tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:01:11 +0000PersonalTipsannouncementsQuotesIT CommunityTechnicalCommunityFCIHAgileMy last resort...http://shadym.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)Blogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-5973151692946915894Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:22:00 +00002013-12-15T20:22:44.193+02:00QuotesTechnicalTips(Software) Architecture: "The art of drawing lines, with the interesting rule that once you've drawn the lines all dependencies that cross that line go in the same direction" -- Robert C. Martinhttp://shadym.blogspot.com/2013/12/software-architecture.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-7602480287396971592Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:03:00 +00002013-07-16T17:05:13.833+02:00IT CommunityTechnicalTipsProblem: Most of Sqlite-net samples – at least the ones I came across – address creating new databases and populating them with data at runtime through calling web services, or else. Nothing on the other side address the situations when you need to start with a pre-populated database. Solution: Thanks to this post, and other questions on StackoverFlow and Xamarin Forums, find below the C# versionhttp://shadym.blogspot.com/2013/07/using-your-own-pre-populated-sqlite.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-588582872363269508Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:55:00 +00002012-09-13T21:55:14.785+02:00IT CommunityTechnicalIf you haven't noticed already, Visual Studio 2012 launch was yesterday. It was such a buzz yesterday on Twitter. Our way in MEA-ALM community was to launch Hands-on Visual Studio website; a fairly large collection of guided, multi-lingual and real-life labs to experience, learn & practice Visual Studio 2012. I contributed a couple of videos too ;) We had our own little twitter buzz too! http://shadym.blogspot.com/2012/09/visual-studio-2012-launch-mea-alm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-185716029309129513Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:21:00 +00002011-12-11T16:21:00.465+02:00announcementsFCIHPersonalFCIH initiative is group of FCIH graduates who are interested in passing their experience & knowledge to FCIH students. The kick off was on 7 November 2009; during these two years, we managed to hold number of sessions and  Java training. We think of the initiative as our role towards the society and as a chance to help others find their way in life. Currently, we are hoping to add http://shadym.blogspot.com/2011/12/fcih-initiative-family-call-for-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-2079059137415019310Fri, 27 May 2011 23:03:00 +00002011-05-28T01:03:00.772+02:00announcementsCommunityPersonalTipsI was online through my favorite IM client; Google Talk, when a work-colleague started talking to me, asking me: دا ايميل مين انا تعبت رابع ايميل يفتح غلط I am using Vodafone Buzz from my mobile. Get it now for free from http://vf.eg/buzz After talking for a while, I realized he was a total stranger; not my colleague. He's another user of Vodafone Buzz, like my colleague. The issue was http://shadym.blogspot.com/2011/05/vodafone-buzz-fail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-1282583716407162659Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:59:00 +00002012-09-13T21:20:05.681+02:00TechnicalTipsLately, I've been involved in a project which is mainly targeting mobile browsers. The decided to use kinda "new" jQuery mobile "library". jQuery Mobile is a ……built over jquery, css, js, multiple browser support, etc…… It's still in beta? Yet, it renders pretty fine, and we didn't have more than a couple of issues with it. But it save us loads of time rendering on a nice http://shadym.blogspot.com/2011/03/client-side-form-validation-using.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-1912338429623816389Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:53:00 +00002011-03-18T15:53:31.085+02:00CommunityPersonalالإسبوع ده كان من أكتر الأسابيع المرهقة بالنسبة لي. مش بس عشان النقاشات(الأسعدتني جدا لانها أول مرة في حياتي تبقى بالشكل المفتوح/المتفتح ده) الغير منتهية عن تعديلات الدستور والاستفتاء. لأ كمان عشان كان من أكتر الأسابيع الكنت مضغوط فيها في الشغل  لدرجة إني -لأكثر من مرة- تقريبا "طردت" زملاء لي بيتناقشوا في نفس الموضوع من حوالين مكتبي عشان أشتغل :D بسبب ضغط الشغل ده مكنتش متابع بشكلhttp://shadym.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-7173081822679777941Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:43:00 +00002011-03-05T13:43:04.830+02:00CommunityPersonalTipsI was having a chat with a friend, who is an enthusiast about community work, about that same topic (more specifically in Suez, my hometown) last week. Our conversation drove me to think about an idea that should have been done a little while ago (IMHO). We all like the cultural "presence" of "organizations" like El Sawy Culture Wheel, and Bibliotheca Alexandrina. But http://shadym.blogspot.com/2011/03/tedx-el-sawy-culture-wheel-bibliotheca.