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A trip to Antelope canyon with a toddler
America is a beautiful piece of land. The diversity of terrain, weather and people are unmatched.
Qasim Zee
Jan 17, 20202 min read
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Halal Expat in Bangkok, Thailand (where to get what?)
I got a job at Agoda a couple of months ago and the first two months were really exciting. I moved to Bangkok ..
Qasim Zee
May 22, 20162 min read
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Centos, Varnish, NGINX, Drupal
As an experiment this week I decided to change the web server of a site to NGINX, the existing web server was Apache.
Qasim Zee
Nov 28, 20155 min read
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Drupal – Run AJAX command after success of another JS command.
With ajax_command_invoke, I was getting error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property apply undefined — ajax.js Terrible!
Qasim Zee
Jun 27, 20151 min read
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Customizing a vagrant box
Recently, I got to know an excellent ready virtual machines solution known as Vagrant . The solution I was looking for was that I can...
Qasim Zee
Mar 30, 20151 min read
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Sails JS – Production mode Error: [$injector:unpr]
<p>I just encountered another error and in production mode that angular JS controllers were not being loaded properly and I was getting the error like: Error: [$injector:unpr] … To fix this, just change the declaration of your AngularJS controllers from </p><!-- Crayon Syntax Highlighter v2.6.9 -->
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Qasim Zee
Mar 4, 20151 min read
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Sails JS security [DRAFT]
This is a checklist I am creating for myself to secure different areas of a SailsJS application I am developing these days. For API...
Qasim Zee
Mar 2, 20151 min read
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Sails JS + AngularJS error: CSRF mismatch
I was trying to build signup functionality with AngularJS frontend and sailsjs backend rest API. I created a simple angular post...
Qasim Zee
Feb 27, 20151 min read
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Guide: How to Deploy Meteor / Telescope on Centos
<p>Deploying meteor or telescope can be tricky sometimes especially when it comes to centos support. Here are the steps I am following to deploy my meteor app. Development Environment: OSX Production Environment: Linode 1GB Centos 7 Apache Software Stack on production: Mongo DB Node.js 0.10.35 NodeJS “Forever” module to start application in the background I […]</p>
Qasim Zee
Dec 30, 20144 min read
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Load masonry after all the images are loaded
<p>The team decided to make the homepage of Biyixia.com like Pinterest or toptenreviews.com. Challenging, but thanks to the Masonry. Masonry was working absolutely fine on localhost but on the server it looks a bit messed up. The reason was that on slow connections Masonry was being loaded before all images gets loaded in the browser so […]</p>
Qasim Zee
Dec 24, 20141 min read
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No package php-pecl-memcached available.
<p>I was trying to install memcached on a centos 6.6 machine but when I run yum install php php-pecl-memcached, I was getting the error “No package php-pecl-memcached available.” I resolved it using the following method: Open yum.conf that might be available at /etc/yum.conf Find the line starting with exclude= Remove “php” from that line. As it is preventing any […]</p>
Qasim Zee
Dec 15, 20141 min read
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Drupal: Managing translations in a multisite environment.
<p>Currently, I have been working on a complex Drupal project with around 400 subdomains and half a million nodes. All the subdomains have same codebase. The product is in Chinese language and my real issue was to translate the strings from English to Chinese but the problem was that if a string is translated in […]</p>
Qasim Zee
Dec 12, 20141 min read
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Tumblr as my personal homepage.
<p>I have been playing with tumblr for so long but today finally I shifted my tumblr account to a domain qasim.pk. It was easier than I thought. Adding Analytics, Disqus and your social accounts in sooper easy.</p>
Qasim Zee
Dec 10, 20141 min read
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Working in China
<p>My working span in China was short. I was hired by a startup named biyixia.com as lead software engineer. I was already working with them offshore but due to long documentation process, I had to wait too long to apply for the visa. Chinese work visa process needs at least two years of work experience […]</p>
Qasim Zee
Dec 9, 20142 min read
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Protectorate stamp for emigrants other than Middle East
<p>Congratulations if you are a Pakistani and got the job in a foreign country. But there one hiccup, protactorate stamp[1], yes sir. You need to get a protactorate stamp if you have got an employment visa and going overseas for work. There are few questions people usually search for when they get an employment visa […]</p>
Qasim Zee
Dec 8, 20141 min read
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The launch of QasimZeeshan.com
<p>Today, I am launching my new website. The backend is in WordPress, MariaDB and site is hosted on a Linux Centos 7 1GB box. Please feel free to drop me a message here.</p>
Qasim Zee
Dec 8, 20141 min read
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