Shreef

Monitoring your monthly bandwidth usage

Shreef — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:43:35 +0000

After getting my new USB modem and struggling to make it work on Ubuntu 10.04 beta (at that time), I wanted to monitor my monthly bandwidth usage. I was thinking at first to create my own shell script, but I was lucky enough to know about vnstat. it'

iconv misunderstands UTF-16 strings with no BOM

Shreef — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:07:49 +0000

I had a problem last week with converting UTF-16 encoded strings to UTF-8 using PHP's iconv library on a Linux server. my code worked fine on my machine but the same code resulted in a rubbish unreadable characters on our production server. Let me

Developers in open work spaces

Shreef — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:54:16 +0000

Are you working in open work space where all your co-workers are sitting in the same place with no walls between each desk? If your answer is yes, then mostly you know that the majority of people don't understand how their loud talks can affect the p

Irssi as your IRC client with notification using shnotify.pl

Shreef — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:22:43 +0000

After spending the last years trying many IRC clients, I found that all GUI clients suck. so I decided to use a terminal based client and all recommendations pointed me to use Irssi. It took me around 2 hours to get used to how it works, just some co

Slides: 20 minuntes intro. to TDD (Test Driven Development)

Shreef — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:00:04 +0000

Today I had my first chance to give a talk about TDD. as this was my first talk ever . it felt weired and before the start of the talk, I tried to focus and some colleagues gave me some hints before the start and gave me guidance and some material to

The new move

Shreef — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:06:24 +0000

Looks like I lost the habit of blogging allot after my long stay in the army. I did move this blog to a new server after its long stay for 5 years on spaces.live.com, as I thought it's time to give this blog a kind of personal look and feel. I will t

GNU/Linux Install Fest [April 3, 2010]

Shreef — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:13:42 +0000

Next Saturday April 3, 2010 in Culture Wheel [Sakiet El-Sawy], there will be a Gnu/Linux Install fest. in that day, EGLUG volunteers will give sessions about installing, using and programing [web/desktop] applications over Linux. if this is your

Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria University

Shreef — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:12:14 +0000

N98WBG78TR28 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 top

The restart

Shreef — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:11:29 +0000

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

Looking at the wheel from another side

Shreef — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:10:21 +0000

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 m