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Sufyan bin Uzayr (40 Articles)

Sufyan bin Uzayr writes for multiple publications and has also authored a book named Sufism: A Brief History. His primary areas of interest include open source, mobile development, web CMS and vector art. He is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of an e-journal named Brave New World. You can visit his website or friend him on Facebook.
20 Addons, Extensions and Applications for Discussion Forums

20 Addons, Extensions and Applications for Discussion Forums

Discussion Forums are a great way of ensuring active participation from your website’s visitors. Of late, many established blogs and websites have been running forums wherein their users can interact…

The Disappointment of Writing on Medium.com

The Disappointment of Writing on Medium.com

Of late, a new writing service has taken the blogosphere by a storm. This one pitches itself as “a better place to read and write”. Yes, I am talking about…

WordPress 3.8 Has Been Released this Week

WordPress 3.8 Has Been Released this Week

Named “Parker” in memory of Jazz saxophonist Charles Parker, WordPress 3.8 has been released. This new version of WordPress brings many interesting features to the table, such as the redesigned…

Good vs. Great Web Design: The Difference

Good vs. Great Web Design: The Difference

While there are no rigid rules when it comes to web design, there do exist certain metrics that can distinguish a bad design from a good one, and even more…

Australis: The New Look for Firefox

Australis: The New Look for Firefox

Even though it has lost considerable market share to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox is still the preferred and favored web browser for a good number of internet users. And in…

ManageWP.org — Share, Explore and Vote on Everything WordPress

ManageWP.org — Share, Explore and Vote on Everything WordPress

Due to the popularity of WordPress, there is no shortage of WP-related material on the internet. Whatever it might be that you are looking for — news, themes, plugins, reviews,…

Google Web Designer: Bringing Ideas To Life, Using HTML5

Google Web Designer: Bringing Ideas To Life, Using HTML5

Yesterday Google added a new tool to its wide array of offerings, and this time they have built something specifically for the web design community. Allow me to introduce you…

phpMyAdmin Turns 15 Years Old This Week!

phpMyAdmin Turns 15 Years Old This Week!

In an era when everything on the internet is shrinking in terms of life expectancy, be it smartphone operating systems or browser versions, phpMyAdmin, the extremely popular and often taken…

Flat Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design

Flat Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design

Flat design is nothing but simplicity put into practice. The fact that simple shapes such as rectangles and circles are being preferred over gradients and drop shadows shows that the…

Android Studio: The IDE built to help make the life of Android developers easier

Android Studio: The IDE built to help make the life of Android developers easier

If you are an Android developer, life has so far offered a rather straightforward approach: you would probably use Android Developer Tools atop Eclipse, and that is pretty much it!…

Brackets by Adobe: An Open Source Code Editor in the Making

Brackets by Adobe: An Open Source Code Editor in the Making