http://aleembawany.com Personal website of Aleem Bawany -- tech, web and the rest Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:33:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thought I should mention this since I found quite a few people stuck with this issue. To my knowledge, all Windows machines out there set to sync with time servers will portray the incorrect time as Windows does not have any knowledge of Pakistan's plans for Daylight Saving Time (DST). ... http://aleembawany.com/2008/10/01/pakistan-daylight-saving-fix-for-windows/ Dawn.com has launched their beta website available via dawn.net. Going with a phased roll-out through Beta is the only thing they seem to have gotten right and one can only hope they address the issues with the website or go for a complete overhaul. After spending 15 minutes on the ... http://aleembawany.com/2008/08/28/dawn-com-barely-worth-the-effort/ While I previously resorted to JS Shell and Venkman JS Debugger, I recently had the pleasure of using Firebug. I easily managed to find some performance bottlenecks in my Online Scrabble Clone, Yabble which should be a lot faster now thanks to some great profiling features. Yabble should be slightly ... http://aleembawany.com/2008/08/15/scrabble-yabble/ The recent PASHA Career Expo 2008 provided a great platform to engage with the community. Following are slides from my presentation for Developing for the Web. Developing For The Webview presentation (tags: security usability methodologies web) http://aleembawany.com/2008/07/28/pasha-career-expo-developing-for-the-web/ The default WordPress search engine barely qualifies as a search engine. It's results are not that relevant, the search page shows the actual blog entries instead of a list of links of resulting pages and the experience gets worse if the search query gets the least bit creative. I think everyone ... http://aleembawany.com/2008/02/11/google-custom-search-and-wordpress-integration/ Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited has a subscriber base of 4.5 million users. PTCL in a recent revenue generation scheme enabled nationwide calling for all of it's 4.5 million subscribers without their consent. At Rs.199 per month per subscriber, PTCL will generate anywhere from Rs.800 million to Rs.900 million in the ... http://aleembawany.com/2008/01/23/ptcl-nationwide-plan-cancellation-instructions-and-fraud-details/ There were some interesting people at the startup meetup held recently at the offices of PixSense and sponsored by the Pakistan Software Houses Association and Green&White. For me it was a good way to get acquainted with the talent pool that exists here and hopefully this is the first of ... http://aleembawany.com/2008/01/19/startup-meetup-in-karachi/ A while back I started what I thought would be an easy little project for an Online Scrabble Game clone. It's now completed and launched as Beta. I am calling it Yabble because the other interesting *abble words are quite common on the web. My reason being that instead of ... http://aleembawany.com/2007/12/22/online-scrabble-clone-implementation/ This one was good enough that I wanted to blog it and have a copy in my archives. Following is Mark Cuban's take on media, technology and American business. It was featured in the December 2006 issue of Esquire. Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, ... http://aleembawany.com/2006/12/17/mark-cubans-interview-in-esquire/ Seattle Times story "Why Vista might be the last of its kind" reflects a sentiment shared by many regarding the impending loom and doom of Vista. A lot of this foretelling is misdirected and regurgitation of the same old rhetoric that's being pulled back under the spotlight to create a ... http://aleembawany.com/2006/12/05/the-unwarranted-hyperbole-surrounding-vista/