Aslam Najeebdeen

Starting it over again

Aslam Najeebdeen — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:18:53 +0000

Hello there! Yeah, it’s me! I know, I know, it’s been more than a year since I last blogged. I even failed to fulfill the blogging tradition this year by posting the year in review feature and my new year’s … Continue reading »

How to create local copy of Rails API doc and Guides

Aslam Najeebdeen — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:12:39 +0000

If you’re a programmer, I’m sure you know the importance of API documentation. No matter what language you’re using, or what your expertise level is, API documentation is always essential for your reference, whenever you need it. Of course you can find and use API documentations online, but I’m sure there are many occasions, when you’ve wished to have an offline version of the document.

Reaching new horizons

Aslam Najeebdeen — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:05:55 +0000

Here we are, on the very first day of the New Year – 2012. For the past 9 years, it has become a practice for me to keep myself free on the last day, so as to have a deep reflection and review on the year that was just about to end. I would take my small notebook and write about all the experiences gathered, as well as my New Year resolutions. Last year, for the very first time I decided to change this tradition and posted them on the blog. Continue reading »

Passing of a Legend

Aslam Najeebdeen — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:15:04 +0000

Yesterday I was burning mid night oil for deadline at Feedgen and went bed around 2.30 AM (IST) with the hope that I could sleep a little more in the morning. But, early this morning around 6.00 AM, I suddenly got a call from a cousin and said "Hey, your hero passed away!". Continue reading »

FrontCube logo rebranding

Aslam Najeebdeen — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:04:16 +0000

Finding a logo which is unique and at the same time having a special significance is not an easy task. During my freelancing days while studying at the university, I used “Web Live Studio” as my unique brand. For this, … Continue reading »

It Was a Good Year, The Best is Yet to Come

Aslam Najeebdeen — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:17:01 +0000

We’re about to say goodbye to 2010 so it’s the best time to look back and review the year 2010 and make a firm resolutions list for 2011. I’m excited to make my new resolutions and plans public very first … Continue reading »

Boost your productivity with XRefresh

Aslam Najeebdeen — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:50:22 +0000

Are you really frustrated to switch from your text editor to your browser to see the changes you’ve applied? In this screencast I’m going to show you how you can boost your productivity by using XRefresh Watch the screencast (external … Continue reading »

The Beginning of a Brand new Experience

Aslam Najeebdeen — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:39:00 +0000

Today is a very important day of my life. I have been through a lot and gained much experience, which has brought me to where I am now in life. Today is indeed an important day for me, because it will be the beginning of a whole new experience. It is something that I have given much thought to, but have been waiting for the right time. It is with great joy that I declare that I am launching my own web consultation firm! Continue reading »

Introducing Speedy – Painless rapid Rails deployment

Aslam Najeebdeen — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:20:08 +0000

If you’re a Rails developer I hope you too hate to run ./script/server command all the time to start the application server during the development phase. Fortunately Phusion came up with a revolutionized solution to host the Rails application on Apache server using Passenger (aka mod_rails). Continue reading »

How to uninstall / remove Ruby Gems (on Ubuntu)?

Aslam Najeebdeen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:44:34 +0000

First we need to find out the exact location that the Ruby installs it's libraries. In the terminal program, You can type the following command to find out the exact location. Continue reading »