# Zareef Ahmed (zareef.com)

> zareef.com is the home of Zareef Ahmed's work on software engineering in the AI era: a growing library of articles published since 2004, books for programmers and solutions architects, video tutorials, webinars and training material covering AI-assisted development, cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), DevOps, databases and software architecture. Zareef Ahmed is a software architect and consultant with two decades of experience designing, building and modernizing software systems. His current focus is helping engineering teams adopt AI-assisted development, and offline, on-premise AI deployments that run generative AI entirely inside an organization's own infrastructure for privacy, data control and security. New articles, books and projects are added regularly.

This is the full version with a complete index of all published articles. The shorter curated guide is at https://www.zareef.com/llms.txt

## Who is Zareef Ahmed

- [About Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/who-is-zareef-ahmed): background, experience and current work
- [Contact](https://www.zareef.com/contactme): how to get in touch for consulting or collaboration
- [Consultancy](https://www.zareef.com/consultancy): consulting services offered
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zareefahmed/): professional profile
- [GitHub](https://github.com/zareefahmed/): personal profile with projects and experiments
- [GitHub (DBMinutes)](https://github.com/dbminutes/): material from his database and web technology workshops (NoSQL, graph, document and relational databases)
- [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/~zareef): published Node.js packages, including ailane, a tool that inspects a machine's hardware and reports which local AI models it can run
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@zareefahmed): articles on DevOps and web development
- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/zareefahmed): profile on the machine-learning model platform
- [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/users/2103628/zareef-ahmed): developer profile, member since 2013
- [Amazon author page](https://www.amazon.com/author/zareefahmed): all his books on Amazon
- [Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19794017.Zareef_Ahmed): author profile with his books and reader ratings
- [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@ZareefAhmed): AI-assisted development sessions, cloud and database tutorials, book reviews

## Books by Zareef Ahmed

- [All books](https://www.zareef.com/books): the complete list with details and purchase links
- [You Are the Quality Control](https://www.zareef.com/books/you-are-the-quality-control): a practical guide to secure software in the age of AI-assisted development (2026, Kindle)
- [Bed Time Stories for Programmers and Solutions Architects](https://www.zareef.com/books/bed-time-stories-for-programmers-and-solutions-architects): 21 stories from the field (2026, Kindle)
- [Diary of a Solutions Architect](https://www.zareef.com/books/diary-of-a-solutions-architect): a raw, first-person look into the world of cloud solutions (2025, Kindle)

## Key pages

- [The Stepladder Framework](https://www.zareef.com/stepladder-framework): a vendor-neutral pattern for adopting AI: two teams joined by one versioned contract, and a migration ladder (shadow, compare, gated share, phased increase) from managed AI services to models you run yourself; with a PDF and a slide deck. Zareef does not claim the underlying idea (a known pattern: AI gateway, model router, LLM proxy); it is his documented version of what he does with most clients, originally named AIBOX, a name still in use at client locations where it also serves as auditor, cache layer, load balancer and reinforcement learning data collector
- [Private AI Deployment Consulting](https://www.zareef.com/private-ai): pillar page for his specialty, designing and deploying generative AI that runs entirely inside an organization's own infrastructure; built on open-weight models (Llama, Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek, gpt-oss) and open source runtimes (Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp), with model selection and license review as a deliverable
- [Case Studies](https://www.zareef.com/case-studies): in-depth write-ups of real projects; first case study is Building an Education Marketplace with Private AI Code Generation (https://www.zareef.com/case-studies/education-marketplace-private-ai-code-generation), delivered with a PRD-first method and bulk code generation on private infrastructure (OpenCode + Ollama)
- [ailane](https://www.zareef.com/ailane): his free open-source CLI tool that inspects a machine's hardware and reports which local AI models it can run (npm: ailane, GitHub: zareefahmed/ailane)
- [AI & Code Experiments](https://www.zareef.com/ai-code-experiments): hands-on generative-AI and coding experiments
- [Videos](https://www.zareef.com/videos): latest uploads from the YouTube channel, refreshed automatically
- [Fintech](https://www.zareef.com/fintech): fintech-focused engineering services
- [Webinars](https://www.zareef.com/webinars): recorded webinars on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, including a nine-part Microsoft Azure series (overview, networking, NoSQL, cost management, security compliance, data protection, API management, disaster recovery)
- [Workshops](https://www.zareef.com/pictures/workshops): in-person training workshops, including multi-day AWS workshops delivered in Delhi
- [PHP Interview Questions](https://www.zareef.com/php-interview-questions): interview preparation material for PHP developers
- [PHP Development Notes](https://www.zareef.com/php-development-notes-hints): notes and hints from PHP development work
- [Laravel Security Review](https://www.zareef.com/laravel-security-review): pillar hub for reviewing and hardening Laravel applications, linking guides on a production security checklist, authentication and authorization, and preventing the OWASP Top 10
- [Pictures](https://www.zareef.com/pictures): photo gallery from workshops and events

