What you should know in wordpress to be a wordpress programmer?

February 20th, 2010 Zareef Ahmed No comments

I got several messages that I should point out a list of topics which a developer should know in wordpress to categorize him/her as a wordpress programmer.
“Wordpress Programmer” or “Wordpress Developer” terms can be new to someone but due its popularity, term is getting attention and several companies are doing hiring based on wordpress [...]

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Wordpress : A PHP Developer’s delight

January 17th, 2010 Zareef Ahmed No comments

First in the series of my experiments with Open Source CMS, today I will write about my experiments with wordpress as PHP developer.
I heard about wordpress long ago but have used it on large scale since year 2007. I have created some custom setups so different domains can run from same code base. I have [...]

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Smarty Sponsorship : Nes Web Design now Sponsors Best PHP Template Engine Smarty

November 30th, 2009 Zareef Ahmed No comments

I am really feeling good by announcing that Nes Web Design (ONS Interactive Solutions Pvt. Ltd.), company with which I am working as CTO is sponsoring Smarty Template Engine, which in my view is the best Template Engine in PHP.Smarty helps a php developer in separating business logic from display logic.
It was year 2003 when [...]

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My Experiments with Open Source CMS and E-commerce Solutions

November 5th, 2009 Zareef Ahmed No comments

From now I will write about my experiences with Open Source CMSs/E-commerce Solutions everyday, I have planned to write about my projects and my work in those CMSs as a php developer.
I have planned following CMSs :
1. Joomla
2. Wordpress
3. Drupal
4. SugarCRM
5. OsCommerce
6. Magento
7. PHPbb
8. ZenCart
Of course this list will increase everyday,

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Zundoo : Zend CMS : Zend Framework based CMS : A new initiative

September 14th, 2009 Zareef Ahmed No comments

We have just started a new ambitious project Zundoo.
Zundoo is aiming to be a best project for a CMS based on Zend Framwork.
Some of Zundoo’s planned features
1. Easy to Start like Wordpress
2. Extensible like Drupal and Joomla
3. Security above everything
4.Automated update of the core
5. Yes, based on Zend Framework
6. Plugin System
7. Theme Based
8. Theme [...]

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Fear of pain is more painful than pain itself

August 21st, 2009 Zareef Ahmed No comments

I normally don’t write about my personal thoughts and life very frequently due to a simple reason that I am a professional and I am attached to many projects at the same time and I always fear that my personal thought or experience may be bad for my relationship with some of my colleagues or [...]

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PHP Functions to work with PHP functions

July 9th, 2009 Zareef Ahmed No comments

In this article, I am going to write about the functions using which you can get the information about php functions.
For a full list of PHP functions you can visit http://www.zend.com/phpfunc/
Using these functions you can query the stats/status of your functions, these functions are very useful in dynamic application creation.
For example, using func_get_arg and func_num_args [...]

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PHP Training Education Tutor in Delhi NCR

June 22nd, 2008 Zareef Ahmed No comments

As PHP is gaining the ground in India, numbers of initial level jobs are also increasing day by day. Almost every day I got questions from new comers how they can learn PHP? Which training institute is providing the training in PHP?
Unfortunately almost all major player of training industry in India, specially Delhi [...]

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Use Exit after redirecting user via header function

June 18th, 2008 Zareef Ahmed No comments

Some weeks ago I got an old PHP application to work with. I was asked to look for the potential problems and bottlenecks in the application. So I decide to use APD as a profiler for the application, after installing the APD on that server. I enabled profiler on one of the reportedly slow page.
That [...]

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PHP Development Notes

June 17th, 2008 Zareef Ahmed No comments

While writing PHP code or planning an application to be written in PHP, Every other day we have to face different aspects of programming, and we also need to find the work around or solutions to the problem we got during our development work.
Many times I surf the online pages of PHP manual to solve [...]

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Using SQL abstraction and CRUD factory classes is a good practice?

July 6th, 2007 Zareef Ahmed No comments

This question again struck me today, somebody just throw a simple question about EXPLAIN statement in MySQL and in hast I relate that to DESCRIBE. When that person cut the line of phone, I suddenly realize my mistake.
I am working with PHP and MySQL since last seven years then why this happen to me? [...]

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