Sudipta

Putting a React Draft WYSIWYG Editor in your MERN application

Posted on January 9, 2020January 10, 2020 SudiptaPosted in Blogs, Technology

Recently I’ve been working on an online news portal being rebuilt with the MERN stack. One of the critical requirements is a WYSIWYG editor (like one present in wordpress), that is fully compatible with react and the MERN stack. One of the more popular wysiwyg editor, the CKEditor is built to work on php applications, so I had to look for something that would be perfect for the MERN stack. Upon searching I came across a library called React Draft WYSIWYG.

Host react app on shared cpanel hosting

Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 Sudipta2 CommentsPosted in Blogs

React applications are essentially HTML, CSS and plain javascript after they get built for production. These files can run on any kind of server. In fact they can be run right from your file system, like any simple HTML page

100 days of React Challenge

Posted on February 20, 2019April 10, 2019 SudiptaPosted in Blogs, Technology

Today, the 20th Feb, 2019 I am going to undertake my biggest challenge till date. I am going to commit a little bit of my time everyday towards learning/mastering the React library, which is a frontend javascript library.

Meet and Tackle pointers in Javascript

Posted on February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 SudiptaPosted in Blogs, Technology

Javascript, being a high level language does not have pointers, unlike C or C++. One cannot get the value of the memory address where a javascript variable is stored. But the concept of pointers (references) is unavoidable in any programming language.

Gutenberg Sucks!!! How to get back Classic Editor in WordPress 5

Posted on January 22, 2019January 23, 2019 SudiptaPosted in Blogs

If you have been working on wordpress websites for personal or professional reasons, lately you might have become frustrated with the new wordpress update to version 5.x and the sole reason is Gutenberg sucks!!! But don’t lose faith in the wordpress eco-system yet. The wordpress community is still supporting the old classic editor that we all love. Let me tell you how to get back Classic Editor in Wordpress 5.

Learning Maths using simulations made with Javascript

Posted on December 21, 2018December 21, 2018 SudiptaPosted in Blogs, Technology

A few days ago I saw a video on SmarterEveryday, a youtube channel which makes science related videos. That video illustrates how we can understand Fourier Series with the help of animations of sinusoidal waves. The original creator made the animations using a different software/language. But I thought I can make it in javascript and run it on a browser, and host it in my website.

C series for 1st sem students: File System Manipulation

Posted on November 20, 2018November 20, 2018 SudiptaPosted in Blogs, Technology

Today we are going to discuss FILE SYSTEM operations using the C language. Till now we have worked with the RAM for storing our variables and our data. But the RAM is not persistent. We need to store data permanently. So we store them in permanent memory like hard disks or CDs/DVDs, in files. Different types of data are stored in different type of files, but for our purposes we’ll work with text files in windows system which have an extension of ‘.txt‘.

C series for 1st sem students: Lesser taught constructs, Unions & Enums

Posted on November 11, 2018November 11, 2018 SudiptaPosted in Blogs, Technology

Today we’re going to discuss two topics which are rarely taught in a C programming college course, Unions & Enums. One may justify that by saying they are not absolutely necessary for basic knowledge in programming, or that these topics are rarely asked in interviews. But if you become a professional C developer, you’ll have extensive use of them. These are particularly useful in low level programming, like with embedded systems and robotics.

C series for 1st sem students: Structures in C

Posted on November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 Sudipta1 CommentPosted in Blogs, Technology

One of the main motivations in the development of computers was data processing. One of the earliest punched card machines (tabulation machine) were used to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census. Thus in programming languages data types were so important, as there are tools and methods to process data according to their type.

C series for 1st sem students: Dynamic Memory Allocation

Posted on October 21, 2018October 21, 2018 Sudipta1 CommentPosted in Blogs, Technology

The process of allocating memory while a program is running is called dynamic memory allocation. In C programming, dynamic memory allocation is achieved with the standard library functions malloc(), calloc(), realloc() and free().