Ali Shabdar https://www.alishabdar.com Business and Technology. On Human Terms. Mon, 18 May 2026 00:25:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.alishabdar.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/cropped-Ali-Shabdar-32x32.jpeg Ali Shabdar https://www.alishabdar.com 32 32 The age of artisan people https://www.alishabdar.com/2026/05/19/the-age-of-artisan-people/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-age-of-artisan-people https://www.alishabdar.com/2026/05/19/the-age-of-artisan-people/#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 14:30:00 +0000 https://www.alishabdar.com/?p=5661214 For most of human civilization, bread has been made by hand using the same rudimentary methods. The 20th century gave rise, among many other things, to the industrialization of bread-making. The “sliced bread” era had begun. Another push was in the 1960s when bread-making machinery dramatically sped up the production. Today, if you go to...

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]]> https://www.alishabdar.com/2026/05/19/the-age-of-artisan-people/feed/ 0 Low-code is dead. Long live low-code. https://www.alishabdar.com/2023/04/21/low-code-is-dead-long-live-low-code/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=low-code-is-dead-long-live-low-code https://www.alishabdar.com/2023/04/21/low-code-is-dead-long-live-low-code/#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.alishabdar.com/?p=5661134 The growing relevance of Low-code & No-code platforms in the Wild Wild West of AI Low-code/no-code (LCNC) platforms have become one of the hottest topics in enterprise technology. The ability to write little to no code opens up possibilities for businesses to build software and automate processes like never before. With LCNC, the speed of...

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]]> https://www.alishabdar.com/2023/04/21/low-code-is-dead-long-live-low-code/feed/ 0 A simple but useful program written almost entirely by Chat-GPT https://www.alishabdar.com/2023/04/15/a-simple-but-useful-program-written-almost-entirely-by-chat-gpt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-simple-but-useful-program-written-almost-entirely-by-chat-gpt https://www.alishabdar.com/2023/04/15/a-simple-but-useful-program-written-almost-entirely-by-chat-gpt/#respond Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.alishabdar.com/?p=5661130 The disruption of low code/no code is coming. Soon. For a long time, I wanted to digitize my heap of business cards and pretty much all the free and paid apps I tried out were a disappointment in one way or another. Digitally connecting with each other via LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and other apps has picked...

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]]> https://www.alishabdar.com/2023/04/15/a-simple-but-useful-program-written-almost-entirely-by-chat-gpt/feed/ 0 Now What? Turning the tables for your business in the dawn of crisis https://www.alishabdar.com/2020/05/07/now-what-turning-the-tables-for-your-business-in-the-dawn-of-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=now-what-turning-the-tables-for-your-business-in-the-dawn-of-crisis https://www.alishabdar.com/2020/05/07/now-what-turning-the-tables-for-your-business-in-the-dawn-of-crisis/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.alishabdar.com/?p=5661104 “We must get it into our heads that our lives have changed.” Dr. Francesco Menchise, Anesthesiologist(on the cover of the Time Magazine, April 2020) We are living through a painful and disruptive period in our lives. For the majority of us, this is the first threat of this magnitude. Not only does it threaten the...

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]]> https://www.alishabdar.com/2020/05/07/now-what-turning-the-tables-for-your-business-in-the-dawn-of-crisis/feed/ 0 Will Google Mine Meet? https://www.alishabdar.com/2020/04/30/will-google-mine-meet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-google-mine-meet https://www.alishabdar.com/2020/04/30/will-google-mine-meet/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.alishabdar.com/?p=5661095 With Google Meet taking on Zoom by adding a host of cool features and also becoming free for all, thousands of meetings will flock from Zoom and other providers to this new sensation in the webinar world. Given the questionable track record of Google mining our personal and private data, with or sometimes without our...

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]]> https://www.alishabdar.com/2020/04/30/will-google-mine-meet/feed/ 0 2 ½ day workweek – Coping with Weekends in the Middle East https://www.alishabdar.com/2015/04/30/2-%c2%bd-day-workweek-coping-with-weekends-in-the-middle-east/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2-%25c2%25bd-day-workweek-coping-with-weekends-in-the-middle-east https://www.alishabdar.com/2015/04/30/2-%c2%bd-day-workweek-coping-with-weekends-in-the-middle-east/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:48:43 +0000 http://www.alishabdar.com/?p=952 The Problem As a part of my work, I’m in direct contact with accounts in Turkey and a number of countries in the Middle East. Being located in Turkey means that I “enjoy” Saturdays and Sundays as my days off, but in UAE, for example, Fridays and Saturdays are holidays. To make the matters more complicated,...

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]]> https://www.alishabdar.com/2015/04/30/2-%c2%bd-day-workweek-coping-with-weekends-in-the-middle-east/feed/ 1 Importing data from FTP server into Zoho Creator https://www.alishabdar.com/2015/04/15/importing-data-from-ftp-server-into-zoho-creator/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=importing-data-from-ftp-server-into-zoho-creator https://www.alishabdar.com/2015/04/15/importing-data-from-ftp-server-into-zoho-creator/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:24:11 +0000 http://www.alishabdar.com/?p=962 Zoho Creator has grown to be a great cloud-based app creation platform. You can build simple apps in the matter of hours or have complex solutions up and running much quicker than a from-scratch project. Manipulating data is a core capability of (Zoho) Creator . There is a rich toolset of UI elements, business logic components,...

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]]> https://www.alishabdar.com/2015/04/15/importing-data-from-ftp-server-into-zoho-creator/feed/ 6 Bulk exporting Word documents to other formats with JavaScript https://www.alishabdar.com/2013/11/24/bulk-exporting-word-documents-to-other-formats-with-javascript/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bulk-exporting-word-documents-to-other-formats-with-javascript https://www.alishabdar.com/2013/11/24/bulk-exporting-word-documents-to-other-formats-with-javascript/#respond Sun, 24 Nov 2013 08:36:08 +0000 http://www.alishabdar.com/?p=932 JavaScript is hot commodity for server and client side web development. But when it comes to command line programming it is unlikely to ditch the likes of Python and Ruby for JavaScript. I don’t have the luxury of picking my toolset at work. I’m a business consultant with no access to anything beyond the essential...

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]]> https://www.alishabdar.com/2013/11/24/bulk-exporting-word-documents-to-other-formats-with-javascript/feed/ 0 World-class Customer Service https://www.alishabdar.com/2013/11/16/world-class-customer-service/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-class-customer-service https://www.alishabdar.com/2013/11/16/world-class-customer-service/#respond Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:25:52 +0000 http://www.alishabdar.com/?p=916 In mid October 2013, Apple started recalling mid-2012 Macbook Airs, due to a SSD problem that was apparently and isolated issue to Toshiba drives only. I found out that my mid-2012 Macbook Air had a Toshiba SSD, so I booked a meeting at the Genius bar of my local Apple Store in Vancouver. The store...

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]]> https://www.alishabdar.com/2013/11/16/world-class-customer-service/feed/ 0 Renaming files in bulk with Excel https://www.alishabdar.com/2013/02/10/renaming-files-in-bulk-with-excel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=renaming-files-in-bulk-with-excel https://www.alishabdar.com/2013/02/10/renaming-files-in-bulk-with-excel/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:27:13 +0000 http://www.alishabdar.com/?p=894 So you have a bunch of files (read thousands) that you need to rename. If you deal with documents/records in the workplace and you don’t have access to fancy EDRMS, EDMS, then you most probably resort to physical files (Word, PDF, etc.) on shared drives and some in-house classification systems. In a real case scenario (where I work as a...

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