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.

Archive | Technology

TreeMapping
ByAli Shabdar 12/17/201104/15/2026

A recent school project got us excited to explore the idea of mapping the trees of city of Vancouver in a more practical way. My friends and I had a fruitful meeting today with @daeaves who has extensive information and experience in this subject. There is a tree mapping platform, OpenTreeMap, to start with. It…

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Archive | Deluge | PHP | Technology | Zoho

Importing data from FTP server into Zoho Creator
ByAli Shabdar 04/15/201504/15/2026

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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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 | 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 | Social Media

The fPhone
ByAli Shabdar 09/25/201004/15/2026

Back in 2007 when Facebook was becoming a global phenomena, my first impression as a user was a normal pessimism at first that left me with just an account to reserve my name and no actual use of the service. As an expatriate who lived at least 25% of my life out of my hometown…

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Archive | Javascript | Productivity | Technology | Tutorials

Bulk exporting Word documents to other formats with JavaScript
ByAli Shabdar 11/24/201304/15/2026

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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Ali says:

11/17/2011 at 4:50 pm

So far so good. Going forward 🙂

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