As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, Regular readers of MyIslamicFamily may well know that I recently created a Twitter account (@PerfectQuran) that posts an ayah every hour. When I wrote the (buggy) script that does the work, I had to find solutions to a number of problems. The major problem was/is many of the [...]
Archive for the ‘The Nerd Zone’ Category
Capture Fox
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, Today, I was reviewing screencasting software. I was looking for something simple to use and cheap (if not free). While I was browsing, I happened upon a Firefox plugin called Capture Fox, which allows Firefox users to effortlessly create simple screencasts with a click of a button. If [...]
Perfect Quran
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, After sitting on the domain PerfectQuran.com for a while and not doing much with it, I decided to create a simple program that will tweet one ayah of Quran every hour to a twitter account. I made it to where anyone who wanted to tweet the Quran to [...]
Setup Your Gravatar
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, Have you ever wondered why some people comment on blogs and it leaves a nice personalised avatar next to their comment and for others there is an ugly (or pretty) pattern? It’s all down to Gravatars or ‘globally recognized avatars’. How do gravatars work? They work by assigning [...]
One Year Anniversary
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, Everything comes to an end. Everything will perish. Tall mountains, mighty empires and human lives will vanish as if they had never existed. So, what chance does a silly little blog like mine have? Today marks the one year anniversary since I started this blog. Time, SubhanaAllah, goes [...]
ChallengeYourSoul Affiliate WordPress Plugin
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, Update: Please go to SayfSolutions to download or receive support for this plugin The ChallengeYourSoul Affiliate plugin adds a WordPress shortcode to easily add ChallengeYourSoul affiliate ads in your posts and pages. It also includes a widget that displays a random affiliate ad. This plugin is a WordPress [...]
A New Look
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, Alhamdulillah, I finally got around to creating a new custom look for MyIslamicFamily.com. I have wanted to create a new look for a few months now but never got around to actually doing it. MyIslamicFamily went through a lot of looks when it was hosted on wordpress.com, mostly [...]
CSS Sticky Footers
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, Recently I started working on improving the layout and look for biblerrors. It displayed as expected in Firefox, which is the browser I use for Web development. It also displayed nicely in Opera. However, there were some issues with Internet Explorer and it looked down right awful in [...]
Google Wave Invites
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, I just got my Google Wave invite after about a week of actively seeking one. The best I can describe Google Wave is that it is an online collaborative tool but that’s probably a poor description. Anyway, I have 7 invites to share and I want to spread [...]
Perfect Quran
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu, I have been thinking for quite some time to create a site contrasting Biblerrors and just purchased a domain for that purpose, PerfectQuran.com. I’m looking for suggestions on what kind of site it should be. I look forward to hearing from anyone via email or comments. Jazak Allah [...]
