Matthew Smith (born 1977), also known as "Yusuf" and "Indigo Jo", is a British Muslim blogger living in New Malden, South London. He converted to Islam in the summer of 1998.
Interests
Matthew Smith lists his interests, besides religion, as computing, particularly programming with the Qt programming toolkit. He also enjoys cycling and spends a lot of time in Foyles bookshop.
From 1995 to 1998, Matthew Smith attended Abersytwyth University (then known as the University of Wales, Aberystwyth), where he obtained a degree in Politics and History.
During his time at University, Smith was active in the Aberystwyth Guild of Students. At one point he was Chair of the Guild Council. Although the Aberystwyth Guild of Students is affiliated to the , Smith opposed the policies of the then NUS leader, Jim Murphy, writing of the "moronic motion" passed by the NUS to drop its opposition to the abolition of the student grant in line with the Labour Party's policies.
He went on to say "Frankly I don't see why anyone stays affiliated to that awful "Union", it's nothing more than a grooming centre for future Labour politicians. As soon as I get back to college I'm going to try and get the Union to write a letter to Glasgow papers warning locals of Jim Murphy's record and telling them not to vote for him" for his views on polygamy and female genital mutilation, among other things.
Blog
Matthew Smith started his blog in 2004 with the strap line "In which an unemployed graduate has an excuse to use his politics degree. Religious, tech and media issues (and anything I fancy)", it is also listed on the Quranclub's State of the Muslim Blogosphere Report as being the third oldest active Muslim blog on the internet.
The October 2009 Issue of Emel - the Muslim lifestyle magazine, carried a feature on prominent Muslim bloggers in which Matthew Smith, explaines why he started his blog and his views on whether the medium is compatible with Islam, and if blogging replace the mainstream media.
In March 2010 the British government published a report on Islamic Blogs where Matthew Smith's blog was listed as the fourth most influential “pro-Islamic” blog. The report was complied by David Stephens of Nottingham University based on research carried out in early 2008.
Criticism
In a review of the blog published by the British political website www.politics.co.uk when referring to the length of some of the posts said "However, some of the articles are so wordy that we would advise you brew a cup of tea before sitting down to read them"
Press Attention
Over the years his writings have come to the attention of main stream press:
Following the London bombings of June 2005, Matthew Smith posted a long defence of Islam and Muslims following an article in The Telegraph called [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3618243/Where-is-the-Gandhi-of-Islam.html "Where Is The Gandhi Of Islam?"], in which Charles Moore demanded that Islam get its house in order. Matthew Smith’s point was
The BBC picked up on this and ran a follow-up article where they summed up that and various other blog posts on the subject.
In January 2009 Matthew Smith, posted a link on his Blog under the title of “Review of rotten book by the Sookhdevil” to a review of a book by Patrick Sookhdeo called Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam written by Ben White of Fulcrum. Melanie Phillips reported in the The Spectator that this post was the cause of a number of death threats received by Patrick Sookhdeo, even the Barnabas Fund felt it necessary to issue a plea for supporters to pray for their staff, “especially for our international director, Patrick Sookhdeo".
Interests
Matthew Smith lists his interests, besides religion, as computing, particularly programming with the Qt programming toolkit. He also enjoys cycling and spends a lot of time in Foyles bookshop.
From 1995 to 1998, Matthew Smith attended Abersytwyth University (then known as the University of Wales, Aberystwyth), where he obtained a degree in Politics and History.
During his time at University, Smith was active in the Aberystwyth Guild of Students. At one point he was Chair of the Guild Council. Although the Aberystwyth Guild of Students is affiliated to the , Smith opposed the policies of the then NUS leader, Jim Murphy, writing of the "moronic motion" passed by the NUS to drop its opposition to the abolition of the student grant in line with the Labour Party's policies.
He went on to say "Frankly I don't see why anyone stays affiliated to that awful "Union", it's nothing more than a grooming centre for future Labour politicians. As soon as I get back to college I'm going to try and get the Union to write a letter to Glasgow papers warning locals of Jim Murphy's record and telling them not to vote for him" for his views on polygamy and female genital mutilation, among other things.
