Ahmed Shan

Designed a personal contact card

Shan — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:50:46 +0000

My Contact Card

I just designed a personal contact card. I wanted to keep everything clean, simple and similar. So the card also looks similar to my website layout and also my CV.

Starbucks Coffee Shops I know in Malaysia

Shan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:58:04 +0000

I don’t usually depend on jQuery. I understand that the website should be working fine with javascript disable from the browser. But for this project, I have written a lot of javascript and the frontend will not work with a javascript disabled browser.

Check it out

My Flickr Photo Stream

Shan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:19:30 +0000

This was an easy project done using jQuery to fetch the photo stream form Flickr.

Demo

Trending SOPA via Twitter Feed

Shan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:21:50 +0000

A twitter feed trending SOPA. It refreshes every 30 seconds.

Demo

PHP RSS Reader Animated Using jQuery

Shan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:39:16 +0000

I am just practicing my skills. This is the RSS feed of Thaanu.com. The RSS is fetched using PHP and the sliding animated is done using jQuery.

Demo

A Simple Layout

Shan — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:39:25 +0000

It did not took much time to create this simple layout. First creating a wireframe is always helpful. Then you can plan ahead and also keep it as a guide.

My First Blog Post Of 2012

Shan — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:00:20 +0000

Happy New Year Everyone… May god bless you and make your wishes come true.

My Picasa Web Albums

Shan — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:28:06 +0000

I tried to fetch the albums from RSS using PHP and I can fetch them easily. However Google have wrapped the album image inside the description element, therefore I can’t get the album image separately. I can get the album image and the few other details of the album, with a link to view the album.
The description element is wrapped around a HTML table, it has a row and two columns. So what I did to get the album image is to use little bit of CSS tricks. The HTML structure looks like this.

I wrapped the whole table in a DIV tag and gave it a class name of “tag”, so that I can easily control the elements inside the DIV tag. Then I used the following CSS code to get the end result.
.tag {
float: left;
}
.tag tr td:last-child {
display: none;
}
Because there are only two columns in the table, last-child will is targeted to the second column which holds the album information. So now I have hidden that column.

Checkout the Picasa Web Albums page

The Coffee & Spice Company

Shan — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:10:45 +0000

This is the fifth time I’m having a wonderful mean at The Coffee & Spice Company. On the first day I tried a curry puffs and I really loved it. It’s one of the best curry puffs I had in Malaysia.

This time I ordered for 1 chicken sandwich, 1 curry puff and 1 hot hazelnut coffee.
The previous time I had the biriyani set meal and it was great. I really enjoyed it.
In addition they provide WI-FI service, so you can go online. In fact I’m writing this blog post while sitting at The Coffee & Spice Company at 1Utama shopping centre, Malaysia.
I would recommend The Coffee & Spice Company for family and friend to enjoy evening tea or morning breakfast.

iMotion HD

Shan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:22:08 +0000

I created this short videoclip using iMotion HD on my iPad. This application is available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPads. You can download the app for free, but to export videos you need to buy the app. I bought it for $1.99 and I should say it’s worth it. It is a simple application with big buttons. No complicated settings. And simplicity is the best.

The only complain I have is that the iPad’s camera is not HD, its really a low quality camera therefore the video quality is not so good. I bet on a iPhone 4 the video quality will be awesome.

Here is another video I created while I was at KLCC, Malaysia