June 16, 2020 — Refactoring is important in programming things. It is a process of restructuring existing computer code—changing the factoring—without changing its external behavior. It makes code more readable, structured and easy to process.

June 13, 2020 — Who would’ve thought that PHP would have to wait till its version 8 or rather 25 years after its inception, to get a truly native and understandable function to check if a string is contained in another string?!

June 11, 2020 — It’s helpful sometimes when you have a file and it doesn’t have extension attached to it but you want to know the extension of the file regardless.

June 10, 2020 — The usual way of handling the exception is by requiring the catch block to catch the exception (thrown from the try block) to a variable like so.

June 9, 2020 — Wouldn’t it be nice if you don’t have to declare the class property over and over again just to use it across the class? Currently, you’d do it by first declaring it…

June 6, 2020 — I used to use Adblockers on my browsers a few years ago because I used to think that Ads are annoying and they probably are. For some people. Like the younger me.

June 5, 2020 — It’s always a nice idea to add something to your workflow which can enhance your productivity. Even if it’s as small as showing the current Git branch for your project in command prompt like so.

June 4, 2020 — Have you ever wanted a feature where you would only want to call a method or fetch a property on the result of an expression if it is not null? So, for instance, check the following code.

June 3, 2020 — VS Code extensions are a great way to enhance the experience of the already great editor of recent times. I tend to experiment different sort of extensions which can improve my workflow or help me fix some of the pain points.

June 2, 2020 — There comes a scenario when you might want to check which operating system the device is running. For instance, when you want to set device-specific download links. For windows, .exe file, for macOS, .dmg file and so on.