About OTC CatchUp

Note OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!.
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OTC CatchUp #82

Date: 04-06-2022

Duration: 5 hrs 7 mins

Topics Discussed

  • We talked about GitHub Field Day India and where everyone was going to attend it and about accommodation.

  • Siddharth Bhatia told everyone about Thonny which is a Python IDE for beginners following which we discussed about various text editors and IDEs available out there.

  • We talked about Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab.

  • Nilesh Shinde shared a blog by - Jovian about Machine Learning.

  • Then we talked about key bindings.

  • Dhiraj Chauhan told everyone about his GSoC organization - 52 North.

  • We talked about API Keys and how to keep them secure. Ideally, Key Authentication must be handled using a Middleware and not to be hardcoded on the client side.

    • However, if the situation is such that the keys need to be stored on the client side, then specific rules must specified so that they have limited capabilities.

  • Anil Harwani shared a resource about hard core obfuscation.

  • Siddharth Kaduskar asked for everyone’s suggestions on how to explore tech in various domains.

    • Harsh Kapadia's Web-dev path can be used as a reference when exploring web development.

  • Dheeraj Lalwani asked everyone about where to publish tech blogs and Harsh Kapadia suggested to use canonical links.

    • Here’s an article explaining why canonical links are important.

  • We talked about how OTC came into existence.

  • We had a discussion about Data Structures and Algorithms and how problem solving is different from competitive programming.

  • We also talked about time and space complexity.

  • Lastly we spoke about Apache Airflow and CRON Jobs

Projects Showcased

Attendees

  1. Dheeraj Lalwani

  2. Harsh Kapadia

  3. Aniket Chavan

  4. Anil Harwani

  5. Ashwin Kumar Uppala

  6. Hardik Raheja

  7. Harsh Shah

  8. Himanshu Sharma

  9. Jay Kaku

  10. Nilesh Shinde

  11. Pratik Thakare

  12. Pranav Dani

  13. Ramyak Mehra

  14. Saifuddin Saifee

  15. Siddharth Bhatia

  16. Vedant Jumle

  17. Viranchee Lotia

  18. Dhiraj Chauhan

  19. Ishwar Gowda

  20. Jaden Furtado

  21. Siddharth Kaduskar

  22. Saarthak Kumar

  23. Hiten Gerella

  24. Ayan Gupta

  25. Gaurav Ghade

  26. Karan Pashte

  27. Manav Bahl

  28. Mayur S

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