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“For routine jobs, you need clerks; for battles, soldiers; and for wars, generals. But for a Revolution, my friend, you need common men and women, millions of them, with a common dream.” — Tarif Haque More than Hundred Killed & Thousands Injured, Curfew Declared Right now, my country, Bangladesh, is undergoing a long awaited revolution. It started as a very simple demonestration by some students for fair and logical reform of the quota system for government jobs....

Last week I visited my hometown, Kurigram. For the first time, by a train. It is one of the most remote parts of Bangladesh. The journey was relatively smooth and took around nine hours. I booked quad seats for my family. Train Quad-Seats: Two seats facing each other, with a small table between The quad seats made me feel like writing something… If I had no kids with me, I would have written something on the table in my writing pad or played chess, I was thinking....

Wanted to work with Jekyll but Configuring Ruby on Mac Was Very Frustrating and how I nailed it Hello, It’s Tarif Haque a noob dev. I love simplicity. Maybe you do that as well. Whatever! The idea of modern static websites always intrigued me. But I never had the opportunity to dig deeper. Suddenly, I came across GitHub pages. Simply put, it’s a free hosting service for static pages by GitHub....

Let’s face it. We, the non-engineering background people, usually see the world of codes with fearful reverence. Nonetheless, we want to learn it with all our hearts (at least a few of us genuinely do). And we believe in some myths like, “You need to be super-good at maths to be a programmer,” etc. Now I’m a business grad. And I have been in this phase. But thankfully, I have been working in a software company for a few years now....