Happy New Year 2017!
Wow, how time flies! It was exactly 1 year ago that I posted the last article on this blog, and how naive I was, thinking that I’d be regularly posting here. I was just too preoccupied (mostly lazy) to do...
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Happy New Year 2016!
It seems as if it has been only a few months since we were counting down for 2015. It’s amazing how time seems to fly by so quickly. Another year of our lives have passed and another year is upon us...
Dhivehi Text – A simple plugin to integrate Thaana text into your WordPress site
For a recent project a client wanted to include a button in the WordPress WYSIWYG editor to easily add Dhivehi text on the otherwise mainly English language website. Instead of adding this as a site specific feature, I thought that...
How to use Google Maps API for GPS coordinate inputs
For a recent project I had to create a web interface for users to input and store GPS coordinates. To make the process more user friendly, I thought of integrating the Google Maps API to allow the users to directly pinpoint...
The Beautiful Semenyih Dam
At the beginning of last semester just a couple of days after I arrived back in Malaysia, me and my friend took a drive down to the Semenyih Dam. It’s only about 15-20 minutes drive away from Semenyih town but...
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A Malacca Experience
It’s the Autumn semester break of my second year at UNMC and I’m stuck in Malaysia with my passport being held in Immigrations for student visa renewal. I was hoping to travel to some nearby countries during this break, but...
Happy New Year 2015!
As some of you might already know, I have a small tradition of taking a light painting photo of the coming year on each new year’s eve. Whether it’s with the help of friends & family or just by myself, I’ve...
How to create a tabbed options page for your WordPress theme using CMB
If you are a WordPress developer like me creating your own themes, you most probably would have wanted to add easy customisability to your theme by incorporating a theme options page. But you might have found out that it’s a...
Elections Commission and Information Privacy
Maldives Elections Commission hasn’t been known for protecting citizens’ personal information. During the past 2013 Presidential Elections they publicly displayed voters’ lists at poll stations which showed the voter’s photo, national ID card number, date of birth and other sensitive personal information. And after...