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Generating PDFs In Rails Application Using DocRaptor

This post is sponsored by DocRaptor.com One of the most common & requested feature I come across when building applications is supporting export data in popular formats like pdf

actioncable

Using ActionCable with ActiveJob In Rails 6

Finally I got around recording a screencast to demonstrate how we can use ActionCable with ActiveJob. In this video I built Commander - A visual command runner which executes operating

ruby on rails

Why you should learn Ruby regardless of what they say

Learn a language which actually loves you back – Siddharth SharmaOver the years I have learned multiple programming languages. At the start of my career I learned FoxPro, then PHP, then

ruby on rails

Currency Input Masking with Cleave.js and Money gem in Ruby On Rails

Relying on the user's input is a crucial part of building a robust application. That's why I try to apply strong validations on the incoming data on forms or otherwise.

teams

Codebase Tells A Lot About Team

I was in Bangalore this week for a client work and just, as usual, I decided to ask friends to meet up for lunch. Since Siddharth was back in town

entrepreneurship

One Year Of Self-Employment

Last year in March I quit my full-time job at BigBinary without zeroing down what I'll do next. I had a bunch of not so concrete ideas in my mind

Using Next.js With Styled Components

I have been fiddling around with Next.js library for the past couple of months and it has been really fun so far. Styled-Components is another great library I've started using in my production applications which has improved my development cycle. Let's talk business

2017

2017 In Review

This is the last day of the year 2017. I'm sitting right now at my favourite Starbucks cafe and spending the evening writing this post. Looking back to what all

heroku

Running Sidekiq On Heroku Free Dyno With Puma

In my opinion, Heroku is the nearly perfect place to deploy a project. It provides support for a lot of technologies out of the box with minimal or no configuration.

javascript

Building Algolia Powered Search In React Native

Github Instant Search App Algolia provides in a nutshell, Search As A Service, which if you think is a pretty cool service. It takes away all the heavy lifting of

react

Upload Multiple Files To Cloudinary Using React Dropzone & Axios

We had a requirement in one of our recent client’s project to provide a lot of file uploading. Being a developer we are quite used to the whole uploading

preact

Getting started with PreactJS — A Step By Step Guide

PreactJS is a fast 3kB alternative to React with the same ES6 API First, some background… PreactJS is developed by Jason Miller — one of my programming heroes. The framework was

react native

9 Libraries To Consider For Your Next React Native Project

React Native React Native has made mobile application development process bliss for developers, there’s no doubt in that. I’ve been working on it full time since last 5

react native

5 React Native Open Source Projects To Learn From

Best way to learn writing software is to read open source code — Every Senior Programmer. Reading open source code is the best and effective way to tech yourself to write

heroku

How to create self hosted Heroku like server in 5 simple steps

Goal — git push and enjoy your coffee ☕️ Building a server from ground zero to host a production app could be a real pain. The whole process of installing all the

emberjs

Shipped My First Ember Production App In A Month

Today we shipped Crowdfire which we've been working on since a month. The dashboard is completely written in Ember using Ember CLI and deployed to Amazon S3 keeping it totally

advice

Freshers guide to get a tech job in startups

There has been spike in no. of tech startups in the ecosystem since past few years, which is certainly a good sign but, Unfortunately there aren't enough good developers available to take this opportunity especially in Mumbai. Besides, We've talented freshers coming out but

vim

3 steps to Vim from Sublime Text 2

I've been using Sublime Text 2 since quite a while now and really enjoy spending my most of the time playing around code with it. Since I've a PHP background (where I used to code on Netbeans) I was not motivated to use use

entrepreneurship

Star Young Entrepreneur of the year 2013

Expect the unexpected and whenever possible be the unexpected I've being awarded as 'Star Young Entrepreneur of the year' by Indira India Innovation Summit, Felt so awesome. :) pic.twitter.com/RtTJZG6l — Bilal Budhani (@BilalBudhani) January 12, 2013 As you

entrepreneurship

My Experience With In50hrs Pune Event

Earlier last week I was checking out Hacker News (as what I follow religiously). I stumbled upon on an article India has a drought - not of Investors, but Customers which took my interest, tt was a great read. As the guy who wrote

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