Author Archives: Asim Imtiaz

Conducting an A/B Experiment: TeaBreak’s Homepage

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Asim Imtiaz

Following our media partnership with Newsline Magazine recently, we found the need to re-arrange TeaBreak’s homepage. We decided to go for a ‘sectioned’ layout, i.e. the home page should feature selected sections or categories (like Politics, Business, etc.) along with their latest … Continue reading →

Posted in Experiments | Tagged A/B Test, Google Website Optimizer, Newsline Magazine, PHP, TeaBreak | Leave a comment

Google accounts cockup

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Asim Imtiaz

I started using Google Apps for my domain (FuzedBulb.com) a few years ago, but before I migrated to Google Apps, I was already using a number of other Google services like Analytics, Adsense, Docs, etc. which I signed up, ofcourse, … Continue reading →

Posted in Barely Productive | Tagged conflicts, google apps, google apps migration, google temp accounts, transition | 4 Comments

“Subtle” workplace RSI prevention ideas

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Asim Imtiaz

You may not be a “bad-ass” software engineer but if you day job involves working with computers then you should be taking workplace ergonomics and RSI related injuries very seriously. Now just to be clear the purpose of this post … Continue reading →

Posted in Random Stuff | Tagged humour, locomotor systems, musculoskeletal, pun, workplace ergonomics | Leave a comment

Upgrading WordPress: A breeze thanks to version control

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Asim Imtiaz

In my previous post Version controlling WordPress, I discussed my strategy to organize WordPress-based projects using version control (Subversion in my case). The idea was to make WordPress and plugin upgrades easy enough especially when you are running multiple WordPress based … Continue reading →

Posted in Barely Productive | Tagged depro, FuzedBulb, subversion, svn, WordPress | Leave a comment

Running Spring app in Google Appengine

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Asim Imtiaz

I was playing around with Spring MVC framework and wanted to test it on Google’s AppEngine. (GAE). I found out that the process is not as straight forward as I thought. I was following this article here to configure spring for … Continue reading →

Posted in Experiments | Tagged apache xerces, Google AppEngine, spring framework | Leave a comment

Polish spam posts on WordPress

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Asim Imtiaz

The other day I was going through TeaBreak’s headlines on my Google Reader (which, by the way, you guys can follow and sync up with all the awesome things I share) and I came across a polish post. Yes, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Barely Productive, Random Stuff | Tagged security vulnerability, Spam, TeaBreak, WordPress | 2 Comments