Shref in Life: Computers and Internet

When sending e-mails: zip your attached HTML files

Wed, 30 May 2007 13:45:39 GMT

Interesting, In Emil Stenström's new blog post titled "Don’t attach HTML-files in Outlook", he is writing about a problem he encountered after using Outlook to send his colleague an email with HTML file attached. Outlook did many changes to the contents of the file which broke how it should look on some browsers.
you won't know if the person you are sending this email to is using Outlook or not. so, safe your self from falling in this problem by zipping your attached HTML files.

Why Twitter ?!

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:39:02 GMT

I was always wandering why some people were Twittering while they are in conferences and sessions. first for who don't know what I mean of Twittering . Twittering in our situation is the act of adding contents to your account on Twitter.com . Twitter.com cares about what you are doing now. you can use this website to tell the others about what you are doing at this moment. after getting your twitter account, you will be able to log your life moment by moment. I can call this "the more detailed blogging".

an entry in your twitter page can look like that

I'm eating
it was a long day I will go to sleep
heading to the work
watching the movie "300"
walking with my dog
waiting my stupid girlfriend in the street and it's snowing now . [if I were you, I won't write that in public]

like what you noticed. all the entries are very short and just makes your friends updated about what you are doing now. they got an RSS feeds too. also, you can follow others and you will get notified on your IM or Mobile whenever they add new entries.

this looked stupid for me too at the beginning, but I liked it when I found a useful use of it.

Cal Evans wrote at the end of a blog post on Zend's DevZone that he will be Twittering about what's happening in the MySQL conference. I thought that this can be a good chance for me to know the difference between twittering live from a conference and live blogging.
like what I expected, the entries were small and descriptive. this can give you fast notes about what's happening their at this time and URLs of the slids. you will feel like you are there but not totally. if you want the full information, you will have to wait till someone writes a blog post about what happened.

it's cool anyway and I like it. I have added a small twitter widget to this blog, that's will show you what I'm doing now. also, if you want to follow me on Twitter.com you will find me here.

the genius guys at JoyOfTech.com made a funny thing before about twitter that you will love to see or maybe, learn from :D

Darabet.com : another arabic version of Digg.com

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:13:33 GMT

While I was reading one of the arabic blogs, I found this website ( Darabet ) which implements the same Digg.com idea. maybe you know that there is another arabic website with the same idea called Wapher. it's a good thing that you can choose your preferred one.

I can't comment on Wapher as it's still beta like what's written on it's logo. Darabet didn't write that 'beta' word, so I guess that it should be fully working now. if you are a web developer or designer, maybe you love to "view source" every cool website you see. the guys working on Darabet got a good html structure and used some best practices. I can guess that this is ASP.net doing the server side work. the graphics can be optimized to be smaller in size and a Web2.0ish touch won't be a bad idea. on the other hand, this website got some little security problems. I sent them my notes so maybe this things will be fixed soon.

getting a nice jabber client

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:47:25 GMT

Today and like most of the days in the last month, I used to meeting some of the Zend Framework guys in a chat room on the framework's chat server. they are using a open source chat server named Wildfire which supports the XMPP(Jabber) protocol. so connecting to this server will require some special chat client.
It was my first time to know about the Jabber protocol and as a first step, I had to search for a good client to work with it. my first try was with a client named Pandion . I was working with Pandion for a month till this morning when I decided getting a better client. Pandion wasn't bad, but I wanted something can connect to many servers in the same time.
Also, Google Talk can be accessed using any Jabber/XMPP client. so it will be nice if I can be connected to GTalk while connected to other servers too using one program (I hate managing all this chat clients). there is a list of good clients listed in GTalk's FAQ.
Now my new client is Psi . it supports connecting to many servers, very light weight , user friendly Interface, memory friendly and supports many platforms. I like it, maybe this is the best and the only one that supports connecting to many servers in the same time.

Okay enough, I'm hungry. I will go get something to eat.
c ya

IE7 is here

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:36:25 GMT

I have installed the new IE7 hour ago. allot of new features where added but the best thing is how the space is organized.

IE7 is nice but I had to get back to FF. the reason is that I can't get my eyes comfortable with IE7's blury effect and brightness. I'm using a FF extension called IE Tab , I think that you will love it if you are using FF as your main browser.

Another thing, I want to quote from Kevin Yank's comment on this post :

As web developers, we don’t have the luxury of picking our favourite browser

and ignoring the rest. I think it’s safe to say that Firefox and its kin will remain popular

among developers, but IE7 is a new platform we must deal with, regardless of whether

or not it has a Linux version or mouse gestures.

my free time

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:42:25 GMT

Hi,
at first I wish you all muslims a happy Ramadan (Ramadan Kreem ).
I didn't post any thing here since my post about the travel to cairo. maybe I didn't post any thing as I didn't find what can be posted, but I got an intersting thing which I will tell you about at the end of this post.
but before that I want to tell you that I have decided changing my main e-mail to a new Gmail account. I had one before on Gmail but this is a new one which give the official feeling (mail me to send it to you).

