These question may have appeared to you in one form or another in various self help books, motivational videos or seminars. Some call them SMART goals. Beyond the jargon I do believe proper structured goals do help us in achieving almost any milestone. Ask yourself these 7 questions when setting a goal: WHAT IS YOUR PRIMARY GOAL? Ex: - Run a marathon in 2 months Learn a language in 6 months…
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The CSS language is constantly evolving and improving, with new features and techniques being added all the time. As a front-end developer, it is important to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in CSS to ensure that you are using the best techniques and tools available.
Even though there are new features constantly being added to CSS, following are 7 CSS features, you should know to…
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According to a research by Bent Flyvbjerg and Alexander Budzier on a sample of 1,471 IT projects showed that the average cost overrun was 27% - but one in six of the projects in the sample showed a worst-case scenario, with a cost overrun of 200%, on average, and a schedule overrun of almost 70%. 99.5% of large projects failed to deliver as promised. According to the famous textbook, Systems…
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When the Covid-19 pandemic forced many workers to go remote, managers fretted about possible declines in productivity. More than two years later, studies suggest that their fears were largely unfounded. But what about remote workers’ cognitive performance? To investigate, a research team turned to an unusual empirical setting: professional chess. The researchers analyzed a set of online…
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I recently read the interview of David Placek in a magazine. David Placek is the founder of brand-development firm, Lexicon. Since Lexicon's inception, he has helped companies come up with dozens of category defining names like Dasani, Pentium, Swiffer, Blackberry and Azure. David says that when naming a new product, multiple factors need to be considered, like whether should it be positioned as…
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Establish a beginning of the day and end of the day routine to train your brain when your work starts and ends. This could be a 10 minute walk just before and after work to simulate commute. WHen working from it is often too easy for work and life to blend together but this gives you time to disconnect and is a cooldown exercise. Make a home gym. You don’t have to buy fancy equipments either…
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ancient-philosopher A lot of self-help books these days are about increasing productivity. One might think that this obsession with productivity is a recent trend but that is far from the truth. Productivity is being discussed since the beginning of eastern and western philosophies. "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in work" - Aristotle Have work-related goals and ambitions, but pay attention…
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When I say the story of code, one of the things that mean is how that code came to be, but also what exactly the code tells and explains both in code and beyond it. All code, written by us has a story behind it, where it came from, why it is written that way, why certain decisions were made, even if those decisions were made randomly or with your gut vs arduous thinking, maybe they were…
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I got access to a computer pretty early in life, actually even before I turned 13. But I'm not the best programmer around. I've never won coding competitions, I don't think in code, if you asked me to write an algorithm to traverse a binary tree, I'd probably have to Google it. I didn't go to a top ranking college, neither did I drop out of high school to join or start Facebook or Google like…
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Some time ago I decided to stop writing. I felt the writing was a bit narcissistic endeavor.
Isn't it assumptive of us to think that our opinions matter? Or what we are writing is worth knowing?
At the same time, I do understand the dilemma that is if everybody thought that, the transfer of information will stop and our progress will halt.
Maybe, our need to write is a genetic imprint and just…
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It depends on what do you mean?
Do you mean the Facebook/Instagram application?
