Kaveh Jamali (Kevin) – A personal weblog about Creativity, Travel, Photography and GIS

Easy Host Way Australia

20/10/2019 Kaveh Jamali Australia, Market, Web, Web Server

Easy Host Way Australia created a new website for Aussie customers. The new website address is easyhostway.com.au . All prices on this site are in the Australian Dollar, and the default cloud web hosting data centre (Amaze) is based in Sydney, Australia. Clients can also host their websites in four other data centres in America and Europe. Yes, Location is the matter If your websites are created for clients coming from Australia, Oceania, and New Zealand, then Easy Host Way Australia–based data centre is the ideal hosting solution for your requirements. By accommodating your websites in Australia, you are going to provide the best available website streaming speeds for your customers from the area. All of the Easy Host Way

What is happening in Iran?

03/10/2022 Kaveh Jamali daily log

I have been trying to focus on my software development work, but it has not been easy. The last two weeks were a nightmare; with terrible news from Iran (the country where I have born and grown), the hijab police arrested and killed a 22-year girl (Jina (Mahsa) Amini) #MahsaAmini. My heart and mind were with the people that protested, and it has been hard to focus on anything else. I am hoping that things will start to improve soon. The mullahs confiscated Iran people’s revolution 43 years ago and occupied Iran. Then started to destroy Iran’s relationship with other countries. The Mullahs have been successful in doing this for 43 years. They have ruined Iran’s economy and its relationship

Helpful sentences and idioms in English and Persian

20/12/2021 Kaveh Jamali Australia, daily log, Internet Toolbox, Life Style, Web Developing

I recently found a lot of Instagram pages that publish helpful phrases and idioms in English. Since it is almost impossible to find something we need and do not remember, I decided to collect and publish them in a searchable table here. The table inside this page is not suitable for mobile, Please view it on a PC. This is my third year living in Australia, and every day I feel more than yesterday that I should speak English the way people do here, not how I learned them before. I will check each of these phrases with my Australian friends and identify common in Australia. In addition, a free picture dictionary site in 4 languages is available for free

MySQL database, table name, table size in MB, number of records

10/07/2021 Kaveh Jamali Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

I am busy with a big database these days, and I need to know more about its structure and size. This MySQL query helps you to find a database List of table names Number of rows () Number of columns It is a real time saver for me, so I shared it with you. SELECT `main`.`table_name` AS ‘table’, `table_rows` AS `rows`, ROUND((DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH) / 1024 / 1024) AS `Size (MB)`,`colnum`.`columns` FROM`information_schema`.`tables` AS `main` JOIN (SELECT count(*) AS `columns`, `table_name` FROM `information_schema`.`columns` GROUP BY `table_name`) AS `colnum` ON `main`.`table_name` = `colnum`.`table_name` WHERE `main`.`table_schema` = ‘your_database_name’ AND `main`.`table_type` = ‘BASE TABLE’ ORDER BY `table_rows` DESC

PHP Function for Colour Text to HEX Code

15/03/2021 Kaveh Jamali daily log, Web, Web Developing

In a PHP project database, there was a text filed for colours that should be shown as a background colour of a box in front of the product name. Stored colours were like these: Blue BLUE Tomato Beech Flame Red Salmon … That some of them were not a standard colour for HTML, I searched the Internet for the colour to the HEX code table, and I added some non-standard but recurrent colours on that project like: Wood Charcol Gun Metal United Nations Blue … to this PHP function, you can add yours <?php function colourtexthex($colour_text) { // colour text to HEX code $colours = array ( ‘aliceblue’ => ‘F0F8FF’, ‘aluminium’ => ‘848789’, ‘antiquewhite’ => ‘FAEBD7’, ‘aqua’ => ’00FFFF’, ‘aquamarine’

The story of a new, smarter method of inventory management software

25/01/2021 Kaveh Jamali Other

The story of a new, smarter method of inventory management software: This document originally has been published at “SMARTER TECH” web site. It was 2013, the company that I was working in decided to have its own shopping system and warehouse inventory software. I designed a very flexible database with the help of Jaz, and the new shopping system started its activity in 2 months after the decision was made. A simple but tailored inventory management software compatible with that company’s needs was added to it, and the whole system was in operation until 2019. That company does not exist anymore, but my experiences with the inventory management software live with me! Last year based on my new customers’ needs,

