Shuaib's World on the Web
Moving to a new domain
mshuaibkhan.blogspot.com — I've been on and off on blogosphere since around 2004. This blog has lived the longest out of all of my previous blogs, lasting for around one and a half year. And it has served me well. I liked writing on it, even without any considerable amount of readership, which is perfectly...
Startups Insider Session
mshuaibkhan.blogspot.com — P@SHA and SEECS collaborated to have a Startups Insider Session at NUST campus, Islamabad. Unless it is really difficult for me to attend any such session, I hardly miss one. And this one was so close to home, so I definitely attended. The panel included:Faizan Buzdar, CEO,...
Ease of Python, speed of C...?
mshuaibkhan.blogspot.com — No I don't have the tool with that property to show you here. ;)Just that, I was practicing past algorithm problems of Codejam, and I realized Python won't be of much help there. For one of the problems, I wrote a program that got the solution right for the small input, but...
iPhone-Dev: Multiple Font Styles on a single UILabel
mshuaibkhan.blogspot.com — It isn't possible with the current SDK (3.1). If you want to have some string written over a UILabel with part in one font style (family, bold/italics) and another part in different style, you'll have to resort to other methods.One way is to have two labels side by side, faking...
The Five People You Meet In Heaven -- Mitch Albom
mshuaibkhan.blogspot.com — I've been reading lots of books recently but haven't really blogged about any. So thought I would start with the latest I just finished, "The Five People You Meet In Heaven". Don't get mislead by the title the way I did. I thought it was going to be about some new reinterpretation...
Mac OS X on Dell Inspiron 6400
mshuaibkhan.blogspot.com — I wrote about my effort to install Mac OS X on my Dell Inspiron 6400 some time back, not giving details, rather keeping it for later. I see from my analytics report that many people land on my blog searching for this. So the deal is, I was able to run it on my machine, [...]