PHP Router in 140 Characters

This is a dimple(damn simple) URL routing script for PHP which is written in just 140 characters of code, so it fits within a tweet. Its NOT a good router at all, don’t use it in a real application, its not exception handled either. I did it just for fun and to demonstrate the simplicity […]

GetSetGo – Dynamic Setter Getter Library for PHP

GetSetGo is a dynamic setter-getter library for PHP 5.4+. Its developed by me and Sheikh Heera, and yes, its well unit tested. You can use methods like setFoo(‘bar’) and getFoo(), which you DON’T have to create (in your class). GetSetGo will make these methods work for you automatically as long as you have a $foo […]

Laravel 4 Uses Lots of Static, Not True.

Most of the time developers blame Laravel for using too much static. This claim is not true in case of Laravel 4, lets dig in and discuss why and how. What is static? In PHP you call it like this Class::$property. As the name suggests, it preserves the state. Static variables preserve their values across […]

Filter Eloquent Results by Overriding in Laravel (v 3 & 4)

Now Laravel has this feature built-in What is Eloquent? Eloquent has been a really popular ORM in the PHP community lately, it was initially built for Laravel framework only. But since Laravel 4 all the components including Eloquent are built as Packages which may depend on other packages. These packages can be installed through Composer […]

XSS Filter in Laravel Framework

If you are connected with the PHP development world then you must have heard the name Laravel and you know what it is. If you don’t know, Laravel is a modern PHP framework which utilizes modern PHP features and uses some of the existing frameworks’ components to truly awesomify PHP development. Back in 2012 I […]

Tongue – jQuery Plugin to Create Animated Dropdown Content

Tongue is a very simple jQuery plugin which allows you to add animated dropdown child element to any elements without using any CSS styles for that. View Live Demo Fork on GitHub Download

Hide Twitter Replies – Google Chrome Extension

Finally, new Twitter profile has this feature built-in. This project is now deprecated and no longer supported. Are you annoyed by the @replies on Twitter? Be it on any profile or news feed, it looks like a chat session. Now you can hide these annoying replies and you can see the genuine tweets. Install this […]

Goals of First Quarter of 2012

Goals of last quarter was a 100% success, alhamdulillah (praise be to God). Now goals of frist quarter of 2012: Inshallah (God willing) I will … Build strong hands on Java with Android. Write 3 blog posts on tech stuff. Reach 2700 reputation level at Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/users/656489/usman . Contribute on some selected projects on Github. Finish […]

Bangla Font for Android (without rooting)

Newer versions of Android handles Unicode really well. This project is now deprecated and no longer supported. Overview: I have received too many requests for a Bangla Font for Android. Unfortunately Android is not so matured in handling Unicode and Complex Script and there was no way of installing new font without rooting the device, […]

Phonetic Bangla – Write Painless Bangla Across the Web

Now you can Write cross platform Phonetic Bangla accross the web. No matter what the Operating System is, you can write phonetic Bangla in Facebook, Google, Yahoo or any other website with Google Chrome. You do NOT need any other software to be installed in order to use this. Rich text editors are not working […]