Smarter Tech

21/04/2020 Kaveh Jamali Australia, Web, Web Developing, Web Server Leave a comment

This is the 11th month that I am in Australia; during this time, I tried to learn more about the Australian online market. I learnt that besides giants companies that have very advanced tools in digital marketing, there are many small companies with old fashioned web sites that their web site does nothing for them. After ten months, I decided to register my business name here, I named it Smarter Tech. Smarter Tech goes to show smarter and simpler ways to small businesses to promote their online activities. Smarter Tech services for the first year of its activity will be: Fast and reliable web hosting Web Development Digital Marketing WordPress Plugins For Online Shops Actually I am going to gather

swiftprice.com.au and Australia market

23/02/2020 Kaveh Jamali Australia, Market, Web, Web Developing

swiftprice.com.au is a modified version of the ghaimat project for the Australian market. This site monitors 11K products right now and has been designed to monitor millions of products in 2021. The SwiftPrice helps Australian customers to find better and cheaper prices for goods and services inside Australia. Unlike large sites like Google which only show great site prices, Swift Price allows small sellers to easily display their prices on the site. It is enough for a small online business owner to contact the site owner and submit their inquiry. Find some online prices here :

Hello Adelaide city

17/11/2019 Kaveh Jamali Australia Leave a comment

Finally, we said goodbye to the lovely South Coast of NSW and moved to Adelaide in South Australia. The two days trip by car from Nowra to Adelaide was memorable to me.

Afghan Village Restaurant a new website and digital marketing

02/11/2019 Kaveh Jamali Australia, Web, Web Developing 3 comments

I am proud to say I created a new website for Afghan Village Restaurant. This restaurant location is in Camberwell, Melbourne and its new manager is Ms Ghavidel. The restaurant was started its activity in 2001, and some famous people like Stephen Downes, Lianne Tolra, Janne Apelgren and Matt Preston have written a review about it. A good history and experienced team of Afghan Village Restuarant brings them new and loyal customers every week. But like any other business in the 21st century, old and conventional methods should be boosted with “Digital Marketing” to be more effective. I started my job with a simple and mobile-friendly website. Unfortunately, I haven’t the chance to visit Melbourne and the restaurant place so as

Interchange Shoalhaven and Me

17/10/2019 Kaveh Jamali Australia, Life Style, Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

Today, I went to Interchange Shoalhaven (a not for profit, non-government, community-based organisation) for the 3rd time. Their office location is at 37 Holloway Road, East Nowra. Today I had the chance to visit their influential team members, and then I start to analyse their website and social media current status. In a 1-hour meeting with their IT person, we set some goals for the next two months. I understood that they had done a lot of valuable jobs, and we should do some more tasks before 2020 starts. Some tasks like Increasing their site rank with SEO Decreasing their website Alexa rank to 1 million Creating some back-link to the website Doubling the Facebook page fans and followers Doubling

Eidos Consulting

15/10/2019 Kaveh Jamali Australia, Web, Web Developing

A friend of mine, Mr Ian Deck, asked me to make some changes on his business web site (Eidos Consulting) and make it mobile-friendly. I made him a new website with WordPress. The new site contains both classic web pages and modern one-page style. Ian is a brilliant guy and asked me to teach him WordPress, and We spent 3 hours in two sessions, and then he modified some texts, added some pictures and statistics to his site. Yesterday he wrote to me “I spent some time last night and this morning getting myself confused with structure and links within the website, but I reckon it’s now good enough to ‘go live’” I am happy that “Eidos Consulting” new website

I travel whether walking or driving

15/07/2019 Kaveh Jamali Australia, daily log, Life Style, Travel One comment

When I arrived in Australia, It took one week to adopt my mind with this truth that people drive in the correct direction, and they are not criminals. Here, the cars steering wheel is in the right, and the cars drive on the left side of the streets. When I ride a taxi for the first time, I was pushing the brake pedal. I expected to have a car crash anytime. Step by step, my mind adapted itself to new rules, and now, I think I am ready to drive again. It is the truth but funny that I should face an 18-year challenge in 44. I should take another driving license! Before coming to Australia, I read that I

