Disclaimer: Hacking is a difficult skill to learn. You will not become a good pentester by just doing a few online courses. You will not become a good pentester by just installing Kali Linux and learning how to use the tools. This is a challenging path, wrought with endless frustrations, and you will not learn...
While the industry trying to speed up software development and deployment with methodologies like Agile, DevOps and CI/CD, one company believes that tools and solutions that go along with these approaches aren’t changing fast enough. “Version control is so structured and complex, it takes a lot of time from the software development team,” said Jordi...
How were programming languages built? Here’s a brief history. We, humans, have always been on the lookout for somebody to do our heavy and unwanted lifting. First it was simple machines, then steam powered beasts, and at the end a bunch of semiconductors and a quartz. But how do you get a simple stone to do...
I want to share blogs and podcasts I occasionally read/hear stuff from. Python subreddit First things first. This is a good feed for any Python related news. Dev.to This is a great source of information for beginners and I really love the community around this resource. Ned Batchelder blog This is the personal blog of...
The DOM. When I was first learning to code at my bootcamp I heard this word all the time but I never exactly knew what it meant. Was it the HTML that I write? Was it ‘view source’ that I accidentally sometimes clicked on when I meant to inspect elements? I never really understood. And...
Atto is an insanely simple functional programming language It features a syntax driven entirely by polish notation and no delimiters to speak of (it ignores all non-separating whitespace). What do you get for this simplicity? Well… an insanely simple language with a ~200 line self-hosted interpreter. Despite these design limitations, it’s actually possible to write...
Last week, I found myself caught in the firing range of functional programmers — all because I dared put forward an alternative mode of thinking for JavaScript. This is probably also the first time I’ve ever gotten hate and love mail, public condemnation, accolades and tweets for something that had innocent intentions and origins. Somehow, I also managed to...
On Monday I went to the 2019 Turing talk, hosted by the British Computer Society (BCS) and the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). It’s a free talk that they organise every year. This year they invited Dr Krishna Gummadi to talk about bias in AI: Machine (data-driven learning-based algorithmic) decision making is increasingly being used to assist...
Dynamic imports are great, they’ve been out there for a while and presume many improvements in the way we treat modules/components. In this article, I’m going to be explaining how they work, why they’re so good and some of the things we could accomplish by using them. If you read my previous article about factory pattern...
This is the 12th in a series of class notes as I go through the Georgia Tech/Udacity Machine Learning course. The class textbook is Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell. This marks the start of a new miniseries on Unsupervised Learning, the 2nd of 3 sub disciplines within Machine Learning. Our Goal: Optimization Given an input space X, and an...
…. and why we need it more than ever Front end technology, especially JavaScript, has historically been looked down upon by back end veterans as not being a proper language. Mostly because JavaScript started off as function based language — making it immature in the ways of potential growth and what it can do. I remember back...
Table of Contents What Is a File? File Paths Line Endings Character Encodings Opening and Closing a File in Python Text File Types Buffered Binary File Types Raw File Types Reading and Writing Opened Files Iterating Over Each Line in the File Working With Bytes A Full Example: dos2unix.py Tips and Tricks __file__ Appending to...
Nowadays Python is everywhere — academics, data science, machine learning, enterprise application, web application, scripting you name it python is everywhere. Whatever you do, python is there either to help you or give you a headache. Let us say, you have learnt python programming and ready to use to develop applications that wow your future employers and...
This is the third post of a series about asynchronous programming. The whole series tries to answer the simple question: “What is asynchrony?”. At first, when I just started digging into the question – I thought that I know what it is. It turned out that I didn’t know a clue about what asynchrony is...
It is common secret that Python programming language has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language witnessing an extraordinary growth in the last five years, as seen by Stack Overflow traffic. Based on data describing the Stack Overflow question views which go to late 2011, the growth of Python relative to five other major...
Learn how to run Python code inside an R script using the reticulate R package As much as I love R, it’s clear that Python is also a great language—both for data science and general-purpose computing. And there can be good reasons an R user would want to do some things in Python. Maybe it’s a great...
The benefits of DevOps have been talked about for some time now. But a recent report has shown how organizations are reaping the benefits after implementing DevOps. According to a recent surveysponsored by Google and Harvard Business Review Analytics Services, two-thirds of the respondents that have implemented DevOps have seen benefits that impact their bottom line. Seventy percent...
Out of all major web technologies, there is no other technology as vilified for cross browser compatibility as JavaScript. But even after striding advancements in pure HTML and CSS, you it’s true that you cannot easily build webapps or websites without it. In our previous post last week, we delved in detail on cross browser compatibility issues faced in...
Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places — Darren Hardy The idea to collect a list of books that knowledgeable, experienced and well-known programmers recommends to read comes to me from The long Journey to Ruby Mastery conference talk by Bozhidar Batsov. Here I share what I have found so far: the books recommendations...
Have you went through the official React’s Tic Tac Toe tutorial? If you have, you might notice this bolded text in the introduction You might be tempted to skip it because you’re not building games — but give it a chance. I’m guessing even React team knows that it’s not that interesting to build a Tic...
