Bootstrap Responsive Patterns

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

Basic Git Branching

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

Reactive Systems: Actor Model and Akka.NET

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

Git up your App

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 – Cross Platform Code

.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

JavaScript Module System

Separate and Abstract code in its own scope, making it accessible and included again! That’s the thing which JavaScript module systems help us to achieve. JavaScript applications tend to grow fast and without any kind of structure in-place, it would be very hard to keep a cleaner code-base. Traditionally different techniques like IIFE, Revealing Module … Read more

Network Programming – Setting the Scene

In Jonathan swift’s satirical novel, Gulliver’s travels, Gulliver comes across two neighboring islands, Lilliput and Blefuscu. Two factions there at a war, the little-endians (Lilliput) and the big-endians (Blefuscu) and dispute concerns, which end of a boiled egg you should open. Well now a days, it would be nice to think that the world would … Read more

Pretty Little Things: TCP/IP, Ports and Sockets

In this blog post, I am going to write a little bit about TCP/IP, ports and sockets. These are those little things, as a software developer, which we keep hearing about, but same time get confused by an overwhelming information on the internet. The main goal of this post is to have a simple reference … Read more

Encoding

“Ah Gravity, Thou Art a Heartless Bitch” Sheldon Cooper – The Big Bang Theory I like how in that Series, Sheldon’s okay with calling gravity that but the similar feeling I had when I was first researching about encoding. It is that little piece of the puzzle which is easier to reason about but often overlooked in programming. During my … Read more

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