The contents of this blog post are inherited from a short research project by Group 10 of the Information Retrieval and Data Mining module at University College London. Instead of letting it rot in my Dropbox, I decide to free the knowledge and hope someone finds it useful. More
About Ali Gajani
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Managing Assets in Laravel 4 using Helpers and HTML Builder
Laravel 4 doesn’t have a lot of documentation on managing assets such as stylesheets or Javascript files. Laravel 3’s documentation did however, but it seems to have been omitted for the newer version somehow. Today, I’ll be showing you some neat ways to manage assets using Helper functions and HTML Builder. More
Dead simple CRUD in Laravel 4
I feel I’ve come late to the party. But they say, it’s never too late. Laravel’s community has matured and it’s safe to say the framework has brought the sexy back to PHP. Laravel is dead simple. It’s expressive, elegant, and extremely powerful at the same time. More
FreeMyApps: Download Suggested Apps and Earn Rewards
Wouldn’t it be great if a service asks you to download some apps suggested by them, and in return you earn $$ or free items as reward. Freemyapps does just that. Read on to find out more. More
Facebook buys Yo! app for $5 billion dollars
Our team of Silicon Valley insiders have just reported a major development in the area. Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire mobile app Yo! for approximately $5 billion in cash and stock. Yo! will remain an independently branded standalone app that’s separate from Facebook. The transaction should go through this quarter pending some standard closing procedures. More
What’s new in Yosemite OS X 10.10 Beta 2 ?
Cook and Co. just pushed their latest beta updates for iOS 8 and Yosemite OS 10.10. I’ve updated my Yosemite and here’s a short review on what’s changed. I am only documenting the visible changes, but I’ve provided a Pastebin of the full release notes in case you’re interested. More
How to update Homebrew in Yosemite?
Yosemite uses Ruby 2.0 where as my previously installed Homebrew was set to use 1.8. I did an upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite just last week, but it was today that I set out using brew commands and realized, oh no! But I have a 2 minute fix that works just fine. More
Hands on with OS X 10.10 Yosemite by Mr. Geek
I’ve just downloaded Apple’s OS X 10.10 Yosemite pre-release. You might ask, how did I get my hands on it? Well, as an owner of a Developer account, I have access to beta releases from Apple right from their developer portal. It costs 99 bucks a year but it’s worth it. Here’s a hands on review of Yosemite, where I shall discuss the good and the bad. More
Improve your Chrome experience with Speed Dial 2
I dislike Google Chrome’s “New Tab Page”. It’s not aesthetically pleasing. Have a look at the image above. Can you see it? That’s Speed Dial 2. It’s by far the best replacement of the ‘New Tab Page”. Speed Dial 2 gives you access to your favorite sites with a gorgeous, customizable user interface. More