OnCampus Microsoft Interview

Microsoft is like a dream company for many people me included :P. Why won鈥檛 it be its the company which develops typescript making web app development so much easier, VSCode favourite IDE of all developers 馃槍, Azure Cloud Services, Windows the first Operating System that most people use. The Process Included two parts the Coding Round and then Interviews, based on which students were selected. While Coding Round was eliminating Interviews were not, so everyone was able to give 2+ interviews....

August 10, 2021 路 6 min 路 1142 words 路 Lakshya Singh

Journey Google Summer of Code

What is GSoC? Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open-source organization on a 10-week programming project during their break from school. This post highlights my journey of getting selected into the program from the very beginning. I believe that there is no defined path for getting selected in such open-source fellowships. Everyone has a unique journey, and you can take a few things from other journeys to write yours :) because the essence of each one is similar....

July 5, 2021 路 11 min 路 2321 words 路 Lakshya Singh

Dynamic Styles in VueJS

In this article, I aim to provide a not so new but also not so known way of adding dynamic features into your application, ensuring that you can achieve what you wish to simply without writing boilerplate code and meddling with string concatenation. When writing Dynamic UI Components that respond to user actions and events, we require methods to respond to these events by translating them into our DOM. Change in DOM is usually achieved by changing styles and classes based on certain reactive data that we have in our javascript....

June 23, 2021 路 5 min 路 964 words 路 Lakshya Singh

Comprehensive Guide for Regular Expressions

What is Regex? Regular expressions ( or regexes, or regex patterns) are essentially a kind of formal grammar/syntax used to find the set of possible strings that you want to match. At first, REs can look pretty scary and daunting, but we can write highly efficient matching patterns in terms of length and speed after understanding even a few special characters. We can use REs to save the day in a variety of use cases :...

May 16, 2021 路 8 min 路 1552 words 路 Lakshya Singh

Good Git Commits

Good Commits Git commits are everywhere, and you might be generating more than 1k commits over a year. So it becomes crucial to understand that commit should be structured and created in a scalable manner. Why bother? Writing better commits can make the difference between your debugging session lasting 1 hour to a few minutes. With good commits, it鈥檚 easier for anyone to understand the progress of a project and get up to speed....

May 7, 2021 路 3 min 路 548 words 路 Lakshya Singh