Bilal Fazlani – Medium

Published in Weekly Webtips

·Jun 17, 2020

Protect yourself from git identity theft

with signed & verified git commits — Git supports signing commits with a private key and GitHub (& many other git servers) supports verifying those commits with a public key. Signed and verified commits are marked as “Verified” by GitHub. This provides a level of verification for the commit. Why sign the commits? When creating a new commit, I can simply…

Git

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Protect yourself from git identity theft

Published in The Startup

·May 31, 2020

Actors using Scala & Akka — Part 2 : AskPattern and SpawnProtocol

A quick guide to get started with akka actors with scala for beginners — This is second post in a series of “Actors using Scala & Akka”. In Part 1, we saw how to Create new scala project and run it Create new actor system Create new behaviour to handle messages and modify state Spawn a new system actor using given behaviour Send messages…

Akka

10 min read

May 8, 2020

Actors using Scala & Akka — Part 1 : Introduction

A quick guide to get started with akka actors with scala for beginners — Since I am stuck at home due to Covid-19 pandemic. With nothing else to do, I thought the best use of time would be to continue my blog series about actors. In the last article, we saw what are actors, their properties and how these properties can be useful for…

Actor Model

8 min read

Actors using Scala & Akka — Part 1 : Introduction

Published in The Startup

·May 8, 2020

Concurrency with Actors

Introduction The actor model of computing was introduced by Carl Hewitt in 1973. This model makes it easy to tackle the problem of concurrency and state management. The model treats an “actor” as a primitive unit of computing.

Actor Model

5 min read

Feb 19, 2019

.NET core local tools are here!

Let’s explore — One of the features of .NET core 3 is “local tools”. While global tools have been a part for .net core since version 2.1, .net core 3 brings local tools. Local tools are exactly like global tools except they are tied to a specific directory unlike global tools which are…

Microsoft

3 min read

Mar 22, 2018

Creating real-time web applications using react and signalR — Part 1

Creating API — Web today has come a long way from being static web pages. Web experience today feels much more interactive, immersive with rich graphics and animations. However, real-time web applications are still not mainstream yet. …

Java Script

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Creating real-time web applications using react and signalR — Part 1

Mar 18, 2018

Don’t love your code

Have you ever met a developer who never believes that his/her code is “not the best”. Makes it difficult to work with, isn’t it. Ever… — Have you ever met a developer who never believes that his/her code is “not the best”. Makes it difficult to work with, isn’t it. Ever thought why does s/he feels that way though? It’s simple. Because s/he loves his/her code. And what happens when you love your code? You can’t…

Software Development

3 min read

Mar 10, 2018

Create CRUD api without writing code

I am obsessed with reusability of code. As a result of that, I am always refactoring code. What do you do when you find a piece of code… — I am obsessed with reusability of code. As a result of that, I am always refactoring code. What do you do when you find a piece of code that you think could be reused? Well, I publish it online on repositories like nuget. Think about it. …

API

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