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-3149282374348923503Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:10:00 +00002011-03-03T21:13:07.871+02:00TechnicalTipsProbably you're familiar with the sharing button (at least on Firefox and Chrome) offered by Google reader to help you share stuff that don't have feeds. Today, for some reason I realized that mine wasn't working!   After tweeting about it, thanks to Flavio Gomes and @mtobis, I realized what went wrong. Seems like the JavaScript file used by the button was updated, without updating the http://shadym.blogspot.com/2011/03/note-in-google-reader-issue-fix.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-5275282204234973650Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:54:00 +00002011-01-09T13:49:13.098+02:00TechnicalTipsSometimes you'd pop into cases where you find yourself in a situation where you have to force undo pending code changes of someone else (say a colleague who is no more around, or even temporarily) or your own pending changes if say your machine (along with your workspace on it). Well, there a Visual Studio tool for that.. That's tf command-line utility, which you can look for in your VS http://shadym.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-force-undo-checkout-tfs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-7179487710508907167Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:59:00 +00002011-01-01T00:59:01.142+02:00CommunityPersonalQuotesI was having a long walk/talk with a friend today when this came up: “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” ~Stephen R. Covey We first agreed that our major problem is that we don't keep the main thing the main thing.. Later we agree that may be the problem is that: we are not sure what our "main things" really are? http://shadym.blogspot.com/2011/01/main-thing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-1354797445284126963Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:46:00 +00002010-12-30T22:46:25.080+02:00IT CommunityPersonalTipsPretty much of the people who follow me, do so for stuff related to Agile or Community events/stuff (along with a few others who knew me for sometime and might really care to follow my news as a person/friend) I thought it was obvious how I categorize my stuff but lately I realized that it needed to be more explicit, so here is a list of what I'm sharing so you won't get spammed by my other http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-you-do-online-social.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-3350255421611377798Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:32:00 +00002010-12-24T13:32:08.315+02:00IT CommunityTechnicalG-Egypt was a 3 day event held by Google on Dec 8th-10th at Dusit Thani (New Cairo). I've attended Day 2, and 3 (Day 2: targeting Software Developers, Day 3: targeting Entrepreneurs and Software Developers), & knew about what happened on Day 1 (targeting Academia) from my brother and a couple of my younger friends from the community/FCIH. Most of the sessions was too simple (may be except http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/12/late-brief-review-of-gegypt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-2890544276107285608Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:08:00 +00002010-11-27T18:08:45.056+02:00PersonalQuotesليت الكلاب لنا كانت مجـاورة               وليتنا لا نرى مما نـرى أحـدا إن الكلاب لتهتدي في مواطنهـا             والخلق ليس بهاد شرهـم أبـدا فاهرب بنفسك واستأنس بوحدتها           تبقى سعيداً إذا ما كنت منفـرداً http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/11/quote-of-moment_27.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-2161268768899926936Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:46:00 +00002010-11-27T14:46:43.934+02:00PersonalQuotesTips“Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will – tomorrow!” – Gloria Pitzer http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/11/quote-of-moment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-6602261074006287468Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:53:00 +00002010-11-17T11:53:03.055+02:00announcementsCommunityPersonalEarlier this week, I posted about Vodafone Ad showing a distorted version of Abbas Ibn Fernas (check it here). Finally today, Vodafone issued an apology on their Facebook page. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but they are promising to stop airing it on TV, too, soon (I won't listen to the "conspiracy theory" roaming in my head now). Some people suggest that: nobody really watches http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/11/power-to-people.