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WhoisPs: A ruby gem for whois .PS domains

amr — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:28:52 PST

Domain Whois (information) for the .PS domain. And it's because .PS TLD has no whois server. WhoisPs the best solution as a tool to get .PS domain data, ie, status, DNS servers, and other.

This gem is well tested on "demo.ps" domain

Quick Start

Install the gem

First you should install the gem to your server/machine by

sudo gem install whois-ps

Also, some dependencies will be installed if not, install it manually.

#requires mechanize as runtime dependencies
sudo gem install mechanize # if not installed
  
#requires shoulda as development dependencies
sudo gem install shoulda # if not installed

Try it in terminal

Type irb in the terminal, then

irb> require 'rubygems'
irb> require 'whois-ps'
irb> d = WhoisPs.dns "demo.ps" #return an array of the dns for the domain
irb> d.each do |r|
irb*   p r
irb> end
"ns1.linode.com"
"ns2.linode.com"
"ns3.linode.com"
"ns4.linode.com"
=> ["ns1.linode.com", "ns2.linode.com", "ns3.linode.com", "ns4.linode.com"]

Usage

They are 7 functions to get data for the .PS domain, here are listed with a tiny description of each:

WhoisPs.whois( DOT_PS_DOMAIN ) #=>  a wide array of all domain information
#=> [ :dni => [...], :dno => [...], :dac => [...], :dtc => [...], :reg => [...], :dns => [...] ]
WhoisPs.status( DOT_PS_DOMAIN ) #=> array of Domain Name Info
#=> [...]
WhoisPs.dns( DOT_PS_DOMAIN ) #=> array of Domain Name Servers
#=> [...]
WhoisPs.owner( DOT_PS_DOMAIN ) #=> array of Owner Contact Info
#=> [...]
WhoisPs.admin( DOT_PS_DOMAIN ) #=> array of Administrative Contact Info
#=> [...]
WhoisPs.tech( DOT_PS_DOMAIN )  #=> array of Technical Contact Info
#=> [...]
WhoisPs.reg( DOT_PS_DOMAIN ) #=> array of  Registrar Contact Info
#=> [...]

Why WhoisPs gem?

For some reason the TLD of .PS domains has no whois server, so if you want to see the information of the .PS domain you should go to http://www.nic.ps/whois/whois.html

Contributing

This is the WhoisPs repository on Github
Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Yalla ع Demo.ps

amr — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:33:35 PDT

The title means "Let's go to Demo.ps"

After the second meeting of Demo.ps, I understand now! There are alot of entrepreneurs.

Demo.ps: Palestinian Entrepreneurship Forum for Startups and Technology
Or in Arabic: ملتقى التقنيين الفلسطينيين ".

It's the first gesture of its kind in Palestine, to talk about innovations and startups in general, e-marketing and solutions, technology and much more.

Day after a day, people wants to know more about Demo.ps, the people behind it and the idea itself. In my previous post "what's demo.ps", I wrote it in rush, and nothing -almost- was clear. Well, some more information.

The Team

Mohamad Asmar (@daigoor)
Omar Abu Safieh (@omarnas)
Ayman Awartani
Amr N Tamimi (@amrnt)

The Idea

From the beginning, the idea came and buzzed while a meeting of the three Guys of the team: Amr, Ayman and Omar. First we thought of a video community for technologist in Nablus. Later, we decide to make it such an event from time to time.

In The Action

We've done the first session and the introduction session was in my dad office, with the help of Mohammed Salameh, and attending of 20 invited people including Dr. Baker Abdulhaq. The attendees were encouraging of the idea, they liked it and wanted to know more.

We begun our activity through a facebook page for Demo.ps. We collected more than 100 of fans in couple of days. We made a twitter channel (@demo_ps) also! We've gone social! The Demo.ps website is currently in the beta stage, check it out!

For preparing the second meeting, we've got help from Dr. Baker Abdulhaq. And it was done on Saturday, Feb, 20 in a computer lab in the university. Yes, it was amazing. We faced the rapid reaction of the attendees that we didn't expect! Many people would like to talk.

Shots... Say Cheese!

Challenges

In the second meeting, some people bet on us, that the attendees won't break the 10 people! Well, the attendees were 10 multiply 8. Yes almost 80 people were attended this meeting, and many others said sorry that they couldn't attend. So, see you next meeting.

Next time, we expect more people, so more space is needed!

Special Thanks

Dr. Baker Abdulhaq
Inst. Mohammed Salameh
Dr. Maher Arafat
All attendees of the previous sessions so far.

What is Demo.ps?

amr — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:34:47 PDT

In Palestine, the core of the information technology growth is the youth. And the Technical openness which happened in previous years is the gate for the perfect progress in the natural life, especially in the technological development.

Recently, an union of information technology has been established in Nablus. A good move. But what then? It must be effective for tech activities etc..

Ummm, okay, Demo.ps has a solution.

The Name

Demo is the shortcut of demonstration word. .PS is the Palestinian domain. And because we/you want to show and talk it's Demo.ps

So what?

Demo.ps came to hold the initiative minds of youth, developing their technical knowledge, to make them motivated to discover more.

Demo.ps is your stage to talk, share and exchange ideas/information in technology domain.

In other way

Demo.ps is a series of sessions that talk about many topics, such as:

Startups and innovations
Web applications, and development
E-marketing and solutions for making business
Mobile development
New Technologies
Programming Language
And more other...

