We already see the huge impact of blockchain in the current world. Bitcoin is one of the first and largest in terms of market cap in this space. While we have heard a number of rags to riches stories through bitcoin, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Bitcoin is just one of the …
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This article is part of the series – Check your financial IQ. The aim of the series is to put together thoughts and practices that lead to better financial health. No matter how much money you earn, if you don’t have the financial IQ to handle the money, your wealth is not going to reach …
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As we know Covid has created havoc in our lives and vaccine is the only savior right now. However, the problem is that it’s difficult to keep track of vaccine availability. When vaccine becomes available for a given area, the slots might be booked before you even get to know about it. So, I have …
If you have worked in multi-threaded programs, you may have encountered these keywords – volatile, lock and Interlocked. But if you do not really understand what is the difference between these or which one is to be used when, this article might help. Let us consider a scenario first. Let’s say there is an integer …
Project is now on Github : https://github.com/harshmaurya/reactive-websocket Documentation and sample: https://github.com/harshmaurya/reactive-websocket-samples Web-sockets are the latest addition to the communication protocol which standardizes the way client communicates with the server. It provides full duplex communication channel over a single TCP connection which is great considering the workarounds that existed previously for achieving the same result. For …
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GoDarting is a darts game in which the player has to hit the dart as close to the middle of dartboard as possible. At each level you will get three attempts to surpass the minimum score for that round. There are different kinds of difficulties as you move up the level ladder. Players can submit …
Firstly, as a disclaimer I need to mention that all views expressed here are based on my own experience and I don’t have any malicious intent to defame Bigrock. In fact I will present the facts in front of audience who can then decide how to perceive it. Now as the title suggests, I was …
The other day I was searching for a tool which could convert a vector file to WPF compliant xaml so that I could use it in my application. I won’t say I didn’t find any, but those available were either working only for a limited set of vectors or were licensed
Are you searching for professional looking free themes but haven’t found anything useful yet? Do you want to concentrate on business logic of your application without worrying about the aesthetics? Do you want to add theming infrastructure to your application enabling the users to switch themes at runtime?
I was trying to find good themes for my personal projects which I could directly use and concentrate on the functionality instead of decorating the application. But the lack of good free WPF themes forced me to create it on my own.