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I assume that the reader is able to understand github pages, jekyll, and templates at a basic level.Recently i have to migrate our documentation to github from Atlassian. Atlassian is a pretty strong suite and uncomparable. But github is certainly developer friendly and rather simple. I started with simple

Yesterday, my boss asked me if i could prepare a set of questions that could specifically evaluate the exposure of a person to Visual Basic and .NET. Though at the first sight it looks like why we need to focus on VB, can't it be any programming language, OOP, Design

Prologue : We do interviews a lot, and thought it's good time to document some of the questions that we ask. The goal of this series is primarily design interviews, and a list of things that we learn about the interviewee, without expecting anything specific. Think, that's too much ? Welcome to

Today every organization is in need and interested to innovate, and is largely seen as a culture problem to solve. To a large extent it is a culture problem but not just it. The problem with innovation is the complexity of making people believe in it and see the value.

The following document is a quick reference list for doing some of the common things in Grails. There can be better ways of doing the same things , but these are handy and will serve as a good reference to start with. How to respond from a REST API ControllerFrom the

Welcome to yet another code review that we did this week on a service refactor. Each feedback will have three sections File - The file that need to undergo the changeTODO - Suggested changes to the fileA description for why the TODO list should be done. This section is purely

This time i am trying to port a .NET Framework project working in Windows and Visual studio 2019 to .Net Framework project working on Mac and Visual studio for Mac 2019. It can be compiled on top of the mono framework for .NET but running parts of it is still

This is a follow up to my previous post on getting setup with Grails. In this post we are going to write a url shortening service in grails based on requirements from educative (Credits to them for giving all the details). On the way, we will discuss the different ways

This is yet another code review i was doing the other day and this time it's particularly on the .NET side of things and not about readability. Though i will share some of them, that gives perspectives to code reviewers, specifically .NET folks. about:commit We are migrating our code

The following is actually a commit message that i wrote for a bunch of refactoring i did on our code base (propreitary), to explain to our developers on some of the readability concerns with source code. After writing i realized that this would make up a good blog post because

Could not find a package.json file. Run 'npm init' to create one. Error: Could not find a package.json file. Run 'npm init' to create one. at check (/Users/sdhaksh5/.nvm/versions/node/v10.16.0/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/init/npm-utils.js:106:15) at Object.checkDevDeps

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Last week i was reviewing my old blog (https://dhakshinamoorthy.wordpress.com), and noticed that all the link that i have there, that is suppose to redirect to my new blog (https://soundararajan.in) wasn't working. The reason is that the link that is put there has the following format

The Magick-Config is an executable that is needed to install rmagick gem for a ruby on rails application. The application i work on uses it and it's mandatory to install the native operating system binaries upfront to build the native extensions for the rmagick gem. When i was trying to

In the previous post i discussed about persevere and it's relevance in an organization. In this post we will discuss gratitude Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a

I will honestly agree, BELIEF IS HARD. In the last post, i discussed about belief and why it is important to work in an organization. Now this is a sequel to that article. What happens when you continue to believe in something and don't see the results. You lose motivation

Pro Tip : When i install Ubuntu on Windows 10 (or rather enable it from Add/Remove programs) i always get Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, which is pretty old and a lot of new packages i expect are not available. Even doing a 'sudo apt-get upgrade' won't work unless you have

When i started the playing the game Pokemon Go i felt really exicted about all the imaginary characters around me and spent quiet an amount of time catching them. Over time i started to approach the game from a more philosophical manner for no reason. There are a few triggering

#Scruem - Scrum Poem This weekend I was preoccupied with, how I can explain the team on the importance of scrum and think of writing a small poem for the same. I named this as Scruem. Each line in the poem defines one of the ceremonies of scrum and as

If your college or any organization would like to have an engagement, please don’t hesitate to contact me at er.soundararajan@hotmail.com. I would be happy to involve in such activities, based on my availability :). Some of the visits in my past St. Peter's College of Higher

Soundar (Soundararajan Dhakshinamoorthy), and i am an computer science engineer since 2007 with a B.S degree in the same disipline. I live in the southern part of India, along the coast. I am married with 3 kids. two girls, and a boy. They make my day complete, and I

== Error occurred during initialization of VM java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:542) at java.lang.System.initProperties(Native Method) at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java:1115)== One fine day when I am trying to run java command in my Mac OSX, I got the