Personal Blog, some LAMP stuff and other things

Laravel collections usage with crawler links

August 5, 2017Technical Topicscrawling, laravel, laravel collections, phpzaid

Recently I have been maintaining a package for crawling website internal links called Arachnid, this package crawls website links, and […]

WCF SSL Service with PHP

March 3, 2016Technical Topicsphp, soap, ssl, wcfzaid

We had a task recently that required our team – me with my colleague Ahmad to write php code to […]

Technical Books I read in 2015

January 3, 2016Mixeszaid

2015 was a good year, I have read several books in it, some of them I studied cover-to-cover, and selected some […]

Using Sonata admin bundle with multiple connections

October 13, 2015Technical Topicsdatabase, doctrine, sonata admin, symfonyzaid

Last month I was participating in developing solution which provides reporting features using Symfony that deals with data partitioned over […]

Structured data markup extraction using php Goutte

July 17, 2015Technical Topicsgoutte, JSON-LD, metadata, micrdata, php, RDFa, schema.org, structured datazaid

In the previous week, I have been working on some sort of scrapper with text analysis functionality to collect data about […]

Applying version stamp to Symfony & SonataAdmin

December 12, 2014Technical Topicsdatabase, php, sonata admin, symfonyzaid

I spend a lot of time in my job in developing and maintaining backoffice systems to process some workflow logic […]

Server Sent Events example with laravel

July 2, 2014Technical Topicshtml5, laravel, php, Server Sent Eventszaid

Recently I have read about HTML5 Server Sent Events, and liked the concept of establishing long-lived connections to the server, […]

Pagination optimization for Symfony2 & Doctrine

March 22, 2014Technical Topicsdatabase optimization, mysql, symfonyzaid

In the last week, one of my websites – which is recently launched – has suffered from major performance problems, […]

Look at materialized views in PostgreSQL 9.3

January 28, 2014Technical TopicsDBA, materialized views, postgresqlzaid

I needed to use materialized views for the first time in order to handle performance problems that our team encountered […]

postgreSQL quick start with php

January 24, 2014Technical Topicsdatabase, DBA, php, postgresqlzaid

Last week, I accidentally stumbled upon blog stating features of new version of posgreSQL, and I found it pretty interesting, […]