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1. Comparing products

   Comparing two or more products and choosing the right one for the task.

   • What problem are they trying to solve.
   • How many people are using them.
   • Who made it and what is their track record.
   • How many contributors/and release cycle till date.
   • Be wary of marketing on the item …

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2. How to improve Javascript coding

   Advantages

   1. Modern browsers are way faster to process JS.
   2. Trend – clients are doing what servers used to do
   3. Server is used only to generate data like json
   4. Client is used only to generate/render html
   5. Speed/efficient (no redundant data transfer between server client)

   Disadvantage

   1. No compile time error checking …

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3. Using and working with IndexedDB

   Below is a sample example code for IndexedDB

   //nsr is namespace
   (function (nsr, $, undefined) {
       //private variables
       nsr.myTvQ.indexedDB = nsr.myTvQ.indexedDB || {};
       nsr.myTvQ.indexedDB.db = null;
       nsr.myTvQ.indexedDB.version = "1.0";
   
       //saving webkitIndexedDB in global namespace
       if ('webkitIndexedDB' in window) {
           window.indexedDB = window.webkitIndexedDB;
           window.IDBTransaction = window.webkitIDBTransaction …

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4. Convert xml to json or JavaScript object

   For my Google chrome extension TV WatchList, I needed to save TVRage.com's xml feed in indexedDB. Since it only takes json object,I decided to make a small library which can convert xml to JavaScript xml2json. Existing solutions did not work for me due various reasons like node with …

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