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DDD Sydney Is Back – Vote For Sessions & Register Today

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:05:43 +0000

It’s this time of the year, and DDD Sydney is taking place again by end of June 2012 :-)Yes, it’s “the other” DDD … Developer Developer Developer! If you don’t remember the way sessions get chosen in DDD is that call for submissions is first open for everybody for a couple of weeks, then the [...]

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Creating Absolute Urls Of Controller Actions In ASP.NET MVC

Mohamed Meligy — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:25:48 +0000

An Example Of The Need To Use Absolute URLs I have been doing some work around twitter and ASP.NET MVC. The way twitter authentication works, is that I have a page that creates a twitter URL, redirects the user to twitter, the users accepts to use the application associated with the website, and twitter redirects [...]

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JavaScript Intellisense in VS11, The _references.js File

Mohamed Meligy — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:30:00 +0000

If you downloaded Visual Studio 11 Beta, and tried to create a new ASP.NET MVC 4 empty project, looking at the “Scripts” folder, you’ll see this new file “_references.js”: Which looks like the following: /// <reference path="jquery-1.6.2.js" /> /// <reference path="jquery-ui-1.8.11.js" /> /// <reference path="jquery.validate.js" /> /// <reference path="knockout-2.0.0.debug.js" /> /// <reference path="modernizr-2.0.6-development-only.js" /> The [...]

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Python, Ruby, or PHP? (My Take On Answering The Question)

Mohamed Meligy — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:06:43 +0000

A friend I know has been developing desktop applications with .NET for quite long time. He wanted to improve himself even more by going out of his comfort zone learning more stuff he’s not familiar with. So, he spent some time learning client side web technologies and wanted to add some “non” .NET server technologies [...]

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Hey, Readify is hiring all across Australia, from all over the world!

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:19:48 +0000

Too long to read? Readify, the great consulting company where I work now, is hiring for Senior Developer (Consultant) and Senior Consultant positions all across Australia, and sponsors work visa for accepted international applications. You can apply here: http://bit.ly/readify-openings. You don’t have to mention this post (but I’ll be happy of you do of course) [...]

On Pet Projects, Hiring Practices, Passion, And Types Of People (In response to Ayende’s Hiring Post)Recently Oren Eini (A.K.A Ayende), wrote a couple of blog...

The Year O’clock! Goodbye 2011, New Year Resolutions for 2012

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:46:35 +0000

For many years, people used to laugh at the World End 2012 prophecy. This year, people’s joke was that we’d be very lucky if we manage to get to the end of 2011 even!Yeah, 2011 is such a bloody, surprising, rich, optimistic, pessimistic, and loaded year. So many events, so many famous deaths, so much [...]

Welcome GuruStop’s New HTML5 Sidebar Search Widget!

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:59:00 +0000

Hey folks, I just removed the default WordPress search widget and a new one using the HTML 5 input search type, a bunch of CSS 3 (and fall back for older browsers like older versions of IE), and a little bit of JavaScript. It’s still based on the same background image used in this blog [...]

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Multiple Startup Projects: Stop VS2010 Change To Current Project

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:04:21 +0000

If you work on a solution that requires multiple startup projects, you can change that in Visual Studio: One catch though is that sometimes Visual Studio will switch the Startup project to whatever project you select in Solution Explorer (work on one of its files). If this happens to you, just select one of the [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager: Online Gallery Behind Internet ProxyIn VS 2010, extension manager is part of a nice...

Creating a simple C# like string.Format() method for JavaScript

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:42:00 +0000

Recently I started working on some interesting HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript bits (involving jQuery and jQuery UI). I have worked with all of them before, but not as extensively. Most of my work is some reusable stuff that I can develop generic demos out of (from scratch, unrelated to the custom stuff required [...]

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Some browser gotchas when working with date object in JavaScript (IE, Firefox, Chrome)While I was doing some timezone stuff (that will likely...

Should you choose a budget Windows VPS?

Mohamed Meligy — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:44:06 +0000

This is copied from one of my replies in WebHostingTalk. Thought it might be useful for GuruStop readers too. The purpose of the reply was to provide a review to Burst.NET, my budget VPS hosting (with some references to a premium (yet premium) VPS, SoftSys Hosting), but the real value of the reply, is to [...]

