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Don't Give Up: Persistence Pays Off!

Don't Give Up: Persistence Pays Off!

In the bustling world of technology, where innovation is the norm and change is constant, the journey to success is often fraught with challenges. As a member of the tech community, I've learned firsthand the importance of persistence—a lesson that transcends coding languages and software frameworks. It&

Pluralsight and KodeKloud's Free Week of Premium Courses

Pluralsight and KodeKloud's Free Week of Premium Courses

Are you looking to enhance your career with new skills and knowledge? Pluralsight and KodeKloud are currently offering a free week of premium courses, and I wanted to share this opportunity with you. As someone who's always looking for ways to improve, I think this offer is too

OpenAI's ChatGPT Plugin Framework - Future of Customer experience

OpenAI's ChatGPT Plugin Framework - Future of Customer experience

OpenAI has just announced an exciting new development in the world of ChatGPT. The platform will now support plugins, opening up a world of possibilities for developers to personalize customer experiences in innovative new ways. Currently in alpha release, this new feature allows developers to build plugins that leverage the

The Compelling Business Case for CCaaS Over Traditional Enterprise Solutions

The Compelling Business Case for CCaaS Over Traditional Enterprise Solutions

In today's fast-paced and highly competitive business environment, companies are constantly seeking ways to improve customer experience, streamline operations, and reduce costs. Contact centers play a critical role in achieving these objectives. As businesses consider their options, many are turning to Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) solutions

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Building a Voice AI Bot with ChatGPT and Twilio

In today's digital age, customers demand personalized and seamless experiences across all channels. With the rise of voice assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant, it's no surprise that voice-enabled customer service is becoming increasingly popular. Building a voice AI bot can be a game-changer for

LinkedIn bio generator using OpenAI GPT-3

Have you ever wished there was an easier way to create a personalized and effective LinkedIn bio? Thanks to recent advancements in natural language processing technology, it's now possible to generate high-quality text with just a few simple inputs. As a side project, I wrote LinkedIn bio generator,

React - Uncaught reference: process is not defined

Recently, I started getting the error process is not defined in the react project. It is really annoying as I have to refresh the browser to view the code changes.

React Higher-Order Components

A higher-order component (HOC) is an advanced technique in React for reusing component logic. Simply, a higher order component is a function that takes a component and return a new component. To understand this better, we will take authentication example. Our use case is that users are allowed to visit

React Router - Animated Transitions

In this article, I will show you how to do animated transitions using react-router and react-transition-group libraries and the solution for the common mistake. Here is the sample application with animated transitions below React Router TransitionsIn this sample application, I used <TransitionGroup> and <CSSTransition> for animation.

Top 5 animation libraries for react

Top 5 animation libraries for react

In order to improve user experience, we need to add various effects to the UI elements in the web application. In this article, I will share top 5 animation libraries that can be used in your react project. * React Transition Group [https://reactcommunity.org/react-transition-group/] - provides simple components to

FlowMaker - Free Online Diagramming tool

Today, I launched free online flow chart diagramming tool at https://flow.lakshmikanth.com Initially, it was developed for internal use at ContactWise (and to extend functionalities of our no code platform). During development, we realised that this can be stand-alone tool and can help architects, freelancers, developers to develop

Deploy MongoDB on Docker

Deploy MongoDB on Docker

For development and testing purpose, we have been using MongoDB container image on docker. For load testing, it simplifies as we can spawn new database with seed data easily. Follow this article to deploy MongoDB instance on a docker container Prerequisites -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * A user with Administrator privileges (in Mac, sudo

Use VS Code as Git editor, difftool and mergetool

Use VS Code as Git editor, difftool and mergetool

Recently, I started using git from command line instead of git UI tools (Visual Studio and JetBrains) and loved it. However, find it difficult to use vim or nano editor to view differences especially during conflict resolution tasks. To manage this, I configured VS Code as default editor for git.

Founded ContactWise

In the last 2 weeks, I migrated my blog from self hosted wordpress to managed Ghost blogging platform. Looking back at the blog, it is nearly 4 years since my last post and humbled to see subscribers list grow by 100% every year. Wow..time really flies I am excited