Mohsin Rasool » Programming

Muhammad Ismail Welcome to the New World

Mohsin Rasool — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:31:07 +0000

Wow I am very happy that my brother , Muhammad Ismail, has enrolled in software engineering degree program with very reputable institute , GCU (Govt. College University Lahore.)

As I am working in online software and website development industry, I am excited to see him join us soon. Good thing is he has already started his personal blog Muhammad Ismail Blog. Also he has started his own new project , Happy Buddy, a web application developed using PHP, MySQL, CSS and HTML. This will help him and master the all dynamics of conceptualizing, coding and deploying the real application for any purpose.

Here is Happy Buddy Project’s page. Ismail, now take this little baby application and make it a full fledge working script which really adds value to the lives of the people. Also I look forward to see more and more such projects from you, I am very active in Open Source stuff, and will be glad if you build and realse some open source applications.

God bless you and Keep Rockin!

Mohsin Rasool

WordPress as CMS Pages RSS Feeds

Mohsin Rasool — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:45:55 +0000

More and more clients are demanding to have their site backend built on WordPress. They want to use WordPress but they do not want to use it as a blog but CMS or a Niche site.

To make a wordpress powered site look like a Content website and not just a blog, and also to make it work like a CMS, we add permanent content into Pages (instead of posts). This works great but there is a problem…

Problem is that by default WordPress does not generate RSS feeds from pages. To really benefit from this technology we need to have pages content also included into RSS feeds.

We solved this problem by installing a simple plugin available for this called RSS Include Pages.

I suggest you to install this plugin if your most of the content is in the form of Pages instead of posts in wordpress powered website.

Regards,

Mohsin

MySQL-Front What a Great Tool

Mohsin Rasool — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:38:10 +0000

Hi,

For local development and coding I use WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) at my laptop and it is really great to do coding while disconnected from wide wide wild internet.

I use PhpMYAdmin to access MySQL db from localhost but just recently i was introduced with a Desktop Program named MySQL-Front to access MySQL db and much operations fast!

Shahzad my close friend just left today, for last two days he was with me at my dorm room + office. Wow what a learning experience to spend time with this senior developer. He has introduced this tool and I have downloaded their trail version and i am already having fun with it.

Another great development tool to add in my growing development tools collection!