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Best API Development Framework

Ankit Beniwal — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 06:14:46 +0000

Gentlemen, I need some advice on the best Rest API development framework as per your experiences.

Use case: Intensive Querying for a real time Blood Donor-Seeker GPS based application

PS: I need Power 💪.

Please include following aspects in your response:

Scalability
Performance
Documentation
Developer Friendliness
Add what you like...

How to defer non-critical CSS in Next.js?

Ankit Beniwal — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:50:25 +0000

Recently, I was exploring next.js and found out that we have an importstatement for CSS.

I am wondering how it affects the performance of the app. Is there a way to defer non-critical CSS using this method?

Is Hacktoberfest really doing more bad than good?

Ankit Beniwal — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:51:37 +0000

I know many developers out there have started their open source journey with this festival which is promoting open source community. And I congratulate those developers and Digital Ocean as well.

We all know that Pull Requests are the heart of collaboration. Whenever someone opens a PR, they propose their changes and request that someone review their changes and merge them.

But on the other hand there is this problem which revolves around the free T-Shirt which is given to developer who submits 4 PRs. I actually like the concept. Nevertheless, there are individuals who are not motivated to jump in the open source world but just wants to get the free T-Shirt. And to do so they are ready to stoop to a level where they open completely rubbish PRs.

I read this article on Domenic's Blog which took it too far to say

Hacktoberfest is a corporate-sponsored distributed denial of service attack against the open source maintainer community.

And it lead to a chain of reactions from people around the world.

There is this Dev Post by Thew Dhanat.

DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source

Thew Dhanat ・ Oct 1 '20 ・ 1 min read

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #discuss

Then there are so many reddit conversations where developers are giving their reactions.

On the positive side, I read this on Hacktoberfest's official site-

Support open source and pick a limited edition T-shirt or plant a tree.

So, What do you think about this? and what solution can you suggest for this situation?

Spring + Thymeleaf + Bulma + Charts = Awesome Covid Trend Tracker

Ankit Beniwal — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:36:50 +0000

Hi Folks,

I hope you all and your families are safe.

I know I am a bit late for a corona tracker app but I think better late than never. This is not a very unique idea but I have tried to present it differently.

And this is my first attempt on java spring. Thus, I will appreciate your precious feedback.

So, When I initially thought about creating a spring application, I had no idea of what I will create. And I started surfing the web for ideas and datasets. I had to choose a not so advanced idea so that I can complete the project fast and build my confidence. Then I found this github repository where covid data is updated daily. They have hosted CSV files where data is updated automatically everyday.

After digging a bit, I came across Apache Commons CSV library which made it easy for me to use that CSV file in my project.

I decided to render a line graph for every country to make it more presentable. And that's how I found highly customizable Google Charts. Fetching Data from CSV was easy, as was using a templated google line chart. But Converting the CSV data to the format which chart needed as input was not that easy. I had to use HashMap of ArrayLists of ArrayLists.

First Level ArrayList - for day wise record of a country from january. (Each record contains three different values for Total Cases, Recovered Cases and Deaths)
Second Level ArrayList - for all countries

This was fun 🤩🤩. If you are interested to know all the nitty-gritty of the implementation. Check the source code.

For frontend I decided to use Bulma CSS due to its lightweight size and ease of use. And for templating, I think thymeleaf is obvious.

Result page looks like this:

I am open to positive criticism, feedback, chocolates, repo stars, coffee. Check out the live version hosted at heroku https://covid-trend-tracker.herokuapp.com/.

If you are willing to contribute, then create an issue and let's discuss about it or you can skim the code to tell me what I did the way I shouldn't.

ankitbeniwal / covid19Tracker

An Application for displaying trends of covid19 virus in a graphical manner.

Covid 19 Trend Tracker

An Application for displaying trends of covid19 virus in a graphical manner.

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Rewriting git commit History is fun

Ankit Beniwal — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 19:15:28 +0000

Howdy folks? I hope you all are staying safe.

So, I was looking at the git commit documentation and found a very interesting parameter for specifying the date while performing a commit.

Basic Syntax is:

git commit --date=<date>

I also saw two related environment variables - GIT_AUTHOR_DATE & GIT_COMMITTER_DATE.

Then, the moment came when this idea struck my mind of rewriting commit history. But as usual, after digging deep I came to know that the idea has already been executed. (Why it happens all the time?? Is there anything left for me to do? :D)

My previous year's github contribution history which was pretty white looked like:

Fig.1 - My GitHub Contribution History of 2018 (Original)

And with the help of a automation script, I rewrote it to:

Fig.2 - My GitHub Contribution History of 2018 (Rewritten)

After this, I explored more and found gitfiti. Take a look at it if you wanna know more about it. It helped me rewrite my contribution history in a graffiti style.

