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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

95% of you have seen this video dozens of times. I like it very much, it’s very inspiring and I can’t stop watching it. Steve was just like any other business man for me till the first time I have seen this video. this man deserves our respect.

I’m feeling bored. I’m working on fixing another spaghetti coded  project and my boss wants it finished soon. maybe you don’t know that I’m working now in a software company here in Alexandria. It’s a good company. the programmers there most of them are Asp.net-ers. they look cool but I didn’t talk with them for more than a total of five minutes till now. you know, this “good morning” and this type of words.

 I’m the 2nd programmer to be hired in my department. it’s a new department in the company called “the open-source department”. yea, it’s a very general name.also, I got this “Senior open-source developer” title. I like this “Senior” word, but placing “PHP” instead of “open-source” will be better I think. I don’t like hearing people say “hay, open-source guy”. this is stupid and very general. I’m a web developer who’s using some open-source tools no more.

if they call me the open-source guy, so the Asp.net guys should be called “the closed-source guys”. this doesn’t make sense at all. if I’m an open-source guy, so should I only use open-source tools always?! what if we want to use Oracle or maybe MS SQL server ?
and if they are the closed-source guys, so should they only use this closed source tools?! I’m sure that they are using one open-source tool or another in their work. there is allot of open-source tools built for them.

that was my opinion about the name of my department.

PS: I was writing a very long blog post, but I thought that a little number of words can be more effective and also less boring. maybe from now on, I will write about only one topic in each post.

I was working the last night and someone was watching T.V in the other room. they were interviewing a wise and a very respected man from El-Azhar’s University . he said something that I liked and I think what he said supports the meaning of what I wrote in a last post ( working with user groups ). this wise man said that his father told him when he was a kid ..