Blog
Matthew Smith started his blog in 2004 with the strap line "In which an unemployed graduate has an excuse to use his politics degree. Religious, tech and media issues (and anything I fancy)", it is also listed on the Quranclub's State of the Muslim Blogosphere Report as being the third oldest active Muslim blog on the internet.
The October 2009 Issue of Emel - the Muslim lifestyle magazine, carried a feature on prominent Muslim bloggers in which Matthew Smith, explaines why he started his blog and his views on whether the medium is compatible with Islam, and if blogging replace the mainstream media.
In March 2010 the British government published a report on Islamic Blogs where Matthew Smith's blog was listed as the fourth most influential “pro-Islamic” blog. The report was complied by David Stephens of Nottingham University based on research carried out in early 2008.
Criticism
In a review of the blog published by the British political website www.politics.co.uk when referring to the length of some of the posts said "However, some of the articles are so wordy that we would advise you brew a cup of tea before sitting down to read them"
Press Attention
Over the years his writings have come to the attention of main stream press:
Following the London bombings of June 2005, Matthew Smith posted a long defence of Islam and Muslims following an article in The Telegraph called [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3618243/Where-is-the-Gandhi-of-Islam.html "Where Is The Gandhi Of Islam?"], in which Charles Moore demanded that Islam get its house in order. Matthew Smith’s point was
The BBC picked up on this and ran a follow-up article where they summed up that and various other blog posts on the subject.
In January 2009 Matthew Smith, posted a link on his Blog under the title of “Review of rotten book by the Sookhdevil” to a review of a book by Patrick Sookhdeo called Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam written by Ben White of Fulcrum. Melanie Phillips reported in the The Spectator that this post was the cause of a number of death threats received by Patrick Sookhdeo, even the Barnabas Fund felt it necessary to issue a plea for supporters to pray for their staff, “especially for our international director, Patrick Sookhdeo".
Kieren Lee Hovasapian (born 17th June 1993) is currently in the Under 18's Cooma Tigers Division 1 squad and has played for 3 years , placing third in the last season of the Canberra, ACT, Football Competition . Kieren is an Visual Effects Artist that is currently working for Creative Media Effects which resides in Berridale, NSW.
Sports Career
Kieren Hovasapian has played 3 seasons of football with the Cooma Tigers U18 Team in which they have come second once, and third twice. Kieren Hovasapian started his football career playing as a left-wing defender. He played that defender position for 2 years now he alternates between Left-Winger and a Centre-Forward roles. In the first two seasons of ACT Competition Football the Cooma Tiger's U16 team came 2nd twice for both seasons. In the last season the team moved into Under 18's Division 1 where the team came 3rd overall in the ACT Competition. After Kieren Hovasapian started playing in the Under 18 Squad, Harry Hovasapian was elected to become the President of the Cooma Tigers Football Club where he supported all the teams by encouraging them all to do their best.
Awards
* 2009 Under 16 "Most Improved"
* 2010 Under 18 Cross Country 1st Place Award JCS
* 2008 Cooma Six-a-Side Mens-B Division 1st Place Trophy
Visual Effects
Kieren Hovasapian amongst this football career designs graphics and visual effects for movies and television shows. He has completed a short movie, Sniper Extraction which uses complex visual effects integration into shots as well as compiles small amounts of shots for local television shows. Kieren runs a company called, Creative Media Effects
See Also
* ACT Premier League
* 2009-10 in Australian association football
Sports Career
Kieren Hovasapian has played 3 seasons of football with the Cooma Tigers U18 Team in which they have come second once, and third twice. Kieren Hovasapian started his football career playing as a left-wing defender. He played that defender position for 2 years now he alternates between Left-Winger and a Centre-Forward roles. In the first two seasons of ACT Competition Football the Cooma Tiger's U16 team came 2nd twice for both seasons. In the last season the team moved into Under 18's Division 1 where the team came 3rd overall in the ACT Competition. After Kieren Hovasapian started playing in the Under 18 Squad, Harry Hovasapian was elected to become the President of the Cooma Tigers Football Club where he supported all the teams by encouraging them all to do their best.
