Know Your Phone - The Guide

Just up with developing the app called "Know Your Phone." What it basically does is that it allows you to know the following details about your phone,
1. IMEI (Serial Number)
2. Last Repaired.
3. Software version
and some other basic details.

The app is a must for every Nokia User. Want to grab it now? Its free. Find it here.

Experiments and Experiences make ways - Learning from Google

Google! The word itself is self describing today. They have revolutionized the search industry with their technology. Today, not just search but a lot of other products on the internet are run by them. Here is what is to be learnt from them,
1996: Larry Page and Sergey Bin on a mission to create a search engine.
1997: Name is Google.
1998: Sun Co Founder writes a check of $100000 to them.
1999: Moves to Palo Alto with just 8 employees. It grows then to 40.
2000: Partnership with Yahoo and becoming worlds biggest search engine.
2001: Growing
2002: Growing.
2003: Took blogger with it.
2004: Orkut!
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. Does a lot of experiments and takes over the internet. Today the tool I am blogging from is of Google, the        browser I am using is their, the advertisement model I earn from is their!
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2012: Google is all over the internet. Larry Page and Sergey Bin are on the most influential and most successful entrepreneurs of this time(and wealthy too).

This is clear as a bell for those who pay attention. The mother of all inventions are experiments and experiences. Google has created a big experimental society where engineers work to experiment new things and get new results.

A Day with Jehan Ara, Sheba Najmi and T2F

Just coming back from T2F. Had an awesome time with Jehan Ara, President P@SHA, Sheba Najmi, X-Yahoo UI Designer and the team of Pring. We had gathered together for a common task i.e to create civil products for the government.

What's A Hackthon and Why should I Go?

The Invitation:
I had got invited by P@SHA at the event.

My Presence:

T2F(The Second Floor):
T2F is an amazing place for all kinds of artists. Have a look,

My Task: 
I have chosen the animal health problem solving area. I and the other members are very excited to come up with a solution tomorrow.

Here is P@SHA(Pakistan Association of Software Houses) Tweeting about my team:

Geo News finally updates their slider but forgets to align it properly

Just started reading Geo News blog and saw that they have uploaded their slider which is located at the bottom of the website. Here is how it looks,

As you can see, the the slider is misaligned on the right. Better slider than before but misaligned.

Payoneer Deductions On Using Debit Card In Pakistan

I had made a Payoneer debit card and wanted to see what are the deductions involved in using their debit card. Here is what I did,
I added $$43.93 to my account and I already had $4.xx in my account making a total of $48 (approximately). I went to MCB located near my house and took out 4000 rupees from it.
When I looked at the slip of MCB it said that they have deducted 200 rupees as their service charges.
Coming back to home, I saw that my account was left with only $0.28. So here are the calculations,
4000 rupees  make  40.66 USD
200   rupees  make    2.03 USD
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                               42.69 USD
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My account had $48 so,
 $48.00
-$42.69
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   $5 .41
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So $5.41 deducted by Payoneer and $2.03 USD by MCB so,

  $5.41
+$2.03
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  $7.44
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$7.44 is the loss that i had on this transfer. Way too much for a normal Pakistani...

Note: I have added the dollar rate from Google which might be a little more than the actual rate(1 USD = 98.38 rupees).

How Facebook's design suck in terms of Engineering

Just observed Facebook's design, there is a major design flow in Facebook which is inability to zoom in and zoom out. Here is the whole story,

1. All the content of a website should lie inside a div usually called container.
2. When a website zooms in/out, the container is supposed to zoom in/out respectively and the content inside the div should remain as it looks before zooming in/out.
3. A normal website implements this technique. Here is an example of a website zoomed out,
   
4. Here is how Facebook looks after getting zoomed out,
   

Conclusion is that Facebook's design is one of the most epic failures I came across.

Edit:

Just got a reply from Facebook's UI Engineer Stefan Parker(see here for the discussion). Here is what he says,

"We do pay some attention, but clearly zooming out 5 times is not a worth while use case to warrant engineering effort. Primarily we fix bugs from users who zoom in, since those are usually lower vision users and is a more valid scenario."

I became a Microsft's Certified Developer for HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery

I was learning HTML5 and jQuery some days back. At the same time, Mircosoft started certifications for HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery so I thought it would be a good time to test the skills. When some of you were busy with their valentines :P (14th Febuary), I was passing the test ;).

Anyhow, the good part is that I passed the test. The software used for testing was a bit weird and I messed up with it in end the end as I did not knew how close that up :P

Here's my certification,

I got scummed again!

I got scummed again by a PayPal guy. I wanted to transfer money on my online account. For this I took his services. When I had sent him the money, he blocked me on skype. Pocket money lost :( . Still, its part of learning.
Here is his details:
Origin: Bangladesh.
Name: sahin khan
Email: sahinkhan930@yahoo.com

Image of my PayPal Account showing I sent him the money.

Incredible - Got in touch with Feross!

I was trying to create a modified version of YTInstant. A website created by a stanford universities well know programmer Feross Aboukhadijeh. For those who don't know him, Feross is the creator of several well known websites. He has worked for the biggest IT brands in the world like Intel, Facebook and Quora (If you want to read more about him here is is resume.)

Feross (on the right) with Mark Zukerberg(CEO Facebook)

I thought it would be best to ask him if we could work together on the flavour of the website I wanted to create but he was too busy (he is doing his masters) but he was generous enough to give me his source code. So nice of him.

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