Optimizing WordPress Performance with P3

Amir HameedTechnology Leave a Comment

P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) is an extremely handy free WordPress plugin. It captures information on all of the plugins installed on your WordPress website, and then it measures, reports on, and visualizes their impact on the loading time of your site. While the WordPress Plugin Directory is one of the biggest assets to the WordPress community, the truth is that …

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Using a CDN with WordPress

Amir HameedTechnology Leave a Comment

Nowadays it’s relatively inexpensive to use a Content Distribution Network (CDN) for your WordPress website, some are even free. While there are many benefits of using a CDN, they should be taken with a grain of salt. In this article you won’t find only hallelujahs for using a CDN, but I will give you 5 good reasons why you should …

Top 5 Tools for Project Management

Amir HameedTechnology Leave a Comment

Whether you’re on your own or working in a team, it’s important to keep a close eye on your projects. Project management tools are designed to help you keep track of your tasks, team members and customers. We’ve already looked at the Top 5 Time-Tracking and Top 5 CRM tools, so let’s do the same for project management tools. I …

7 More Mistakes Commonly Made by PHP Developers

Amir HameedTechnology Leave a Comment

I was asked by someone from TopTal to take a look at their list and potentially contribute, and some of our followers on social networks expressed an interest in seeing the list continued, too, so I’d like to take this opportunity to add some of my own entries to this list that I repeatedly need to warn my team members …

SolidRocks for Vray

Amir HameedTechnology Leave a Comment

SolidRocks is an Autodesk™ 3dsmax™ plugin which automates the complex process of setting up rendering. It brings the best of the powerful V-Ray™ rendering engine without any need to know its internal operation. What can SR do on this Evermotion Interior Scene ? How fast is SolidRocks when asked to render a difficult, complex, dark interior scene, with lots of …

Zen Coding

Amir HameedMy Writings, Technology Leave a Comment

Zen Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any other structured code format) coding and editing. The core of this plugin is a powerful abbreviation engine which allows you to expand expressions—similar to CSS selectors—into HTML code. For example: div#page>div.logo+ul#navigation>li*5>a …can be expanded into:                 <ul id=”navigation”> <li><a href=””></a></li> …

Zen Coding for PHP and WordPress

Amir HameedMy Writings, Technology Leave a Comment

Just like you saw the previous post for Zen Coding, that is a great thing for developers like me and others. Initially it was just for HTML/CSS. Then I thought ,there should be some support for PHP and WordPress as well (I\’m a great fan of WordPress). Then I came to know that somebody already had done the PHP part. …

Interact to Edit

Amir HameedMy Writings, Technology Leave a Comment

Initially , my challenge was to have some interactive method to edit the Table cell in an Web Application, without opening any dialogue or popup, and that is very easy and intuitively in use. So I came up with an idea of “Double clicking” over the desired Table cell or HTML node to edit it. Then I started looking into …

LESS : The dynamic stylesheet language.

Amir HameedTechnology Leave a Comment

LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) and server-side, with Node.js and Rhino. For some months , I have been hearing about LESS, LESS, LESS, LESS is more and blah blah. But last day when I studied about it in detail I came to know …