Umair Jabbar

How to unlike a facebook page with timeline

Umair Jabbar — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:34:29 +0000

Find out how to unlike a facebook page using timeline. All the fan pages/brand pages on facebook which are using timeline now don't have an apparent unlike link so this is a quick tip to find that link.

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How to test Credit Card numbers using Luhn’s algorithm

Umair Jabbar — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:49:10 +0000

Almost all credit card numbers used are generated using Luhn's algorithm. Luhn's algorithm is a simple checksum formula to validate variety of numbers. We can use the same formula for checking whether a given credit card number may be valid or not.

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A PHPMyAdmin alternate with a user friendly interface

Umair Jabbar — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:44:08 +0000

Almost all LAMP Developers start their careers with the use of PHPMyAdmin which is a reasonable MySQL client to begin with but I think PHPMyAdmin hasn’t evolved with the same pace as rest of the Web Development tools have. MyWebSQL on the other hand is as robust as PHPMyAdmin with a user friendly interface and […]

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Most common mistake many under grad students in Pakistan make

Umair Jabbar — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:29:34 +0000

The most common mistake that I have noticed freshly graduated students do is using a improper + non-professional email address for job hunt and other activities. I personally know of many students who were not called for an interview just because of their email addresses. Come on guys, how much time does it take to create a simple email address having your first and last name in it. Why would you want to tell the employer how cool, hot, sexy, kid, champ etc you are.

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Enable POP for your Yahoo account

Umair Jabbar — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:29:23 +0000

I have all my email accounts added in my gmail which works as an email client and I can access all of them through my gmail account. This is a very useful feature for everyone who has more than one email accounts to keep track of. For this you need POP enabled, which lets any email client download messages from your email provider's server. Enabling POP is available for all of gmail accounts but for a normal yahoo account it asks you to upgrade to a plus account if you want to enable POP

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Web development tricks: Getting the best out of Firefox

Sam — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:39:31 +0000

Firefox is by far and large the choice of browser for web developers. In this article, you will see some not so common, and some other useful tricks to get the best out of your firefox browser and speed up your web development. All the tips explained below can be applied to Firefox version 3 and the newer version 4. However, you might find it difficult to get hands on firefox 4 compatible addons, so Firefox 3 is good enough at the time of writing this post.

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Template Path in WordPress Child Themes

Umair Jabbar — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:22:59 +0000

Wordpress Child themes are a great Idea to extend the theme a bit without getting your hands dirty with the big deal, but I encountered a problem with my child theme when I wanted to load some of my Javascript files which I kept with in the child theme so that the parent theme remains unchanged and all the development is also done in one directory.
I had to make a custom function to get my child theme's path. Feel free to copy this function into your functions.php file of your child theme.

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Display two creatives simultaneously on a page DFP Google Admanager

Umair Jabbar — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:36:16 +0000

I was caught up with a problem where I had a display two creatives simultaneously on a page where I had two placements. I had 3 sets of two creatives each which were to be shown as a set every time the page loaded. That means no ads of different sets can be shown together.

There is no apparent option in DFP/ Google Ad manager to show two creatives in sync, but I was able to find a workaround, explained below;

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Sharing files with a linux guest on VirtualBox

Sam — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:20:17 +0000

One of my friends recently installed Ubuntu on a VirtualBox, and he had a really tough time sharing files between the Ubuntu guest and the Windows 7 host machine. In this article I will describe the two most common ways to share files between the host and a *nix guest os inside VirtualBox

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Cloning a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox

Sam — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:17:50 +0000

While VMWare gives an easy to use interface option to clone virtual machines, VirtualBox does not. Read on to find out how to clone a vm inside virtual box within minutes ...

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