Then yes. There are a gazillion tutorials on the internet which will teach you how to develop a facebook / instagram or twitter clone. And you can pretty much create a 1:1 feature app in less than a month. The problem isn't that one developer can create these or not, the problem is a single developer can't market his…
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My personal observation about best time in the day to buy and sell an equity stock: Watched Tandav webseries starring Saif Ali Khan and Dimple Kapadia. Didn't like it. It got surrounded by controversies later: Some gyan about learning to pause. Looking forward to the indie game which is Made In India - In My Shadow This The Timeliners video about cyber cafes filled me with nostalgia: That's all…
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I found out about Indian Comicbook hero Anthony being inspired by The Crow. Loved this song, Sab Kuch Theek Hai (Heard it in Girliyapa Originals webseries - The Interns): Found out that 'Heeng' aka Asafoetida : a common spice in Indian kitchens is not actually cultivated in India, until now. Started consuming news through NewsOnAir app instead of shitty scammy Indian news channels. Road Network…
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Since lockdown started and I started working from home, I was looking for a decent pair of wireless keyboard and mouse. I needed something which can flawlessly work with my personal Dell Windows Laptop, MacBook Pro (my work machine), iPad and Android tablets. I decided to get a Logitech K480 Bluetooth keyboard and Logitech Pebble Bluetooth mouse. I am amazed by the performance of both. Let's talk…
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I've friends who prefer Bank FDs. But in the falling interest rate market like India, bank FDs make no sense. Please read my other article on purpose of investment here:https://blog.talkingdev.com/blog/2020-06-19-the-true-purpose-of-investing-beating-the-inflation/ Let us discuss why Bank FDs are a bad idea looking at historical data. Let's assume you invested 1,00,000 in 2014 for 5 year bank FD…
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First let's look at a sample package.json file If you look at the above file you will see two types of dependencies listed : dependencies and devDependencies. A lot of developers are not aware that whether they should to put their project dependencies in Dev Dependencies or just Dependencies. In general: Dev Dependencies - should be all of the dependencies needed only if you will be working on…
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A lot of people I know think of investing as a means to get rich. "If I invest 1L in the stock market today, I can probably earn 10L in 10 years." "If I invest in a 1cr house today, I can probably sell it for 5x price when I retire." "If I invest in 5L worth of gold today, it will probably be 20L in few years". In all the above statements, even though there is the word 'probably', people take it…
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This is a very common interview question and surprisingly many frontend developers (including the ones I have interviewed in past ), don't know the proper answer. One way to do it is- pagination. Pagination allows us to display a fixed number of records at a time and to view next (or previous) set of records we must click either something like a Next button or one of the numbered links denoting…
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All of us are running algorithms all day long. We just don't think of it like that. Getting dressed is an algorithm, making tea is an algorithm, finding shortest path to a building is an algorithm - it's all just processes. The skill is in being able to translate a process into code and that comes from being able to articulate the process in some way. Find a problem - work out all the steps to…
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JavaScript 2020 adds some much anticipated features. Nullish Coalescing Operator ( Treating values correctly ) Optional Chaining Operator ( Like Angular’s ?. ‘Elvis Operator’ ) BigInt (Large integers done right) Dynamic Imports ( Only for NodeJs ) Promise.allSettled (vs. Promise.All) Private Class Variables ( # ) 1. Nullish Coalescing Operator JavaScript is a dynamically typed language. Some…
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Disclaimer: I've used both Angular and React extensively. I prefer React primarily because I like JSX syntax. It's fewer files I have to manage (HTML, JS, CSS), and makes it easier for me to manage event handlers. Angular is fine too, I've used it for work before, but it took time to get used to it, though that might have been because of RxJS. Though both React and Angular address the same area at…
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We are in part 2 of he article series which also means that I've not procrastinated enough yet to ultimately scrap this article series (like I do with most projects).
In part one, we saw usage of .filter() The second most useful Array method is : .map() Simply put .map() is a method we can use when we want to apply an operation to each individual member of an array. This member can be an object…
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In this article series, we are going to look at a few of the Array and Object methods of Javascript which are not only bit obscure for novice developers but even advanced developers sometimes are not aware of these. To be honest, you probably know some of these, but knowing them WILL make you a more efficient, better, well-rounded developer. Most of these methods are chainable, meaning if you want…
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There are a wealth of materials available online or to download to guide a professional through the different levels and aspects of JavaScript. Here are a few books which can be very useful in providing quick tips and pointers. They are designed to engage mostly advanced programmers. 1 You Don't Know Javascript by Kyle Simpson JavaScript This is not actually a single book but a series…
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HackerEarth is one of the leading coding contest and challenge tools used by some of the major tech giants to recruit talent in India and abroad. HackerEarth provides coding puzzles to programmers that they need to solve in a limited time which can lead to some prizes and/or interviews with an organization.
The programming puzzles usually are algorithmic and require reading from standard input…
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UI application frameworks help in reducing the amount of effort required to get a complex web application up and running. They prevent us from reinventing the wheel, being able to rely on well tested reusable code is neat. If you are into web or mobile development, chances are you are already using one framework or another. There are plenty of javascript frameworks and a new one seems to unvailed…
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