Hello twitter!

This is to inform you that despite being so twittering, you suck sometimes. Here is the thing. I opened one of emails which informed me that my friend Suneel Pervez is now following me on Twitter. To my surprise, his tiny thumbnail pic took more than 2 seconds to load which I thought, “Ooops my internet connection sucks”, but turns out Twitter sucks.

The picture was of big size and twitter didn’t bother to make it a thumbnail. It was just resized using HTML width and height attribute for img tag and thats all. No image thumbnailing at all. And for a site like twitter, its a disaster. Was you developer sleeping when he this nut job.. is that it you offer my dear little Twitter?

Seriously guys, I was not expecting this kind of mistake (infact a bug) from twitter. Let me show you some of the firebug screenshots about how I discovered this bug.

Have a look at the twitter messing with the image sizes

OK Fellows. I hope twitter grows up soon so as their sleepy coders.

This is just another portrait taken from my new EOS 1000D.

Armaghan Khan : Canon EOS 1000d test, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.

Sunshine, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.

Sunshine hue sunshine grew
Shines its rays on me and you
Sunshine light sunshine bright
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I just ordered a PTCL DSL connection so-called PTCL Broadband. The process is quite easy. You just need to dial 1236 and the rest is ABC. It was fun talking to their CSR today which is usually not fun due to not availability of the CSRs. PTCL is getting good these days. I get speed of 1MB line on my 512kbps connection t office. Amazing right? But I have another connection just ordered at my home. It was my long time wishlist item and I was going to put it on my bucket list as I was thinking the PTCL is really slow in adding new cities to their network and may be it wont get done in my life time. Read the rest of this entry »

Background:

I am comitted to resolve any programming issues that arise on my Windows Vista Ultimate installed on my HP Artist Edition Laptop DV2899ee. As Vista being the most criticized operating system for development purposes. I do have plans for getting Mac and switching back to Windows XP on my Windows machines but right now I like the Windows Vista experience and it works for me.

My friend Tahir Bashir (a great coder), who works for me under the umbrella of Universal Coders, is working again on the software that we did for AlHadeed Corporation back in 2006. It was not being used by these guys due to less adoption and computer literate manpower but they again are improving the work and so, we are re-developing the software in accordance with the new needs of Mr. Haider the CEO of AlHadeed Corporation Mansehra. He also happens to be the husband of my cousin so I am really taking personal interest in development of this software.

The Problem:

The problem I faced last night, when Tahir sent me the software was that I was unable to run it on my Visual Studio 2008 on Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I was having a problem that is shown in the following screen shot.

Database connection string for Access which produces the error

Visual Studio 2008 Exception Dialog whoing the error

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I have recently been working on PHP RSS reader script that was supposed to do three different things with RSS description text. To make a teaser RSS text, I was asked to develop the functionality in a such a way that text can be cropped in these three ways.

• with defining the number of words.
• with defining the numbers of characters.
• with defining the number of sentences.

Here is a set of functions that helps you crop a text in three different ways. The usage of the function is also mentioned at the end f the script. Read the rest of this entry »

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I was recently working on a custom RSS feed reader where the prior most concern of the client was being able to crop the text with respect to the

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Hi guys

I am feeling good right now. Have been working on oDesk from Feb 17, 2009. And its good you get paid on hourly basis. I like oDesk the most among freelancing sites I have worked on. Anyhow, I took a few screen shots to show you that I was once featured on home page on oDesk.

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You would surely be surprised to listen to my Taliban (For FBI and CIA guys: He is not really a Taliban so don’t worry, this is just a nick name due to how he looks like) friend signing this piece of poetry from Allama Iqbal’s collection. I really liked the quality of his signing so posting here

Download: Dor-e-Sarmayadari

I am doing good now. Feeling well. Have been under a complete month of stress, illness. I think feeling good is the key to being good so I am under this thinking for some days and yeah it works. I am back to work and I couldn’t find something to blame so here you are Mr. President. Your website is so awful Mr. Zardari. I simply hate this site. If you want a better website (I hope you should have some good taste except Sarah Palin), I am ready to volunteer.

Have a look yourself. This is not better than a site I made when I studied my first HTML lesson while I was in 7th standard 10 years ago. Enjoy!

Superb (:P ) site of Pakistan President

Hello readers

A few minutes ago, I had a situation where

For example you have a string which is like “cat,cow,hamster,owl,”

and you want to remove the last comma from the string

then you can use this code

<?php
$string="cat,cow,hamster,owl,";
echo $string."<br/>";
$string= substr($string, 0, strlen($string)-1);
echo $string;
?>

This comes really handy in many situations.

Hello Gmailers

Its a new day for gmail users all over the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Ah, I have been this gals fan when she started hitting youtube with her rather amateurish looking videos. Now she is a star :P. No wonder she is so brilliant.

Lyrics:

Don’t walk away like you always do
This time
Baby you’re the only thing that’s been
On my mind
Ever since you left I’ve been a mess
(You won’t answer your phone)
I’ll say it once and I’ll leave you alone
But I gotta let you know Read the rest of this entry »