Archive | Miscellaneous

How NOT to group your checkboxes

ByAli Shabdar 06/01/201204/15/2026

bad UI — “Global Unsubscribe” shouldn’t be grouped with the others.

Here is to not making it clear for the user if you’re hiding an option on purpose or you’re just being lazy.

Based on the title, by checking “Global Unsubscribe” I actually want to receive “Global Unsubscribe”.

Archive | SaaS | Tutorials

Develop Google AppEngine with Aptana Studio
ByAli Shabdar 05/06/200904/15/2026

Recently I have jumped on Python wagon to play with Google AppEngine a bit. Python is a very fun (and powerful) language and I feel so bad I never touched it before. There are many editors for Mac OS to make coding in Python even more fun, TextMate and Coda to name a few, but…

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Archive | Ruby on Rails

Running MySQL 5.5 and Rails 3 on Mac OS X
ByAli Shabdar 03/22/201104/15/2026

A recent opportunity made me dust off my development skills and I decided to use Ruby on Rails as the framework of choice. I’m happy with Ruby 1.8.7 for now (comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard), but I had to update Rails to version 3, which was a painless process. After installing MySQL 5.5.10…

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Archive | Business | Tutorials

Renaming files in bulk with Excel
ByAli Shabdar 02/10/201304/15/2026

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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Archive | Business

DELL “still” recommends Windows Vista …
ByAli Shabdar 05/06/200804/15/2026

What a familiar statement! “Optimize your Business with Windows Vista Business” or etc. Is that really true? We have 10+ laptops and workstations running Windows Vista Basic, Premium and Business and nobody is happy with the way Vista runs, not even after installing the gigantic SP1. It is often said that Apple’s 37% growth sales…

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Archive | Business | Cloud Computing

An Open Cloud – Or Is It?
ByAli Shabdar 04/01/200904/15/2026

This is an article posted on CloudAve. As you might know the Open Cloud Manifesto debuted on March 30st. It outlines the pillars of Cloud Computing as well giving a brief on what the possible threats and weaknesses could challenge the early and future adopters. The manifesto declares 4 major goals of an Open Cloud:…

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Archive | Mac | Tutorials

Snow Leopard to Lion; The painless way
ByAli Shabdar 08/31/201104/15/2026

Conclusion first! Let me save you a few minutes (and perhaps hours of suffering on your Mac) and tell you the end of the story in the beginning. Upgrading has been always a tricky way of installing a new operating system. Granted it is smooth enough on a Mac but it comes with its own…

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