CORS and CSRF – Everything there is to know! by Gautam Kumar Samal on April 28, 2020 1,501 views
What is CORS? Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell browsers to give a web application running at one origin, access to selected resources from a different origin. A web application executes a cross-origin HTTP request when it requests a resource that has a different origin (domain, protocol, or port) from its own. As we can clearly see, it’s a browser thing. Most browsers enforce a certain standard…
Planning to migrate from Angularjs to Vue? by Shailee Mehta on April 9, 2020 1,582 views
It is an essential part of a software development cycle to keep the tech stack updated, and with so many frameworks a movie buff like me would say it is a real Sophie’s choice… This blogpost is for product owners or developers working on Angularjs, looking for answers to which technology to upgrade to. Whether to stick to Angular and move a version up or pick a new framework. The following blog post says why…
Best practices for structuring SCSS/SASS by Chirag Unadkat on March 6, 2020 1,761 views
Every site in current time is not only focused on functionality but also focused on user interface and that too a responsive web or mobile first web. The way we structure our stylesheet has direct relation to the complexity of the project and also affect the post compilation maintenance and enhancements. Basically there is nothing good or bad about structuring the stylesheet for the web. It varies according to requirement and size of the project.…
Games Argonauts’ play! by A.V. Sethuraman on December 29, 2017 1,842 views
The month of December isn’t complete without some fun and making merry. This time of the year is also about renewal and recommitment to the excellence that we stand for. What better way to do this than to play a nice little game that reinforce core concepts of Agile Methodology and in the process, have some fun as well! The emphasis on continuous learning has always been a KPA for us at Argusoft. When we…
Are we truly free? by Ravi Gopalan on September 1, 2017 2,537 views
India’s 71st Independence Day just went by. I had the proud privilege of hoisting the tricolor at a high school function. The word ‘freedom’ played hugely on my mind. I gratefully remembered the supreme sacrifice that our freedom fighters had made in India’s struggle for freedom. And then this question arose in my mind - are we really done with our ‘freedom’ struggle? The answer didn’t even take a second, in fact it didn’t even…
‘I can’, always. Never a ‘can I’ by Ravi Gopalan on June 28, 2017 2,185 views
More often than not we are in situations where we confidently set out to do something. And then we doubt our ability to accomplish it, literally taking the wind out of our sails. Not just that, it actually crashes the idea and forces us to trash it too! We have all been hearing about the power of positivity and are probably quite convinced about it. One has read or heard somewhere and internalized that the…
Is ‘aspiration’ a bad word? by Ravi Gopalan on May 25, 2017 1,686 views
If one were to look up the dictionary, the word aspiration is defined as ‘a hope or ambition of achieving something’ or ‘a strong desire, longing, or ambition’. The meaning certainly has a positive connotation. In fact society in general encourages people to aspire. We talk of raising the aspirations of the deprived sections just so that their thought processes can be energized and empowered. A person or life without aspirations is often labelled as…
Employee or Customer – who comes first? by Ravi Gopalan on May 25, 2017 2,291 views
Its end April and the hot Indian summer has its arms tightly around us. Typically, during such times, one dreads visits especially by US/European customers. Just this last week we had one such team from KPMG visit us. We were pleasantly surprised as they took the relentless 42°C heat unflinchingly. It may not be an exaggeration if one said that they handled it better than us locals! In our case, their warm and fulsome appreciation…