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“Small minds try to form religions, the great ones just want better routes up the mountain.”
-Alan Kay

The above quote is from Alan Kay’s HOPL II paper – The early history of Smalltalk. Wonderful quote from a brilliant man. Genius like Kay I’m surely not, still, we can all contribute, however small, to build a better route, even forge new ones. This blog is my small contribution; jostling for space along with the other millions like me around the digital landscape. It’s a digital habitat for me to post articles, tutorials, and comments on subjects that I find interesting and useful, and hopefully to other web professionals. The ideas are about software in general and php/mysql in particular.

Consulting

I currently work as a freelance back-end developer, primarily in PHP/MySQL. I also provide integration services for various opensource applications, web scrapping projects, and I’m available for consulting if you have any requirements. You can view my consulting rates here.

Tools I use

IDE/Editors: ActiveState Komodo, Notepad++
Version Control: Subversion, TortoiseSVN
Database: phpMyAdmin, MySQL Workbench
Testing: PHPUnit, Selenium

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Contact

Regarding any comments or suggestions you may have for this site or any of the sites content, or you have any questions you want to ask me; please contact me at metapix [at] gmail.com. Please do not send emails to request help in debugging code. I get a large number of emails and it is difficult to attend to them all.

17 Responses

Nash

July 16th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

Hello Sameer,

What is your cost structure(Hourly,Project) ? I am located in the US and need a couple of sited built.

Leo

August 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

Hi,

I like the theme/template of your blog. Do you mind to share it with us? Thank you.

ajay

February 15th, 2010 at 10:46 pm

hi sammer,

i am new in selenium , i have completed the installed the selinun as per ur instraction, thus i want to know how to use data driven testing in selenium PHP code.
means login checking with multiple user name & password,
for invalid user name & password

please if u have some useful command related to fetch data from combo box or list box , also how to use random number random string

please help me as soon as possible

Rajeev Tripathi

February 21st, 2010 at 9:59 am

Sorry for too late.
Thanx a lot. I visited your BLOG site and feeling happy to see your experience, knowledge and wisdom. You are a great talented Indian guy.

You can’t think that but I was search for this script on select menus from a month. But even on Google there is no such good tutorial site linked who really explain the simple job. I sending you another script which I found interesting but it does a great work in coding and on Result end it complete its task but checking out the source code it fails to print selected=”selected”/SELECTED in option tags which are really select by user.

Its my request to you as a friend that Please seo of your site more on this topic and linked this tutorial example in Google on for SELECT MENU DATA PERSISTENCE and/or some others keywords.

I think it is helpful and very important tutorial and maximum number of websites I don’t know why but skips to explain data persistence in SELECT MENUS during teaching “PHP Form Data Persistence”.

Christian Ander

February 24th, 2010 at 10:51 am

Hi!

i’m looking for someone to work with, am using wordpress and want to develop my skills together with someone. Are you intreressted in some kind of coworking?

I live in Sweden by the way and was in Pune a couple of years ago.

best wishes,
Christian

Atasa

June 5th, 2010 at 5:04 am

Hi, Nice work…
I visit Pune Often maybe grat to read this

Muskie

September 28th, 2011 at 8:39 pm

Amazon Product API is requiring AssociateTag now or very soon. How does this affect your Amazon Product API example. I use a modified version of your code. Ultimately everything goes to aws_signed_request which is where the public and private key are added. Is this no long sufficient? I think adding the AssociateTag there would be the simplest change but I wonder if I have to pass teh AssociateTag in as part of $parameters every time…

Gotta look at it more, but I thought since it was your original design you might have some thoughts too.

Hend

October 4th, 2011 at 7:37 am

Hi Sameer,

I’m a beginner QA, I need to learn and fully understand Selenium. I’m working on Linux operating system.

I read the documentation to Selenium but still need help, please advice me what to do.

Muskie

October 4th, 2011 at 12:29 pm

Here is the simplest fix I came up with:

/**
* Query Amazon with the issued parameters
*
* @param array $parameters parameters to query around
* @return simpleXmlObject xml query response
*/
private function queryAmazon($parameters)
{
$parameters["AssociateTag"] = myInfo::MY_AMAZON_ASSOCIATE_ID;

return aws_signed_request(“com”, $parameters, $this->public_key, $this->private_key);
}

Pablo BOZZOLO

November 3rd, 2011 at 7:25 am

Thanks for your post about Link List! very useful!!

Here some add-ons:

// por Pablo
public function rewind(){
$this->lastNode = $this->firstNode;
}

// por Pablo
public function current(){
return $this->lastNode->data;
}

// por Pablo
public function next(){
$out = $this->lastNode->data;
$this->lastNode = $this->lastNode->next;
return $out;
}

Sandy

November 3rd, 2011 at 10:02 pm

Hi Sameer,

Keep up the Good work…

Its very helpfull for the beginners.

Best Regards,
Sandy.

SuperBebert

November 9th, 2011 at 11:42 pm

So fan of your article.
Its very helpfull for the beginners.

Just a litle note about your article “Accessing Amazon Product Advertising API”, there is a wrong space before ‘&’ in the final request building which included signature.
/* create request */
$request = “http://”.$host.$uri.”?”.$canonicalized_query.”
&Signature=”.$signature;

=> it creates problem for usage

Juergen

November 16th, 2011 at 12:05 pm

Hello,
I would like to thank you for updating your Amazon API Class for the new associate_tag
Now everything works fine again
Juergen

Damitr

November 20th, 2011 at 10:53 am

Hi,

This is related to your post on Mir Books.
Check out my attempt to redeem them:

http://mirtitles.org

Dan

March 19th, 2012 at 3:45 am

In regards to your post “Transferring large PSD files quickly using Diff-Patch” -
You can use dropbox to share files with your customers. Dropbox keeps synchronizing only the diffs.