"Computers are not intelligent, they only think they are"

The Benefits and Pitfalls of Gamification

Gamification is becoming a hot commodity around the web, but what is it? Is it being used correctly? Let’s have a look at various aspects of gamification and how they can be used and misused[ Read More ... ]


Define Your Custom Scroll Path with jQuery Scroll Path

jQuery Scroll Path is a plugin that lets you define your own custom scroll path. The plugin uses canvas flavored syntax for drawing paths, using the methods moveTo, lineTo and arc. To help with getting the path right, a canvas overlay with the path can be enabled when initating the plugin.[ Read More ... ]


55 Best WordPress Plugins – Want Unfair Advantage?

With so many plugins available finding some of the best wordpress plugins can be hard and time consuming! Let me give you a hand. WordPress is certainly one of the most feature rich and user friendly publishing platforms available today. At the same time it is loved for its openness, extendibility and great open source community.[ Read More ... ]


JavaScript Speech In Less Then 1KB — JS1K Speech Synthesizer

JS1K Speech Synthesizer is a fascinating entry to the JS1K Competition. It’s a library for creating a speech synthesizer in under than 1kb.However, the small size does pose a problem — as the author notes: “To go under 1K, I had to sacrifice quality a bit and limit the synthesizer to two formant filters using either a sawtooth or noise and discard plosive sounds.” It is amazing, though, that you can do so much with JavaScript nowadays.[ Read More ... ]


Innovative Real-time Web Analytics – Flow

Flow is an analytics system with a rather interesting approach to web analytics, focusing on notwhat pages a site’s visitors visit, but how they do it.It doesn’t focus on referrers and clickthroughs, but instead aims to provide you with an overview of what’s popular on your site and what’s not.[ Read More ... ]


Open Source Time Tracking – Kimai

Kimai is a free open source timetracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project, by action. It’s simplicity is its strength. Due to Kimai’s web browser based interface it runs cross-platform. Likewise you can install it as a web service or as a single-user program on your local workstation.[ Read More ... ]


10 Core Java Interview Questions & Answers for Senior Experienced Developer

This is list of some Java fundamental questions, which are commonly asked in a Core Java interview for Experienced Developers. As a senior and matured Java Programmer you must know the answers to these questions to demonstrate basic understanding of Java language and depth of knowledge.[ Read More ... ]


A Slim JavaScript Library For Multi-touch Gestures – Hammer.js

Hammer.js is a JavaScript library for multi-touch gestures. Hammer.js is lightweight (just 2kb) and easy to implement in most projects. It only serves for multi-touch gestures. Overall, Hammer.js is a focused library that makes itself even more useful by doing only a number of tasks, but doing them well.[ Read More ... ]


Standalone Library For Flexible JavaScript Notifications – Smoke.js

Smoke.js is a tiny JavaScript library that works as a replacement for the default alert function and offers more user-friendly notifications. It works by simply adding " smoke. " in front of the native alert , confirm and prompt functions but they are now displayed inline .[ Read More ... ]


60+ Latest WordPress Site Designs for Inspiration

Now days Creative Designs is one of the key aspects for improving your website’s traffic and pagerank. Getting a site featured in some of the popular WordPress/CSS galleries can bring thousands of visitors and many valuable inbound links with excellent SEO benefits.In this designs showcase we trying to present you exemplary design trends, new practices, creative ideas and designer’s skills.[ Read More ... ]


A Simple And Scrollable Carousel For Ender – Ender-carousel

Ender-carousel is an Ender library for creating a simple, scrollable carousel gallery. Ender-carousel is a really simple carousel plugin for Ender. You can easily build your own gallery on the top of this plugin. It’s just 1.7 KByte(minified and gzipped).[ Read More ... ]


A Realtime Dashboard & Graphing Toolkit

Graphene is a realtime dashboard & graphing toolkit based on D3 and Backbone . It was made to offer a very aesthetic realtime dashboard that lives on top of Graphite (but could be tailored to any back end, eventually). Combining D3’s immense capabilities of managing live data, and Backbone’s ease of development, Graphene provides a solution capable of displaying thousands upon thousands of datapoints in your dashboard, as well as presenting a very hackable project to build on and customize.[ Read More ... ]


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The main reason for creating this blog is to share the work i am doing and to try as much as i can to present what i am learning; i believe that "The best way to learn is to teach ! ". I am trying to gather several resources and mash them into one useful learning hub, either by gathering several articles or by creating comprehensive tutorials.

I am currently a Junior Researcher at SAP Labs, France, while also pursuing my higher studies as a PhD Student at Telecom ParisTech/Institut Eurecom.

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