Southern hemisphere and new experiences

03/07/2019 Kaveh Jamali Birding, daily log, Life Style Leave a comment

We came to the southern hemisphere of the earth, where I was showing it on the geographical sphere in my childhood and was asking, “The people here do not fall?” Here, not only people don’t fall, but also the sun in the north in the noon isn’t an important issue. Here the steering wheel of the cars is in the right, and sometimes, as usual, when I want to pass the street I look at the left side, while the danger is on the right! Here is a paradise for birds, wherever you can find many birds. Many of these birds are new to me, so I am busy by bird watching and enjoying the city. Everything here runs slowly

I am happy with PHP

15/04/2019 Kaveh Jamali Market, Web, Web Developing One comment

It was Feb 2018 that I decided to switch PHP. Because of the lovely W3Schools site, learning the PHP was easy to start. In the second week, I tried to write some codes in Notepad++, and then I started to use Eclipse. After two months, I created a simple website (Gheimat.xyz [view it on the arichive.org], a Telegram robot (https://t.me/Gheimatxyz_bot), and a WordPress plugin (Warehouse updater from an external XML for Woocommerce). For ten months, I was mostly busy with my professional online shopping system. I helped some companies to maintain their WP sites. I took more photos, passed food and industrial photography courses, and I attended professional photo editing classes. In other words, I have no free time to

English cafe

23/11/2017 Kaveh Jamali Life Style Leave a comment

English Cafe is not a physical place; it is a monthly or weekly event that is hosted by a physical cafe. People who like to be in a friendly meeting and talk in English for 2 hours can join English Cafe’s events. Attendants’ English language skill is not important at all, but if they are intermediate or higher (advanced or native) will enjoy more. Attending this event (English Cafe) is entirely free (up to 31st March 2018). Attendants only pay the coffee, tea or any other things they eat or drink during the meeting to the host cafe or coffee shop. The next English Cafe event will be informed via social media and the English Cafe site: www.EnglishCafe.xyz

Non-Smoking Cafes

01/09/2017 Kaveh Jamali Life Style, Maps Leave a comment

However smoking in cafes and restaurants is forbidden in Iran, but still, there are many coffee shops and cafes that you can find an ashtray on their tables. This means they let their customers smoke there! Some cafes have individual parts for smokers; smokers are allowed to smoke there. But I am talking about non-smoking cafes, the lovely places that you can enjoy coffee and cocoa smell instead of the annoying smell of cigarette. As some people use the lovely FourSquare software on their mobile phone, so I have created an editable list of non-smoking cafes in Iran there. Please, kindly visit it and add the non-smoking cafe. http://nonsmoking.cafe Your help will be appreciated with the pleasant smell of cakes,

This site needs your help

19/07/2017 Kaveh Jamali photos, Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

Today, I published the above picture “this site needs your help” to my Instagram account to ask my followers to support my web site. As Instagram is an easy to use application and many people all around the world have it on their mobile phones, so each good picture will collect 10s or 100s even millions of likes in a few hours. Unfortunately adding links to Instagram posts is not possible! I am glad to inform you that this request has collected six likes in 30 minutes, I predict that this picture would raise more than 50 likes in next 24 hours (about 60% of the average number of likes on my photos posted on Instagram). Thank you, dear followers! Anyway,

Online Shop removed

15/07/2017 Kaveh Jamali Web Leave a comment

It was a hard decision, but I had no cure except removing Online Shop from my site. Managing a multilingual site in WordPress is not as easy as I was thinking at first. More than two years, I had used qTranslateX for this purpose, and I have had many unexpected problems with it. Finally, I decided to use WPML, migrating to WPML was a tough process and after I thought that everything is OK, I found more than 6000 unwanted categories in my Woocommerce shop! Removing these unwanted categories was something possible, but I think handling a multilingual online shop with open source tools like WordPress and Woocommerce need someone to work full time on them. As I am too

Recording birds sounds

20/12/2016 Kaveh Jamali Birding Leave a comment

Today I started to record birds sounds by my new portable recorder Zoom H6. Voice recording is not just a hobby for me, as I know birders can identify birds by sounds too. In my last birding trip, I saw expert bird watchers that we’re able to detect sounds easily and find birds by their sounds very fast. I am going to upload the sounds that I record to Xeno-Canta site [Sharing bird sounds from around the world]. Here is my public profile there http://www.xeno-canto.org/contributor/LVRQSWTJCZ It is my pleasure if you check it some time and put your comments there.