New York Applying for a Schengen Visa (Again!) I am planning to go to Netherlands again this June. My last visit was done made in March 2019 for AppDevCon. It was amazing time, and by the time I came back I
Apple Pay Apple Pay, Error Reporting and Crash Working on the Apple platform brings a new kind of challenge and excitement. The environment where it will never cease to amaze you with exciting and never-seen-before circumstances. Today I ran into similar
Museums Thoughts on visiting Museums When I visit the new city, the first thing I do is to see if there are any museums I can visit during my free time. I love going to museums. They are
Travel Useful Traveling tips from my experience I have been traveling quite a bit recently. It's generally for tech conferences, business visit, or visiting a family overseas. After all the travel in last 8 years I have learned so many
Async Understanding the async behavior Handling async behavior is tricky. I was caught into same gotcha when I first started dealing with async code few years back. It's useful behavior in most of the programming applications, especially when
Cooking Making of a Gajar Halwa (Carrot halwa) Gajar halwa or Carrot halwa is a carrot-based sweet dessert pudding from the Indian subcontinent. It is usually server in weddings and restaurants as a choice food for dessert. It's tasty, delicious, sweet
CSS CSS brand logos! CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML. From Wikipedia. I first learned CSS
hotel A review - Hotel Rajdeep (Swargate - Pune) I don't usually write hotel reviews, but this time I am going to write one. It was my recent trip to Pune and I am going to write about my experience at hotel
Tomato Soup Making a tomato soup I love soups! Not just for health reasons, but it's also good for your appetite as you get ready for entree. This week I made a tomato soup. I brought some readymade packets
yyyy Challenges of DateFormatters Working with DateFormatters is tough - At least on iOS. Today I will show with an example how I shot myself in the foot while working with simple DateFormatters problem.Here's the problem
Food Making of Upama (Or Uppit) Upama is a favorite and famous dish in Maharashtra (An Indian state). I still remember having it for breakfast or an evening snack when I was a kid. However, as I started living
Minesweeper Writing unit tests for Minesweeper game Yesterday was quite a productive day to conclude the refactor project. Especially I venture into the most sacred territory of any good software - Unit testing. Here are the screenshots of test coverage
Rewriting a Minesweeper - Part 4 Welcome to the part 4 of rewriting Minesweeper game. This time I haven't added a lot of features. Just cleaned up some code and fixed minor and rare bugs. Here is the list
Algorithm A Beautiful Refactor For this post I am going to take a break from my regular story about how I rewrote the minesweeper game to Swift. This is more about the beautiful refactor and how I
Minesweeper Rewriting a Minesweeper - Part 3 Welcome to part 3 of the Minesweeper game. Today we will see logic behind some of the core and bonus features in the game.Highlighting tilesTiles highlighting is triggered when user taps on
Minesweeper Rewriting a Minesweeper - Part 2 Happy new year to all. I guess as I am getting old, I am not feeling enthusiastic enough about new years. There is one thing I am excited about though. Writing a rewriting
Minesweeper Rewriting a Minesweeper - Part 1 I am going to being this series of post on how I found my 4 year old Minesweeper game project written in Objective-C and process to start converting it into Swift. My goals
Indian Food Making of a Dabeli Dabeli is a favorite Indian snack. It comes from the state of Gujarat where it originated and mainly eaten. Although just like many Indian foods it has also spread in other parts of
Resolutions New Year Resolutions - 2019 Can't believe 2018 is already over and we're going into 2019. There is no wonder that just like all the previous years, this went so fast. As we approach the 2019, here is
iOS Making user friendly mobile apps We all love using apps, don't we? They are great utility and ubiquitous after the propagation of smartphones all around us. However, as I do and I am sure lots of other people
Food Making of a Veg Manchurian - Part 2 It's been a while since I wrote my last post since I had been busy with the Spanish lessons for a while. But nevertheless, I am back and with another experience of cooking
Fast food My favorite places to dine in Berlín Berlin is one of my favorite places to visit and stay for a while. Of course, my recent couple of trips have been for a business purpose, but after somehow managing to spare
iOS How to get the iOS App Metadata in Swift Working on a new app could be exciting. However, there are certain things or information which you might want to get as a part of the core feature. One of them is the
chicken65 Chicken 65 There are many stories about the name of this dish how it got the name Chicken 65. But for the sake of this post, I won't go to any of those details. I
Swift When to weakify Today I am going to talk about one of the discussion prone topics on iOS platforms. Detecting memory leaks and when to apply weakify. The topic came up while I was recently performing