just for nothing

hello,
it’s a very bad days this month and the last one, see this thread on sitepoint.com
nothing can stand good for ever or bad also . but what can we do with that?!
i have a very persistent flu . tried all the ways to stop it but nothing works and iam suffering till now.
over that, i didn’t sleep since the last night to finish some work and to follow my schedule .
also there where some problems with my last ISP so i changed it and contracted with TE-Data.
ah ,forget about that days.
you know?! i have two blogs – this and shreef.blogspot.com -
i have decided to write the Technical articles in the other blog and writing here about my personal life and other things.
so i tried to gain some experince with SEO and G o o g l e adSense by adding some of that ads in the blog and exploring what’s happening in that non understandable world.
—— there is more ——-
i have joined a web development company called Link Egypt since 1st October ,
the work is so good and it’s a good chance to get the practical meaning of the software development lifecycle,
iam now working on some analysis and i have no experince in that area at all  but iam doing my best.
by searching in many libraries and web sites for a book talking about analysing softwares practically, i didn’t fined any book worth reading it in that days.
beside that iam working on creating the requirements list of the CRM projcet with php Egypt .
if you know that project, you will ask me about php Alexandria group and its participation in that project.
iam sorry to till you that there is no one of the members have any interest to work on it but the project will go on if god wills, and i want to thank Mr.Hani Gamal for supporting the project till now.
—– are you still there?! ——
i have written a little new lesson yesterday to arabteam2000 forum members in the php course, i didn’t write any lesson before in that forum and to day iam happy for taking this step.
oh, i rememberd now to regard Mohamed Hossam and Mohamed Tanna and i hope to meet them the next time in alexandria ;) .
ammm i want to say more things but it’s Technical so i will write it on the other blog shreef.blogspot.com as soon as possible .
see ya

MySQL 5 & stored procedures

hi all,
did you know that the first MySQL 5.0 Release Candidate is Available now ?!!
yes, that’s right and you can get it from here.
i have recived the MySQL news letter 2 hours ago and iam so happy to see MySQL in a new style with its new features to be powerful enough to start the long way with Oracle, MS SQL and DB2 .
may we have to wait another 3 years to see MySQL side by side with its competitors .
but let’s see the most useful features in that release:
1- stored procedures    (i like it so much)
2- triggers
3- views
4- information schema  (i was in need of that)
5- Archive storage engine
iam not a databases expert but i know the benefits of using the stored procedures in my applications and i want to thank tarik ibrahim as he was the first one who explained it to me .
in a little words : stored procedures are as same as the normal functions in php or c/c++ but it’s stored in the database.
Ex.
CREATE PROCEDURE get_data(IN var1 INTEGER)
BEGIN
IF var1 >= 5 THEN
SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = var1;
ELSE
SELECT * FROM admin WHERE id = var1;
END IF;
END
maybe it’s not clear for some people but reading  it again will make it familier to you and very simple.
let’s see what we can do with php:
Ex.
$userID = 2 ;
$result = mysql_query(‘call get_data(‘.$userID.’)');
there is more advanced ways to use stored procedures and many many reasons to make it your first choice.
http://dev.mysql.com for more and be ready to get the finished release soon.

explaining my Nick name

for a year or more i had some problems about the spelling of my nick name and my last name
you know my name :Ahmed Shreef not Ahmed Shref
Shref is just used as a nick name on the internet, so it’s clear now for all.
by the way Omar Shreef writing it in the same way.

i’m back again

hello all,
i was summering for a week in a summer resort in Marsa-Matroh.
it was very nice to spend all the days and nights on the beach breathing fresh air, fishing, reading programming books , chating and playing pool (beleardo) with a beautiful girls.
 
but now i have to forget all that to continue with programming and learning new things if god wills.

the hot summer and programming

hello friends
mmm that’s my first entry in the blog and i don’t know what to say!
okay any way i hope you are all have a sweet life what ever you are doing
and may if you are a php programmer and have a knowledge of the OOP programming
you will like to see my 2 new simple published classes on the phpclasses.org site
okay check that link to see it and tell me what you think  click here
so i think that blog ‘ll be for the php programmers to day, haha !
so have you seen the new beta release of php 5.1.0 ?!
any way i like  php 5 more than php 4 as in the new version we have a big OO tools
and a simpler way for using XML and web services .
oh so have you seen the new  security vulnerability of the PHP XML-RPC library
check it if you have used that library in your XML web service click here
so now iam working hard to learn many things this summer and i hope to finish that
realy in that summer
like advanced OOP , C/C++, C# and Algorithms
may iam dreaming or something like that but i ‘ll do my best
and about the Alexandrian php group members i want to regard them
and i want to tell you that we will have a meeting soon so be ready guys.
that’s good so enjoy your summer and spend it in a useful thing
bye
Shref