Hard-coding configuration is bad. This is one of the things that newbie programmers learn quickly after they realize that have committed sensitive information to a public GitHub repository. And it happens so easily. Often, you are in the spur of the moment, wanting to test something locally, when you figure…
Often, the seemingly simple things can make you spend hours chasing around tail. Like trying to connect to a MongoDB instance using KMongo.Basically, if you have checked out the KMongo quick start, setting up a client and fetching some data should be extremely easy:val client = KMongo.createClient() //get…
Is Kotlin chasing the footsteps of Scala? Does being Kotlin-first mean abandoning the foundations laid out by Java, and how much "idiomatic Kotlin" is too much? You decide.…
In this post, I will lay out my arguments why you might want to think about dependency injection for your next Python project. I am not trying to preach a certain style of "best-practice" programming, but simply, to share my perspective from the eyes of a seasoned Java developer.…
List and switch back and forth between multiple git branches with ease.…
This is the first part of a two-part series. In this post, I will introduce Flask-RestPlus and demonstrate how to start organising APIs around its simple REST-based conventions. Next time, I will address the topic of request/response marshalling (serialisation) and validation.A seasoned Spring developer, I felt a bit…
As a software developer who roams around the social media circles, you might have already stumbled upon Nikita Tonsky's post. I have been tinkering with programming every since I can remember. I have been writing code professionally for close to a decade now. Therefore, I couldn't just leave Nikita's words…
Programming often involves creating configuration objects/dicts and passing them around to functions. Let's say we want to pass the following configuration dict to a function: config = { 'prop_a': 'foo', 'prop_b': 'bar' } Usually, a function that consumes this configuration dict would either expect a single parameter: def do_something(…
This post is mainly a reiteration of an article, I found online. As of Java 8, we have had the ability to replace looping operations on collections with streams and functional operations. This applies to situations where we don't have an up-front collection to iterate upon. What traditionally would have…
This article is a follow-up transcription to a talk I recently gave at a local Munich machine learning meetup. Unlike my previous talk, this time I wanted to convey the idea of using an iPad for actively running data science experiments, as opposed to passively consuming information. I illustrated my…