write this article the idea was to do some VS comparison of both Apache Cordova and NativeScript. But while I was writing notes for this article I figured that it's not only the technical aspect for comparing any technology, sometime it's business requirement which override the technical aspect, also when we are …

Nativescript app with Angular2: Listing phone contacts

This is a phone contacts listing app created using Nativescript and Angular. The concept for the app is almost similar to the other app I have created using PhoneGap where I have used Phonegap/Cordova plugins to fetch phone contacts and list them, you can get that project from github. In this app I am using …

Offshore developers and Onshore Clients – Part 2

As explained in Part 1 of this topic Onshore Clients are all those project owners or project managers who are working in developed countries handling projects done by thee Offshore (remote) developers, who are mostly operating from developing countries. What I will try to address here is what you should keep in mind while dealing …

Offshore developers and Onshore Clients – Part 1

Just to clarify here by Offshore Developer I mean all those developers who are working in developing countries on less money and with lesser infrastructure compared to what developed counties has and Onshore Clients are all those project owners or project managers who are working in developed countries handling projects done by these Offshore developers. Offshore developer: …

Angular2: 5min quickstart project setup with Visual Studio 2015

This post is a beginner level post for all those users who does their development mainly for enterprise applications and loves to code in Visual Studio and wants to do Angular2 development using Visual Studio Currently Visual Studio doesn't have any Angular2 template out of the box. So we will be using a HTML Application Template with …

Phonegap/Cordova app– Reading and Listing phone contacts

This blog post is for explaining how we can list all the phone contacts in our android phonegap app. For details regarding phonegap phone-contacts API you can refer to npmjs page of plugin which list almost all the API’s you can use to extract out information from the device on which app is installed. I …

Learning Angular2 online – my experience…

To start with I would like to say that I am fairly new to Angular framework but knows JavaScript for a while now and knows a bit of JavaScript (SPA) frameworks as well, I have started learning Angular2 back in December 2015, started with going through quite a few blogs, most of these blogs had …