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
Food A favorite Indian snack - Samosa Samosa is one of the most delicious and famous Indian snacks. If you go to an Indian restaurant, you will definitely see it in the menu for starters. I personally like it a
Food A delicious Malai Kofta Malai kofta - Isn't name enough to make your mouth start salivating? I never knew what malai kofta is since it never was in my personal menu when I used to go to
Food A delightful Thai basil chicken fried rice There is one place that comes to my mind when someone says Thai Basil Fried rice. And that is one and only Basil Restaurant in Columbus. I used to go there frequently just
Food A silky palak paneer When I was a kid unlike rest of the people, Palak Paneer was my favorite dish. It translates as "paneer + spinach" in English. Every time I would go to the hotel,
Career Alternative career choices When I was a kid, I didn't quite know who I wanted to be when I grow up. I completed the bachelor's degree and the Master of Science in Computer science. Even though
Indian Food Cooking - Making a Matar Paneer This week I made a resolution of preparing 10 Indian dishes. This is something I am doing as a challenge to myself to get into preparing tricky delicacies. I will mostly be working
scrum How to make standups that stand out? If you work in the agile environment, you may already know the purpose of the daily standups. If you aren't aware of it, I would like to start with a brief idea of
Conference My Tech Conferences Speaking engagements This year, in 2018 I made a resolution to come out of my comfort zone and start doing tech talks. My experience so far has really been great and I am looking forward
Public speaking Speaking at Technical Conferences How many of you dread public speaking? If you're like me, of course, you do. However, the important thing is to overcome that fear and start somewhere. This year, I made a resolution
lldb Advanced debugging in iOS Other day I was watching this excellent Session on Advanced debugging with Xcode and LLDB presented at WWDC-2018. My post may be called as a gist of this talk, since this post summarizes
NSObject Caveats while using Equatable with NSObject Today I am going to talk about how to use Equatable with Swift and NSObject inherited objects. This is interesting because last week I came to know about the fact that Swift's inbuilt