Fareez Ahamed

Couple of months back, I was invited to give a talk to the Cybersecurity students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai by my professor Dr. Read more...

React is usually praised for component composition over other frameworks. But in reality Angular’s composability is hard to beat. The main reason is Directives. Read more...

It is a common expectation for dashboards to have draggable widgets. In this article, we are going to see how we can make a draggable layout without using any libraries. Read more...

useImperativeHandle hook is an unusual hook in React, to an extent that it is discouraged to use in the React’s official documentation. Read more...

Imagine, you are having a component which is making a REST API call when it is mounted, to fetch data and display it. Read more...

When I was reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, I came across the following line. Real artists sign their work - Steve Jobs Read more...

Discriminated Union / Sum Type is one of the common features found amoung strong typed functional languages like F#, Haskell etc. Read more...

Imagine you are having a tree structured object as shown below and you would like to traverse through each node and print it’s name. Read more...

Thanks to Angular team for making it so easy to integrate Tailwind with Angular 12 and above to a point that I really thought if I should write a post for it. Read more...

Languages that came after Java, had great influence of it irrespective of static-typed or dynamic—especially the Object-Oriented features. Interfaces, popularized by Java was taken straight into other languages like C# and even dynamically typed languages like PHP! Read more...

For a long time, I was holding myself from trying out Svelte.js just for the reason that I don’t want to wrap my head around one more framework after React, Angular & Vue. Read more...

I was playing around with Svelte.js recently and was curious to know how easy it would be to build a Tree component using it. Read more...

Go 1.16 has come out with a feature which I waited for quite some time. With Embed we will be able to add static files into the go binary at build time. Read more...

Imagine you have a server and you are loading some configuration for executing some business logic. You don’t want to load all the configuration when the server is launched since it will take a lot of time for it to be ready for handling requests. Read more...

It is a common practice to store different user types in different database tables. For example, in most applications you will have an Admin user and a normal user. Read more...

Sometimes we would like to postpone loading data in a component till it is actually visible in the viewport. This is handy in applications where we have lots of tables with data that should be loaded only when we scroll down. Read more...

Displaying parts of view based on conditions is super easy in Blade using @if ... @endif conditions. Imagine we are storing the role information as a string in the User model under the role field. Read more...

Why should we make our own Autocomplete component when there is plenty of existing components out there? For simple use cases, yes that serves enough. Read more...

ALV Tables are most preferred way to display when you have large amount of data to be displayed in tabular format due its flexibility and numerous features. Read more...

Pagination is one of the basic component we will need with any application. Let’s create a pagination component using Bootstrap and Vue. Read more...

This being my first SAP TechEd, my experiences are countless and still I’ll try to summarize some of the things I felt. Read more...

Let’s explore Vue.js further by creating a Countdown timer component which will be very useful for people to quickly put a Countdown page for the products or events website. Read more...

Note: This article is using Vue.js 1.0. If you are planning to use Vue.js 2, go to this article From the days of jQuery, I have been pulling in different plugins everytime I wanted to create an Autocomplete input. Read more...

Bootstrap has become one of the basic tools to start web development. Though I’m using it for quite some time, I don’t dare to change the original look and feel due to the fear that I may mess up with the project and or spend too much time on designing. Read more...

Laravel 5 ships with Bootstrap 3 by default, but it uses Less and not Sass. Personally I prefer Sass over Less and this article helps you set up Bootstrap Sass using Bower and Laravel Elixir. Read more...

Reports which has the capability to drill down to multiple levels are of good use. It serves as a simple overview as well as more detailed report when you want to look into a particular record in detail. Read more...

SAP provides many ways to accomplish a task, creating an ALV Grid is no different. Though there are simple Function Modules available to create an ALV grid, Object Oriented methodology is more preferred due to its own advantages which are always debated in the ABAP world. Read more...

There are requirements where documents has to be uploaded and associated with business data available in the system. When we store files in tables, it will be easy to link it with other tables data. Read more...

We generate different kinds of files varying from Excel sheets to Text files based on the data available in SAP. It is very much possible to zip multiple reports within a single zip file and download the zip file from SAP. Read more...

Random Numbers are used for a variety of purposes in programming, and in this article we will see how to generate a Random Number or Random Number Sequence in ABAP Read more...

While SAP has created most of the Search Helps that we will ever need, we still face situations where a Search Help has to be shown dynamically from data that we have in the an internal table. Read more...

The time taken for an ABAP report to run is mostly spent in database queries and internal table processing. While the responsibility of database query optimization is spread across so many different levels, optimizing internal table processing remains solely the developer’s responsibility. Read more...

Sometimes certain processes has to be run at Application Server level and the results has to be used within SAP system. Read more...

There are situations when you need to run a report program and get its result list programmatically and display or process as you need. Read more...