after comming back from cairo I have got a lot of free time. so I started planning what will I do in that time. doing business and studing programming , math and physics were the first things in my list and I was thinking too about contributing in any good open source project to learn that something that's we hear alot in the arabic forums "working in group".
I tryed many times to find a way to work in group but always my problem was finding that group. even when I worked in companies (2 companies) I was the only programmer.
this made search for a project which already exists and I can contribute in it. I have subscriped before in the ZendFramework mailinglist and I have seen that they were searching for new contributers to help in the project so I started to read the contents of the project's wiki to know more about the project and how can I contribute in that project.
after reading alot of pages there I got that I won't be able to contribute as a developer in the project as I'm not used to the process of development and how the already finished parts of the project work.
so I did a plan which can help me to get used to the development process and can help me to understand all the project. the first thing was contributing to the documentation team there which can make me focus on every thing in the project and then I will be able to contribute as a developer in one the componenets there -In Sha' ALLAH -.
I was invited too by Thomas Weidner the project coordinator for the Locale I18N Team and member of the german translation team to help in the localization component. you know, I'm the only arabic guy there - hehe :D
I was approved today as a contributer in the project and got my SVN access today (I think learning SVN wasn't that lose of time ). now I'm working on the translation of the documentaion to arabic, you can say that this is an easy thing but after one day of work on that part I can say that I have learnt new things about how to create a real documentation and the guys in the Docs team are so helpful.
okay, this is a long post I think. I told you that I will tell you about an intersting thing at the end of the post.
I was praying AL-Esha' today in the mosque and when I came back I found someone leaving me a message on the messenger which says :
[start]
1- open the notepad.
2- write "Bush hides the facts" in notepad (ps:without the quotes).
3- save the file.
4- close the file and reopen it again.
[end]
I did what he said and when I reopened the file I didn't find the sentence "Bush hides the facts" in the file. insted I found this words.
畂桳栠摩獥琠敨映捡獴
yes, it look like a chinees words . I couldn't know why this happened .
I tryed to translate it by the google translate service [Chinees to English Beta], I got some words which I couldn't understand. maybe I will try to ask any chinees guy about its meaning.

that's all what I have in my pocket at this time,
c u later (صياماً مقبولاً و~~زمبا~~ ذنباً مغفوراً إن شاء الله)

Smile with Technology (3)

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:00:03 GMT

I like it when I write about cmoics !!! ^_*
ps:this images best viewed with FireFox.

c ya :D

Arabic Google Translator - Beta (arabic)

Tue, 02 May 2006 07:12:49 GMT

مش عارف هى فعلا جديدة ولا عشان انا مش بدخل على النت كتير اليومين دول فبقت الأخبار عندى قديمة

دى تجربة من انجليزى لعربى

Smile with Technology (2)

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:56:27 GMT

i know that you loved the last one so here is more new things that's you will love too.

this for the microsoft's maniacs :P ... lol

very smart one, spot what the soldier says

Thank you Joy of Tech

okay now we will see other comics from php life

Thank you too PHP Life

smile with technology

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:51:31 GMT

:) hi guys

starting the day in very bad mood can make you some funy in the end of that day.

any way, i found some quotes and funy thing worthy IMO and loved to share it with you . ( just Smile first :) )

------ Start

- "You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary."~ Juuso Heimonen

|- - - this thing happend to me many times too, not joking :D

by Answers.com

- "I invented it, Bill made it famous." ~ David Bradley (wrote the code for Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the IBM PC)

- "Trust The Computer. The Computer is your friend." ~ Paranoia RPG

- "Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable." ~ Ralph Johnson

- "Welcome to DALNet! Where the men are men, the women are men, and the teenage girls are undercover FBI Agents!" ~ DALNet IRC Welcome Message

|--- that's real :)

- "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?" ~ Dino Esposito

- "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." ~ Bill Gates

- "...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." ~ Bill Gates

- "Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age." ~ Scott McNealy (about Bill Gates)

|--- maybe

- "The evil empire." ~ Scott McNealy (about Microsoft )

|--- i told him not to watch scarry movies more.

- "Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."

- "Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions" ~ Laurent Gasser

- "Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist." ~ F. L. Bauer

- "If you give someone a program, you will frustrate him for a day; if you teach him how to program, you will frustrate him for a lifetime."

|--- i love u programming :D

- "Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing." ~ Dick Brandon

- "Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies." ~ Bill Bulko

- "/* You are not expected to understand this */" ~ comment in the context-switching code of the V6 Unix kernel

- "I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me." ~ Edsger Dijkstra

|--- :D that's happening to me all the time Mr.Dijkstra

- "Life would be so much easier if only we had the source code."

|--- u r right.

- "Error, keyboard not found— press F1 to continue." ~ BIOS system message

- "The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children." ~ Linus Torvalds

- "When I was a teenager, Mom said I'd go blind if I didn't quit doing *that*. Maybe she was right— since the invention of internet porn, computer monitors keep getting bigger and bigger!" ~ Bill Ervin

- "Computer programming is tremendous fun. Like music, it is a skill that derives from an unknown blend of innate talent and constant practice. Like drawing, it can be shaped to a variety of ends – commercial, artistic, and pure entertainment. Programmers have a well-deserved reputation for working long hours but are rarely credited with being driven by creative fevers. Programmers talk about software development on weekends, vacations, and over meals not because they lack imagination, but because their imagination reveals worlds that others cannot see." - Larry O’Brien and Bruce Eckel in Thinking in C#

- "Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs" - James Gosling, co-inventor of Java

- "In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup

- "C gives you enough rope to hang yourself."

- "COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."

- "I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_" - Brian Hook

|--- perl

Real programmers

- "Real Programmers remember phone numbers in binary." :) ha ha ha

- "At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand."

- "Real Programmers write programs, not documentation."

- "Real Programmers don't wear neckties." i don't know why?!

- "A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire ASCII (or EBCDIC) code table."

- "Real Programmers don't like the team programming concept. Unless, of course they are the chief programmer."

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