Donny Ouyang had approached 4 industry leaders to answer 20 most asked questions on his site. The videos are being posted slowly and gradually to Digialthrone. I appreciate Donny for arranging these videos. Good luck!
03.18Wordpress 2.5 RC1
Wordpress 2.5 RC1 was just released
Wordpress will boom with new versions (possibly, everday?) that’ll contain security and bug fixes. I don’t think it’s a good time to upgrade unless you have lots of spare time in your hand.
03.17Personal Brand
I had thought of changing from personal brand to a more non-personal brand but my father was always against it because he had successfully maintained his personal brand since 6-8 years with pleasure.
If you’re thinking to move from personal brand to non-personal brand then look at few advantages that might change your thinking:
- Personal brands are easier to maintain and develop.
- They’re mostly unique.
- Most of the time, you’re name is available as a domain.
- They’re easy to remember.
- They can be easily advertised.
- Google likes personal brands.
There are more than 6 advantages which you can come up with yourself after giving it a thought. Personal brand benefits you in many ways in the long run.
Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) does load shedding everyday from 8 AM till 11 PM, from 4 PM till 7 PM then in the night from 8 PM till 12 PM. Where’s the time to work? 
I have a generator that’s too small. It can only power one fan, one tubelight and router/modem. I can’t open my work PC, I have to use my sister’s laptop to just access the intraweb.
Currently, their is no power in the house. I am writing from laptop.
I am buying an expensive 2kVA Honda generator as soon as possible. It may arrive in 2 weeks. The life will get better…
Gareth at TalkPHP had posted an article on how to achieve simple AJAX form powered by jQuery. The article is entitled “Simple AJAX with jQuery“. The article is good for a beginner who is just starting out however, there are more shorter, cleaner and simpler ways to achieve the same goal.
Salathe aka Peter Cowburn had reviewed the article and told us ways on how the code written by Gareth could be improved.
03.05CakePHP Books
Cakebaker released information today that revelaed three books on CakePHP are to be released in second half of the year.
These are:
- “CakePHP in Action” by Duane O’Brien
- “Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to Professional” by David Golding
- “CakePHP - Das Praxisbuch” by Timo Derstappem (German)
Two books are released on CakePHP which are available in Japanese language. They’re available at Amazon JP.
I had tried several tutorials that came up via Google to install FFmpeg on Windows. All of them uses the same MYSys/MinGW to install FFmpeg but none of them were properly detailed in step-by-step form.
After going through different search terms, I found Preparing the MSys+MinGW system which helped me install FFmpeg on system flawlessly.
02.15Email troubles
I tried testing my contact form right now to make sure that emails are being received to my inbox. No, the email wasn’t received. If you had sent me an email regarding passive income post, please re-send.
The problem has been fixed!
I’ll be straight with you guys. I lack skills to develop an idea into a profitable idea. Since, passive income is important for freelancers, I want to collaborate with other skilled freelancers that posses business skills and money to invest. it’ll be preferred that you can design websites but it is not necessary.
I’ll be the one who will develop the idea. I’ll do:
- Website Development.
- Website Design. (I am not an expert)
Please use the contact me if you’re interested.
Thanks!
XHTMLd is new PSD to XHTML / CSS conversion service website in the block. XHTMLd had asked me to do them a favor by reviewing their website.
How is XHTMLd different from others?
As far as I know, XHTMLd is the cheapest premium XHTML/CSS service in the market. They’re providing their service of coding 1 page design from PSD to XHHTML/CSS for $99 with a turnaround time of 2 days. If they fail to deliver the result within the quoted time (based on pages), they’ll refund 15% of the price.
Except being different in terms of payment structure, they have a really easy to use interface.
XHTMLd provides XHTML/CSS integration to Wordpress at a price of $149.
How to order?
XHTMLd ordering process is straight forward. On the order page submit your contact details, select the desired package, upload the design (or link to design) and hit submit.