Having an open source application to build on is great a lot of times. You save time building the core of the application and can spend your time on the things that are specific to just your application. Saves developers a lot of time and clients a lot of money. The problem comes in when the developer has no idea how the initial application is made. Any change that...

“It’s the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist.  There’s an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking.  On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real...

First off, credit where credit is due. Islamicfinder.org is who is actually providing the date. The plugin and instructions to use the plugin are located in its github page: http://github.com/abdulvayani/islamic_date If you would like this plugin to work with your mephisto blog or site, here is a different version of this...

I’m actually quite impressed with how easy it was to change the theme of the site to a custom one and then add some additional functionality. I was able to do all of that without touching the original codebase and it proved to be much faster than editing the original code. It’s too bad development has slowed down like it has.