Shreef

I didn’t post any thing here for a long time. I don’t know why, maybe I’m busy or lazy. anyway, I want to write about the weather here in Egypt, Alexandria.
People, I’m freezing here . this isn’t the coldest weather I have met, but I don’t like it when it gets cold at all. also the cold weather comes with the stupid flue. I’m working with low power. I’m sleepy and I feel this pain in my stomach. I was eating and drinking allot of hot things all the day.

I will post latter about what I did in the last days and about the progress in Zend Framework. and one of the things that I loved working on in this days was www.AlexDev.net . this website/group is targeting the IT people in Alexandria and will be the home of the Alexandrian PHP Group.
well, I have no power and I can’t type more.

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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 وزمبا ذنباً مغفوراً إن شاء الله)

I was reading the last sitepoint tribune newsletter and brendon wrote about a nice web site which can help you to create your official seal.
and that’s my try

This is a type of WEB2.0 SPAM.
I can see here alot of tackbacks which don’t relate to this blog at all. I have seen many blogs having
this problem .

first step I did to stop that was disabling the tarckbacks coming from all the other websites, only the live spaces
can do trackbacks to here.
the second step is removing all the unwanted trackbacks and this is my problem.
here on live spaces they are enabling the deletion of trackbacks one by one and there is no group deletion like the one
implemented with the blog entries.
another thing, this spaces are expected to work in an ajaxy way. so why when I delete a trackback I have to wait for
the page to reload again ??!! (ps : I’m using FF and didn’t try it on IE but this is annoying me any way)

so what I can do is deleting as more as I can of that trackbacks one-by-one every day till removing all of them.

what I’m thinking about now is how can we find a way to filter the trackbacks automatically ?
maybe we can do a check on the contents of the tarckback by searching for some words (e.g. part of the contents of the blog
entry, the name of its authore, the name of the blog or some meta words). and if the trackback didn’t pass our test we can put it
in a list to wait for approval.
we can add another feature too which enables us of adding a banned list of websites so it can’t add more trackbacks in our blogs.

I know that trackback SPAM isn’t that big thing but this is a problem and I think that it have to be solved to get the real benifets of
the real trackbacks.

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[update] : I found that there is other people were thinking about this problem and got a solution called Akismet , I didn’t try it till
now.