Amir M. Sahib

So today at work I spent several minutes trying to figure out how to send an sms link with a message along with it. Turns out according to the iPhone URL Scheme, you can’t do it (at least for their phones). So to all those people who are going to try to search on [...]

We’ve made some updates to Shoutreel. Check it out and tell me what you think.

Web developers have waited for what seems like ages for this month to come along. Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, but since month after month it continues to lose ground to all other browsers, Firefox has now finally surpassed IE6, which is easily the most hated version of Microsoft’s browser. [...]

My friends and I have been building this basic app called ShoutReel. The idea is basically taking the forum and making it simpler. An easier way to explain it is Twitter is micro blogging while ShoutReel is micro forums.
Check it out here. Of course it’s still basic and still in beta or [...]

I’ve searched for a while and couldn’t figure this out until I actually picked up my book and browsed the source of examples. I’ll get straight to the code:
<% form_for :user, :url => users_path,:html => { :class => ’standard-form’ } do |f| -%>
That produces:
<form class=”standard-form” method=”post” action=”/users”>
As you can see I added a class [...]

Anyone use this before?
Looks interesting. Planning on trying it out soon.

Want to create a static page with this type of url like yoursite.com/about for a Rails app? Well I had to just that for an app I am currently building.
Basically it involves a controller and added a route to routes.rb. The first step is to create a simple controller:
class StaticController < ApplicationController
def about
end
end
I [...]

TechCrunch has made my day with this post!

I have been Google analytics for years now, but I decided to check out the Wordpress.com Stats plugin. It had always been installed since the inception of all my sites, but they never worked and I never really cared for it until today. I googling to find a solution and basically my theme [...]

Excellent resource.