Nov 29Python — DI (dependency injection ) — Part 2 — ContainersIn the previous article I covered the use of manual DI injections with lambda defaults, but it only covers very simple use cases and forces the inject class or the consuming class to import the dependency, which beats the purpose of DIP where we depend on an abstraction rather than…Python2 min readPython2 min read
Oct 5VSCode setup for FastAPII personally love VSCode way better than pyCharm, which seems to be the de-facto IDE for Python for a lot of developers, one of the things that it gives are sensible defaults for python that makes it easier to just start working, which is quite nice but you are giving…Python2 min readPython2 min read
Oct 4Python — DI (dependency injection ) — Part 1Dependency injection is a pattern that promote loose coupling between components. it implements the IoC (Inversion of Control) and DiP (Dependency Inversion Principle) principles and can help make our components smaller, more testable, and expose the dependency and connections between components, which increase maintainability. Principles of DI So first lets break it down…Dependency Injection3 min readDependency Injection3 min read
Oct 4Python — Composable Analytics ReporterThis is a concept I was thinking about for creating a composable generic analytics reporter for a python app. …Python4 min readPython4 min read
Oct 4FastAPI — rate limit middlewareThere are many cases where we would want to have a rate limiting mechanism in web app (i.e defend against over using an expensive/external/external & expensive service). So why middle? Well it is just a convenient place to place something like a rate limiter since it capture the request and can block it…Python3 min readPython3 min read
Jun 11, 2022iOS CI Separating build & test jobs on GitlabUsually when running automated test on CI we will have testing suites that run (like unit test/integration/etc..). When developing mobile applications with Swift we need to compile our testing targets before we can run them, usually the simpler solution is to run them together as a single CI job. …IOS App Development4 min readIOS App Development4 min read
Sep 7, 2021Front End for iOS Developers(Part 2)Following up the previous article(Front End for iOS Developers(Part 1)), which covered the the loading and life cycle events for web apps and views, this article will focus view layout and positioning, memory management with javascript, and dependency injection. View Layout The view layout on the screen is managed by the HTML…Front End Development4 min readFront End Development4 min read
Sep 7, 2021Front End for iOS Developers(Part 1)I am an iOS developer, and love it! And I also enjoy learning new things and taking on new challenges, partly because it brings me a differnt perspective on my work today. Recently an opportunity to work on a new project for front end web development has fell into my…Front End Development6 min readFront End Development6 min read
Mar 2, 2021Can mobile adopt Trunk Based Development(TBD)?Intro Trunk based development (or TBD) is a branching strategy that aims to improve collaboration, speed, and quality for development teams. This post describes the issue that TBD tries to solve, and if it is applicable for mobile development, and if so what are the challenges. Git Flow In short, when working with…Mobile App Development4 min readMobile App Development4 min read
Feb 10, 2021Using Git hooks to add JIRA issue to commit messageA short and simple guide on what are git hooks and how we can use them to prepend a JIRA issue to the commit messages. TL;DR Create global hooks folder ls ~/.git-hooks || mkdir ~/.git-hooks Copy the following script to ~/.git-hooks directory, under the name prepare-commit-msg 2. Edit the ExcludedBranches…Git3 min readGit3 min read
