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85 days ago
I knew about this event 2 days ago by coincidence. A group of programmers and software and knowledge freedom advocates are organizing an event in Alexandria University's Faculty of Engineering to educate people about some targeted topics from the 1st to 15th of September 2009. from their sessions schedule. I can see that they concentrate on topics related to - programming under Linux - Open Solaris - Security - Wikipedia I had an interest in attending this event as I didn't attend any offline event for a long time, maybe that last one I attended was .NetWork's 7th gathering. the fact that I'm a night programmer, makes trying to wake up early seem impossible. I go to bed every day at 7:00 am and I can't succeed to sleep before that time. but today I did it somehow and slept for 2 hours then went to the event. The first session was a beginners level session about Linux Ubuntu and the presenter did well at introducing the audience to what is Linux, but the only thing I ...
116 days ago
Yup, I’m back again to the old days of setting all day/night here reading blogs, books and coding. I really missed these things. after a 22 month serving in the army, I don’t feel that I was not connected to this world. actually every vacation, I kept reading the dozens of blog posts collected by my RSS reader (Google Reader) and followed my friends on FaceBook to keep up about their news. maybe my only problem now is with updating my list of programs and tools to continue what I started before. I have installed the latest version of Subversion, and I had a problem with making my svn repository work on a virtual host I created before on my Apache web server 2.2.11 . the svn book wasn’t really helpful with this problem and I had to find a solution. also, updated my PHP installation to v5.3 . I really like the new improvements to the language, but I don’t really know the reason of adding the GoTo operator, maybe I missed something in the last months, and ...377 days ago
I really miss how I used to blog here before joining the army. every vacation I come and find that allot of things changed, people got married, or traveled to another country. new technologies and buzz words appear and others disappear. this makes me feel like I'm living in a cave far away. anyway, there still just another 6 months till I finish my military service, I wish they will go fast and harmless. the most annoying thing is the time it takes to travel from Alexandria to El-Salloum, it takes from 14 to18 hours using the military train and military buses. this is enough to make anybody hate the idea of going home that way, especially if that person is living in one of uper egypt's cities, it will take him 2 days to reach home. Anyway, I always try to spend my vacation in useful things like reading technical blog posts, reading news and maybe attending offline technical events if possible. In a previouse vacation I was able to attend DotNetWork.org's 7th event in Cairo. ...
469 days ago
Do you remember me?I Actually it's not my fault. they give me short vacation for each month or more I spend in the desert. put yourself in my shoes, when you live in a far isolated place where you don't have time to watch the news or have any way to know what happens in the world, what will you be able to blog about. I have nothing to say as I know nothing. I just wanted to say hi again and tell you that I'm still a life. It's good that facebook, twitter, Google reader help me know what happened to my friends and what's the new technologies.
