Finally, a progress in the DB2 – Rails front. the Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails has just been released. Although, we’re on a DB2 iSeries, the work required for a DB2/400 – Rails combination is doable and there’s a good chance I can sell Rails to the people here.
Yesterday I presented Ruby on Rails for the first “real” time to a group of developers and interested minds. I think it went well. It was an introduction that covered a step-by-step for developing a simple issue tracking application (we traded off many of the application features to exploring the capabilities of Ruby and Ruby on Rails). The intelligent...
This link shows how things would look like for my home city if sea level rises ONLY 1 m. Although, most of the city will not be affected, yet, it seems that It has turned into an island, which would definitely make it uninhabitable. What is our geovernment doing??? What is the world doing??? Hellooooo. The mashup was prepared...
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 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...
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: `