Awards
* 2009 Under 16 "Most Improved"
* 2010 Under 18 Cross Country 1st Place Award JCS
* 2008 Cooma Six-a-Side Mens-B Division 1st Place Trophy
Visual Effects
Kieren Hovasapian amongst this football career designs graphics and visual effects for movies and television shows. He has completed a short movie, Sniper Extraction which uses complex visual effects integration into shots as well as compiles small amounts of shots for local television shows. Kieren runs a company called, Creative Media Effects
See Also
* ACT Premier League
* 2009-10 in Australian association football
PeecFW is a free and open source framework and Content Management System (CMS), written in PHP, released under the GNU General Public License. PeecFW is built upon big libraries such as Smarty and Doctrine as well as Htmlpurifier.
PeecFW is not operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with PKJ Corp in any way. PKJ Corp is however sponsoring hosting for the project.
History
The development of the framework PeecFW started in early 2010. PeecFW is based under the GNU General Public License and is free of charge. PeecFW was first created to be used for a commercial project, but later on published as free of charge software. The framework was based on PHP and ORM based database handeling.
PeecFW was BETA for quite a while until it was released as the first STABLE release 30 September 2010
CMS
At 9 November 2010, one of the developers - Petter Kjelkenes, announced in the company blog that the framework will be default installed to a CMS. However, it would still be usable as a framework.
MAT: Module Application Template
PeecFW is not based on the MVC model. It's based on a new concept called Module Application Template - which is quite like; but not the same as the MVC model. The difference is that the controller is built in the Module. The Application is the framework level libraries and the Application and Module has access to a template engine instance for its own.
Modular Design
PeecFW has a modular design in which you can create modules and templates for the framework itself.
Modules
Modules can be forexample: Blog system, News system, Forum, Library, Gallery, Voting Application, Authentication system, Admin panel, and etc.
Modules extend PeecFW's Module API and PeecFW can have many modules installed. Modules can rely on other modules. This means that modules is reusable and you can use logic from other modules in a specific module.
Modules can be seen as extensions to the framework, it's up to the developer to create modules or use 3rdparty modules. Multiple modules can be run per page request, how many modules is run per page depends on what the module is relying on and what modules the template is requesting.
Modules output got .tpl files that is parsed with Smarty before it's delivered to the Template. Do notice that the Template can override these tpl files, so content delivered from modules does not have to be decided in the module folder itself.
Templates
By default PeecFW comes with some templates (themes). The templates are the design (look and feel) of the main output before it's delivered to the end user.
Templates are the main view of the application output. The template decides what to be displayed before it's finally parsed with Smarty and displayed to the users. The template will run one main module from the controller logic and can also use other modules independent of the controller. The independent modules will not be affiliated with the controller logic, but it's still useful because one can use the modules API to get forexample news posts.
The template can override modules default tpl files, wich means that the template can actually change all the content from the module if a template developer want's to do that.
Templates in PeecFW does not contain any kind of PHP Logic but only Smarty syntax.
Security
PeecFW has strict blocking of any kind of malicious code injections. By default PeecFW blocks Cross-site_scripting and SQL injection in the framework level. This means that modules should be safe for these kinds of attacks.
Downloading PeecFW
PeecFW have various of Downloading routines. It can be done with subversion or by downloading "stable release".
Automatic database migrations
When it comes to updating PeecFW, it's done by downloading the latest code and running an update script.
The update script generates migrations based on the new changes to the database structure and execute migration processes in order to keep the database intact. This means that manually writing SQL code for updating structure of exisiting installs is no longer needed. Another benefit is that a developer does not have to care what version the end-user has, because the migrations is getting generated per end-user install from current version to latest version (and not from 2.0 to 2.1, 2.1 to 2.2, etc.)
This means that a user can go from PeecFW version 1.0.3 to 5.0.2 without problems.
PeecFW is not operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with PKJ Corp in any way. PKJ Corp is however sponsoring hosting for the project.
History
The development of the framework PeecFW started in early 2010. PeecFW is based under the GNU General Public License and is free of charge. PeecFW was first created to be used for a commercial project, but later on published as free of charge software. The framework was based on PHP and ORM based database handeling.
