Zoho CEO and Zoho Evangelist on how Zoho works for SMBs

ByAli Shabdar 09/03/200904/15/2026

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 | Ruby

Playing with data structures in Ruby
ByAli Shabdar 11/17/201104/15/2026

Sorting I’ve been trying to sort a mixed array in Ruby the shortest way. Each element of the array by itself is a mixed array of a number and and a hash: a = [ [0, {:a=>”31″, :b=>”21″}], [1, {:a=>”32″, :b=>”11″}], [1, {:a=>”25″, :b=>”19″}], [0, {:a=>”12″, :b=>”10″}] ] #sort by first item of each row (number) a.sort{|x,y|…

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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 | Mac | Tutorials

Convert video formats on your Mac for free
ByAli Shabdar 11/22/200904/15/2026

This article is originally posted on Shufflegazine. Earlier today I received a dinosaur JVC camera with a truck load of video clips. We are traveling to Lebanon to have our annual seminar on the beautiful mountains of Farya and somebody had to make a fun video intro for our office. Since I still did not…

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Archive | Miscellaneous

We are launching CasaBonanza.com
ByAli Shabdar 10/16/201104/15/2026

We are (softly) launching CasaBonanza.com tomorrow. After 3 months of work the first phase is finally ready for the Vancouverites. Stay tuned for more details.

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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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