Ritesh Shrivastav's Blog, page 6

Good bye 2016, welcome 2017

This year 2016 is almost over, and we are ready to welcome the next year. It feels like yesterday when I said: 2015 is almost over.

Here are my learnings from this year.

Parents and family should get priority over everything else. Happiness is a state of mind and requires thinking beyond the materialistic world. A daily to-do list to be practiced on a hard form. Once a task is accomplished, strike it off the list. Learn one new activity/skill every month. Be careful when you walk outside, a...

A day with pencil and paper

Today evening I started reading a book How Long is a Piece of String? by Rob Eastaway. If you have few hours to read this book, its worth spending time with this interesting book. But before I be in the zone, few thoughts were running in my mind about to learn and sketch something. From many days, I wanted to learn this skill so that I can draw something which I can imagine in my mind.

Expressing something in the more realistic way is very much important when you want a quality communication...

Small device in hand

There is no wonder why people love Apple products, the one thing which makes any Apple product different from the others that the design is simple and behind the simplicity, there is much logical thought process which makes them perfect.

I have seen many people jump into the discussion of Android vs iOS and it gets interesting when the person discussing have used all devices because they know each OS and device has its own advantages and problems.

The day before yesterday I ordered one iPhone...

Mysore Trip, November 2016

Yesterday when I woke up in the morning, time was approx 4:00 AM and we had planned to visit Mysore. This was my third visit to Mysore and second company outing at Exotel. In March of this year, we went and enjoyed in Coorg which was my first company outing. Mysore takes special attention because of its tropical savanna climate.

We stayed in Silent Shores Resort, which is 11 km from Mysore Palace and 22 km from Chamundi Hill. We reached here at around 12:00 PM.

I was always missing to play c...

Installing macOS Sierra

After one year of El Captian, Apple has released macOS Sierra. When I find all Apple products great and stable, MacBooks are also the perfect laptop on any side. Be it hardware level robustness or software level stability. You can easily get the latest version of OS from the App store, which should not take much time to download if you have good internet connection.

After installation of new macOS here is the new look of my MacBook screen-

On the top right corner of the screen, you can see t...

Hey Siri on macOS

On iOS devices, you can activate Siri by saying Hey Siri. But in case of macOS Sierra, voice command is not available but it can be done through the Siri preferences. Here you basically use dictation to activate Siri.

Change Siri keyboard shortcut

To change your Siri keyboard shortcut, follow these steps-

Open System Preferences and navigate to Siri. Click on Keyboard Shortcut and select Customize and then press the key you want to use. Create a Dictation command to activate Siri

Now that...

2 years of blogging

On July 27th, 2014, I made my first real appearance on the global village by registering codingdash.com.

I was in college when I started my first blog Computer Knowledge in 2010 and the posts were always targeted to solve basic problems and some hacks what I was playing around; those articles eventually getting picked up from online tutorials. Also, many people have contributed some of their writing on the blog.

Though codingdash.com is my first personal blog. Nowadays people tend to decorate...

Mysore visit, July 2016

Recently I had visited Mysore, and this wasn't my first visit to this city. Earlier in 2012 when I was living in Chennai I had visited the city with friends. The city is situated 143 km far from Bangalore in Karnataka and is the cleanest city in India. The name of this city named as Mysore(also known as Mysuru) on the name of Mahishasura, who was a demon in Hindu mythology. He was the ruler of this place and was killed by the Goddess Chamundeshwari, whose temple is situated atop the Chamundi...

Getting started with Beanstalkd

Beanstalkd is simple messaging middleware system written in C, which provides the efficient way to solve latency issue when you are designing such system in which time-consuming processes are involved. Generally, these type of queues allows you to store metadata for processing jobs in future. They can support in the development of service-oriented architecture by providing the flexibility to defer tasks to separate processes. When applied correctly, queues can dramatically increase the user e...

Being in the zone

Being in the zone or sometimes referred as the subset of developer productivity flow is a very common term what each knowledge worker wants to improve on. Sometimes when we decide something to be done but because of some other stuff or because of any random reason the flow gets interrupted, then it becomes hard to return back to the zone from where we left the process.

Lets take an example to understand it more closely. Suppose you are going to sleep and someone wakes you up for some reason,...