Come to Refresh Colombo tomorrow
by Nazly on Wednesday, 24th November 2010 12:28:13
In my personal opinion the last Refresh Colombo meetup was the best we had so far. But I get even more excited when I look at the topics lined up for tomorrow. It’s that time again where all the tech enthusiasts around Colombo meetup to share knowledge and ideas. Refresh Colombo November Meetup will feature some of the high profile names in the tech/geek community. The meetup is open to public and the entrance is free. You just walk-in. Don’t forget to bring a friend or two. Spread the word!
Short, Sweet WordPress Video
by Nazly on Saturday, 20th November 2010 21:26:45
Came across this 5 min short video that gives a great overview of WordPress. In this video Matt Mullenweg, shares his experience about how WordPress and his company Automattic has come this far. Hats off to Matt for his hard work for the Free and Open Source community.
Basics of maintaing a WordPress site
by Nazly on Thursday, 18th November 2010 23:06:45
WordPress is simple, yet powerful. Those are the key ingredients why it is popular among the Bloggers and Web Developers alike. WordPress will always be the first choice as a blogging platform. In the recent times it has moved far from being just a blogging engine. Most Web developers choose WordPress as their primary CMS of choice ahead of other popular Content Management Systems. Regardless of you being a Blogger or a Web Developer, the manner you maintain your WordPress files and database will play an important role in running a successful website.
Twitter @ Mentions via SMS
by Nazly on Thursday, 18th November 2010 12:03:14
This is more a follow up post to Tweets via SMS: Now active for Sri Lanka which I published on 2nd April 2010 when Tweets via SMS was first activated for Sri Lankan users. Twitter only supported receiving tweets via SMS from individual tweeps. Direct Messages were sent via SMS as well. But an important feature was missing. Twitter didn’t send @ mentions via SMS. A lot of tweeps asked me personally about this since they thought this was a fault by the local operator. But Twitter FAQs clearly stated that it didn’t support this feature.
Yesterday morning I suddenly realized that there is a sudden flow of SMS from Twitter. It was not from the tweeps I have subscribed to receive SMS tweets. Only indication was the @ mention. This is when I realized that Twitter might have activated this long awaited feature. All the doubts were cleared when I read Twitter blog : Instant Notifications.
Refresh Colombo October Meetup
by Nazly on Wednesday, 27th October 2010 10:47:31
Refresh Colombo October Meetup will be happening tomorrow (28th October 2010) at the Royal College Union Skills Centre from 5.15pm onwards. There are quite a few interesting topics lined up this time. I will be doing a session on WordPress Security. Shazly will be showcasing his Nokia N8, most probably the first and only N8 in Sri Lanka right now. Naveen will do a presentation on “Social Media Engagement – A Practical Insight”. And we will have the Creately team in the house talking about their journey so far and their product. I’m quite excited with the topics lined up.
Drop in to Refresh Colombo tomorrow, it’s free and open to anyone. Make sure to bring along your friends as well. You can RSVP on the FB event page and check the @refreshcolombo Twitter stream for updates. See you all tomorrow..!!
Explore Sri Lanka – Drive to the hills
by Nazly on Wednesday, 15th September 2010 18:57:53
It has been almost over two years I stopped traveling around this beautiful country due to various reasons. Most of my trip buddies left the country or work at different places so I got mostly stuck in Colombo. After the month of Ramadan, I got the much needed break and took the long drive to the hill country.
PHP date() function usage and examples
by Nazly on Saturday, 19th June 2010 12:56:55
I have been coding PHP like for almost 10 years. The date() function in PHP is a widely used function in most of my apps. The application or website I’m developing will require to associate with a date at some point. When displaying a date/time it requires to be displayed in a particular format. This will be different from one app to another. So remembering each format character is quite difficult even thought I have 10 years of experience on my back. So each an every time I head to the PHP: date() Manual to find out the format character. I have had cheat sheet wallpapers as my desktop wallpaper but I still felt the PHP Manual served me better. But finally I decided to build my own reference with commonly used character combinations with their respective output to make my life much easier (not that it was difficult before) so that other PHP developers will benefit out of this as well.
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” released
by Nazly on Friday, 18th June 2010 11:18:07
It’s the moment that most of the WordPress enthusiasts were waiting for. The release of WordPress 3.0 bring lots of new features and updates that makes WordPress a powerful CMS to build complex and powerful websites.
Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Read the rest of this entry »
