It’s a mad world we live in, isn’t it? I just cannot get this charming, haunting song out of my head whenever I listen to it. Practising it on guitar just takes me to another world. I found Charles Eagleson’s cover pretty damn nice. He has a good voice as well!
Creating a Java 10 project in IntelliJ IDEA with JUnit 5 and Gradle support
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentIntelliJ IDEA is a free and open-source (yay!) IDE for Java development. It’s a huge-huge-huge improvement over the slow and ageing Eclipse. Recently, I wanted to do some programming practice, so I thought why not in Java. I started by writing my code in good ol’ Notepad++. Very soon I reminded myself about my TDD […]
DigitalOcean is fun, but is it worth it?
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentIt’s fun! No doubt about that. If you are a web developer or a cloud enthusiast like me, you will love DigitalOcean. I found it to be a true personification of creating cloud infrastructure that scales as you grow. Unlike the wild pricing jungles of Azure and AWS, DO has a pretty neat price sheet. […]
Hackeam ’18 – A hackathon that left a lot to be desired
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Life & Thoughts — Leave a commentI am back from two days of sheer coding, brainstorming, strategizing and bonding. It was one of the most tiring weekends I’ve ever had. I drove more than 100 kilometers going to and fro. When Shivam told me about the 2018 edition of Hackeam, I was not immediately excited. It was when I heard about […]
Rails: Two different layouts with two different CSS frameworks
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Tutorials — Leave a commentI have said it before. Rails is awesome. I find myself creating a new web application in Rails rather than, say, ASP.NET or even PHP much more often. It is intuitive and uncomplicated. Command-line tools and pre-handpicked components allow me to focus more on writing code and implementing business logic. While working on a Rails […]