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Streetdeal.sg Checkout Subscription Strategy

by Ahmed Muzammil | Jun 1, 2014 | Software, Technology

I was buying something on StreetDeal.sg and noticed the tricky discount choice down there. People most probably would click on “I need 20% discount” and save money this time and ………. End up paying 88$ every 3 months without even noticing the above explanation. What do...

LinkedIn Email Marketing – Well Thought

by Ahmed Muzammil | Jun 1, 2014 | Marketing

I was checking out a promotional sales package for a month for free. And guess what, here’s the email from LinkedIn to make me continue using it. Make it an expense on the company.

What India Needs To Become a Superpower!

by Ahmed Muzammil | Jun 1, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, India, Technology

This is the reflection of a Quora question that I had asked. And recent thoughts after seeing a lot of imports (excluding petroleum) coming into Singapore from the US and other First World economies. We in India have this slavish mentality, the reason why we...

Inspiration – Persistence Pays Off!

by Ahmed Muzammil | May 26, 2014 | Startup

Came across a fantastic inspiration today. Read below: He got rejections after rejections but did not give up. In fact, he got over 1000 rejections. He got 1009 NOs before he got his first YES to open his franchise. With that one success, Colonel Hartland Sanders...

Software Project Estimation

by Ahmed Muzammil | Jan 2, 2014 | Consulting, Software

Estimation of an IT project is not a pleasant exercise. However, it is part of project management. Usually, the pain points are Depending upon the role, we come up with own version of numbers. Project Bidder, Project Governance intend to move the numbers down; Black...

The Wonderful Human Brain – Infographic and Test

by Ahmed Muzammil | Oct 28, 2013 | Consulting, Development, Management

Stumbled upon the above brilliant infographic recently while casually browsing twitter. It was Interesting to know the dynamics of the brain and how it works. Further to the above infographic, here’s some more information: Left Brain The left side of your brain...

Joel Test

by Ahmed Muzammil | Oct 7, 2013 | Development, Management, Software, Technology

The Joel Test is a twelve-question measure of the quality of a software team. Do you use source control? Can you make a build in one step? Do you make daily builds? Do you have a bug database? Do you fix bugs before writing new code? Do you have an up-to-date...

Intalio Log4J Config Hack

by Ahmed Muzammil | Jul 15, 2013 | Software, Technology

It’s difficult to set multiple log categories to DEBUG or anything with the Intalio’s log4j configurator that comes with bpms-console. I had to set like 10 different logs repeatedly. Every time it sucks to actually find the log category, choose DEBUG and then click...

Facebook Graph Search Review

by Ahmed Muzammil | Feb 23, 2013 | Social Media, Technology

Here’s how Facebook Graph Search is… It let me find many friends who are there in FB but not in my List… FB once again did it in connecting people (was it someone else’s tagline?) It let me do this: (Siri show me) “Friends of friends who are in Singapore and not in my...

Make Intalio 6.5 IE8 Compatible

by Ahmed Muzammil | Feb 14, 2013 | Software, Technology

Intalio doesn’t officially support IE8. Some simple fixes allowed ui-fw to work fine with IE8. 1. /webapps/ui-fw/script/jquery-timer.js Add ‘var’ at col 1 line 18 2. /webapps/ui-fw/script/grids.jsp Remove , (comma) from col 28 line 1212 That solved the issue! Comment...