Shameer is a passionate programmer and open-source enthusiast from Kerala, India. He has experience in web development using Scala, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, and JavaScript. While not working, Shameer spends his time coding personal projects, learning, watching screen casts, blogging, etc. His specific areas of interest include cloud computing, and system and database administration.
Shameer's articles
Shameer quickly explains the gargantuan user management plugin for Symfony2: FOSUserBundle. Learn how to register, log in, and more!
In this article we’ll go through the basics of the jQuery DataTable and how to use some of the advanced features.
Read Create a Multi-user Presentation with Reveal.js and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
This article shows you how you can easily generate PDF documents using PHP with the Dompdf library.
PHP has a REPL, although it has some limitations. Boris, a tiny PHP REPL library addresses those issues for a better REPL experience.
Challenge your procedural way of thinking with this article and learn the basic concepts of functional programming in PHP.
See how to install and configure Xdebug, how to debug your PHP application from Netbeans, and how to view a profiling report in KCachegrind.
Read Versioning Your Database with Liquibase and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Slim is well-suited for creating simple REST web services in PHP and comes with some components like Router, Request, Response, and View.
Learn how to use NotORM, a light-weight and easy-to-use ORM library that provides an intuitive API for easy database access.
In this article we'll run through how to use EXPLAIN to write better MySQL queries.
Read Using Traits in PHP 5.4 and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read Using Phing, the PHP Build Tool and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.