## Open Source AI Hub

- [Open Source AI Hub](https://www.zareef.com/open-source-ai): Practical guides on open-weight models, model licenses and open source tools, from his open source AI consulting and on-premise deployment work. Seven chapters and an FAQ, written by Zareef Ahmed; the hub covers what open source AI is and why it matters, while the Private AI page covers running it inside your own network
- [Free Software vs Open Source: The History and Philosophy Behind the Licenses](https://www.zareef.com/open-source-ai/free-software-vs-open-source): GNU, the FSF and the four freedoms, copyleft and the GPL, permissive licenses, the 1998 naming of open source and the OSI, and why the distinction matters for AI
- [What Is Open Source AI? Open Weights vs Open Source vs Open Data](https://www.zareef.com/open-source-ai/what-is-open-source-ai): the OSI Open Source AI Definition, the openness spectrum from fully open to closed with examples, open washing, and a short glossary
- [Open Model Licenses Compared: Apache-2.0, MIT, Llama, Gemma, RAIL and the EU AI Act](https://www.zareef.com/open-source-ai/model-licenses): OSI-approved licenses versus vendor terms, dataset provenance, the EU AI Act in brief, and an eight-step checklist for checking a model license before you ship
- [The Open Model Landscape: Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemma, Mistral, gpt-oss and How to Choose](https://www.zareef.com/open-source-ai/model-landscape): open model families by maker and by task, sizes and quantization explained, and how to choose; reviewed quarterly
- [The Open Source AI Toolbox: Runtimes, UIs, RAG, Fine-Tuning, Evaluation and Observability](https://www.zareef.com/open-source-ai/toolbox): inference runtimes, chat interfaces, orchestration and RAG frameworks, vector stores, fine-tuning, evaluation, observability and the Hugging Face Hub, each with its license, plus a reference private stack
- [Open Source AI Coding Assistants: OpenCode, Aider, Cline, Continue, Roo Code, Tabby, OpenHands and Goose](https://www.zareef.com/open-source-ai/coding-assistants): open coding tools compared, what running them on local models requires, and how they compare with Claude Code, Copilot and Codex
- [Why Choose Open Source AI, and When Not To](https://www.zareef.com/open-source-ai/why-open-source-ai): the case for open models, the honest trade-offs, and a five-question decision rule
- [Open Source AI FAQ: Definitions, Licenses, Models and Tools](https://www.zareef.com/open-source-ai/faq): about thirty short answers, including whether Llama, Gemma, gpt-oss, Ollama, LM Studio and Open WebUI are open source

## Blog

The blog has numerous articles published from 2004 to the present at https://www.zareef.com/ covering how-to guides, comparisons, book reviews and field notes. Main topic archives:

- [AI](https://www.zareef.com/development/ai): AI-assisted development and machine learning
- [AWS](https://www.zareef.com/development/aws): Amazon Web Services guides and how-tos
- [Google Cloud](https://www.zareef.com/development/google-cloud): Google Cloud Platform articles
- [DevOps](https://www.zareef.com/development/devops): Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD
- [PHP Development Notes](https://www.zareef.com/development/php-development-notes): PHP techniques and patterns
- [Programming](https://www.zareef.com/development/programming): algorithms, code quality and craft
- [Book Reviews](https://www.zareef.com/development/book-reviews): reviews of technical books
- [E-commerce](https://www.zareef.com/development/e-commerce): Magento and online-store development
- [Tech News](https://www.zareef.com/development/tech-news): technology news commentary from the site's early years (2004 to 2006)

