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 | iOS

Learning iPhone development fast
ByAli Shabdar 01/17/201004/15/2026

Learning a new language along with news development tools is quite exciting and challenging at the same time. You have to go through most (if not all) basic stuff and make sure you’re not bringing any old habits to the new language. For instance, after years of manual memory management in C and other languages,…

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Archive | Mac | SaaS

Fixing the multiprocessing error while developing for AppEngine
ByAli Shabdar 09/26/200904/15/2026

If you are developing for Google AppEngine on Mac, and you have updated python to 2.6.x or higher, you might face this non-sense error over and over: ImportError: No module named _multiprocessing The main reason behind this error is that AppEngine (as of this writing) can’t get along with python versions higher than 2.5.x. Fortunately…

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Archive | Productivity | SaaS | Tutorials

The secret of staying productive while coding
ByAli Shabdar 08/30/200904/15/2026

Most people use versioning systems like Subversion, Mercurial, and git to maintain their code while working on software and web projects. There are also hosted solutions like github and bitbucket providing developers with more features than a traditional version control environment. But sometimes you just want to keep your code in a safe place and…

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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 | SaaS

How SaaS can impact the Middle East market
ByAli Shabdar 12/21/200804/15/2026

Middle East is usually behind when it comes to the bleeding edge technology. Clearly because we don’t build bleeding edge technology unless we are US or EU residents! One of the greatest aspects of Cloud Computing is SaaS (Software as a Service). With the current credit crunch creeping all over the world, this might be…

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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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