My tryst with Hybris... continued
Rather than making a new post on my thoughts about development over hybris platform, I felt prudent to continue my older post about SAP Hybris and bring out some of the challenges felt and my take on this e-commerce platform. Currently, I am still a newbie ...

Getting in good shape. Resumed jogging!

Book Review: Mockito Essentials
Book Review: Mockito Essentials by Sujoy Acharya Mockito essentials is a straightforward insight towards writing proper form of unit tests using mockito framework. Targeted at existing developers, this book goes beyond the documented library and explains th...

On finding loopholes through visualization
Sometimes, visualization provides you with insight that is not instantly available. for example, I was playing with the open data that Indian Government provides for irrigation methods in different districts of India, and here's the aggregate data:  The vis...

Book Review: Learning Python Testing by Daniel Arbuckle
This is a review of Learning Python Testing by Daniel Arbuckle which as its name suggests, delves into testing with python. The testing frameworks covered are already covered in comprehensive python texts but instead of only high level overview, this textbo...

Packt Ebook Bonanza Campaign
I came across this promotional offer from packt publications for this festive season: Following the success of last year’s festive offer, Packt Publishing will be celebrating the Holiday season with an even bigger $5 offer. From Thursday 18th December, ever...

the one year scratch for #jobchange is the new 5 year one

grrrrr.. that irksome feel when you forget something and have to re learn it again

Database Migrations for Java Application
One of the tools that I've used in the recent days that merits a blogpost is Flyway. Flyway is a database migration tool that provides database state migration in applications that do not have a built in migration. Rails and (some) rails based frameworks al...

Book Review: Mockito Essentials
Book Review: Mockito Essentials by Sujoy Acharya Mockito essentials is a straightforward insight towards writing proper form of unit tests using mockito framework. Targeted at existing developers, this book goes beyond the documented library and explains th...

Hack learning android, freelance and other ramblings
In between doing mundane things in life, I've started doing more work to keep myself sharp as my office work has diminished vastly. This year has turned out good for me as I've started freelancing on my own on part-time basis and am currently relearning and...

Book Review: Think Stats
Think Stats by Allen B. Downey Think Stats presents statistical analysis techniques with a twist - by showing how to code the solution in python rather than applying mathematically. There may be other books on data analysis using various techniques and pyth...