The final result:

Fig.3 - My GitHub Contribution History of 2016

Take a peek at my GitHub History.

I also wrote about this in my first rant on devRant. Go ++ it out: https://devrant.com/rants/2979790/rewrote-my-git-commit-history-now-it-looks-real-d

Show me light, Saviour: Need some advice to jump in the industry

Ankit Beniwal — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:05:29 +0000

Hola Señores,

I hope you all are being awesome 😎😎 and developing cool stuff.

I am currently in the final year of my Master's Degree in Computer Applications. I am preparing for placements to get me started in the industry.

Prior to this, I have a continuously growing skill set which is better than Average Students. I have experience developing apps as a freelancer and hobbyist. I have also worked with a Non-Profit Organisation as a team lead and intern guide. Not undermining or Over-evaluating my skills, I would say that I will do good in the industry. I have a passion to work in computer science and the ability to solve problems.

Everything good so far. But here is an obstacle: I have observed from past years and now more than ever that software companies are shortlisting candidates with Competitive Programming (CP). And let me admit that after trying multiple times, I have miserably failed with this heck of a thing. I have read multiple articles even here on Dev that CP is not relevant for working in real-world applications. It's more of a sport.

Anyways, I face this situation where I am not even allowed to present my case to some technical lead or someone who might understand my skills. They will reject me on the basis of the CP Test. This is all because of the cut-throat competition in the placements. But that is completely different and out of the scope of this post.

As for now, I need advice on how to handle this mess and get out of the muddle. I am really worried about it.

Feeling Bad! Cannot Merge PRs. Github is facing issues...

Ankit Beniwal — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:28:40 +0000

Initially, I thought it's my network. But then one colleague faced a similar issue. I checked GitHub Status and got the bad news.

So, What do you do while this unfathomable issue persists?

Pay Cut? For Remote work?

Ankit Beniwal — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:47:51 +0000

This Covid-19 breakout has proved that most of the employees in IT Industry especially software developers can work remotely on a full time basis. But that leaves us with an argument of whether there should be a pay cut for those working from home.

I firmly believe that there shouldn't be any reduction to the salaries of work from home employees only on an biased belief that these employees are less productive. I understand that there could be some who are not completely willing to do their best as no one is keeping an eye on them. But that should do unjust with the ones doing good or even better than normal office work.

What are your ideas/thoughts on this situation? Are you ready to accept a pay cut?

GitHub vs GitLab vs BitBucket

Ankit Beniwal — Tue, 26 May 2020 16:34:27 +0000

Greetings comrades!!

I ask you all to opine on this very long standing debate. Which one is your favourite and why so?

Share your experiences around these tools.

Funtabify | Change page title(text visible on a tab) whenever user switches browser tab

Ankit Beniwal — Tue, 12 May 2020 13:09:00 +0000

Greetings fellas!

I hope you'll are doing well and keeping yourself safe at home.
Here I present a library for changing title of a webpage (Text visible on Tabs of a browser) whenever user switches to another tab.

Total production code is less than 1KB and doesn't affect SEO of a page. In fact, this technique can lure the attention of users.

Show your love by star marking this repository.

ankitbeniwal / funtabify

A javascript library to change page title (text visible on tab) when user switches tab of a browser.

funtabify v1.0

A javascript library to change page title (text visible on tab) when user switches tab of a browser.

Requirement

jQuery Library

Usage

Download Minified Funtabify Library
Include it at the end of your webpage before closing body tag:

 <script src="<path-to-funatbify.min.js"></script>
 <script>new funtabify("<Text-to-display-on-tab-switch>");</script>

Licenced under GNU GPLv3

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Regards 🙂

What's your obsession?

Ankit Beniwal — Tue, 05 May 2020 07:58:38 +0000

It could be anything from a framework to a language or something completely not related to tech. So, What is it?

Mine is JVM 😊

This is something!!

Ankit Beniwal — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:43:18 +0000

So i was wandering over the web and found this amazing piece of creativity.

It is a really cool gift for new year from makemepulse.

The amazing thing is how the performance of this heavily graphic oriented website is so much smooth. Although it takes some time to load but then the real magic is unleashed.

The sounds are just another feel good touch. While writing this post, i got the idea of encouraging community to share such marvelous applications which made your wow moment. So, Please comment down the pointers to such beautiful ideas/applications.