### All articles (newest first)


#### 2026

- [When Automation Forgets the Sir: Why AI Messages Go Wrong in India](https://www.zareef.com/articles/automated-messages-india-sir-bhaiya-ji.php) (2026-10-09)
- [Who cannot use AI, and Why?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/who-cannot-use-ai-and-why.php) (2026-09-12)
- [Core Web Vitals and Frontend Performance for Magento 2](https://www.zareef.com/articles/core-web-vitals-and-frontend-performance-for-magento-2.php) (2026-08-29)
- [Full-Page Caching in Magento 2: Varnish, Redis, and a CDN](https://www.zareef.com/articles/full-page-caching-in-magento-2-varnish-redis-cdn.php) (2026-08-29)
- [A Magento 2 Performance Optimization Checklist](https://www.zareef.com/articles/magento-2-performance-optimization-checklist.php) (2026-08-29)
- [Why You Will Not Find Zareef on Upwork or Fiverr](https://www.zareef.com/articles/why-you-will-not-find-zareef-on-upwork-or-fiverr.php) (2026-08-30)
- [Inside the Forward Deployed Engineer Role: What They Do, Expect, and Must Know](https://www.zareef.com/articles/forward-deployed-engineer-role-expectations-and-skills.php) (2026-08-20)
- [Laravel Security in Times of AI Code Generation](https://www.zareef.com/articles/laravel-security-in-times-of-ai-code-generation.php) (2026-08-18)
- [A Laravel Security Checklist for Production](https://www.zareef.com/articles/laravel-security-checklist-for-production.php) (2026-08-18)
- [Securing Authentication and Authorization in Laravel](https://www.zareef.com/articles/securing-authentication-and-authorization-in-laravel.php) (2026-08-18)
- [Preventing the OWASP Top 10 in Laravel](https://www.zareef.com/articles/preventing-the-owasp-top-10-in-laravel.php) (2026-08-18)
- [How to Build a Private RAG System Over Your Company's Documents](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-build-a-private-rag-system-over-your-company-documents.php) (2026-08-03)
- [Seven reasons why Zareef is bad at technology?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/seven-reasons-why-zareef-is-bad-at-technology.php) (2026-07-22)
- [What Zareef do when he is not doing programming?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/ek-pyar-ka-nagma-hai-played-by-zareef-ahmed.php) (2026-07-20)
- [Ollama for Teams: Local AI Deployment Guide](https://www.zareef.com/articles/ollama-for-teams-local-ai-deployment-guide.php) (2026-07-18)
- [Private AI Architecture Checklist](https://www.zareef.com/articles/private-ai-architecture-checklist.php) (2026-07-18)
- [How to Run LLMs Inside Your Company Network](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-run-llms-inside-your-company-network.php) (2026-07-18)
- [Security Risks of AI Coding Tools](https://www.zareef.com/articles/security-risks-of-ai-coding-tools.php) (2026-07-18)
- [On-Premise AI vs Cloud AI: Which Should Your Company Choose?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/on-premise-ai-vs-cloud-ai-which-should-your-company-choose.php) (2026-07-18)
- [How to Run AI Models Locally and in the Cloud with Ollama](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-run-ai-models-locally-and-in-the-cloud-with-ollama.php) (2026-05-31)
- [How to Set Up the OpenAI Codex CLI](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-set-up-openai-codex-cli.php) (2026-05-31)
- [How to Set Up GitHub Copilot](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-set-up-github-copilot.php) (2026-05-31)
- [How to Set Up Claude Code](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-set-up-claude-code.php) (2026-05-31)

#### 2024

- [17 Equations That Transformed the World and Remain Important for Machine Learning and AI](https://www.zareef.com/articles/17-equations-that-transformed-the-world-and-remain-important-for-machine-learning-and-ai.php) (2024-09-26)

#### 2023

- [Tools to manage popular database systems](https://www.zareef.com/articles/tools-to-manage-popular-database-systems.php) (2023-03-31)
- [Roadmap to be an expert in SQL](https://www.zareef.com/articles/roadmap-to-be-an-expert-in-sql.php) (2023-03-31)
- [What are basic things in SQL, that you should know?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/what-are-basic-things-in-sql-that-you-should-know.php) (2023-03-31)

