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Introducing InDash: SMS Dashboard & auto-responder for Nexmo

Asim — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:11:14 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I built an app for a contest using Nexmo’s SMS Gateway API and Cloudmine’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The app allows you to easily setup a keyword-based SMS auto-responder within a couple of seconds! Imagine building your own “Orange … Continue reading →

Monitoring your applications using Monit

Asim — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:30:24 +0000

Lately, I have been adding support for Java applications in depro.pl (a deployment engine I coded a few years ago). I have a cron script that deploys new changes automatically. While working on it I realized that deploying stand-alone java … Continue reading →

Masked Growth in the Living Room (animation)

Asim — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:45:36 +0000

Another animation exercise using a single still image of our living room back home (PK):

Building up my new PC

Asim — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:24:01 +0000

Over the past couple of months, many of you might have become tired of listening to my non-stop jibber-jabber about various computer components, RMA process and bargain deals. Well, the good news is that it is all coming to a halt … Continue reading →

TeaBreak’s Promo Video

Asim — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:42:37 +0000

I am sharing another attempt at FX and animation, this time for TeaBreak.pk. I composed the music first and modeled the animation on it. Here’s the outcome:

Wishing you all a Blissful Eid

Asim — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:02:15 +0000

I am learning animation these days so thought to create a very basic one and wish you all a very Happy Eid. If you like it, please do share! Enjoy and Eid Mubarak!

Conducting an A/B Experiment: TeaBreak’s Homepage

Asim — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:07:09 +0000

Following our media partnership with Newsline Magazine recently, we found the need to re-arrange TeaBreak’s homepage. We decided to go for a ‘sectioned’ layout, i.e. the home page should feature selected sections or categories (like Politics, Business, etc.) along with their latest … Continue reading →

Google accounts cockup

Asim — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:47:33 +0000

I started using Google Apps for my domain (FuzedBulb.com) a few years ago, but before I migrated to Google Apps, I was already using a number of other Google services like Analytics, Adsense, Docs, etc. which I signed up, ofcourse, … Continue reading →

“Subtle” workplace RSI prevention ideas

Asim — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:54:09 +0000

You may not be a “bad-ass” software engineer but if you day job involves working with computers then you should be taking workplace ergonomics and RSI related injuries very seriously. Now just to be clear the purpose of this post … Continue reading →

Upgrading WordPress: A breeze thanks to version control

Asim — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:33:21 +0000

In my previous post Version controlling WordPress, I discussed my strategy to organize WordPress-based projects using version control (Subversion in my case). The idea was to make WordPress and plugin upgrades easy enough especially when you are running multiple WordPress based … Continue reading →