Shaiful's recent backpacking trip to Cambodia was proven to be a memorable one, including all the horn-happy drivers cruising along the streets. It is a country with fascinating history with thousands of years of civilization, majestic temples and interesting people. Hear how Shaiful tells a tale of his adventures. Keep Reading

In one of his projects, one of the requirements was the system must be able to produce an official form document in Excel spreadsheet with precise formatting that will look consistent when printed. Like the smooth strumming of his guitar, Shaiful shares a quick workaround on how to generate complicated Excel documents from your application. Keep Reading

The "HTML mode" in the WordPress editor doesn't really provide you with total control of the HTML being generated on the frontend. Some of the auto-formatting it does are for instance wrapping your inline elements with <p> and line breaks are also interpreted as <p>. If you're someone who likes full control over the HTML of your content in WordPress, this simple solution might interest you. Shaiful shows you how. Keep Reading

Let's say we have a university website running on a CMS and a couple of student blogs running on a blogging tool like WPMU. Then on the university website homepage we need to pull several latest blog teasers from the student blogs. We can accomplish this quite easily with a free PHP class called SimplePie. What the library does is it fetches the blog RSS or Atom feed that we provide and parses it into an easy to use formatted data. Keep Reading

Shaiful takes a break from the webby stuff to talk about the greatest sporting event on the planet - football. Hear him prattling on about how he supported France way back in 1998, and how he strived to feel the excitement supporting the Blues once again. Keep Reading

One of the rules in today's web is if you have forms on your website, you need to have some kind of spam prevention measure implemented. Here Shaiful will talk us through the several methods that can be used and why CAPTCHA isn't one. Keep Reading

Shaiful Borhan shares some first hand experience about life as a city dweller in the culturally-rich Kuala Lumpur. Home of an impressive mix of cultural values, this is one city where age-old tradition blends in with the fine touch of modern lifestyle. Keep Reading

When working with databases, one of the tasks that may popped up every once in a while is the need to replace some little snippet of text and all its occurrence throughout the table, to a different text. If you need to perform a quick search and replace on your MySQL database records, Shaiful reassures that you should just take a seat and read on, casually. No biggie. Keep Reading

AddThis is a neat little tool embedded into a webpage to make bookmarking and link sharing easier, more interactive and not to mention, cooler too. Here's how you customize AddThis while keeping the W3C validator happy. Keep Reading

Shaiful continues with the second part of his recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona. The lucky guy went to Grand Canyon. On. A. Fricking. Helicopter. Keep Reading