Speaking from experience — with a second chance in a software leadership position — In my early software development career, with much hard work, I am very fortunate to become a software manager relatively early. Being relatively young and naive as a new manager, my focus has been on commitments and project deliveries. Still, I did well and climbed the management ladder to become…

It’s not too late to restart your software development career at 40 — Someone once told me, “At 35 if you are still a programmer, consider starting looking for some other options for the next half of your career. The younger generation is catching up, and soon you’ll be obsolete.” True enough, at 35, I did start to reflect on what I was…

The more we’ve learned, the more we’ve realized there’s so much more to learn — As developers, the longer we’re on the job, the more experience we gain. Eventually, we may even become the go-to person on our team or in our organization, seen as the technical guru of our field. At this level, we get a self-esteem boost, which is positive. But at times…

A tertiary education is important but some things look even better on a resume — Don’t get me wrong — a tertiary education is important, especially if you attend a school that is closely linked with the industry. It usually provides good pointers and sound fundamentals of what computer science is. However, in the internet-driven world we live in, if you want to start your…

Software Developers are a special type of people — “Be like your dad, go for an IT career. It’s what the future will be”. My wife told my son, advising him on what he should consider for his career. After Covid-19, my wife loves my profession even more, software development. …

Cleaning and Moving Away From Legacy Code — If your app had survived through years on PlayStore, with many releases, before the advent of Kotlin in Android Development, it will probably have some SQLite (before Room existed) Database in your source code, which you hate yet have to live with it. Here, I’m sharing one way we can…

It is more than just modularizing your app development — Recently, I share an upcoming talk below on Scaling App Development using Micro-frontends below on Reddit’s androiddev and iosprogramming subreddit. Unexpectedly, there is this question. What is the use of making Mobile Application scalable? It is a fair question. There’s a misconception that all App Development is just…

An example of using KSP to overcome the current Android’s Room and Kotlin Inheritance Limitation — Room in Android is really a nice abstraction over SQLite! I learned it not too long ago. Definitely a win in implementing persistence for the App. It has a neat feature of Inheritance as shared in an amazing article by Florina Muntenescu in point 2 of 7 Pro-tips for Room. …

Learn how to create new custom annotations using KSP in the Android Development environment, and how to debug during developing it as well. — In Java and Kotlin development, Annotation is an advanced feature one can use to reduce boilerplate code. Most of us use it, but few of us develop it. Hence, creating it is always something tricky to learn. Here, I will share how we can use Kotlin Symbol Processing to make…