Leaders are many but inclusive leaders win hearts — In my squiggly career, I have seen many managers who strived to lead but failed miserably. Leading a group of people is a people skill that requires a plethora of soft skills no MBA program, textbooks or masterclass courses on earth will teach you. …

Everybody needs help, don’t hesitate to ask — Programming is not easy. Anyone who has tried programming for even a few days will agree with me on this. It takes immense mental power and grit to be a programmer. To show up day after day after feeling like I haven’t achieved anything because it is not an easy…

Bring more Women in Leadership — We all know that seeing is believing. Representation plays a huge part in attracting women into IT. Even better if the leaders are women. As Sheryl Sandberg mentions in her book Lean In, women’s leaders can relate and empathise with women’s problems. You can’t build a company without realising a…

A Git Repository is a cloud storage for your software — This is continuation of Git Basics series. What is Git? Know Your Git Terminologies Local Git Repository: Setting up a local repository is pretty simple. By local repository I mean making your project a git repo on your work-station. Open git-bash. Navigate to root of your project folder. In my case it is…

Keywords used most commonly in Git version control and what they mean — This article is a continuation of Git Basics series. One of the challenges I faced while learning Git was the keywords used. Once you know what each command means your life becomes a lot simpler. It would definitely take a few screws up to get a hang of it. But…

Basics of the most popular version control tool used in software development — Think of Version Control as the system which meticulously keeps a history of every change you make in your code in every file of your project. It logs every detail of what the change was, at what time was it made and by who etc. Think of it like if…

A no-BS pitch to win people instantly — Yet another article trying to explain how to pitch! Like there aren’t enough already. I know, I know! I have read ‘em too, but bear with me here. For more than a decade, I have been pitching about my ideas, business, getting interviewers to hire me, and people to get…

Easy way to visualize and list the dependency tree using Gradle tasks — While using dependencies in your Android projects sometimes it’s natural for some strange errors to pop which do not make any sense. For instance, suddenly a firebase dependency seems broken when you add a different dependency. Sometimes you can have dependencies that do support incremental builds. These kinda problems arise…

Compilation of some old and new Android Interview Questions — For the longest time, I have made it a habit to attend quite a lot of interviews. One of the reasons being I was terrified of appearing for interviews at one point in time and I started to give interviews just to practice and get over the fear. The more…