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Resharper Support For VS11 – Download Link & Installation Hints

Mohamed Meligy — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:51:14 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed the update of my previous post about VS 11, Resharper 6.1 nightly build supporting VS 11 has been out already. To download Resharper for VS 11: http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+6.1+Nightly+Builds To learn more about Resharper 6.1: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2011/11/resharper-61-eap-opens-much-more-than-a-bugfix-release/ For details on how the experience with VS11 in general is like, compared to VS2010: [...]

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Notes On Using Visual Studio 11 As Primary IDE On Windows 7

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:10:21 +0000

It’s been quite sometime since I first installed VS 11 (soon after dev preview came way), so, I thought I’d share my experience around using it as primary IDE (with VS 2010 solutions most of the time): It works nicely with Visual Studio 2010 solutions, even big real-world ones. It doesn’t convert them but does [...]

Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools: Copy HTML To Windows Live WriterJust a quick note, if you install Productivity Power Tools...

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How to export settings from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2008This is particularly helpful when you want to copy colour...

Some browser gotchas when working with date object in JavaScript (IE, Firefox, Chrome)

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:26:50 +0000

While I was doing some timezone stuff (that will likely have its own post), I came across some gotachas browser around working with date and time in JavaScript (blame the browsers, not JS itself): There are very nice ISO standards to model date and time, their support is flaky, especially in, yes, IE. So, if [...]

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Google Chrome, Google’s Web BrowserDownload the BETA http://www.google.com/chrome More info on Google Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html...

Google Chrome Frame: Use Chrome Inside IESome of you who use Firefox (FF) might know about...

On Selenium, Or, My Choice of Automated UI Testing Frameworks

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:54:48 +0000

This morning I got a nice little email from a dear Egyptian friend, Ebeid Soliman (@ebeid_soliman) asking the following: I know this may be something answered by google, but I trust your opinion. What is the best free automated UI testing framework/tool you used ? or know ? I actually already have a long draft [...]

Some Google Chrome Hidden Gems For Developers, Power Users

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:22:40 +0000

While troubleshooting some hosting company #FAIL, I got the “Access Denied” HTTP Throttling page (happens when you keep refreshing a page that returns a server error response) In the page it tells you how to disable it by going to: Try:chrome://net-internals/#httpThrottlingChrome Only, Open In NEW TAB Details:http://dev.chromium.org/throttling And man, that’s an entire set of handy [...]

Google Chrome Frame: Use Chrome Inside IESome of you who use Firefox (FF) might know about...

Google Chrome, Google’s Web BrowserDownload the BETA http://www.google.com/chrome More info on Google Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html...

Quick note-to-self about Google Chrome Source CodeIt is a VISUAL STUDIO 2005 PROJECT! Of course we’re...

Running VS2010 Gallery Extensions In VS2011 Developer Preview, Meet Git Source Control Provider

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:28:52 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about how to get old style add-ins (showing in Tools-> Add-ins Manager) to run in Visual Studio 11, demonstrated with Test Driven .NET. Today I write about getting Visual Studio Gallery extensions (showing in Tools->Extensions Manager) to work with Visual Studio 11, demonstrated with Git Source Control Provider. The two posts depend [...]

Running Test Driven .NET / Gallio MBUnit / .Addin Plugins In VS2011 Developer PreviewBackground (Safe to skip) I have been using Visual Studio...

Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager: Online Gallery Behind Internet ProxyIn VS 2010, extension manager is part of a nice...

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Running Test Driven .NET / Gallio MBUnit / .Addin Plugins In VS2011 Developer Preview

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:47:45 +0000

Background (Safe to skip) I have been using Visual Studio 11 as primary IDE instead of Visual Studio 2010 at work all day. Details of that might come in a later post, for now, this is on a specific problem. Getting TestDriven.NET to work with Visual Studio 11. The current project uses MbUnit for number [...]

Running VS2010 Gallery Extensions In VS2011 Developer Preview, Meet Git Source Control ProviderYesterday I wrote about how to get old style add-ins...

