I have attended the First EGJUG meeting and it was a good kickstart. EGJUG is an attempt to bring together Egyptian Java enthusiasts, help promote Java in Egypt, and raise the skills of Java developers. With 290+ members and only around 10 attending the first meeting, the group needs a hell lot of marketing. There’s also a good chance...
What a strange building! It seemingly has some rooms at the ground floor, but, those stairs lead to …. nothing. I’m thinking of starting a competition for the sake of identifying its purpose. I pass by the mystery twice a day and every time my curiosity rise. Is it a statue? Does it have an industrial or functional purpose?...
I was finally able to cartoonize my photo, not bad (I think). Karl’s tutorial (Family Portrait Artist) is real fun, extremely easy to follow and is making rounds (via SVN via Photojojo). Will be doing more photos of family and friends. As for the photo making itself, I used Inkscape, didn’t bother to spend time on hair for obvious...
Helping some friends put up a brochure website, I sifted through my blog daddy’shref=”http://naibledesigns.com/page/nd?anchor=open_source_cms_evaluation_part”target=”_blank”>Open Source CMS Evaluation and comments in which he picked up Drupal(with positive reviews about Joomla). I decided to go for Joomla afterinstalling both. After ignoring some confusing terminology, Joomla’s admin interface is easy and tempting, friends justpicked it up without the need of lengthy training...
From Earth to Mars. Now with Terrain, Stories, Landers, and Regions. Great.
Life in the Googleplex, a Time magazine photo essay of life inside Google. An inspiration. [via fosfor.se]
According to Marcel’s request in a recent comment – here’s how I hacked the list of recent entries and comments on my blog.It is based on someone else’s work (I forgot who). Create two new Recent Entries and Comments template pages. Recent Entries template: `
It’s not only Yahoo! It’s Google as well. Shopping never stops. The news is out that Google has bought Measure Map, a nice analytics services for bloggers that was developed by Adaptive Path. It wasn’t clear in the mail I’ve received as alpha user how this goes. Things are clearer at Adaptive path website: Google bought Measure Map the...
Google has modified its homepage making it more usable and neater (as if it wasn’t so already). Before: Now: A selection box is now placed to the right of the search box, giving user a one click search to any of the search options (Web, images, news, blogs, groups, groogle, local, scholar, books, video).Previously it was a two-click way,...
I started a while back to gather info about different schools as I’ll be applying to my 3 year-old for school this year. After the numerous opinions I’ve received, I decided to put up a website to collect reviews of Egyptian schools. Introducing Schoolata with 100% Ruby on Rails. It’s still in its infancy (pre-alpha that’s to say), and...