Prahlad Yeri

While it's a topic which has already invited hair splitting debates ad nauseam, it has also invited a lot of hype and there is a need to unclutter that hype and think about this topic objectively. The Toolbox Approach This has been the classic or traditional approach when programming used … Read More

There are various misconceptions in the blogging world surrounding title cases these days and there are many who advocate putting all your headlines in title case, some of them are: "It Looks Good": The most commonly thrown argument is that title cases are somehow aesthetically pleasing or they look good … Read More

One of the most challenging aspects of blogging is how to perform research and more importantly, organizing your research. As a technology blogger, I face this problem too, so some days ago, I did some research on... guess what? Yep, on how to organize research for writing articles or blog … Read More

Today morning, I woke up to this dull news that Github is soon going to introduce "Sponsor Only" feature, which means the ability for an open source project to hide its source code from everyone except the one who sponsors them. This incident shouldn't be taken in isolation but as … Read More

Writer's Block is something that even the best among us struggle with occasionally and there is no easy answer to it. I've been following techniques such as the 10 content-types method to brainstorm and come up with ideas but all such techniques have a limit, eventually the block finds some … Read More

If you're suffering from writer's block or don't know what to write about or how to research content for your next blog post, this guide will help you. There are just about 10 basic content-types or patterns around which weblog articles are written these days, and by creatively combining them … Read More

Making additions or subtractions to datetime variables is one of the most commonly encountered programming endeavors and that's what the built-in datetime.datetime.timedelta object is for in python. Its very useful in adding hours or days to your datetime variables as follows: import datetime now = datetime.datetime.now() tea_time … Read More

This is one of those commonly occurring nags in web development which I've solved several times before but still have to scavenge the googles and stack-overflows each time I run into it. That's why I've decided to document the simple solution to it in this brief article. What happens is … Read More

Yesterday, I learned during deployment that your Django app when used in combination with gunicorn will refuse to serve static files, do whatever you may. I looked up almost every Stack Overflow answer post on this topic including this, this and this. I meddled with almost every hopeful setting including … Read More

One of the first things you want to do after publishing your blog is to share it with rest of the world and twitter is how most of you folks do it, right? But when you share your link in a tweet, you want it to expand into a proper … Read More