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-3782486609427167144Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:38:00 +00002010-11-17T11:56:05.389+02:00CommunityPersonalToday I came a across a video shared by @MostafaNageeb on Facebook. The video is a part of Vodafone ISP ads campaign, the one with the three guys from “سمير و شهير و بهير”, the movie. I didn’t watch the movie, and I’m a (kind of) loyal customer of Vodafone Egypt, but I find the video pretty offending and ignorant too. The video show Abbas Ibn Firnas, [a polymath: an inventor, engineer, aviator, http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/11/vodafone-egypt-fail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-4191373138437125131Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:52:00 +00002010-10-31T18:52:23.838+02:00TechnicalTipsGo to: Tool>Options>HTML Designer http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/10/visual-studio-design-view-disappeared.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-6136328074831178465Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:06:00 +00002012-09-13T21:59:10.558+02:00CommunityIT CommunityPersonalWas there pretty late (around 1.25hrs late), traffic was awful I met a lot of people @NohaMahmoud @MGhoz @maha_ashour @Salma_ts2al @AhmedMoneim @RamyMahrous @MostafaNageeb @mostafasiraj I suffered a bad headache so if I wasn't that nice, please pardon me I came across many people who seemed (twitter familiar) but due to my grumpy attitude, I was too shy to ask them if they were who I thought http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/10/about-arabnetme-egyitevent-and-similar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-4739450287913298672Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:52:00 +00002010-09-13T13:56:07.241+03:00TechnicalTipsI was reading a question with the same name on Stack-Exchange Beta site for Non-programmer-related questions (aka Programmers) when I came across this answer posted by a (probably Ukrainian) developer named Igor. Accompanied by an earlier attempt by a colleague at work to write an enum in Arabic, I tried to write this piece of code: Strangely enough it compiled and even ran showing the http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/09/do-people-in-non-english-speaking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-6936201627644194458Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:12:00 +00002010-09-09T17:32:56.083+02:00TechnicalTipsI was just reading an article I found on twitter about how Google Instant (the new Google search enhancement to be rolled out to all users soon) will ruin Search Engine Optimization (SEO) which I find kinda wrong. First: SEO is a way to aid (content providers to provide ways to) internet users to find their way to their content. ie, it’s a mean to an end, not an end! So if Google (or Bing, etc) http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/09/does-google-instant-really-ruin-seo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-3226156836757984350Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:41:00 +00002010-08-20T22:41:48.356+02:00PersonalQuotesSuch controversial feelings (of hope & despair, pride & disappointment) when people think of you better, yet you know they probably shouldn't!! http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/08/quote-of-moment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-1995236756589509854Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:35:00 +00002010-07-22T01:35:50.758+03:00announcementsIT CommunityTipsFinally we are glad to announce the launch of FCIH Initiative ProgramOn Next Sunday 25/7/2010 at FCI-HelwanJoin our great event; Join a group of carefully selected sessions highly needed in your practical life.Event Schedule: Day 1 [Sunday: 25-7-2010]: Let's get started 10:00 10:30 Orientation 10:30 12:30 Object Oriented Blocks 12:30 01:00 Break 01:00 02:30 Good Code 02:30 03:00http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/07/fcih-initiative-updates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-8617804303019145467Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:23:00 +00002010-07-30T17:52:17.028+03:00TechnicalTipsYesterday, I needed to check/search my delicious bookmarks more than once. I then realized that delicious have its a search plug-in as a part of a tool bar (along with other bookmarking tools, few search tools, though), which -I guess- loads all your bookmarks to browser & make them available for search. As I’m not so much into too much plug-ins, specially if they load lots of data (in http://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/07/creating-simple-open-search.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597047.post-7618417243207668725Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:44:00 +00002010-07-10T15:34:02.192+03:00TechnicalTipsOne of the small issues I faced while switching my development machine to windows 7 was a bug/exception in an application I was working on in parsing date format. After switching my regional settings to the “expected” format, I still got the same exception. After playing a little with the regional settings, I realized that I was switching only my account date format, not the whole machine's datehttp://shadym.blogspot.com/2010/07/changing-regional-settings-for-system_09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shady M. Najib)2