login — Don’t do this!

by Sunny Srinidhi - September 7, 2016February 9, 20170

If you are anything like me, or tens of thousands of others working in the web development domain, you know what the title means. We are going to talk about the widely debated “v” in API endpoints. Do I like it? Well, obviously not. I’ll tell you why. 1. It’s ugly! It makes reading documentations very difficult, because you’ll need to version your document as well. And you’ll have to make sure you are using the latest document, or the document that’s relevant to the version of API you are consuming. Wouldn’t it be a lot easier if you had one version of API and one version of documentation? I know what people over at the other camp are shouting — your APIs will change and

When I finally get to use my master’s degree

by Sunny Srinidhi - September 1, 2016February 9, 20170

According to my knowledge, getting a master’s degree is seen as an achievement, a sign of dedication, passion, and greater intellect. I’m of course talking about the West. I could be wrong here, but that’s what I’ve heard, read, and seen. But when you come to the East, Asia specifically, every other Tom, Dick, and Harry has a master’s degree. In fact, if he has only one, or this one over that one, he could be good for nothing! You have a master’s degree in Arts? Seriously? What the hell are you going to do with that? Go back to college and get a master’s degree in engineering, software engineering. Okay, that was a bit too much. But yes, some degrees are

It’s time to move your platform to RESTful APIs

Tech

by Sunny Srinidhi - August 21, 2016February 9, 20170

If you are into tech, there’s a good chance you already know what’s a web API. All the cool kids use it these days. It’s the new kid on the block. And it’s sexy with well defined features. Web APIs aren’t necessarily new, they’ve been around for a while. Even RESTful APIs aren’t that young. But that’s not what we are here to talk about. We are here to see why it’s time to move your platform to a more modern architecture which exposes a bunch of (RESTful) APIs for the rest of the world to add value to your platform. As a person who’s been producing and consuming APIs for the last few years, I’ve seen a lot of them. I’ve

Why I love curly brackets

by Sunny Srinidhi - August 19, 2016February 9, 20170

Curly brackets. Well, what can I say about them? They sure do have curves! And such curves, I’m addicted! I’ve been abusing them for as long as I remember. I abuse them even today. The day I saw a piece of code for the first time, over a decade ago, I knew I’d be using those curly brackets for the rest of my life. I’m talking about curly brackets in function definitions, loops, conditional statements. I wrote my first ever program in C. As you might have guessed, it was a simple Hello, World! program. I’m not going to talk about the awesome, exciting, orgasmic, feeling that your first ever program gives you. We’ve all been through that. I’m going to

Importance of proper documentation in a project

by Sunny Srinidhi - August 17, 2016January 9, 20201

In the tech industry, it’s not uncommon for developers to work on project maintenance. You could be asked to fix a few bugs in a system which is already in production and has a user base. Or to add new features, or to refactor. Sometimes, you’d even be asked to rewrite the whole project in a different language/framework. For all these, it’s very important to setup the existing code on your development machine, and understand it properly. And for this, you need proper documentation. Most projects today have their own git repository. It’s very unlikely that a project is distributed within a team by copying it on to a storage device. Even your incomplete, two-year old pet projects are usually on

Why I will stick to Hangouts for as long as I can before moving to Allo/Duo

Tech

by Sunny Srinidhi - August 17, 2016February 9, 20170

Google just released their new one-to-one video calling app, Duo. The app is awesome; it’s simple, straight forward, and is tied to your phone number instead of a Google account. I’m sure some people would appreciate that last point. Allo, on the other hand, is a simple, straight forward, text messaging app. Allo is also tied to your phone number. The search engine giant is competing with the likes of WhatsApp here. About an hour back, I installed Duo and called a friend on it. I was surprised at how simple the app is. You have one button, click that and you’ll be taken to your contact list. The list of people who are already on the platform appear at the

Introvert, extrovert, ambivert. What are you?

General

by Sunny Srinidhi - March 30, 2016February 13, 20170

I googled ‘define introvert,’ I got this: a shy, reticent person. I googled ‘define extrovert,’ I got this: an outgoing, socially confident person. Googling ‘define ambivert’ gave me this: a person who has a balance of extrovert and introvert features in their personality. Broad definitions, I know. You probably already know in more detail what each of those three words mean. I’ll try to pen down my opinion of each of those later in this post if possible. I’ll start this with what we think is obvious. Gradually, I’ll try to make more sense of this by looking at what a few of my friends have to say. There’s no scientific research behind all this, by me or my friends. Each one of us is either an introvert,

Should I travel or finish that task on Jira?

Rants

by Sunny Srinidhi - March 29, 2016March 4, 20200

I’m not sure how many people face this in their lives. I’m not sure if this is normal. I don’t have a lot of experience, professionally. I’ve been in the tech industry (coding my way through) for a bit over five years, and before that I managed to get a job as a professional writer for half a year and after that, a Business Developer (BD). But I didn’t, and still don’t know what I was supposed to do and what I did as a BD. At present, I’m working as a programmer at a startup in Bangalore. The job is fun, and I got to learn a lot — libraries, practices, patterns, and a lot more. I met interesting people who have