#### 2019

- [7 Laravel Features to Enhance the Security of Your Application](https://www.zareef.com/articles/7-laravel-features-to-enhance-the-security-of-your-application.php) (2019-09-08)
- [Book Review : Socket.IO Cookbook (Tyson Cadenhead) by Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/book-review-socket-io-cookbook-tyson-cadenhead-by-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-03-03)
- [Book Review : Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins By Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/book-review-continuous-delivery-with-docker-and-jenkins-by-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-03-03)
- [AWS : How to connect to Windows Instance by Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/aws-how-to-connect-to-windows-instance-by-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-03-03)
- [What is the use of dynamic inventory in Ansible?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/what-is-the-use-of-dynamic-inventory-in-ansible.php) (2019-03-03)
- [Book Review : Clean Code (Robert C. Martin) by Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/book-review-clean-code-robert-c-martin-by-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-03-03)
- [Book Review : Mastering Ansible (Jesse Keating) by Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/book-review-mastering-ansible-jesse-keating-by-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-03-03)
- [7 things every web developer should know about Linux Administration By  Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/7-things-every-web-developer-should-know-about-linux-administration-by-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-01-31)
- [How to be a good wordpress programmer? |   Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-be-a-good-wordpress-programmer-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-01-31)
- [Things you should know about file upload handling in PHP | Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/things-you-should-know-about-file-upload-handling-in-php-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-01-31)
- [7 Things you need to know to implement better DevOps | Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/7-things-you-need-to-know-to-implement-better-devops-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-01-31)
- [Github : How to do forking from a repository? | Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/github-how-to-do-forking-from-a-repository-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-01-31)
- [Git : How to use git to create a local backup restoration plan?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/git-how-to-use-git-to-create-a-local-backup-restoration-plan.php) (2019-01-31)
- [Vagrant : How to create a VM with custom public network IP address using Virtualbox? | Zareef Ahmed](https://www.zareef.com/articles/vagrant-how-to-create-a-vm-with-custom-public-network-ip-address-using-virtualbox-zareef-ahmed.php) (2019-01-31)
- [Day 2 : RDS Service by Amazon Web Service (AWS)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/day-2-rds-service-by-amazon-web-service-aws.php) (2019-01-31)
- [Day 3 : Walk-through of EC2 on AWS](https://www.zareef.com/articles/day-3-walk-through-of-ec2-on-aws.php) (2019-01-31)

#### 2018

- [29 new things of AWS at AWS Re:Invent 2018](https://www.zareef.com/articles/29newthingsofawsatawsreinvent2018.php) (2018-12-01)
- [Google Cloud Load balancer & Autoscaling in ACTION!! (Udemy link below with discount code!)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/google-cloud-load-balancer-autoscaling-in-action-udemy-link-below-with-discount-code.php) (2018-09-08)
- [Google BigQuery introduction by Jordan Tigani](https://www.zareef.com/articles/google-bigquery-introduction-by-jordan-tigani.php) (2018-09-08)
- [Google Cloud Endpoints: serving your API to the world (Google Cloud Next '17)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/google-cloud-endpoints-serving-your-api-to-the-world-google-cloud-next-17.php) (2018-09-08)
- [Migrating Apps to Cloud: Systematic or Random (Cloud Next '18)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/migrating-apps-to-cloud-systematic-or-random-cloud-next-18.php) (2018-09-08)
- [DDoS Defense and Application Protection with Cloud Armor, GCP Security, and ML (Cloud Next '18)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/ddos-defense-and-application-protection-with-cloud-armor-gcp-security-and-ml-cloud-next-18.php) (2018-09-08)
- [A Year in GCP Networking (Cloud Next '18)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/a-year-in-gcp-networking-cloud-next-18.php) (2018-09-08)
- [Visualization with GPUs on Google Compute Engine (Cloud Next '18)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/visualization-with-gpus-on-google-compute-engine-cloud-next-18.php) (2018-09-08)
- [Best Practices for Storage Classes, Reliability, Performance and Scalability (Cloud Next '18)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/best-practices-for-storage-classes-reliability-performance-and-scalability-cloud-next-18.php) (2018-09-08)
- [Managing Costs in GCP: How to Structure Your Resources (Cloud Next '18)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/managing-costs-in-gcp-how-to-structure-your-resources-cloud-next-18.php) (2018-09-08)
- [The Power of Process & Partnership: Leverage Tools to Increase Efficiency (Cloud Next '18)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/the-power-of-process-partnership-leverage-tools-to-increase-efficiency-cloud-next-18.php) (2018-09-08)
- [Hybrid Lift-and-Shift/Optimize Real World Stories (Cloud Next '18)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/hybrid-lift-and-shift-optimize-real-world-stories-cloud-next-18.php) (2018-09-08)
- [Get the best HPC Performance via Intel Xeon Skylake on Google Cloud (Cloud Next '18)](https://www.zareef.com/articles/get-the-best-hpc-performance-via-intel-xeon-skylake-on-google-cloud-cloud-next-18.php) (2018-09-08)
- [How much experience you have in Devops?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-much-experience-you-have-in-devops.php) (2018-09-03)

