DutchPHP A Review - Dutch PHP Conference 2019 TL;DR; I rate Dutch PHP as a 5-star conference which excelled in all the aspects including, but not limited to organization, food, quality of talks, communication, and hospitality.Back in February as
Xcode Xcode symbolic breakpoints - Break at method call Today I am going to write about the big advanced debugging feature of LLDB. I am calling it advanced because I myself didn't know about it for a long time. It allows you
Travel Retro Session - New England Trip 2019 I already wrote a huge article about my recent trip to New England. This article just gazes upon that experience and tries to enlist the lessons I learned which hopefully be useful to
Travel Spring 2019 - New England Trip This spring, I had a little vacation in New England area with my friend. Springtime is a great time to visit National parks, waterfalls, and, trails. It's not too cold, not too hot,
Public speaking A year since my first international speaking appearance Time goes really fast! It's almost a year since I had my first talk at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018 at Vienna, Austria. Quite a scary experience since it was my first talk in
Management Are you a Senior Engineer? What is this term Senior Engineer? Does it carry a lot of weight? Responsibility? Sense of achievement? Accountability? Answers may vary. But we can all agree that it's the person who has been
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 Travel 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