Irfan Ansari

This is my personal website, where I post documents and software I’ve written, in the hopes that you’ll find them interesting or useful. It includes serious articles, useful programs, and purely whimsical stuff too. Since this is a personal site, this site’s content is not endorsed by Irfan Ansari.

If you find any of my material interesting, please link to it and recommend that material to others. I’d appreciate it! You don’t need to ask permission to link to the material on my website; just link to it. There’s no legal requirement to ask for permission to link (at least in the Pakistan.). In a few cases I know that some URLs will change; in those cases, I try to post recommendations on what to link to instead, and I highly recommend that you follow my recommendations (for your own sanity’s sake!). The notion of asking for permission to link is just silly; the whole point of the World Wide Web is to enable links. If you don’t want people linking to specific material, keep it off the Web.

And yes, that includes well-known sites like Slashdot and Groklaw. Feel free to recommend my stuff even to sites that may pound me with lots of simultaneous readers. Which brings me to my next point…

This site began May  05, 2006. It was originally hosted by Net Access, but on July 2008 (after about 3 years) I switched to Godaddy, which is where the site is currently hosted.

I try to be quite generous with how I license material on my website; my goal is generally to make information available for others! But please respect the limits I’ve placed on them. I often choose a “copylefting” license for stuff I post on my site; I don’t make any money directly from the material, and by licensing it that way I hope to receive back improvements as payment instead.

You can contact me at my email address, in fact, I gladly welcome personal email intended specifically for me!

You don’t need to contact me to create links to my material, though. Please create and publish hypertext (URL) links to anything on my site - you have my permission! (The web was specifically designed to support deep linking, and “fair use” explicitly permits quotes of small things like URLs, so no permission is required anyway.

Sometimes I’ll keep messages private because I can guess that you intended for them to be private. But don’t expect me to do so; I’m only human, and I will guess wrong sometimes. If you want me to keep your message private, tell me that in your message.

You can send email for me to irfan (at) irfanansari.com. I read everything sent there, but if you ask me a question about using PHP, it’s likely that I won’t have time to answer it, and will instead refer you to help (at) php.net.  If you need to talk to me on the phone or send me something by snail mail, send me an email and I’ll gladly reply you instructions on how to reach me.

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