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Javed 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 :)

Main function in Python and how to use __name__ variable?

Nov 14, 20204 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...

Main function in Python and how to use __name__ variable?

How to setup alarm for CPU usage using IFTTT ?

Nov 12, 20206 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...

How to setup alarm for CPU usage using IFTTT ?

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

Nov 8, 20206 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,...

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

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

Nov 5, 20207 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...

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

How to auto change desktop wallpaper every minute using Python

Oct 30, 20208 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...

How to auto change desktop wallpaper every minute using Python

Files, Folders and Python

Oct 30, 20205 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...

Files, Folders and Python