Starting a new software developer job can be daunting. Its especially even more stressful if its your first ever job as a software developer. One has to work with a new team, new workflow & processes as well as possibly different tech stacks and a mature existing codebase. A few…

4 weeks of hell.. I was involved with the release of an in-house app in one of my previous job experiences. With a team of 5, we’ve been building it from scratch for about 10 months and it was ready to be released back then. …

Can you add this column on the view model? Lets have a demo on this feature at 2pm. Can you debug this calculation issue? Part of my daily experience as a software engineer is to handle incoming ad-hoc tasks throughout the day. Normally, I would have a set list of…

The other day I was working on a feature for a new module. I was working on the frontend and my junior was handling the backend. The feature was quite simple. Basically there’s a button which a user clicks on to create that new entity. A dialog pops up and…

Part of what makes developing an enterprise software application is having a deep understanding of its database schema. There’s tons of inter-related tables coming together to form the backbone of the application with its various business logic. …

Looking back, my studying techniques and habits have definitely evolved over time. Back in high school, I’d simply re-read my textbooks front to back, back to front and worked on numerous practice problem through revision books that my parents bought for me. That worked marvelously and life was great. I…

I started Launch School in July 2017 and completed my final course by the end of February 2019. That’s about 1 year and 8 months of studying after work in the evenings. Currently, I just wrapped up the first elective course involving building applications with Client Side MVC. I’ll be…

One of the aspects I enjoy about coding is the endless path to mastery. Coding is not a skill where one acquires and file away. It requires hours of revision and practice just to maintain and grow. …

My first exposure to Object Oriented Programming (OOP) was my very first Intro to Programming class with Java back in my school days. I wrote a story back in August which provides additional context about my struggles with that introductory class: First Programming Language and Learning Approach Matters! *This article is suitable for newcomers who are unsure on which language to start with and how to go about approaching…medium.com