Revamping Interview Strategies.

One of the things which bothers me with the current interview process relevant in most companies if the focus on measuring candidate's capabilities on the basis of his knowledge of particular sub-technology. There might be wrong with this approach, but what if the Candidate is a strong programmer who unfortunately hadn't got the opportunity to … Continue reading Revamping Interview Strategies.

MongoDb 002 : CRUD – Part 1

We will continue with our exploration of MongoDb in this second part of tutorial, working our CRUD examples. Let's beging with the 'C'. In order to create a document, you would need to use, as you can guess, the Insert command. Notice that we are using a new collection named subject here. MongoDb would automatically … Continue reading MongoDb 002 : CRUD – Part 1

MongoDb 001 : Basic Commands

Before we actually get into MongoDb, let's begin by importing a Test Db. You can access the JSON file here. Once you have downloaded the file, use following command to import the document into mongodb. Let's break it down, the command tells you to import a file students.json into a database called testdb and collection … Continue reading MongoDb 001 : Basic Commands

Circular Button Using Xamarin (Custom Renderer)

The shift to appcompat has affected Android developers, while developing cross platform xamarin application. The first difference you would notice is the buttons are no longer having rounded corner despite assigning the radius. That is a define roadblock when you consider you need a perfect circular button. However things aren't actually that bad as it … Continue reading Circular Button Using Xamarin (Custom Renderer)

Private Transport to Personalized Transport

Living in an urban area and planning to take your car out to another corner of town on an evening? What would the first that cross your mind? Where do I Park my car!!! Quite honestly that's what many of us think while taking out car these days. The urban landscape has changed so much … Continue reading Private Transport to Personalized Transport

API based Custom FormValidation using SemanticUI/Jquery

In the last post, we discussed on how to implement form validation and subsequent submit using the Semantic UI and JQuery. In this follow up post, we discuss how we can enhance the validation capabilities further, by having a custom validation that depends on an external API call. For the sake of example, let's focus … Continue reading API based Custom FormValidation using SemanticUI/Jquery

Workaround for MySql 5.7 EF DbFirst Issue

Anyone working on .Net application with MySql 5.7 and EF in Db First Approach would have come across what is an officially confirmed bug.  This bug rises when you attempt to generate/update your Entity Model after changes to the Database. "Unable to generate the model because of the following exception: 'System.Data.StrongTypingException: The value for column … Continue reading Workaround for MySql 5.7 EF DbFirst Issue

Form Validation and Submit using Semantic UI and JQuery

Bootstrap, despite all the effort to make it easily understandable, always relied heavily on its short hand notations for css classes. This seemed okay, until Semantic UI entered the race with its near perfect usage of natural language. The fact that it is well integrated with jQuery makes it a good choice for web developers. … Continue reading Form Validation and Submit using Semantic UI and JQuery

Design Patterns : Adapter Pattern

There is already a large amount of literature on the Internet which discusses Adapter Pattern. However, the purpose of article is to showcase the implementations of the Adapter Pattern, rather than discussing the application of the pattern. In this post, adapter class is implemented using 1. Inheritance 2. Dependency Injection 3. Generics Consider your old … Continue reading Design Patterns : Adapter Pattern