Year: 2015
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Facebook’s evil Free Basics
It is hard to appreciate the evil in FB’s “Free Basic”. The simple facts. If and when “Free Basics” becomes very popular, which in all likelihood it will, if government does not ban it, then people will mostly probably stop renewing their mobile data plans. That means they will be able to access only “basic” […]
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Important Javascript Fundamentals for OOP Developers
In this guide I have tried to put together all important nuts and bolts of Javascript. I had a really hard time learning JS, since all these parts were scattered over the net. I gradually found them over the years. I hope I have covered all of them. Please let me know in the comments […]
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Tracing $scope events in AngularJS
Scope events in AngularJs is very powerful and useful in connecting disparate modules and directives. However, in a complex application things could become complicated and it would become hard to trace which event is triggered when and who act on those events. I wrote a simple event tracer which displays a floating div with logs […]
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Using pinned self-signed SSL certificate with Android Volley
Recently for one of my Android apps I wanted to use a self-signed certificate on the server-side. However, if you try to connect to such a server with default settings, the connection is going to be refused. This is because it has been signed by you (your server domain), and ‘you’ is not trusted by […]
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Relief Trust India review – It’s a Scam!
I should admit that I donated to them once after a preliminary cross-check. However, it seems I still got fooled. After that they started calling me at any time for more donations, and tried to use their “pressure” tactics. I requested them many times not to call me, but just send me an email. However, […]