My name is Omar, I am a 26 years old web-designer/developer, I was born in September 1984, in Baghdad-Iraq, I lived there for most of my life, graduated college with a B.Sc. in 2005, and I got the M.Sc. in 2008 in the field of Computer Engineering.

Given the situation in Iraq, I had to leave, especially because my name, coz in Iraq, people who are named "Omar" are targeted by radical malicious groups, so I went to UAE, then Syria, and now I am currently in Sudan as my most recent destination in the pursuit of stability.

I currently work at Port Sudan Technical College as a lecturer, I teach in the following fields: Microprocessors, Programing, Digital Electronics, and Computer Networks.

I got to know Joomla! in 2007, and loved it instantly, I went through the code, and came up with some extensions that I thought would be helpful, then I decided to publish them so that many others can use them in their websites.

My first Joomla! extension was Simple Image Holder, I really needed something simple to hold images, I had enough of the banners component that comes with Joomla!, so I decided to see if I can make a small module that takes care of that issue, and I did.. when it worked so well for me, I said, hey, this can be really useful to tons of people, so I went to the JED and posted it.. and with time, people started to write reviews, expressing their gratitude.. and right then, I knew what it felt like to give something back to the community.. it was a great feeling.. and it still is.

Simple Page Options was my second Project, I needed to have a simple bookmarking module, it started as a very small project, with about 6000 characters of code that did some basic options like (add to favorites) and (make homepage), and it supported a couple of browsers and 2 languages. but now, and with the help of the active Joomla! community, Simple Page Options is an all-in-one module that has many features, its composed of more than 65,000 Characters of code, that supports all browsers, 20 languages, and 14 Social Networks.

After the success of both modules, I decided to keep making and publishing Joomla! extensions every time I thought of a new idea that would solve a problem, ease a headache, and/or make life easier for me and others.

All of my extensions are licensed under the GPL License, most of them are free of charge, and a few select ones are commercial.