One of the most important skills one needs to develop on a path to becoming a Senior Software Engineer, or, eventually, a people manager, is the skill of running smooth and productive meetings. The key to successful growth and having productive engineering meetings are listed as follows: 1. Take ownership We all have done the…
Small or big, every technology company works with software developers. To increase productivity and to work in parallel, developers use a version control system (VCS) like Git. Git: Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is designed to…
I have been fortunate to get to the other side of the table and ask questions and discuss topics with smart minds in the industry. While some people think interviewing is fun, some think it is a tedious process while a few believe it is sort of overwork above and beyond our day jobs; but…
We often write code to the best of our knowledge, but slowly over the weeks, we get a feeling that something is not right. We sense some discomfort with the code but still do not understand clearly what the problem is. This intuition is correct and relatable. These are bad practices, also known as code smells.…
1. What is Application in Android? The Application class in Android is the base class within an Android application that contains all other components such as activities and services. The Application class, or any subclass of the Application class, is instantiated before any other class when the process for the application/package is created.The manifest file provides essential…
1. Write clean, reusable code Software development can sometimes get really troublesome when the code base increases in size. With multiple developers contributing to a repository, the size and the complexity of the code increases exponentially, and the ease of reading and maintaining code decreases. A clean code helps to communicate ideas and logic to…
Technology is everywhere. It is in the hands of the children and the old, the poor and the rich. In a short span of time, technology has become the most fundamental aspect of innovation in almost all industries across the globe. This sudden spike resulted in a huge demand for programmers and developers to build…
Proxy means ‘in place of’, or ‘on behalf of’. These literal meanings of proxy directly explains Proxy Design Pattern. Proxies are also called surrogates, placeholders, handles, and wrappers. In a nutshell, a proxy “Controls and manage access to the object they are protecting” When to use this pattern? Proxy pattern is used when we need to…
Do you want to build a great product? Do you want to serve a large audience and satisfy your customers with your product? Do you want to save thousands of dollars by avoiding hindrances in the development of your product? Do you wish to sustain the market for a long period of time? If yes,…
This is the most simple and clean Creational Design pattern. We usually have times in our architecture and design of software where we need to use an object of a class but require only a single instance of it across the software. This type of single instance of a class is used widely in various…