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I am Abdul-Baqi


A drop from every ocean

I am Abdul-Baqi


A drop from every ocean

First Steps in Angular

A basic table styling app in angular

Posted on January 1, 2018

Here I am going to describe steps towards creating a simple angular 5 app. The app displays a table of contents of the Quran and allows to filter this table based on Makki or Madani surah by clicking on respective buttons. Try the app here. [Read More]
Tags: angular  javascript  technology  web 

Passport to User Authentication in Express

A minimalist app to authenticate users

Posted on December 19, 2017

In a previous post, I took you into a deep dive to create a RESTful nodejs express app. One component which was missing is the user authentication function. In this post, I would like to build a minimalist app for user authentication sitting on the shoulder of some ready-made express... [Read More]
Tags: nodejs  express  mongodb  authentication  security  technology  web 

A RESTful NodeJs App

A minimalist app to track mosques around the world

Posted on December 18, 2017

Node.js is a backend javascript engine. Express is a lightweight web framework that sits on top of Nodejs. In this post, I am going to go build a RESTful app talking steps at a time. Down the road, I will use Semantic-UI as a CSS alternative to Bootstrap. I am... [Read More]
Tags: nodejs  express  mongodb  mosques  technology  web 

O Jerusalem

Assorted thoughts on history and religion of this city

Posted on December 8, 2017

Jerusalem has been the center of world affairs since antiquity. By default, at any time in history, this city remained under the rule of the righteous people. However, there were short times when unlawful people ruled this town. Soon rightful owners would rage historical battles to reclaim this beautiful city,... [Read More]
Tags: Jerusalem  Israel  Zionism  Palestine  history 

Web Scraping with UN SDG site

Posted on November 26, 2017

In this post, I will take you through a web scraping journey. I will scrape UN SDG database and produce csv file. [Read More]
Tags: python  web-scraping  technology  data 

Flask: Form, Ajax and SQLAlchemy

Posted on November 26, 2017

In this post I will demonstrate how to integrate database into Flask. I will build a small form containing text input. This input is dynamically populated through `ajax` when you start typing things. The data that ajax populates is coming from postgresql database. [Read More]
Tags: flask  sqlalchemy  ajax  javascript  technology  web 

Civilization : Human, Agriculture, Water and Fire

How Quran draws a roadmap of human civilization

Posted on November 22, 2017

Civilization started on the earth with the start of first man, or rather the first family. In a world void of Allah, it is very difficult to imagine the first human family coming to existence by itself [Read More]
Tags: civilization  quran  human  water  fire  irritation 

The Illusion of Banks

parable of the finanical markets on a desert island

Posted on October 31, 2017

It was a very interesting read when Mervyn King in his book The End of Alchemy simplified our modern financial crisis via this parable. Enjoy the reading! [Read More]
Tags: finance  banks  money  derivatives 

2017 Internationl Conference on Sustainable Development Goals Statistics

Posted on October 30, 2017

I attended this conference which was organized by the Philippine Statistics Authority in Manila from October 4 - 6, 2017 and is co-organized by United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). It was a lively three days of interesting sessions and presentations, majority of which are available in the conference website. I... [Read More]
Tags: sdg  Philippine  statistics  conference 

Visualizing trend lines

With IMF and EIU data

Posted on October 19, 2017

I have created this visualization showing certain macro-economic indicators in Islamic Development Bank’s 57 member states. The data are drawn from IMF and Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) dataset. This post stands as a documentation for creating such visualizations. I confess that the documentation in this post is kept at a... [Read More]
Tags: visualization  javascript  chartjs  python  IDB  technology  data 
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