#### 2017

- [AWS Certification Exam : 9 Online Education providers which you can use](https://www.zareef.com/articles/aws-certification-exam-9-online-education-providers-which-you-can-use.php) (2017-10-08)
- [AWS architect : What an architect does?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/aws-architect-what-an-architect-does.php) (2017-10-06)
- [9 things you need to know about Java 9](https://www.zareef.com/articles/9-things-you-need-to-know-about-java-9.php) (2017-09-23)
- [VMware on AWS : What you need to know?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/vmware-on-aws-what-you-need-to-know.php) (2017-09-21)
- [10 differences between AWS and Google Cloud](https://www.zareef.com/articles/10-differences-between-aws-and-google-cloud.php) (2017-09-03)
- [3 things you need to know about AWS Migration Hub](https://www.zareef.com/articles/3-things-you-need-to-know-about-aws-migration-hub.php) (2017-08-16)
- [How to deal with cache nightmares?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-cache-nightmares.php) (2017-08-06)
- [7 Devops tools which you should know to create a productive devops culture](https://www.zareef.com/articles/7-devops-tools-which-you-should-know-to-create-a-productive-devops-culture.php) (2017-07-10)
- [Is a knowledge of Hadoop required to learn Spark?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/is-a-knowledge-of-hadoop-required-to-learn-spark.php) (2017-06-26)
- [Why do we use a token concept in PHP?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/why-do-we-use-a-token-concept-in-php.php) (2017-06-25)
- [Devops for QA : Is programming required?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/devops-for-qa-is-programming-required.php) (2017-06-08)

#### 2016

- [Cloud Security : One mistake that can close down your cloud operations in few minutes](https://www.zareef.com/articles/cloud-security-one-mistake-that-can-close-down-your-cloud-operations-in-few-minutes.php) (2016-07-06)
- [What is the best Linux software to monitor web traffic on router?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/what-is-the-best-linux-software-to-monitor-web-traffic-on-router.php) (2016-05-10)

#### 2015

- [How to handle checkout when we are selling unique products?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-handle-checkout-when-we-are-selling-unique-products.php) (2015-02-04)
- [In defense of QA team: Who is responsible for errors in any software or website?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/in-defense-of-qa-team-who-is-responsible-for-errors-in-any-software-or-website.php) (2015-01-28)

#### 2014

- [Your projects are not your real baby, you may need to dispose them](https://www.zareef.com/articles/your-projects-are-not-your-real-baby-you-may-need-to-dispose-them.php) (2014-12-04)
- [2 things you should never do as a programmer](https://www.zareef.com/articles/2-things-you-should-never-do-as-a-programmer.php) (2014-06-05)

#### 2013

- [What are some limitations of PHP?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/what-are-some-limitations-of-php.php) (2013-08-12)
- [Drupal vs Zend : which one should be used for application development?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/drupal-vs-zend-which-one-should-be-used-for-application-development.php) (2013-03-04)
- [Why randomization is a difficult algorithm to implement?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/why-randomization-is-a-difficult-algorithm-to-implement.php) (2013-03-04)
- [7 things every web developer should know about Linux administration](https://www.zareef.com/articles/7-things-every-web-developer-should-know-about-linux-administration.php) (2013-01-20)
- [How to identify Bigdata? A first hand explaination](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-identify-bigdata-a-first-hand-explaination.php) (2013-01-18)
- [6 Algorithms you must know to be a good programmer](https://www.zareef.com/articles/6-algorithms-you-must-know-to-be-a-good-programmer.php) (2013-01-17)

