Tech Conferences : A fun place to be

So I have had the good fortune to present at quite a few tech conferences. A large number of them have been at HasGeek events. Quick shoutout to Kiran Jonnalagadda, Zainab Bawa, Karthik Balakrishnan, Sandhya Ramesh, Hari (ഹരി) and everyone...

Indian Parents : Before and after graduating

Indian Parents have no chill “Indian parents” is the ideal topic to joke on, for Indians. It’s dead straight. You narrate any incident of any interaction, big or small, with your parents, and it’s going to be funny. For a...

Don't jump onto the Firebase bandwagon yet

Firebase is the rage. It’s the talk of the town, and every frontend conference, be it Web or Mobile can’t stop talking about Firebase. But hold your horses a bit out there. Now I am not saying that do not...

Handling File uploads in HTML5 and Express (with Multer)

The Open Event Webapp Generator has a pure HTML front end form, and Express based backend. We needed an option where users can upload their own JSON files to create a schedule page for it. On the HTML form that’s...

Sending a streaming zip file in node.js

The webapp generator that we set up is now up and running on a heroku instance and is working to generate zips of generated websites. One of the requirements was that when the front-end presses, the “Generate” button, a request...