Ali Sherief articles - 103 total
Formatting HTML and CSS For Beginners
Well, I see it's been a long time since I last posted here. A lot of interesting stuff have happened...
Electron vs. The Native Windows Frameworks
Electron is starting to be used in many different popular applications, such as VSCode and WhatsApp,...
Google Chrome Media History: How Does It Work?
The first thing you're probably wondering after reading the article title is, "What is Media...
MSYS2 Build Processes Driving You Crazy?
At work, I have the task of making builds for a particular cryptocurrency wallet for multiple...
The 4 Parts Of The WebUI: View Google Chrome’s Code
This is the first of a series of posts that will dive deep inside Google Chrome's codebase and...
What's all this fuss about spying with light bulbs?
At first, hearing this might sound ridiculous. How could a hacker possibly monitor your activity...
Pro Tips For Designing Robust React Components Part II: Bundle Size
A few weeks ago, I shared some tips for improving React app performance. Let's see how another metric...
Musings about Database Indexes
And not "Indicies"; I just took the Triplebyte backend developer test last night, and this was on the...
Who's responsible for securing software?
A Venify report showed that the number of companies where DevOps is responsible for the security and...
Pro Tips For Designing Robust React Components
As you already know, React components are written as functions these days, not classes. Among other...
Using Babel to write cross-browser modern ECMAScript
This is going to be a short write-up to demonstrate how Babel can make your modern JS more...
Using Cloud9 to Publish AWS Lambda Functions
I like AWS Cloud9. It's a conveniently available IDE that doesn't take too long to start, doesn't...
Yet Another Array Of Design Patterns
It is surely becoming a habit of me to write about design patterns the last few weeks, and I...
Singleton, Command, Factory, and Decorator Patterns Explained
In a previous article published on CodeX, I wrote about the Proxy, Flyweight, and Strategy design...
Design Patterns Cheat Sheet
No matter which programming language you are proficient in, it is always important that you know a...
Keras vs. TensorFlow
What are the differences between the two? Now that we have seen an introduction of Keras, let us loo...
How to get C++ autocomplete suggestions in VScode
VScode is a terrific code editor. It has everything a developer could ask for — Git integration, synt...
Training Neural Networks With Keras
What is Keras, and why is it useful? Keras is a deep learning framework for Python for bui...
Neural Network Basics: Weighting Functions
Neural networks are a hot topic in the technology industry today and that is partially because it mak...
The Ultimate Guide To Look Like An Elite Developer
This is how you stand out over your peers. You are probably reading this because you have an upcomin...
Algorithmic Complexity Basics
It's not just the running time; it's the space usage too. We see algorithms used in pretty much eve...
Supercharge your Python programming with these tricks
Have you ever felt that you are not coding Python as productive as you want to be? Have you ever fou...
The Simple Golang Tutorial Part 3: Functions
This week it's going to be all about functions as we dive deep into Golang’s semantics to enable you...
The Simple Golang Tutorial Part 2 - Variables, Types, and Operators
Welcome back to the Golang series. Let's try to get a good understanding of how to declare and use va...
The Simple Golang Tutorial: Modules and Basic Syntax
If you've been following my other articles for the last few weeks, you will notice I was mostly writi...
Linux Performance Monitoring
This week we're going to look at some tools that report various CPU, memory, and disk metrics on Linu...
Troubleshooting: General Steps
Hello and welcome back to the DevOps series. This week I will talk about best practices for troublesh...
Infrastructure as Code
One of the objectives of shifting to a DevOps work methodology is to automate the provisioning of inf...
A DevOps Primer: Culture
From time to time, you will hear the following two words mentioned together: tools and culture. And t...
My Top 10 DevOps Metrics
Hello and welcome back to the DevOps series. This week I'm going to talk about metrics. Whether for m...