I had a blast — Declarative, decoupled, laconic, batteries-included — adjectives that I would associate Rocket with after tinkering with it. I would say I really enjoyed myself. See here for a quick review. This is yet another article on Rust + Rocket + Diesel tech stack like here and here. This article approaches the…

Why didn’t you warn me earlier? — Kotlin’s collections package in the Kotlin Standard Library is full of wonderful goodies. Unfortunately, some of these methods can throw exceptions. This is extremely undesirable if your program doesn’t already handle these exceptions, causing your program to crash at runtime. Yucks. I have personally encountered exceptions like java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException or java.util.NoSuchElementException…

Make the best out of it — Are you still in control of your learning? Or are you bogged down by how your lecturer delivers the course material? Is the course material insufficient? Are the slides not suited to how you learn? It’s time to regain control of your learning. 1. Look for other resources Don’t live your university life thinking that…

And what you can do about them — In Spring Boot, configurations can be easily externalised so that we can work with the same application code across different deploys. However, there are some areas where you might shoot yourself in the foot later because of your setup. In this article, I will be sharing 4 things we should…

Kotlin is fun — Mutability? Null safety? val and var? These are some Kotlin features alien to me when I first started. I was programming in Python before I picked up Kotlin (and JavaScript) for work a year ago. Transitioning from Python to Kotlin (and JavaScript) wasn’t easy because several features don’t exist in…

In 60 lines of code — Introduction | Ternary operator | Alternate lambda syntax | No return keyword in function (coming soon)| List comprehension++ (coming soon) Table of contents Anonymous function Current syntax How are the others doing it? Target syntax Adding tokens Changing the grammar Examples For the environment setup, read the Introduction. …

And how you can benefit from them too — Everyone’s talking about The Pragmatic Programmer. My boss recommended that we read it. Blogs say this is one of the must-read books for software engineers. So I decided to check it out. The book deals with software, knowledge, and uncertainty sensibly. But what’s more important are the perspectives I have…

In 5 lines of code — Introduction | Ternary operator | Alternate lambda syntax | No return keyword in function (coming soon)| List comprehension++ (coming soon) Changelogs: 5 Jan 2022 — Fix typos and improve clarity Table of contents Ternary operator Current syntax Target syntax Adding tokens Changing the grammar Examples For environment setup, read Part 0 — Introduction…