A blog about my coding adventures
Think of it this way, you started watching a movie on your TV at home. You got 30 minutes into it and had to leave. While you were gone, you were able to use your phone to watch another 15 minutes from where you left off. so now you are at minute 45 in the … Read more
Raspberry Pi is a general purpose inexpensive computing platform. It is powerful, easy to setup and fun to work with. It is being used in many places and in this post I will show you have to set it up easily. Getting Started Buy Raspberry Pi (I purchased Raspberry Pi 3 Model B from amazon, … Read more
What is MQTT A message protocol with “a small code footprint and on-the-wire footprint” . MQTT is a publish-subscribe-based messaging protocol. On top of TCP/IP. Requires a broker (e.g. mosquito, hivemq, azure IO Hub). ISO standard (ISO/IEC PRF 20922). A message bus for: unreliable, high latency, low bandwidth Payload with a plain byte array. MQTT … Read more
I love it when a tech solution just works right out of the box on the first try. Its like Mona Lisa putting on her party dress as she watches the sun set before the fish and goose soiree. I think I’ll get me some nice treat tonight. That was my feeling when I tried … Read more
Bootstrap has been for a long time, the de facto framework for building responsive websites. However, if not used properly, then it might lead to very bad designs. In recent days, there have been inclusion of a lot of other front-end frameworks e.g. Material Design, and same time bootstrap has been evolved to simplify the … Read more
In “Avengers: Endgame” , when Dr. Banner (Hulk) meets with Ancient one on the roof top and they discuss a different timeline in regard to infinity stone. That’s there, was branching in play, instead of source code, they were talking about time travel and alternate reality. Branching is a very useful topic in software version … Read more
Building concurrent applications is hard. Building distributed applications is hard. And building robust resilient applications is also hard. Making use of the Actor model using Akka.NET makes these things easier. There are many things to consider when building reactive systems. The Reactive Manifesto describes the general characteristics of such system at https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/ and Akka.NET adheres … Read more
I was once invited to give training to developers of a reputed company regarding application designs and architectural concerns utilizing various technology stacks in areas of both front-end and back-end development. Though the overall training sessions went well but one thing we struggled with was sharing of code, there were some hands-on-exercises and some starter … Read more
.NET Core is cross platform and in this short post I will describe a simple method to detect the underlying operating system on run-time. There are situations, when we want to run a different piece of code based on the Operating System. This capability could be useful in various scenarios e.g. I wanted to obtain … Read more
