GeekHaven IIIT Allahabad

Greetings Developers,

We cordially invite you all to the first in-person technical orientation of GeekHaven after eons of virtual workshops and seminars. This workshop will cover the development culture of GeekHaven society across its entire breadth, depth, and height. But wait there's more! We are also inviting notable speakers from the most trending FinTech, CRED to testify on our behalf about the importance of real-world development in the current technical environment.

The workshop will be conducted on the 7th of August at 3:00 P.M. in the college auditorium. You are all expected to join us in the auditorium, along with your best buddies, your personal laptops. Needless to say, there'll be a plethora of goodies and stuff waiting for you at the workshop. See you soon!

Regards,
GeekHaven Team

Who knew the mobile app for the e-commerce king Amazon had equally greater flaws in its design. Its interface violates so many of the ux laws!

Wanna know how? In this Behance presentation, Kartik, a design enthusiast, has highlighted these shortcomings in the Amazon mobile app.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/144716823/Killing-UX-Laws-ft-Amazon-App

Hundreds of multi-billionaire companies are pouring their billions into Web 3.0. Companies are re-branding to have some stake in this new “metaverse”.

In this blog, Manav, a design enthusiast, has discussed what does this trend means for the user experience and the design of Web 3.0 and Blockchain.

https://medium.com/nybles/designing-ux-for-web-3-0-89cd567d89c5

Data Integration procedures are a way to love data in order to make it survive. These procedures involve many things, like cleansing, ETL/ELT mapping, and transformation.

Intrigued? In this blog, Tejas has discussed about ETL and ELT, comparing both of them and discussing their specific use cases.

https://medium.com/nybles/big-data-integration-procedures-367fcf146f36

Log4Shell is a critical vulnerability that is affecting a java logging package Log4j. It results in Remote Code Ex*****on (RCE), by logging a certain string and was identified on December 9th, 2021.

Wanna know more? In this blog, Srujana has explained this vulnerability, and how it affected a significant amount of software including that of Apache, Apple, Mine-craft and many more!

https://medium.com/nybles/log4shell-an-overview-330270454b73

Historically, there has been a clear distinction in the perception and responsibilities between front-end and back-end development. But as programming evolves, the factors that distinguished the two are blurring together.

In this blog, Diya has explored why the gap between the two is narrowing and whether this will lead to confusion or cohesion in the future of web development.

https://medium.com/nybles/the-blurring-lines-between-front-end-and-back-end-development-842fd380bdda

Greetings Developers,
MoE's Innovation Cell , in coordination with the All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE), has launched Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2022 during the National Innovation Week held under Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.

If you are one of those who is interested in solving some of the pressing problems that we face in our daily lives, then this is an amazing opportunity for you. So, gather up your friends, sharpen up your minds, enhance your skills and submit your projects by 28th March 2022.

The link to register for the SIH'22 and submit your project for the same can be found at https://linktr.ee/geekhaven.

Innovation Council, IIITA

Ever thought about building apps for Windows? If you are a Flutter Developer, then you are in luck. With Flutter 2.10 and a single code-base, you can now build Windows apps, that also run on mobile and web.

In this blog, Lalit has covered how we can create a native Windows UI using the Fluent UI package, and much more.

https://medium.com/nybles/working-with-fluent-ui-to-create-native-like-windows-app-a8e191828c2a

If you are a Flutter Developer, and if you want to know more about state management in Flutter, then we have the perfect blog for you.

In this blog, Gautam has explained what is state in Flutter, how the Provider package can be used to manage the same, and much more.

https://medium.com/nybles/state-management-in-flutter-using-provider-package-35ebb4478715

The Blockchain enthusiasts of GeekHaven bring to you the sixth contest in the Aparoksha Month, BlockQuest!

Go through the problem statement, and design a decentralized solution for the problem using the power of Smart Contracts and Ethereum to climb up the leaderboard in this 36-hours long contest to bag exciting goodies and prizes worth 4k!

The contest will start on 4th March, 11:59 AM, and will continue till 5th March, 11:59 PM. Until then, hone those blockchain skills, brush up on your concepts and prepare for BlockQuest!

CodeGuerra 2.0 is a competitive coding contest organized by GeekHaven, the technical club of the Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, exclusively for IIIT-A students.

It will be conducted on Hacker Earth on 6th March 2022 at 8 PM. Until then, sharpen your programming skills and DSA concepts. You will soon receive the registration link via the mail and the Discord Server.

The AI wing of geekhaven brings to you the fifth contest in the Aparoksha Month, Artificivio!

Go through the dataset, apply your python skills, figure out a way to make the dataset ready for model training, along with some data visualization, and take a leap on the leaderboard in this 24-hours long contest to bag exciting goodies and prizes worth 4k!

The contest will start at 00:00 AM and will continue till 11:59PM on 28th feb. Until then, sharpen your python skills and ML concepts.