I have had serious problems with continuously developing and deploying enhancements to web applications in CodeIgniter. The problem is that the deployment version has different set of configurations than the development version. Read more...

Windows Phone’s tile design is a haunting beauty to me. I never knew a layout of neat square boxes can impress me that much. Read more...

Most of us are good users of Sticky notes application of Windows which is quite a good tool for quick notes to remember. Read more...

Today, I got the chance to read the article Don’t Put Labels Inside Text Boxes (Unless You’re Luke W). In that article, Caroline tries to address the problem of using anything inside a text box. Read more...

Integrating two different applications in Web Dynpro ABAP is quite a challenging task. Most of the time we choose to integrate applications by making component usage of one component in another. Read more...

MongoDB is the fastest growing NoSQL database. Apart from the advantages of NoSQL technology, it’s JSON querying style, easy installation makes it more preferable. Read more...

Text symbols are one of the great and most used feature in ABAP. It is very helpful when it comes to internationalization of your application and also manages all your text at one place. Read more...

Creating customized menu for right click is always cool and creating such menu’s in Web Dynpro ABAP is quite easy. In this article we are going to see creating context menu for a TextEdit UI element which has to be filled with the text ‘Hello World’ on clicking an action in the menu. Read more...

Whenever we want to create a Table UI dynamically, we go to CREATE_TABLE_FROM_NODE method of CL_WD_DYNAMIC_TOOLS (see here. However in some cases we want the Table to be very much customized. Read more...

Many a time you come across a situation of creating a Table UI dynamically. Especially, when you want to create Table UI based on certain conditions which will be known only during the run time. Read more...

Few days ago I saw a link bearing the title ‘Monalisa using CSS3’ repeatedly in Facebook and Twitter. When I checked it out, I was totally impressed. Read more...

Google Maps integration with Web Dynpro ABAP is one of the most sought out thing. There are a lot of possible ways to this. Read more...

SAP Web Dynpro ABAP is an excellent tool to create huge data related applications easily and efficiently. However most of the time we create applications that has predefined screen design. Read more...

Few days back I wrote the blog Star Rating Display Component which can be used to show the average rating of an item. Read more...

Most of the time ratings are expressed in terms of stars, which is more appealing and easy to interpret. I came across a similar situation and I developed a reusable component to show star rating. Read more...

On May 9, 2012 the headlines were ‘58000+ Twitter username and passwords are leaked’. Twitter is one the most used social networks with 140 million active users. Read more...

From the early days I’m very much bothered about storing passwords in my application. After studying some cryptographic techniques I got some idea and I have been following them since then. Read more...

Twitter is the social network used very widely for promoting products, films, etc. It is loved by companies especially for marketing. Read more...

Internet seems to be the best innovation from human race. The architecture of the internet remains the same for decades, but the application and use of internet has got an unimaginable growth. Read more...

Web Dynpro has been provided with lots of tools to make the development easier. When we want to create applications in which UI elements has to be created dynamically and processed dynamically, we have to go a little deeper i. Read more...

Object Oriented Programming has been a boon to the programmers without which development of huge systems is almost impossible. ABAP is no exception to that which is why Object Oriented Programming was added to ABAP. Read more...

Timer is a very essential UI element in many applications and creating a timer in Web Dynpro ABAP seems to be a little critical task in the versions prior to NetWeaver 7. Read more...

Necessity is the mother of invention. Computer languages are not an exception to this rule. However, there are as many as 1600 different computer languages as they say. Read more...

As we have seen before, the power of bitwise operators are immense. Sometimes thinking in terms of arithmetical operators cost you lots of CPU time when compared to bitwise operators. Read more...

Most of us use numerous services available on the net such as mails, social networking services, and blogs. So it is obvious to have the question “Can a database administrator working on Facebook can get the password of my Facebook account if he wishes? Read more...

Twitter has been famous from two or three years ago. I had not had much idea about it till two weeks back. Read more...

When I started this blog, I wanted to write only about computer science but I really think that I have to express something that has been inside me for long and I think it’s the right time for that. Read more...

“There are 10 kind of people, One who knows Binary and the other who doesn’t.” In the earlier days when electronic computers was first built, inputs were given in binary using tapes and outputs were also obtained as binary. Read more...

I suddenly got an example that may help you remember the characteristics of AND, OR, NOT and XOR. Consider them as four different human individuals, with four different characteristics or behavior. Read more...

‘Bitwise operators’, as the name says they are indeed wise enough to do anything that a computer can do. In computer architecture, we would have studied how these ANDs, ORs and SHIFTs are used to do any mathematical operation. Read more...

First of all, I introduce myself to my fellow readers. I’m Fareez Ahamed, a person who was impressed by computers from when I was studying fifth standard (well children now are introduced to computers more early now-a-days than those days). Read more...