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On Pet Projects, Hiring Practices, Passion, And Types Of People (In response to Ayende’s Hiring Post)

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:55:33 +0000

Recently Oren Eini (A.K.A Ayende), wrote a couple of blog posts around hiring strategies. Like some of his other posts, those two got a lot of traction and opened various discussions in the developer community. One of these discussions were initiated by some work colleague, who emailed some private list asking us what we think [...]

Hey, Readify is hiring all across Australia, from all over the world!Too long to read? Readify, the great consulting company where...

Screencasts from Web Directions What Do You Know Night

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:35:05 +0000

Well, let me just share this email with you… * Hi Mohamed, You’ll remember a couple of weeks back we hosted the first two What Do You Know nights, one in Melbourne and one in Sydney. On each of these nights there were 10 five minute presentations: all in all 20 local developers and [...]

Arabic SharePoint Resources and ScreencastsSome cool guys (all working in ITWorx I guess, one...

On DotNetArabi Podcast Again! Talking about Version Control Systems (In Arabic)

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:10:26 +0000

وصف الحلقة من دوت نت عربي: الحلقة 21: محمد مليجي يتكلم عن برامج التحكم بالمصدر الموزعة Distributed Source Control يتكلم محمد مليجي عن حلول البرمجيات المستخدمة للتحكم بالشيفرة، و بالأخص منها الحلول الموزعة مثل جيت Git، و ميركيوريال Mercurial، ذكر محاسنها و عيوبها، و متى تستخدم. ،كما ذكر بعض النصائح المتعلقة بها و كيفية التعامل [...]

Listen to me talking about ORM in Arabic – DotNetArabi PodcastEmad Ashi (@splashup on twitter) interviewed me in the 5th...

#EgyGeeks Podcast 3 – A Little CloudyAbout a week ago, @AmrEldib and @EmadMokhtar recorded the 3rd...

EgyGeeks Podcast 2: Joel’s TestAbout EgyGeeks Podcast If you don’t know what is EgyGeeks...

#DDDSydney 2011 Razor Session: Slides & Demo Code

Mohamed Meligy — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:55:20 +0000

Thanks a lot everybody who attended my Razor session in DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Sydney 2011. It was pretty exciting not just as my first time speaking in Australia (usually I do talks in Egypt), but even loving to attend all the other sessions as well, It was real fun! I have enjoyed all the sessions I attended. [...]

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DDD Sydney Registration Open – My Session Submissions

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:39:46 +0000

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Sydney 2011 If you are going to be around Sydney during beginning of July, there is a great technical event going around that will be going on July 2rd and 3rd. http://www.dddsydney.com/ DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! Sydney is this year being hosted on 2nd & 3rd July. The developer conference, for developers by developers – with [...]

#DDDSydney 2011 Razor Session: Slides & Demo CodeThanks a lot everybody who attended my Razor session in...

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#SQLite Database #NuGet Package: Common Problems Solved

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:16:27 +0000

Introduction Sqlite SQLite is a file based database, or an embedded database that you can use without need for any special installation from your side. It’s a bit popular for non-LOB (line of business) desktop applications and even mobile applications like Android apps. It also has an "In-Memory" mode where there is no physical file [...]

#NHibernate 3.1.0 on #NuGet – Important DetailsIf you don’t know what is NuGet, please skip to...

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Do your laptop RAM a favour – Do NOT upgrade your touchpad driver

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 16 May 2011 07:09:08 +0000

Problem Synaptics is the most common touchpad driver for laptops. However, Synaptics touchpad driver takes SO MUCH RAM, even when you uninstall the "Scrype" application that comes with most recent versions of it. The 236 MB above is just a small number. I have set the process priority to "Low" to get only this. [...]

Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools: Copy HTML To Windows Live Writer

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:25:22 +0000

Just a quick note, if you install Productivity Power Tools For Visual Studio 2010. It has a nice feature.. Copy code as html. The feature doesn’t add any new menu option or whatever, simply when you copy the code the usual CTRL+C or Edit -> Copy way in Visual Studio, and paste it in a [...]

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[Link] Python Tools for Visual Studio – BetaAs usual Python stuff for .NET is more advanced and...

Release Time For Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0Most of you probably know that Visual Studio 2010 will...

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