I have created a separate blog on literature: મન ની મોજ (joy of mind). I will share some good old poems and short stories that I find really interesting and intuitive. Although contents on this blog will be written in my native language Gujarati, you may find some English and Hindi stories/poems as well. Hope […]
Life in Mumbai
It has been exactly a month since I moved back from Mumbai – a chaotic, busy, over-crowded and yet very welcoming city. Here are few beautiful moments I had captured (mostly on mobile camera) along with my journey!
Understanding variance in programming languages
In a statically typed programming language, variance defines the rules for assignment compatibility in subtyping between more complex types or expressions. I’m not going into the details of subtyping but consider an example where the type Car is derived from type Vehicle, then Car should be substitutable wherever Vehicle is used. The variance defines how […]
Refactoring utility classes with Kotlin : Shared Preferences
If you were developing Android apps in Java until now and haven’t started using Kotlin in production yet, you may have some sort of utility classes for many things like File I/O, Connectivity, Cache, Shared Preferences etc. Today, I am going to write only about Shared Prefs and how we can use Kotlin to refactor our […]
Introduction to Reactive Extensions
Sharing some truly great videos from Erik Meijer, one of the creator of reactive extensions. https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-Rx-in-15-Minutes/player
The science of your signature
Are you familiar with the study of graphology? – Holmes in A Game of Shadows What if you could tell the traits of a person by looking at his signature? That sounds vague, but the fact is that you can. It has been proved that there is a correlation between a person’s signature and/or handwriting […]
Carrot & Stick: that doesn’t work on Programmers!
Carrot & Stick – by definition “a policy of offering a combination of rewards and punishment to induce behavior”, perhaps the oldest methodology for motivation in organisations doesn’t work for tech companies. Any creative craftsmanship just can’t follow this kind of rigid methodology to motivate their employees. Still, we can see many software companies following […]
Dart : Dead or on Bullseye?
[Image source : pixabay.com] Around late 2013, Google announced 1.0 of its own programming language Dart targeted initially at the web. But since then, it didn’t receive much attention like other modern programming languages. […]
Random thoughts on modern programming languages and Go
When I started my career as a developer, it was about last year of my graduation. At that time, I was like a Java fanboy. I fell in love with Java while studying it. Honestly, It felt very natural as a programming language. (and don’t get me wrong – I still really like Java) When […]
Hello World!
Hello World! Welcome to my personal blog. Previously I had opened many blogs on wordpress and blogger but couldn’t maintain them. I like the Eighties theme and wordpress is better that blogger. Hope this will continue for a long time!
Bytes Unwired 