Recently, at Javaabu we had increased the salaries of all our developers for the new year 2023. Since we hired our first staff in 2018, every year we had been incrementing staff salaries to match their improving skill and education...
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...
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...
[note color=”#ffffd6″] Update 16-Feb-2015 Since writing this post Wataniya Maldives was re-branded as Ooredoo Maldives. [/note] This is the Wataniya Telecom Maldives’ e-directory compiled using data publicly available on www.wataniya.mv as of 1st October 2013. This contains 79,432 unique Wataniya mobile numbers...
Here’s a video and some pics I took of the mass Eid prayers held in Male’ today. It’s shot using my GoPro HERO3: Black Edition stuck on my XShot 2.0 Camera Extender. Even though I had my Nikon D7000 with...
I few days ago I was browsing Wikipedia while I somehow came across an article on domain hacks. Of course this was nothing new to me, everyone is familiar with domain hacks such as del.icio.us or goo.gl. However this got...
This was my first time-lapse shot using my new GoPro HERO3: Black Edition. The time-lapse was shot over a period of 40 minutes with 0.5 second intervals between each frame. This turned out be a much too frequent interval and...
Do you own a Bank of Maldives issued VISA debit card? Do you use it to shop online? If the answer is yes for both of these questions you might be frustrated with the $400 daily spending limit that’s imposed...
[note color=”#ffffd6″] Update 19-Jul-2013 Some errors were found in the islands list and were fixed. Please beware the island registration numbers might not be accurate. [/note] For a recent project I needed a list of all islands of the Maldives....