https://ahmadmuhammad.co.za/tags/development/Recent content in Development on Ahmad MuhammadHugoen-zaSat, 05 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://ahmadmuhammad.co.za/posts/revisiting-django-and-flask/Sat, 05 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://ahmadmuhammad.co.za/posts/revisiting-django-and-flask/<p>A little over two and a half years ago, I decided to dabble in the world of Python web-apps by following the book &ldquo;Django By Example&rdquo;. Having done Python courses before, I knew my basic way around the language but I had never put together a proper application in any way, shape or form. </p> <p>Starting Django from the book was a leap for me. I had heard of Django before, I knew it was a framework that let you make web-apps, but I had no idea how any of it worked. My lack of experience with proper Python apps didn&rsquo;t help my position either. For a large chunk of the project, I was just following the book and not quite understanding what was happening.</p>https://ahmadmuhammad.co.za/posts/my-journey-to-linux/Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://ahmadmuhammad.co.za/posts/my-journey-to-linux/<p>For years, I have been a regular Windows us — who am I kidding? Let’s rephrase this as ‘I am a Windows user since birth.’</p> <p>The first OS I ever used was Windows XP (which, on a side note, is <em>precisely</em> 11 months older than me,) followed by Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Needless to say, I have zero experience when it comes to macOS or Linux.</p> <p>And to be honest, I never had even heard of Linux until 2014, when I was so fed up of Windows 8 that I Googled “free operating system”. The first line in the results was, you guessed it: Linux. I quickly Googled “Linux” and came to the website of TLF (The Linux Foundation). I was so naive back then that I thought that installing Linux was as simple as downloading a .exe and ticking a box that said wipe Windows 8. I never knew about distributions, or drive partitions, file systems, none of that. I never even knew what an ISO file is or how to open it.</p>