Shaumik is a data analyst by day, and a comic book enthusiast by night (or maybe, he's Batman?) Shaumik has been writing tutorials and creating screencasts for over five years. When not working, he's busy automating mundane daily tasks through meticulously written scripts!
Shaumik's articles
Shaumik takes a look at how to get ahead in Google's annual Summer of Code event.
If a large portion of your users are Chinese then you must ensure that you understand the search engine they'll be using — Baidu. Shaumik Daityari explores.
Shaumik Daityari looks back at his years in web development and picks some tips his younger self would've benefitted from knowing earlier.
In this tutorial we show you how to let users easily add user generated content in WordPress. We'll cover the built-in features as well as a popular plugin.
Shaumik Daityari takes a look at the emerging trend of ChatOps, and looks at how VictorOps can take your chat app's development powers even further.
Having provided us with the top 5 tools for naming your startup, Shaumik shares some tips on naming your brand.
There are many ways of scaling your website. In this article we focus on database tweaks and optimizations that can improve WordPress performance.
Slack is an increasingly popular collaboration tool for startups and larger organizations. Shaumik Daityari explans how to make it even more useful.
Shaumik Daityari explains how to write unit test to automate the process of debugging a codebase in Git.
With the right set of commands, the terminal can definitely get things done faster. Shaumik Daityari shares 10 of the most useful, time-saving terminal tips
Naming your startup is important, but it's tough to come up with ideas that aren't taken. These tools can help spark your creativity.
Shaumik Daityari has all the advice you'll need to make the most of your next brainwave, boiled down to a 10-step plan.
Shaumik Daityari explains how you can build a simple API interface for your legacy application with the Toro router class
This article explores the WordPress database and how things work in the background. It will also help you gain an understanding of the database structure.
There's no shortage of new things to learn in the web development world. Shaumik Daityari presents some of the best skills you can learn in a weekend
Shaumik shows us, step by step, how to debug a code problem using git blame and git bisect.
Shaumik Daityari takes a look at Kimono, an app backed by Y Combinator which aims to help users create an API for any website they like.
Shaumik looks at how you can host your Ghost blog for free on GitHub Pages, with little overhead, using Buster, a static site generator.
What makes Sublime Text even better is its extensibility. So, here’s a look at the plugins that make an already wonderful editor truly Sublime.
From operating system to web browser to version control software, Shaumik Daityari explains how he sets up a new machine for development.
Shaumik describes 15 unix terminal commands that you may never have used before or even heard of.
Shaumik looks at ways to use .htaccess directives to prevent bots from scraping your content, and how these methods might be combated by the scrapers.
Scrolljacking has become something of a design trend of 2014, but is it breaking the web? Shaumik looks at the accessibility implications of scrolljacking.
Shaumik covers 10 Git techniques that will help you take your Git knowledge and skills to a more advanced level, improving your workflow.
Shaumik provides an overview of the new features added in the much-anticipated Git 2.0, the latest major release of the popular source control software.
In this article, Shaumik Daityari interviews Mark Dalgleish on MelbJS and his love for JavaScript.
Sometimes you aren't looking for a full-features accounting package. Shaumik walks us through five tools that can deliver simple, attractive invoices.
After learning simple git features, this tutorial will get you up to speed with the more advanced features, allowing you to work with Git on a team.
An introduction to version control with Git, for developers who work alone.
We use Facebook's Graph API to help us with a Facebook contest and mass-responding to tons of birthday wishes made on your Facebook timeline.