http://www.abbasali.net/blog My programming and personal life expecriences Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:04:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The other day i was chatting with my team mate Shk.Aziz Poonawalla and he inspired me to do a plugin for coppermine which should convert the uploaded documents (txt, pdf, doc, ppt etc..) to Scribd iPaper format and then display them using the Scribd document viewer. So i went ahead and ... http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2008/08/14/scribd-ipaper-plugin-for-coppermine-v10/ The other day i had some free time and thought why not try my hand at converting a wordpress theme to coppermine one. I chose Fieldofsand which is a free wordpress them designed by Smarter Templates and started the conversion. Fortunately i did quite well and published the theme for ... http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2008/08/12/fieldofsand-theme-for-coppermine-photo-gallery/ I am excited to announce the launch of Starting 11 | Free Fantasy Football, my latest work at SANIsoft. The project was done for a client based in UK who happens to be a football fanatic. Starting 11 is a fantasy game based on English Premier League where users can ... http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2008/07/31/starting-11-free-fantasy-football/ So finally Bill Gates has retired from his active role in Microsoft. It is unbelievable that he used to handle three positions which will now (rather from quite some time) be headed by : CEO - Steve Ballmer Chief Software Architect - Ray Ozzie Chief of Research and Strategy - Craig Mundie I am ... http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2008/06/30/bye-bye-bill-gates/ Coppermine Photo Gallery is again taking part as a mentoring organization in GSoC and i will be mentoring for coppermine organization for the second year straight in a row. It took us around a month to decide on project ideas and students. Finally on April 21st 2008 the final student allocation ... http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2008/04/24/google-summer-of-code-2008/ Recently i installed Fedora 8 on my machine. All went smoothly and i was able to login to the improved KDE for the first time. But to my disappointment the display was all messed up. Poor colors, fonts etc.. This is what i did to fix it. First i downloaded the ... http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2008/03/08/display-in-fedora-8-fixed-with-ati-radeon-driver/ On many banking sites you will find that when back or refresh button is pressed the session expires and it shows you a custom page. Well below is a simple PHP code which will do the same. The code is very basic and illustrates just the logic. Include the below given ... http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2007/09/28/how-page-expires-when-pressing-back-on-banking-sites/ Today i upgraded this blog to wordpress version 2.3. I had a few difficulties in doing so but in the end i was able to do it. Everybody - enjoy this wonderful open source application. http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2007/09/28/upgraded-to-version-23/ Yes, you heard it right, i will be getting married on 14th Nov 2007. My would be wife's name is Tasneem and she is from the wonderful city of Hyderabad. We first met in my cousin's wedding way back in Dec 2004. I am really excited and looking forward to ... http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2007/09/26/getting-married/ Its been very long since i wrote last time and yes i know it is too late to mention this (as GSoC is over) but i was damn busy with work and other things. Anyways the news is that Coppermine Photo Gallery was one of the open source projects which participated ... http://www.abbasali.net/blog/2007/09/26/mentoring-in-google-summer-of-code/