Shaikh

Javed Shaikh

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I am a backend system engineer working for a credit card issuer. I mostly work on C/C++ and assembler programs on IBM's TPF OS. However I keep trying my hands on Python and Nodejs when offwork :)

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Main function in Python and how to use name variable?

Nov 7, 2020 4 min read

Most of the high level languages such as Java,C/C++ have special main method defined as the execution entry point. This tells interpreter where to start the execution of codes. Its like an entry point of a program. If you don't define a main method i...

How to setup alarm for CPU usage using IFTTT ?

Nov 5, 2020 6 min read

Monitoring CPU and memory usage are one of the top todo checklist for a backend engineer. Sometimes you wont even notice when your server is down due to high CPU usage unless you login and manually check the system. In this tutorial, we are going to ...

How to trigger a job or program from anywhere with a SMS

Nov 1, 2020 7 min read

Its holiday season every where and we don't want to open laptop and system all the time when travelling and enjoying our personal time. In this post, I am going to show how we can run some important jobs or programs with just one SMS when we are on t...

How to get email alert when your website is down using shell and Python?

Oct 29, 2020 7 min read

There are many ways to monitor and set alerts for your web server using third party apps but they don't come with free, be it Pingdom or Amazon's CloudWatch. In this post I am going to show how we can write and setup our own alert tool with just few...

How to auto change desktop wallpaper every minute using Python

Oct 27, 2020 10 min read

This post has been updated to include changes to support Linux operating system as well. So you can use this code to change desktop background in both linux and windows computers 🙂. In this fun tutorial we are going to download a random wallpaper f...

Files, Folders and Python

Oct 26, 2020 5 min read

In this post we are going to see how we can use Python to find the size of any file and folder. We will check how many files we have inside a folder and how many of them are empty files and how to delete those empty files. We can also check how old a...