GIT TIP#2 Squash merge commit instead of merge

Git is most popular distributed version control system used by developers now a days. And most popular workflow being used is of feature-branch-workflow. In this developer working on feature would shoot off a new branch called feature-branch and give it a meaningful name.

GIT TIP#1 Using stash effectively

everyone who uses GIT, knows about stash, here are some quick tip about using stash effectively

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back—

Layman’s guide for Cyber Security

Technology has greatly evolved, businesses have gone online, so is digital payment transaction [source]. But to our dismay, cybersecurity awareness is still lowest in India. Banks, financial institutions have adopted digital transactions, online banking but customer awareness is where they fail utterly.

Humongous: A Ruby MongoDB Browser

I recently wrote a lightweight MongoDB browser; written in ruby. It has been written; while keeping non ruby user/developer in mind, for simple use. That means it can be just installed as normal rubygems and fired from console as ususal unix command.

QuickTips Ruby1.9 [Part 3] Default and Splat arguments

Ruby 1.9 has changed the way it used to deal with default arguments. The good news is it supports defaults arguments to be at beginning of methods. See gist below for example:

QuickTips Ruby1.9 [Part 2] Basic

Base Object is now BasicObject not Object in Ruby 1.9

QuickTips Ruby1.9 [Part 1] Hash

Changes in Hash In Ruby19 hash becomes ordered, don’t believe it see it yourself. Keys will be in order they are inserted.

Magic of default_proc in hash

Monkey Patching done in a right way (Have some mercy on legacy Ruby)

Classes in Ruby are open; right. That means you can do anything with them, monkey patching around it. But stop doing it before you run into any trouble. I myself used to do it.