PeecFW was BETA for quite a while until it was released as the first STABLE release 30 September 2010
CMS
At 9 November 2010, one of the developers - Petter Kjelkenes, announced in the company blog that the framework will be default installed to a CMS. However, it would still be usable as a framework.
MAT: Module Application Template
PeecFW is not based on the MVC model. It's based on a new concept called Module Application Template - which is quite like; but not the same as the MVC model. The difference is that the controller is built in the Module. The Application is the framework level libraries and the Application and Module has access to a template engine instance for its own.
Modular Design
PeecFW has a modular design in which you can create modules and templates for the framework itself.
Modules
Modules can be forexample: Blog system, News system, Forum, Library, Gallery, Voting Application, Authentication system, Admin panel, and etc.
Modules extend PeecFW's Module API and PeecFW can have many modules installed. Modules can rely on other modules. This means that modules is reusable and you can use logic from other modules in a specific module.
Modules can be seen as extensions to the framework, it's up to the developer to create modules or use 3rdparty modules. Multiple modules can be run per page request, how many modules is run per page depends on what the module is relying on and what modules the template is requesting.
Modules output got .tpl files that is parsed with Smarty before it's delivered to the Template. Do notice that the Template can override these tpl files, so content delivered from modules does not have to be decided in the module folder itself.
Templates
By default PeecFW comes with some templates (themes). The templates are the design (look and feel) of the main output before it's delivered to the end user.
Templates are the main view of the application output. The template decides what to be displayed before it's finally parsed with Smarty and displayed to the users. The template will run one main module from the controller logic and can also use other modules independent of the controller. The independent modules will not be affiliated with the controller logic, but it's still useful because one can use the modules API to get forexample news posts.
The template can override modules default tpl files, wich means that the template can actually change all the content from the module if a template developer want's to do that.
Templates in PeecFW does not contain any kind of PHP Logic but only Smarty syntax.
Security
PeecFW has strict blocking of any kind of malicious code injections. By default PeecFW blocks Cross-site_scripting and SQL injection in the framework level. This means that modules should be safe for these kinds of attacks.
Downloading PeecFW
PeecFW have various of Downloading routines. It can be done with subversion or by downloading "stable release".
Automatic database migrations
When it comes to updating PeecFW, it's done by downloading the latest code and running an update script.
The update script generates migrations based on the new changes to the database structure and execute migration processes in order to keep the database intact. This means that manually writing SQL code for updating structure of exisiting installs is no longer needed. Another benefit is that a developer does not have to care what version the end-user has, because the migrations is getting generated per end-user install from current version to latest version (and not from 2.0 to 2.1, 2.1 to 2.2, etc.)
This means that a user can go from PeecFW version 1.0.3 to 5.0.2 without problems.
Super Comedy is a comedy channel that features US comedy shows, sitcoms...
Some Programs Airing
* What I Like About You
* American Dad
* Back To You
* The War at Home
* Saturday Night Live
* Will & Grace
* How I Met Your Mother
* The Class
* Malcolm In The Middle
* The New Adventures of Old Christine
* Two And A Half Men
* Notes from the Underbelly
* The Ellen Degeneres Show
* George Lopez
* Twenty Good Years
* All of Us
* The Simpsons
* The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien
* Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
*
* Happy Hour
* Eve
* Aliens in America
* Curb Your Enthusiasm
* The Big Bang Theory
* Kath & Kim
* Everybody Loves Raymond
* Frasier
Availability
Super Comedy is available exclusively on Orbit Showtime.
Some Programs Airing
* What I Like About You
* American Dad
* Back To You
* The War at Home
* Saturday Night Live
* Will & Grace
* How I Met Your Mother
* The Class
* Malcolm In The Middle
* The New Adventures of Old Christine
* Two And A Half Men
* Notes from the Underbelly
* The Ellen Degeneres Show
* George Lopez
* Twenty Good Years
* All of Us
* The Simpsons
* The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien
* Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
*
* Happy Hour
* Eve
* Aliens in America
* Curb Your Enthusiasm
* The Big Bang Theory
* Kath & Kim
* Everybody Loves Raymond
* Frasier
Availability
Super Comedy is available exclusively on Orbit Showtime.