Recently, I’ve been learning about different types of sorting algorithms. However, I am far from being an expert on this. So take everything I say with a grain of salt. In this blog post, I document my first look at insertion sort. Later, we implement this method of sorting in a .Net core console application. Insertion sort is one of the elementary sorting algorithms. It sorts each item in the array as it is encountered....
PHP is a popular serverside scripting language. You’ve probably heard that at least a hundred times. When I was told that we were doing PHP in school, I was rather skeptical. I had fallen into the misleading belief that PHP was a ‘Dead language’. Don’t get me wrong, PHP as a tool still does lack the finesse of something like ASP .NET. Its installation process on my Mac was very finicky ( probably because it was a Mac, but you got to work with what you got to work with )....
Application Programming Interfaces ( API) have been around since the early days of IT. Today, API’s are almost always synonymous with server-side web development. Earlier, API’S were built using technologies such as CORBA, XML-RPC, and SOAP. The Web has radically transformed the way we produce and share information. It has democratized information sharing and has revolutionized information creation and sharing. Nowadays, we have RESTful APIs. To learn more about REST see here...
My blog looks completely different. I know. That’s because we had to nuke the old one to self-host the blog. Besides, it turned out looking much better. I’m pretty happy with the changes. I did plan on publishing this post back in December. However, we lost the draft while making the changes. So now I have to do this all over again. Well, I can’t really do anything, can I?...
Today was a pretty boring day. My parents and I went to the plaza. There was a lot of shopping to do and it was nearly 2 o’clock by the time we finished. We then grabbed some food and headed home. I then got to work on preparing the material for today, so yeah :/ , not much to say about the day. In my Starting MongoDB – The basics post, I explained how to create a cluster, set up a MongoDB database and connect using the Mongo Shell....