#### 2012

- [15 Questions about Magento Ecommerce System](https://www.zareef.com/articles/15-questions-about-magento-ecommerce-system.php) (2012-11-23)
- [PHP Functions to work with PHP Arrays](https://www.zareef.com/articles/php-functions-to-work-with-php-arrays.php) (2012-11-12)
- [26 questions about  Object Oriented Programming  in PHP](https://www.zareef.com/articles/26-questions-about-object-oriented-programming-in-php.php) (2012-11-06)
- [44 questions about Database Programming in PHP](https://www.zareef.com/articles/44-questions-about-database-programming-in-php.php) (2012-10-23)
- [13 questions about PHP configuration options](https://www.zareef.com/articles/13-questions-about-php-configuration-options.php) (2012-10-12)
- [28 questions about PHP programming in general](https://www.zareef.com/articles/28-questions-about-php-programming-in-general.php) (2012-10-12)
- [16 questions about File uploading and Form handling in PHP programming](https://www.zareef.com/articles/16-questions-about-file-and-form-handling-in-php-programming.php) (2012-10-11)
- [Dream PHP Team](https://www.zareef.com/articles/dream-php-team.php) (2012-09-28)
- [How to optimize all databases and tabels on mysql server?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-optimize-all-databases-and-tabels-on-mysql-server.php) (2012-09-13)
- [How to integrate Magento and Drupal?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-integrate-magento-and-drupal.php) (2012-05-02)
- [Why People hate Magento?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/why-people-hate-magento.php) (2012-05-01)
- [How to optimize Magento speed?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/how-to-optimize-magento-speed.php) (2012-05-01)
- [Deploy and Release your PHP Applications with Phing](https://www.zareef.com/articles/deploy-and-release-your-php-applications-with-phing.php) (2012-04-13)
- [Using PHP and Java in the Same App with PHP/Java Bridge](https://www.zareef.com/articles/using-php-and-java-in-the-same-app-with-phpjava-bridge.php) (2012-04-03)

#### 2011

- [Artificial Intelligence in PHP : Creating Neural Networks](https://www.zareef.com/articles/artificial-intelligence-in-php-creating-neural-networks.php) (2011-12-10)
- [10 Reasons to Use Zend Framework](https://www.zareef.com/articles/10-reasons-to-use-zend-framework.php) (2011-12-07)
- [Integrating Zend Framework with Drupal and Wordpress](https://www.zareef.com/articles/integrating-zend-framework-with-drupal-and-wordpress.php) (2011-07-23)
- [PacktLib Review : Why these big names can not manage thier services properly?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/packtlib-why-these-big-names-can-not-manage-thier-services-properly.php) (2011-01-22)

#### 2010

- [Wordpress to Drupal Migration - Part 1](https://www.zareef.com/articles/wordpress-to-drupal-migration-part-1.php) (2010-08-05)
- [What you should know in wordpress to be a wordpress programmer?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/what-you-should-know-in-wordpress-to-be-a-wordpress-programmer.php) (2010-02-20)
- [Wordpress : A PHP Developer's delight](https://www.zareef.com/articles/wordpress-a-php-developers-delight.php) (2010-01-17)

#### 2009

- [Smarty Sponsorship : Nes Web Design now Sponsors Best  PHP Template Engine  Smarty](https://www.zareef.com/articles/smarty-sponsorship-nes-web-design-now-sponsors-best-php-template-engine-smarty.php) (2009-11-30)
- [My Experiments with Open Source CMS and E-commerce Solutions](https://www.zareef.com/articles/my-experiments-with-open-source-cms-and-e-commerce-solutions.php) (2009-11-05)
- [Zundoo : Zend CMS : Zend Framework based CMS : A new initiative](https://www.zareef.com/articles/zundoo-zend-framework-based-cms-a-new-initiative.php) (2009-09-14)
- [Fear of pain is more painful than pain itself](https://www.zareef.com/articles/fear-of-pain-is-more-painful-than-pain-itself.php) (2009-08-21)
- [PHP Functions to work with PHP functions](https://www.zareef.com/articles/php-functions-to-work-with-php-functions.php) (2009-07-09)

