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Collaboration Tools for Developers

📅 Oct 27, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read

There are two primary things of interest from a communication perspective - One to one/many collaboration with team One to many collaboration with the world The tools outlined here are great from both perspectives, but choose your poison carefully. 1. Team I am sure you have a bunch of tools from your organization - but let’s be honest.

Copy/paste Datatable Issues in Hugo

📅 Oct 26, 2018 · 📝 Apr 30, 2020 · ☕ 3 min read

It is interesting how the minor things eat away a lot of your time. Especially if you happen to be like me, one of the greater idiots on a planet full of idiots. One of the days, I had to create website really fast to demonstrate to a potential customer. I abandoned my dear old friend Jekyll since - well, I had to create something in Hugo.

3 Great Programs to Access your Databases

📅 Oct 25, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read

I worked with Oracle DB for a long time. Later I switched to MySQL, MariaDB, and a tiny bit of MongoDB. All the SQL databases I worked did not quite boast about exciting developer experiences. Oracle had SQLPlus, which was foresaken by everyone but a few diehards. Fortunately, we also had SQLDeveloper or Toad (to those who could afford that).

Backup - Your Life Depends on It

📅 Oct 24, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read

Backing up has been historically a pain. Most of the times I lacked the resources - either I don’t have the hardware or could not quite setup everything seamlessly. Previous Setup Create Synchronicity Light-weight, backup and synchronise. I include any folder that needs to be backed up to CS.

Create Beautiful, Performant Sites [Free eBook]

📅 Oct 23, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 1 min read

I had been exploring Jekyll for quite sometime. I simply followed the below traditional, developer like approach - download Ruby download Jekyll play around with platform capabilities - focus on Liquid see how themes are created However, I realised mid-way that select themes offer a good way for anyone to get started.

Great Resources to Learn Javascript

📅 Oct 22, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 1 min read

I have been on and off Javascript for a long time. It took me till 2018 to get back on track. I am not quite a beginner and no where near an expert, and can write BS till eternity. That makes me the best qualified person to enlighten you about how to ideally learn Javascript.

Invaluable Presentation Tools for a Developer

📅 Oct 21, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 4 min read

I am a developer (or an imposter who thinks he is a developer). A developer has to figure out solutions to problems, and sometimes carry the rest of the humanity along for the ride. I am unique in that - rest of the developers do that 99.99xxx99% of the time, and I fill in the gap.

Two eBook Selling Platforms for the Casual Author

📅 Oct 20, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 4 min read

I have written less than five eBooks in my life. I used Amazon to self-publish the book and have it for sale for two weeks now. The above statements by themselves should be a good indicator of how much I know about the topic of selling eBooks. But, I being me, cannot really “not write” about my fantastic research in the two weeks hence.

Two Clean Free Wordpress Themes

📅 Oct 19, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 3 min read

I had been searching for modern but clean looking themes for one of my older Blogs. I had been using Sahifa earlier. Although the theme is good and does its job, Sahifa is not really pleasing to the eye. This is my opinion, of course. The way I see websites and Blogs has changed over time (hopefully for the good), and Sahifa did not fit the definition of a “clean”, “minimal” theme.

Create eBook from Multiple Markdown Files

📅 Oct 18, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read

I had been a fan of LeanPub. The platform promises easy book authoring using Markdown, and distribute the book to a hungry audience. However, I am not a big fan of how Markdown is processed in LeanPub. Markua, the flavor (created &) preferred by LeanPub, is not completely aligned to how GitHub and others process the Markdown.

Free Logo Maker for Real

📅 Oct 17, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read

If you are like me: you will be creating dime-a-dozen websites that no one is going to read. .. or, care about. If you are like me, you would want to do that anyway. because.. why the hell not? All my websites (almost, all) have a logo associated. I am no designer and creating logos is a pain in the neck.

Free Private Forums in 2019

📅 Oct 16, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 3 min read

I was setting up content for a professional training company that I consult for. We have to do “something different” as compared to many others in the space. One such idea was to setup a closed user group for the course students. The said forum will enable students to discuss the course, ask questions, and connect with other students/faculty.

Hello World

📅 Oct 15, 2018 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 1 min read

This is the beginning; the beginning of a journey. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu