Zareef Ahmed: Architect and Consultant for AI, Cloud, Data and DevOps

Drupal vs Zend : which one should be used for application development?

March 4, 2013 Updated: October 8, 2017

"You have done that specific site in Zend, don't you think our application is also suitable for Zend instead of Drupal", I just got this email from a prospective client. This question has been asked…

Why randomization is a difficult algorithm to implement?

March 4, 2013 Updated: October 8, 2017

If you are doing programming, You must have used random numbers. They are useful in many situations when you want to give some randomization to your program output like lottery draw, random banners generation, random…

Filed Under: Programming · Algorithms · PHP Notes · Random Numbers

7 things every web developer should know about Linux administration

January 20, 2013 Updated: October 8, 2017

Web programming is not only about how you develop your applications, its also about how you deploy your application or website.Although control panels are being provided by almost every shared hosting company using which we…

Filed Under: Devops · Linux Administration · PHP Notes

How to identify Bigdata? A first hand explaination

January 18, 2013 Updated: October 8, 2017

Bigdata is the word which is being used very often but yet to be defined properly. How much data can be classified as big data? Does big data only means big in size or big…

Filed Under: Cloud · BigData · PHP Notes

6 Algorithms you must know to be a good programmer

January 17, 2013 Updated: August 29, 2026

Algorithms are defined sets of instructions to solve a problem or achieve something. Almost every process in computer world can be classified as an algorithm, still it is most difficult part of computer science for…

Filed Under: Programming · Algorithms · BigData · Hadoop · Mapreduce · PHP Notes

15 Questions about Magento Ecommerce System

November 23, 2012 Updated: October 8, 2017

I am enlisting 15 questions related to Magento ecommerce system. If you can answer these questions, you can consider yourself as a good beginner in Magento. To understand Magento you should cover at least following…

Filed Under: E-commerce · PHP Development Notes · Development · Magento · PHP Notes

PHP Functions to work with PHP Arrays

November 12, 2012 Updated: October 8, 2017

This posts was written in year 2006 on 20th May. In one of my server crash, I lost my posts, Today I got it recovered from Archive.org, and representing it again. Today, I am…

Filed Under: PHP Development Notes · PHP functions

26 questions about Object Oriented Programming in PHP

November 6, 2012 Updated: October 8, 2017

1. What is object oriented programming? 2. How PHP supports object oriented programming? Tell us about syntax etc. 3. What are main features and benefits of object oriented programming? 4. How object oriented programming is…

Filed Under: PHP Development Notes · PHP Development · PHP OOPs

44 questions about Database Programming in PHP

October 23, 2012 Updated: October 8, 2017

1. What is Sqlite? 2. Why sqlite is being called inbuilt database in PHP? 3. How mysql can be installed? 4. How mysql can be configured? 5. What are best features of MYsql? 6. How…

Filed Under: databases · PHP Development Notes · Development · PHP Database

13 questions about PHP configuration options

October 12, 2012 Updated: October 8, 2017

1. How PHP configurations can be changed? 2. What are major configuration values which we usually may want to change? 3. Mention the types of values which we can set in configuration values? 4. Can…

Filed Under: PHP Development Notes · Development · India · PHP · PHP configuraions · PHP Development · PHP interview

28 questions about PHP programming in general

October 12, 2012 Updated: October 8, 2017

1. How PHP is different from other programming language? 2. What are basic and main features of PHP? 3. A brief history of PHP? 4. Can we use the PHP for desktop application development? 5.…

Filed Under: PHP Development Notes · Development · India · PHP · PHP Development

16 questions about File uploading and Form handling in PHP programming

October 11, 2012 Updated: October 8, 2017

1. Do we need to do something specific to do form handling in PHP? 2. How file uploading has to be enabled in a HTML form? 3. How PHP handles file uploading process? 4. What…

Filed Under: PHP Development Notes · Development · PHP Development · PHP Form Handling · PHP Programming

How to optimize all databases and tabels on mysql server?

September 13, 2012 Updated: August 29, 2026

Optimization of database tables in mysql is a process which has to be carried out regularly to make your database in good health. According to mysql manual, OPTIMIZE TABLE should be used if you have…

Filed Under: databases · PHP Development Notes · Development · MySQL · Mysql optimization · mysql table optimization · PHP Development · PHP Notes · Resources List

How to integrate Magento and Drupal?

May 2, 2012 Updated: October 8, 2017

Magento is one of popular and robust e-commerce system which is based on the Zend Framework by Zend. It gives good tools and mechanism to operate your e-commerce websites and even multiple stores on different…

Filed Under: E-commerce · consultancy · Drupal · Magento · PHP Notes · Zend · Zend and Drupal · Zend and Drupal integration · Zend Framework

Why People hate Magento?

May 1, 2012 Updated: August 9, 2026

An architect's honest take on why people hate Magento: the real reasons behind the complaints, what Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce changed, and when it still makes sense.

Filed Under: E-commerce · Magento · Magento Optimization · Magento Speed Optimization · PHP Notes · Why people hate magento

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