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When to use processes in Elixir - Part 2: Running concurrent tasks

There is no doubt that processes take a center seat in Elixir development. All the code we write runs in a process. In the previous…

4 min readMay 22, 2017

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When to use processes in Elixir - Part 1: Storing state

I have had a question roaming through my head about what are the reasons to wrap your logic in processes when programming in Elixir. After…

4 min readApr 24, 2017

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Omar Abdelhafith
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iOS App Development

Categories in static libraries

If you are planning to distribute your library as a static lib, you might have come across the issue with using categories in libraries. I…

4 min readDec 15, 2015

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Omar Abdelhafith

Swiftline: elegant command line handling

Writing command line scripts is something I enjoy. I think that their textual elegance gets me hooked every time.

2 min readNov 17, 2015

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iOS App Development

Types and meta types in swift

Knowing the types and meta-types in swift is not as important as in Objc. Where in objective c, you can instantiate an object out of a…

5 min readNov 9, 2015

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Omar Abdelhafith

README.md: History and Components

So you finished writing your amazing opensource project, you are ready to publish it and make it public … But something stops you. If you…

8 min readAug 13, 2015

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iOS App Development

Swift currying in practice

I was converting some code from Objc to Swift and I came along an interesting use of functional currying in swift. (Playground can be found…

4 min readAug 4, 2015

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iOS App Development

Xserverpy: Use Xcode bots from the CLI

Xcode bots are wonderful, they do what they are supposed to; test, analyse, archive and perform pre and post integration scripts.

2 min readJul 29, 2015

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Xserverpy: Use Xcode bots from the CLI

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Omar Abdelhafith
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iOS App Development

Swift Context manager: Implementing Python Context manager in swift

Whenever I work on python, I keep admiring all the nice construct that the language has. One construct that I always liked is the context…

4 min readJul 20, 2015

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Swift Context manager: Implementing Python Context manager in swift

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Omar Abdelhafith
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iOS App Development

Understanding cocoa and cocoa touch responder chain

Applications in cocoa and cocoa touch have an event queue associated to them, this event queue will be filled with events from multiple…

5 min readJul 18, 2015

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Omar Abdelhafith

Omar Abdelhafith

Software developer @Facebook, previously @zendesk. In ❤ with λ, Swift, Elixir and Python. Check my Github https://github.com/nsomar.

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