#### 2008

- [Use Exit after redirecting user via header function](https://www.zareef.com/articles/use-exit-after-redirecting-user-via-header-function.php) (2008-06-18)
- [PHP Development Notes](https://www.zareef.com/articles/php-development-notes.php) (2008-06-17)

#### 2007

- [Using SQL abstraction and CRUD factory classes is a good  practice?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/using-sql-abstraction-and-crud-factory-classes-is-a-good-practice.php) (2007-07-06)
- [PHP4 and PHP5  version conflicts and why we should stop using PHP 4](https://www.zareef.com/articles/php4-and-php5-version-conflicts-and-why-we-should-stop-using-php-4.php) (2007-06-14)
- [How to create a file upload progress bar in any version of PHP?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/file-upload-progress-bar-code.php) (2007-05-19)

#### 2006

- [Buyout of JBoss by Redhat may create an open source powerhous](https://www.zareef.com/articles/buyout-of-jboss-by-redhat-may-create-an-open-source-powerhous.php) (2006-04-18)
- [Open Source is a HIT in india](https://www.zareef.com/articles/open-source-is-a-hit-in-india.php) (2006-04-11)
- [Now Microsoft gives Support for Linux Open Source](https://www.zareef.com/articles/now-microsoft-gives-support-for-linux-open-source.php) (2006-04-11)
- [Busy Weeks for Open Source Community](https://www.zareef.com/articles/busy-weeks-for-open-source-community.php) (2006-04-11)

#### 2005

- [PHP Developers Yahoo is calling..... Go ahead !!!](https://www.zareef.com/articles/php-developers-yahoo-is-calling-go-ahead.php) (2005-06-23)
- [Indian Researcher Cracks Microsoft Anti Piracy Program](https://www.zareef.com/articles/indian-researcher-cracks-microsoft-anti-piracy-program.php) (2005-06-23)
- [Google confirms payment gateway plan](https://www.zareef.com/articles/googel-confirms-payment-gateway-plan.php) (2005-06-22)
- [Google vs PayPal](https://www.zareef.com/articles/google-vs-paypal.php) (2005-06-20)
- [Apple won the first stage of its legal battle against  teen web editor and others](https://www.zareef.com/articles/apple-won-the-first-stage-of-its-legal-battle-against-teen-web-editor-and-others.php) (2005-03-15)
- [IBM and ZEND team to accelerate development and deployment of PHP](https://www.zareef.com/articles/ibm-and-zend-team-to-accelerate-development-and-deployment-of-php.php) (2005-02-25)
- [Art of Asking Questions](https://www.zareef.com/articles/art-of-asking-questions.php) (2005-02-23)
- [Official launch of the PHP Security Consortium](https://www.zareef.com/articles/official-launch-of-the-php-security-consortium.php) (2005-02-02)
- [Teen Web editor drives Apple to court action](https://www.zareef.com/articles/teen-web-editor-drives-apple-to-court-action.php) (2005-01-15)
- [PHP awarded Programming Language of 2004](https://www.zareef.com/articles/php-awarded-programming-language-of-2004.php) (2005-01-14)
- [A Note on Security in PHP](https://www.zareef.com/articles/a-note-on-security-in-php.php) (2005-01-14)
- [Hostway support PHP5](https://www.zareef.com/articles/php5_hosting_hostway.php) (2005-01-13)
- [Internet Explorer for Linux Manual Page](https://www.zareef.com/articles/internet_explorer_for_linux__help.php) (2005-01-11)
- [India's own .IN domian extension available to general public](https://www.zareef.com/articles/in_domian_extension_.php) (2005-01-07)
- [A New Linux Business Model](https://www.zareef.com/articles/a-new-linux-business-model.php) (2005-01-03)

#### 2004

- [PHP and .NET](https://www.zareef.com/articles/net_and_php.php) (2004-12-29)
- [E-Commerce and Indian  Cyber Law](https://www.zareef.com/articles/e-commerce_and_indian__cyber_law.php) (2004-12-21)
- [After Year 2000 problem.....?](https://www.zareef.com/articles/after-year-2000-problem.php) (2004-12-19)
- [Linux Days are here again !!!](https://www.zareef.com/articles/linux_days_are_here_again_.php) (2004-12-14)

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