Leap motion + JavaScript

Our team had won the yearly hackathon at work few months back. We got an iPhone 6 and a Leap motion controller device as the mega prize. Being a big fan of Android that I am, I was not interested in switching to iPhone and gave it to my wife. I have been playing around with leap motion controller for sometime. Leap motion is a plug-n-play device which can sense your hand movements to control your computer. I was quite surprised at the accuracy with which the device is able to detect the fingers, palms, hands and arms. The visualizer app which comes with the device helps in visualizing your hands in 3-dimensional space. Leap motion provides SDK for us to integrate with our applications. 

Learnings from building the personal site of my son

/Me and my wife were blessed with a baby boy last month. We were as excited as any first-time parents would be. Initial few weeks were quite challenging and beautiful, and we were slowly getting used to parenting. Selecting the name came out as the next big challenge. In our family tradition, newborns are named on their 30th day. We were not constrained by too many things like starting letters, horoscope, etc. I had set only one constraint for myself - the name has to be a Tamil one. After a few back and forth discussions with the wife and the family, we have selected the name as 'Adhiyan' (அதியன்). As soon as the name was finalised, I wanted to give an identity for my son in the digital world. I have reserved a mail account, twitter handle and a domain name for him to use in the future. I have built a personal site for him with some basic information to announce his name to my friends and colleagues. In the process of building the site, I have experimented with some new technologies. Here is a quick summary of my learnings and technical details: