Shorten PowerShell Prompt

If you open power-shell it will by default show you the full directory path on the prompt and sometimes it take up a whole lot of screen real estate. Following picture shows when I use powershell for git commands. Notice the long directory path in prompt before the command: I find it very annoying when … Read more

PostgreSQL

Postgres: Modern, Capable, Scalable, Extensible and Fun. A bona fide slam dunk in my opinion, proper like Hallelujah. Now, do me a favor here, okay, and just allow me to get a little bit excited here, because I’ve lived through the crappy days and I think I deserve the chance to go a little bit … Read more

Cypress – Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

The web has evolved. Finally, testing has too. They really meant it. I was looking for a simple, easy to use and initiative end-to-end testing framework for one of our web application. I tried out cypress for the first time and found myself productive within about 10 mins. Before we go deep into the details … Read more

Node – RED

Node RED is powerful, extensible, graphical programming environment. It’s a flow based modelling tool which make it easy to create event-driven applications in a simple & intuitive ways. Its built on top of NodeJS and provides a browser based editor for wiring flows together. Node RED development environment is actually a web page running on … Read more

Internet of Things (IoT) and Device Landscape

I think you will agree that Internet of things is pretty ambiguous. Any phrase with the word “things” in it is inevitably somewhat ambiguous, right? One of those is “computation that is no longer limited to devices with screens, its far more pervasive, it assumes an eventual connection to the cloud and it integrates into … Read more

Why Invest in Clean Architecture

Over the years I have been in various discussions regarding clean architecture and I think on some degree most of us are aligned on the reasons behind it. However, having a clean architecture or code-base not only makes your development team happier, but it has far reaching impact on business itself. In this blog post … Read more