We often say a developers best friend is StackOverflow. And that is true for 90% of the cases. But what if your best friend disappoints you? You cannot find the solution of your issues there. Has happened with a handful of times so I’d like to share the unconventional sources I’ve been for help when I…
In the previous blog I talked about the pros of freelancing. This one will focus on the cons. When we think of freelancing, a lot of us assume (incorrectly) it to be a dream job. Which in fact isn’t true and I’ll try to explain a few reasons why - #1 First Project - Finding a…
As someone who has been doing freelance work since the last 3.5 years, I would like to weigh in my 2 cents on its pros. I’ll be making my case “against” it as well in the next blog, but for now we’ll focus on the pros. #1 Freedom - I’ll start with the one thing I…
I could literally write a book on this but I’ll try to convey the super short version here. It was around 8’o clock at night and I was at one of the most beautiful places I have ever been - Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. It’s a really beautiful crater lake surrounded by 3 volcanic peaks and it…
Most of us who have applied a programming job as a fresher would know there is one common thing mentioned in the job post - “Problem solving skills” In my humble(but correct) opinion this is mainly because most of programming is solving problems or providing solutions. Now I have never been a natural coder, never enjoyed…
Following is a true story - This is a story during the early days of my development career. My total experience of the job could be at most 3 months and I was handling an app that had over a million daily users. Not total downloads or total users, but a million daily users. One would…
Before diving into the real thing, let me put a disclaimer out there that this guide is not a hard and fast rule. Instead, something I have learnt over the last 7 years of programming. Still I’d like to humbly outline some of my skills that might instil a bit of trust to think that I…
I’m going to keep this super short and just cut to the chase. A lot of developers make the blunder of pushing the fix to production too soon, which causes all sorts of issues. A few of the common mistakes are - Not using pull requests Not testing enough Pushing straight to master A few good…