DEV Community: Muhammad Zohaib Arshad

Writing Clear Code, Not Clever Code

Muhammad Zohaib Arshad — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:04:07 +0000

In Practices of an Agile Developer, Andy Hunt and Venkat Subramaniam outline a huge list of ways to improve yourself as a software developer. While I found almost every tip in the book to be useful, I found one tip to stand out from the rest, considering it pointed out one of my particularly bad habits: “Write clear code, not clever code”.

One of my passions as a programmer is figuring out new and better ways to do the same thing. I love refactoring code and finding out what was being done in 10 lines, I could do in 3. Or as a better measure, doing something with one if else block instead of a triply nested if else statement. Usually this works out great. The code is simpler to maintain, and less complex for all involved.

However, in my endless pursuit of smaller, clearer code, I would often end up with smaller, more confusing code. In 2009, as a member of a 7 person agile team, it was very easy to measure how I was doing in this category: How often did another team member ask me what a piece of code did? Once I began looking at these problematic blocks of code, I noticed a pattern, and began to work on resolving the problem. It doesn’t matter what my particular problem was… what mattered was that I began looking for it!

Pay attention to your team members. Look into why they’re asking you about your code. Maybe there is something you do that makes perfect sense to you, but could be written clearer. Consider the next person who’s going to be looking at your code. Chances are, they’ll be happier looking at clearer code, not clever code. You’ll be happier too.

Machine Learning Business Benifits

Muhammad Zohaib Arshad — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:01:16 +0000

Machine Learning is a means to extract meaningful insights from raw(unfiltered) data to hep us in solving complex problems quickly. Machine Learning Algorithms learn from data provided to find various insights without explicitly programmed for the same. Machine Learning is evolving at a rapid rate is is being driven and integrated with new computing technologies.

Machine Learning helps in increasing the business scalability and helps in improving business operations, so AI tools and ML Algorithms have gained a tremendous boom in the Analytics Community. The boom is because of factors like growing volume and easy availability of data along with faster processing speed and affordable data storage.

Business Benifits of Machine Learning
Customer Lifetime Value Prediction
Customer ifetime Prediction and Customer Segmentation is one of the challange faced my major companies today. The data available with the companies is so huge and can be used effectively to derive business insights. ML helps in it by predicting customer behavior, purchasing pattern and offers the customer with the offers they desire.

Predictive Maintainence
Manufacturing industries use ML to discover meaningful insights and patterns hidden in the factory data which helps in reducing risks asociated with failures and to eliminate unexpected expenses.

Eliminating Manual Process
Manual data entry can result in duplicate as well as inaccurate data and the corrective maintainence is both costly and time-consuming. Using ML Algorithms, error posessed by following manual processes can be removed.

Detecting Spams
ML Algorithms are actively used in detecting spams by creating new rules using Neural-Networks to detect spams and phishing messages.

Recommendation Engine
Unsupervised learning helps in developing recommendation engines by using customer's history and matching it with the inventory to identify the hidden patterns and group similar services together and suggest tem to the customer, making them to for the services.

Medical Diagnostics
ML in medical diagnosis helps healthcare organizations in improving the patient's health and to reduce costs, using superior diagnostic tools and effective treatment plans. The predictions are drawn using patient records and data sets along with the symptoms exhibited by the patient.

Improved Security
ML is being used rapidly to increase the security of an organization by allowing new-generation providers to build newer technologies, which quickly and effectively detect unknown threats.

Deploying a WordPress Website in AWS

Muhammad Zohaib Arshad — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:57:09 +0000

Hello! If you're here to get a feel of AWS and its commonly used services, you are in the right place! This guide will get your feet wet with the basic structure of an AWS Application and will surely be an amazing experience to see your own website deployed.

For all experienced AWS users out there, I know what you might be thinking - "Here goes another WordPress guide", but hear me out!

I am creating this guide for beginners who would like to try out AWS Services and deploy their very first AWS Application. What will be the difference between my guide and the others? I will be explaining this as easy as possible, using analogies and laymen's term, so any beginner can understand and appreciate this lengthy process.

For all of you out there who are new to AWS, gear up because this will be an eye-opener of how amazing AWS can be! I will be providing cost estimates and warnings whenever we provision our resources and make sure that everyone is able to follow without worry.

Flutter vs React JS?

Muhammad Zohaib Arshad — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:25:33 +0000

Being a developer what will u choose for a better result?
Flutter or React JS.

Choose one with solid reason. 😊

About me as developer

Muhammad Zohaib Arshad — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:25:20 +0000

I have worked in many Projects especially if we talk about programming so I have worked in C++ programming Language and also use arduino to code. Some of my projects are:
. Console base Ludo
. Chess Game (Object Oriented)
. Pacman Game
. Mine Sweeper Game
. Soil Moisture Detector (using arduino)
-> and many little projects as an assignments I have done not mentioned here.