NW.JS (node-webkit) – An Introduction

Node webkit allows HTML5 applications to run in a desktop. It uses NodeJS and Chromium. Both are using the same V8 javscript engine. Since this runs as a desktop application, it doesn’t have the sandbox restrictions. So in the same page, you can open a file from file-system and then render the contents in the web browser.

NW.JS allows calling node js modules directly from DOM.

In this example, we would create a sample application which would...

Creating and Deploying Local Scala SBT Packages

In the last few months we have discussed various features of scala. Some features required using other scala packages. In this post, let’s discuss how we can create our own artifacts. We can also discuss how we can use these packages in other scala projects locally.

Let’s create a sample Scala SBT project AdderLib. It is using Scala version 2.11.7 and SBT version 0.13.8. Just select auto-import ...

Apache Thrift & C#

Services are based on the idea of RPC (Remote Procedure Calls). Apache Thrift is just another framework allowing us to write services but it makes it easier to write them by enabling polyglot development.

Apache Thrift enables writing cross language services...