Get connected

Currently, Demo.ps Website is in development stage. Visit it bookmark it and come back again

Also, Demo.ps has social channels on Facebook and Twitter. To stay updated, become a fan on Facebook: here. And follow Demo.ps on Twitter: here. Or subscribe to this blog: here

Conclusion

Demo.ps is a unique-type of sessions/events in Palestine. Now, It covers Nablus area, and soon will cover All the Westbank.

You have to come!

Thinking Global - Part I

amr — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:09:01 PST

In this article I will talk about the thinking global role in making web innovations and startups in Palestine.

Young People

Well, six years ago, Facebook published as a social web site for Harvard students. The Creator of Facebook, Mark Zucherburg, was only 20 years old. Years later he made Facebook a world wide social community with millions of users. Nowadays, Mark is rated as the richest guy in the world. Yes, all because Facebook.

Status

Let's back to Palestine, Palestine is witnessing the rapidly rise in the field of technology. All noticed the changes in the daily lives of citizens, we all use iPhones to explore the Internet on the roads, yes, also we have 3G technology. And no books any more, Amazon Kindle is available for using, and everybody use it. The Internet connection available in 50Mb/s lately. Yes Yes Yes it all Lies.

Honestly, Palestine got the worst. No 3G technology. The Internet Connection is available only up to 2Mb/s --and everybody has limited quota for his monthly download. This is only about how people connect the WWW. And that is a tip of the iceberg.

Don't wonder, begin with yourself.

Could we find a guy like Mark in this land. Maybe. Why maybe? say "Yes", say I know somebody, say: "Me". If your answer is "No", then ask again Why no? say "Yes", say I know somebody, say: "Me".

YES WE CAN

Martin Luther King had a dream and Obama said Yes We Can, and we all saw how the black people of the US switched from being slaves to be presidents and billionaires.

The Problem

It's itself complicated. Specialists needed to list the problem(s) in the points.

The Solution

The solution in my opinion, is to think global -see the needs of the world, not even the area you live in, apply it, share it and I promise you'll success.

Thinking locally destroys me. Give me an exact number of people who will use your own social community. Nobody will leave Facebook or Twitter to interacts with such social network that its visitor won't hit 1000 people.

Let's take Peeks as an example, Peeks means Palestinian Geeks. Well its great idea, but not great as it applied now. Peeks uses NING as a ready to use social network -not so nerdy. Okay, first time I saw this "geeks" website, I got exited, I signed up, and played around, but naaahhh, I have months with no one login record, why? Ask Peeks Owners.

Another funny example is the Open Advertisements Websites. Let's count how many website specialized with such things.

Safqa Online (read the updates)
Sho Biddak
Daleel
E-daleelak
Bedkash
And much more...

So do you think people like things like that, they get enough of one at least, so don't think of a new website with same idea.

More to talk about...

UPDATES

George Halabi the Founder and Manager of SafqaOnline sent me a message which says, that Safqa Online is not like any other Advertisement sites. This points is from George's message,

Main differences between SafqaOnline and other sites:

Optimized Search Engine
Multilingual (when you insert an Ad in Arabic, you can read it in English automatically without translation)
Smart DB Architecture, the website differentiates between all types/shapes of cars, real estate, ... Intelligent Stores and Offers
Filtration By country
Many more features concentrating on User Experience

He also said: "SafqaOnline is Palestinian, Our offices are in Ramallah but we are aiming global, we want to spread from Palestine to Jordan and then to the whole middle east".

Conclusion

Think Global, not local. Pick a talent team. Make no limits. Go over sky.

Hello world. Which world?

amr — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:38:13 PST

Well, this is my first article in this blog.

I always try to keep blogging, but unfortunately I'm lazy in writing -even in my Arabic language-. And as I am saying "programmers don't write else code"

This blog RushThinking is my lab, test stage and knowledge 'exchange and share' place.

My World

Okay, I'm a freelance web developer, working with Ruby Language and its frameworks and Gems. I started learning Ruby with learning Ruby on Rails in the begining of 2008, at that time I was almost busy so I went back to PHP. I learnt CakePHP, and 2 weeks later I returned to Rails, I read 3 of its books, I was in love with that charming language.

Nowadays, I work perfectly with Ruby and using Ruby on Rails for building website. Also I got my hands dirty in Sinatra in couple weeks and its on my shelf for developing rapid and tiny web application. Yes, I use RadiantCMS for building (almost) static sites, I like Radiant and I made Extensions for it.

This Blog

In this blog I'll write -depends on my time- about programming in general, Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, tips and tricks, some tutorial series, events around me... and my life status.

Let's Go!

And here we go!!

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WhoisPs: A ruby gem for whois .PS domains

Quick Start

Install the gem

Try it in terminal

Usage

Why WhoisPs gem?

Contributing

Copyright

Yalla ع Demo.ps

The Team

The Idea

In The Action

Shots... Say Cheese!

Challenges

Special Thanks

What is Demo.ps?

The Name

So what?

In other way

Get connected

Sponsors

Conclusion

You have to come!

Thinking Global - Part I

Young People

Status

Don't wonder, begin with yourself.

YES WE CAN

The Problem

The Solution

UPDATES

Conclusion

Hello world. Which world?

My World

This Blog

Let's Go!