Gigi Sayfan - Envato Tuts+ Profile

Gigi Sayfan

Principal Software Architect at Helix

Gigi Sayfan is a principal software architect at Helix — a bioinformatics and genomics start-up. Gigi has been developing software professionally for more than 20 years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired machine learning, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors and virtual reality. He has written production code in many programming languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, Mac OSX, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, unorthodox user interfaces, and general software development life cycle.

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Tutorials

8 Things That Make Jest the Best React Testing Framework
Jest is an open JavaScript testing library from Facebook. Its slogan is "Delightful JavaScript Testing". While Jest can be used to test any JavaScript...
Gigi Sayfan
2 Apr 2018
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Modern Web Scraping With BeautifulSoup and Selenium
In this tutorial, you'll learn how the content you see in the browser actually gets rendered and how to go about scraping it when necessary. In particular...
Gigi Sayfan
23 Mar 2018
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Text Generation With Go Templates
In this tutorial, you'll learn about the ins and outs of Go templates and how to use them for powerful text generation.
Gigi Sayfan
21 Mar 2018
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Cleaning Up Your Data With Go: Part 2
This is part two out of two in a series on cleaning up data using Go. In this part, we'll dive into actual data cleaning. We'll start by understanding the...
Gigi Sayfan
12 Mar 2018
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Cleaning Up Your Data With Go: Part 1
In this two-part series you'll learn how to use Go's text facilities, slice and dice CSV files, and ensure your data is spotlessly clean. In part one, we'll...
Gigi Sayfan
9 Mar 2018
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Capitalization Tool
In this tutorial you'll learn how to automate the browser with Python and Selenium. The combination of Python and Selenium can unlock programmatic access to...
Gigi Sayfan
5 Mar 2018
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Revisiting Python Packaging With Pipenv
Pipenv is now the packaging tool officially recommended by the Python Packaging Authority. In this tutorial you'll learn why Pipenv significantly improves...
Gigi Sayfan
1 Mar 2018
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JSON Serialization With Golang
Go as a modern programming language has first-class support for JSON serialization in its standard library. In this tutorial you'll learn how to effectively...
Gigi Sayfan
21 Feb 2018
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Building Games With Python 3 and Pygame: Part 5
In part 5 of this Pygame series, we'll cover diverse topics such as the end game, managing lives and score, sound effects, music and even a flexible special...
Gigi Sayfan
19 Jan 2018
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Building Games With Python 3 and Pygame: Part 4
In part 4 of this Pygame series, we will see how to detect collisions and what happens when the ball hits various objects like the paddle, the bricks, the...
Gigi Sayfan
18 Jan 2018
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Building Games With Python 3 and Pygame: Part 3
In part 3 of this Pygame series, we'll dive into the heart of Breakout and learn how to handle events, meet the main Breakout class, and see how to move the...
Gigi Sayfan
17 Jan 2018
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Building Games With Python 3 and Pygame: Part 2
In part 2 of this Pygame series, we'll look at the TextObject class used to render text on the screen, create the main window, learn how to draw objects, and...
Gigi Sayfan
16 Jan 2018
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