Python

What I like about interviews is that they can directly show your weaknesses to you. When you think about a friend, girlfriend, parents and even your teacher, they all might say that you are great. Well, maybe you are really good at what you do but hearing it from someone who has objective views on you is very effective. It is all about trade offs. Here, objective views refer to from the perspective of conducting interviews to you, it will not be fair to have your closest friend as interviewer. All judgment is done based on your technical skills rather than personal thoughts. Sure, you do not want to hear bad judgments from your close friends, girlfriend or parents. However you might still want to see your value in industry independently from what your friends, parents think about. Therefore, I started interviewing with companies to find my weaknesses and desired job. ...

Python has some excellent features which provide you confidence. One of them is decorators. Decorators are used to modify the behaviour of a function or a class. In this article, we will learn how to use decorators in Python. What are decorators? In programming, decorators are functions that enhance the functionality of another function by receiving it as input, modifying it, and then returning a new function. This process is known as metaprogramming, as one part of the program modifies another part during compilation. ...

It was another interview that I had with a company, and I was asked about metaclasses in Python. Up to now, I did not have a requirement to use them, it leads to have a superficial idea about them but not exactly know what they are, therefore decided to do some research and write a short blog post about them. What are metaclasses? In Python, everything is an object. Classes are objects too. Metaclasses are classes that create classes or customize class creation. We can say that metaclasses are the “stuff” that creates classes. ...

I am alive !!! Right, I did not post anything for long time and could not imagine that this will be my next blog post after long time, but it is indeed. This is a story about a company who hold the product (- sent for warranty -) for five months and did not respond any emails. Let’s start from the beginning of the story, the product itself is not important, instead how they (- company -) approached to situation is important. ...