Hi, I'm Ankit!

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  • Do you know who is using your Wifi?

    A few days back, internet at my home was very slow. It took ages to open any webpage. I had found the internet to be slow on earlier occasions as well. But, this time it was just unusable. Out of curiosity, I went to the default gateway of my wireless router. I logged in with…

  • TFS User – Why you need to switch to Git

    Not too long ago, TFS and SVN were the only source control I had used. I had a very little experience of distributed source controls like Git. So when I got an opportunity to work on Git on a large scale project for the first time, I had my doubts. But, it did not take…

  • Feature Management with Launch Darkly

    In my workplace, our project is set up for Continuous Delivery. We do a production deployment almost daily and sometimes even more than once in a day. Ours is a fairly big solution built primarily on Microsoft technologies and Git as a Source Control. Setting up CI/ CD for your solution is easier said than…

  • Castle Windsor: Change Lifestyle

    In my current project, we use Castle Winsdor for Dependency Injection. I must admit before this project I had never used or even heard of it. I have had some love-hate relationship with Castle Windsor , with more hate than love initially. However, over a period of time, I realized that Castle Windsor is probably…

  • Microsoft Bot Framework – PART 3: Add channels to bots

    This is part 3 (and possibly the final) of Microsoft Bot Framework Series. If you have jumped right here, you may want to look into my part 1 and part 2 of my blog. In this post, I will explain how to add different channels to the Microsoft Bot Microsoft Bot Framework provides the option…

  • MICROSOFT BOT FRAMEWORK – PART 3: Add channels to bots

    This is part 3 (and possibly the final) of Microsoft Bot Framework Series. If you have jumped right here, you may want to look into my part 1 and part 2 of my blog. In this post, I will explain how to add different channels to the Microsoft Bot Microsoft Bot Framework provides the option…

  • Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 2: Publish Bot Service to Azure

    This blog post is Part 2 of how to create a chat bot with Microsoft Bot Framework which can answer FAQs on your website. This is in continuation to my previous post where I explained how to create a QnA service using Microsoft QnA service maker. You can read Part 1 of my post here.…

  • Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 1: QnA Service

    Recently, we had a hack day in our organization. As part of Hack day, we were given one day to work on our hobby project and demonstrate it to everyone. I took that opportunity to learn more about Microsoft Bot Framework and demonstrate its capability. 6 hours later, I was ready with a prototype of a…

  • One year of Motherhood

    Originally posted on Deepika Vijay Blog: “A woman is a soul who carries a soul within her” Motherhood, a special feeling coupled with divine emotions, sharing the strongest bond with your child. But being a mother is not an easy job. It is probably one of the toughest jobs, which comes with new responsibility. Unlike…

  • Testing in Modern App Development

    I’m back to writing blogs after a small break. Things have changed for me personally since, I have made a career move recently. I hope to be more regular going forward. In my new team, we follow Kanban flow. Our application is customer facing and due to nature of our project we need to do a…

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