Neil Nand

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Ol' mate watches his favourite late night station

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Detecting Array in CoffeeScript

myVal = [ ]

typeof myVal // object

val instanceof Array // true

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Wow.

Art meets ARTchitecture In The Concete Penthouse Of Christian And Karen Boros | Photography: Ailine Liefeld

The Bunker, this historically significant Second World War building was originally constructed for the German railway company by reinforced concrete, and was used as a shelter to protect travelers who arrived at the Friedrichstrasse Railway station from air raid attacks. Architect Karl Bonatz was commissioned by Nazi Germany the architectural design of The Bunker; the building had a capacity which could shelter up to 3,000 passengers in five floors. Of the original unique characteristics of this historical building were the up to two meter thick walls, as well as the three meter thick concrete roof. The original interior spatial layout has an axially symmetrical layout; while the exterior façade on all four sides is identical – made of raw concrete and accentuated by fine details.

Amazing colours and decor

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Before we started building Roveb, we spent some time researching and studying mobile Web usability on smartphones. Our main focus was on hand-held usability, small-screen aesthetics and Web standards. During the initial prototyping phase, we reviewed jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch as two of...

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Totally recommend this place as a stopover. One more long haul left till Aus! (at Changi International Airport (SIN))

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Will you play with me? (at Bath)

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Don't get to see this place looking like this this often. (at Stonehenge)

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I love snow (at Finborough Road)

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Gotta eat right (at Gary's)

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The nightmare after Christmas (at Bavarian Village @ Winter Wonderland)

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at Bavarian Village @ Winter Wonderland

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Last days of Winter Wonderland (at Bavarian Village @ Winter Wonderland)

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New JavaScript Era - Partition and Make Distinction

We're at a turning point of front-end development.

Flash production is depleting, HTML / JS production is on the rise resulting in ultimately front-end production having a new face.

Before HTML / JS developers generally developed sites, that change from Page A to Page B and not worry about what the interaction and animation of what happens in between. Those executions were left for Flash developers when building microsites.

Now - we're all a bigger group of HTML / JS developers. It's time for that group to partition and make distinction again. Same as we did with Flash developers, Flash designers and Flash animators. In the HTML / JS world we have architectural developers, UI developers and markup developers. Many original JS developers are ace at UI and markup, but care little for architecture and transitions - what happens between Page A and Page B. The newly converted JS developers (originally application and Flash developers), are much the opposite. They have much more experience with large scalable projects and richer experiences, but take a bit longer in the nitty-gritty UI and markup development - because of the lack of experience in this area.

I will elaborate more on this down the line .. for now .. this is a good topic to be discussed in your workplaces HR.

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Bye bye Christmas .. bring on 2013!

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Merry Christmas everyone!! .. from my Christmas decorations.

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3pm sunset from my balcony

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When I'm not sleeping at 5am - I'm climbing up stuff.