Productivity - Abdallah Yashir Blog

Tips on how to better test your feature and on working on a new project!

When you're working on a new feature in a new project or a legacy one, here are some tips to help you. #csharp #dotnet #angular #rubyonrails #testing #writing

Productivity

Don’t Even Think about Getting a maximum of sleep Without Reading This!

You Can Laugh at Sleepless Worries—If You Follow This Simple Plan - Imagine Sleeping Well in Just 30 Minutes

Programming

Here's what PRO C# developers do to become super productive and avoid unnecessarily debugging codes

My top 10 C# snippets that I use in every project

Automation

How to Automate user configurations using codes

How to save hours daily by optimising and automating manual processes?

Learning computer technologies with good ☕️

Automation

Installing Appium Inspector on Windows 10

How to install Appium Inspector on Windows 10?

Learning

Here are 5 things I’ve learned from the book Limitless as a Senior Software Developer

To learn or not to learn - here are 5 things you can learn from the best selling book Limitless

Automation

How I try to automate a repetitive task of extracting a token from a string

This is how I try automating boring and/or repetitive tasks with Python.

Productivity

This is how I'm trying to improve my productivity using Mindful or Blocking tools

In this modern age and time, are you still struggling with productivity because of social media?

Productivity

Using Dribbble and StackBlitz to improve your frontend skills

This is how you can quickly and easily practice your front-end development skills or even build web apps.

Productivity

On a week of holiday

In this post, I share the latest bits in my life as a software developer. I've been on holiday for the past few days.

Productivity

My Top 5 tips for writing good technical documentation

As a Software Developer working on different types of projects, I tend to forget what I previously did. I even sometimes forget the tasks I've worked before in the same project. This is where logging down the essential information help. Having a document even roughly drafted, makes it much easier,

Software Development

Here are some tips on improving your development skills

I believe that mastering tools are a better investment than mastering a particular domain. To become an expert in something takes years of experience. Even if it's a good goal to have, you can automate certain parts of the process using relevant tools. The best example is using an IDE

Software Development

5 things I've learned shifting from NodeJS to Java

Background storyI've been working mostly as a JavaScript We developer for the past 5 years or so. I consider myself a software developer rather stick with one particular subdomain such as ERP or DBA. I have a background in Sage and Oracle ERP, Salesforce, some Hybrid Mobile Development but also

Productivity

How can Strong Type programming languages be more productive?

Consider this example on an iOS App Automation project using Appium: In the line of code below, we have a type AttachmentType: AddAttachmentiOS(AttachmentType attachmentType, PhotoType type) { Working with Ruby and JavaScript, in this case, to know exactly what data to pass, I need to jog back to different methods.

Problem Solving

How making wrong assumptions when debugging can highly decrease your productive time?

As primarily a Web Developer working mostly on JavaScript technologies throughout my career, I'm coding in Java after a long time working on App Automation using Appium. So when writing tests, any time a behaviour is repeated, I use a relevant data structure, a for loop and assert the expected

Software Development

What are my favourite functionalities in a Code Editor or IDE?

Nowadays I’m using Visual Studio Code as my main editor because my Jetbrains’ license has expired. Since I’m involved with mostly Front End Code Development, VSCode is enough for me as I‌ have extensions that makes me more productive. Most of them are defaults in WebStorm. Automatic Copy

Productivity

Why using a second screen or a big screen boosts productivity for developers?

Since the curfew announced this year, until last week, I work solely on my laptop screen. I’ve previously worked on 13 inches laptop. Now I’m now using 16 inches one. I don’t see a significant improvement even when working on multiple projects. Maybe that can help when

Writing

Why I try to improve my typing speed as a programmer?

The general benefits of being able to type fast are: save time which might seem trivial but over long stretch of time, this becomes significantbecome more productive which then enables you to have time to do things you are more interested in doingimprove your focus as you don't need to

Productivity

How you can use gitignore.io to generate files to be ignored by git

For the moment, I am working on automation in different projects based on C# and Java. Compiled LanguagesWhen you build the projects for testing, a lot of files are created as they are compiled languages. They not directly important in the code repository and can safely be ignored. We usually

Productivity

How I use CodePen for working on small Proof Of Concepts

What is CodePen? CodePen is an online community for testing and showcasing user-created HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets. It functions as an online code editor and open-source learning environment, where developers can create code snippets, called "pens," and test them. -[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePen]CodePen is

Productivity

How do you tackle a new task on a technology you've never worked before?

There are three ways to attack the problem: you jump right into the codes and learn along while you try to come to a solution (trial and error)you learn a bit about the technologies used in written or video tutorials for a few hours before starting the task (courses)

Software Development

Throw Away the first solution

I've actually written about this topic before - but I think it's important especially when considering quality. Often times the first solution we code is not the best one. It might do the job but you've most probably coded it while focusing on the steps to arrive to a solution

Productivity

What is my latest lesson learn when working remote as a programmer?

Among several challenges when working Remote are: not in the same physical locationtimezone differencelanguage barrieradditional communication overheadIt's much easier and time effective when another developer is just besides you to guide you on a work process. He or she can directly point on your screen to explain things. And if

Writing

This is why I use DeepL instead of Google Translate

When working remote, especially with an organisation that uses a different language - Google Translate is an excellent tool for translating from one language to another. I always find it useful when writing official documents such as emails or memos. My usual workflow is: read something on an emailcan't really

Software Development

This is how I try to be productive on a technology or skill that I've not been working with for a long time.

After several months, I am back implementing HTML components, entailing coding CSS elements as well. To be honest, even though I master the subject, I've forgotten the advanced tips and tricks. But as a Software Developer, we often find ourselves in this situation, especially when changing teams, projects and/or