Software Development - Abdallah Yashir Blog

Learning new technologies is a lot like learning to drive a car. Here's why.

Are you struggling to learn new tools and technologies as a developer? For years, I had the same experience. Shifting from one project to another, I felt like an absolute rookie, devoid of confidence while my friends who continue working on the same technology and project soon grew to be

Software Development

Insights & Code Snippets from my latest Sprint ft. CSS, Writing Better & More

Working with CSS. Some tips for improving your writing. How to code faster? My experience with Jetbrains Fleet. Another Selenium error. #coding #programming #writing #debugging #fleet #jetbrains #jetbrainsfleet

Programming

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

Problem Solving

The art of debugging

What does nobody tell you about debugging as a beginner?

Software Development

How to set up a Java Project built in an earlier JDK version?

This is how you can setup your Java project when it was built in an earlier version.

Software Development

This is how I’m trying to build a Pictionary Game helper with Python.

How to build a Pictionary Game Helper with Python (and Flask)?

Software Development

How to start learning to code today?

IntroductionSoftware is eating the world. Companies having only brick and mortar models are being forced to downsize or literally go out of business. The demand for Developers is ever-growing even throughout the Covid Pandemic. If you're a student, recruiter, HR officer, or in any other domains but want to break

Automation

How to create and delete a folder in Python using Pathlib?

This is how I use pathlib to create and delete folders efficiently in Python.

Software Development

How I'm coding a Python project for importing my articles from Ghost to Hashnode

The technical part.

Automation

Lessons learnt from my latest side project

This is how I'm coding a script to import my blog posts from Ghost to Hashnode.

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.

Project Management

My experience using Pair Programming to onboard new team members

What is Pair Programming? Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer or navigator, reviews each line of code as it is typed in. The two programmers switch roles frequently. [1]

Automation

My experience with BDD & Specflow

Using Specflow to follow the BDD process can be fun. In this post, I share my experience.

Automation

Using BDD in your next E2E automation project?

What is BDD? Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is a process that encourages collaboration among developers, quality assurance testers, and customer representatives in a software project. A brief history of BDD BDD was developed after the limitations with the Test Driven Development (TDD) process. The latter is too technical mostly focused

Software Development

What is the easiest way to manage a user's password?

Easiest way to manage user password in a Web App. ScenarioI'm helping in an internal project for a Web Application developed in Angular and C#. Right now, the admin can create a new user and enter a password himself or herself. In my opinion this is not secure enough nor

Automation

How I solve the Retry attribute using MSTest?

I'm working back and forth on a Web Automation project using Selenium and .Net Core. Test Automation nowadays is standard for Corporate Software with millions of users. Retry AttributePreviously, NUnit was used as the testing framework. An attribute I find interesting especially when tests fail for no evident reasons or

Automation

My Development Snippets this Week

Slow StartThe week started slow for me as I was super busy during the weekend. I felt tired on Monday. I didn't take a sick leave though as working from home, I could wake up later than usual and planned regular breaks during the day. In this way, I could

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,

Automation

When debugging, instead of adding more, why not try removing?

Imagine working on a code or configuration following the official documentation to the letter. Yet you keep getting errors. After hours of trials, you can no longer fathom what is wrong. Instead of adding more, why not try removing?Existing configurations, libraries, or even codes might be interfering with what

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

This is why you should abstract external libraries into your own classes and methods

In this post, I'm sharing my opinion on why you should abstract your third party libraries or any even native ones, into separate classes and methods, instead of using calling them directly. The best benefit is that it's easier to change your codes later on. So first let me describe

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.

Automation

Here is one thing you can do to improve your project readability today

Sometimes adding comments in your code base is inevitable especially when involving long processes. Ideally, it's best to structure your classes, methods and variables names to be as descriptive as possible. But this might not always be straightforward. Working on such types of projects, here's what I found. Replacing the