Shreef

Mohammed Hossam announced the registration opining for the SilverKey DD2 (Demo Day 2).

Date: July 7, 2007 <–(my blog’s birthday)
City: Cairo, Egypt
Location: The conferences center, Mankaure hall .

free registration and full agenda on the SKDD website.

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I have already registered. I read about the first SKDD and it was nice to find it targeting developers and not just another marketing event. from the agenda, you can see that most of the talks are targeting .net developers (and I’m not one of them), but I still can go to collect some new ideas from them (yea, that’s what I’m -> “ideas hunter”). also, attending some refreshing .net talks won’t be that bad .

I’m interested in the following talks:

• Iron Python and C# 3.0, a dialog
• Silverlight Fundamentals
• CLR by XAML
• Service Oriented Architecture by WCF
• 3D Game programming in Windows Environment
  (I don’t know any thing about this topic, but it sounds cool )
• In-depth JavaScript: A master class
  (I’m a web developer)
• LINQ for XML
• Open Source and Free Software Testing
• Programmer’s approach to Search Engine Optimization
  (I know allot about this topic, but I think they have more to say)
• Demo Day Open Mic (Unconference session)
  (I always get afraid of this type of sessions, one PHP guy in a room full of .net developers won’t be fair when they start throwing rocks in the ‘I love my programming language’ party)

so, If you are planning to attend this event, just contact me. I will enjoy traveling to Cairo with another geek from Alexandria -en sha2 Allah-. also, if you are living in Cairo, I will love to see you on Cairo’s train station :) .

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.

Zend Webinar Wednesday
June 20, 2007

“Zend Framework 1.0 – An Overview”

Event address for attendees:
https://zend.webex.com/zend/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=574412187

Date and Time: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:00 am Pacific Daylight Time
(GMT -07:00, San Francisco)

Duration: 45 minutes, including Q&A

Description: Presenter: Bill Karwin, Zend Solutions Consultant
Target audience: PHP Developers

Event password: 123456

The Zend Framework is emerging as the preferred PHP programmer’s toolkit for designing Web applications with best practices. In the month’s prior to the 1.0 release, Zend Framework had over 1 million downloads and multiple commercial products are already being developed with Zend Framework. In this webinar, Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager, will provide an overview of the design philosophy, the major components of the framework and its future directions. Topics will cover MVC, Search, Data Access, Web Services, Filter, Authentication, Cache and more.

Tune in to learn more about the value Zend Framework can offer your web
project. You will leave having learned:

* Three ways you can use Zend Framework to make your applications more secure
* Four ways Zend Framework promotes software development best practices
* Five ways Zend Framework can free you from reinventing the wheel – so you can focus on your area of innovation

Mohammed Hossam (a.k.a. Bashmohandes) wrote in his blog about an interesting test for programmers that tells you what type of programmer you are. I took the test and the result looks nearly like what I think of myself.

here is my results:

PHTB

You’re a Planner.
You may be slow, but you’ll usually find the best solution. If something’s worth
doing, it’s worth doing right.

You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs
in the same way.

You work best in a Team.
A good group is better than the sum of it’s parts. The only thing better than a
genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers.

You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as
freely as possible to help simplify the task. We’re not writing on paper anymore
so we can take up as much room as we need.

Hours ago, I got email from careermideast.com about some new features they added to the website. I didn’t feel interested, but thought that taking a look won’t be a bad idea.

I got what you see in this image:

at this time, I was using FireFox as I had to finish some work on Ubuntu Linux.
I thought that this was just a recommendation and then I will be forwarded to navigate the website normally, but this didn’t happen.

whenever I try to change the URL, I get forwarded to this stupid page again.

It’s clear that Link.net says “IF you want to see this website, you should use IE”.

I believe that there is allot of smart developers working in Link.net, but it looks like that there is more stupids there than smart developers.

they were trying to make it Web2.0-ish, but they missed it. Web2.0 isn’t just css styling and Ajaxy things. it’s about making the users in control and giving ‘em a new experience. it should be a better experience, not just another nightmare.

I remember that I hadn’t any problem before with accessing this website using FF. but now !! they are going through the wrong way.

I’m waiting the day when a really smart and innovative company come to take the lead from link.net .