February 2019

We all have learnt a lesson or two from our mistakes. Mistakes once made are for learning and improving and not for repeating again. An Agile Retrospective does just that by trying to “inspect” how the sprint was done and “adapt” the processes for improvement. An Agile Retrospect is a meeting organized at the end…

The rate at which today’s world is advancing is unbelievable. We see new technologies and machinery all around us. Machines have been programmed to work in the absence of human supervision, doing the same job that we humans do, but at a much faster rate. Does this really mean that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is always…

Virtual reality is a term given for a reality that exists in a digital or man-made world. Both words have a meaning behind it. Virtual refers to those things that do not exist physically but exist as software. And reality can simply be described as a place where we physically exist. Virtual reality creates a…

In recent years, Data Science has emerged as one of the hottest professions and domain principles with the demand for data scientists, machine learning specialists, and data analysts. The epoch of Big Data has the field of Data Science constantly growing, enabling business organizations to become more data-driven with better visual percept and knowledge. Well,…

Reading and writing to the database is required by almost any system. Hence having an efficient method for communicating with the database is vital. Accessing the data in business logic can result in duplicated code, errors, weak typing, and inability to easily test the business logic in isolation. This is where repository patterns are very…

As the definition goes, Xamarin forms is a library used to build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows Phone from a single, shared C# codebase. Xamarin was released in February 2013. In February 2016, Microsoft purchased it and bundled it with Visual Studio. Initially, Xamarin supported only Android, iOS and Windows Phone. But later…

Today mobile apps are not solely owned by big and popular brands like Nike and Starbucks. In fact, there has been an increase in the number of small and medium scale enterprises investing in customized mobile apps. Most businesses now realize that an effective marketing strategy goes above and beyond just a mobile-optimized website. There…

Flutter is a cross-platform, open-source app development kit specifically for mobiles on which Google has been working on for the last few years with a number of developers within and outside the Company. This platform is based on C/C++ but most of it is based on Dart. Flutter is an entire widget based UI. Most…