Archive for February 2008

Memory Hungry PHP Applications on Shared Hosting

If you run your WordPress on a shared hosting server like hostmonster.com / bluehost.com (which have excellent service by the way), and have several memory-hungry php applications or WordPress plugins installed, you must have run into an "Allowed memory size exhausted" fatal error a few times. For me it happened yesterday while uploading a mere […]

On throughput, quality and quantity of blog posts

It has been 10 months since I started this blog. At 50 posts, its about a post a week (a post per weekend is what I aim for in fact) – not a lot by any standards but who cares. I have estimated that I have spend around 20 minutes on writing an average sized […]

On the Clueless Ministry of Information Technology Pakistan

I originally started this post to share this spanking brand spanking new report on Broadband penetration in Pakistan by our Ministry of Information Technology titled "Is Entire Pakistan Underserved?", and was just going to write something weakly funny about it like "Yes, you bet it is, you could have asked me instead of wasting money […]

Startup Insiders Lahore – Braindump

As it is almost bedtime (8AM), so I must dump a few very interesting points that were raised at the meet up before going to sleep. These ideas are sticking around in my brain after 3 days have passed, and deserve more discussion, perhaps in another similar session. Its easier to do a startup near […]

Startups Insiders 2 Lahore was Fun

I just came back from the Startups Insiders 2 meetup, and it was really good to bump into a lot of old friends and familiar faces, some after five years (note to self: must go out more often). The success (and failure stories) were  interesting and the discussions were lively. If I get the time […]