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See[Mike]Code!

 

See[Mike]Code!

 

See[Mike]Code! is a great interviewing tool that Mike wrote, Mike believed he must let programmers write code in the interview, but he wanted to eliminate those who can't even before they come to this interview in order to save time.

The tool is simple but brilliant. You can talk to your interviewee on the phone while asking him to write snippets of code in a link you provide him. Whatever he writes appears on your screen.

I first came to know about it from a post titled "The Non-Programming Programmer" on the hillarious "Coding Horror" blog by Jeff Attwood dealing with programming and human factors.

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Open source cake!

Open source logo cake!My lovely wife made me this marvellous chocolate cake, and we made it look like the open source logo.

Food has always been an interesting experience for me, and it becomes even more interesting when it applies or meets some of my believes like open source.

Thanks dear wife.

Note : will publish the recipe under GPL :D. For those of you interested in food and open source, check this website : http://www.opensourcefood.com, it now has moved to a new domain, but this was its first name, and of course that how I found it :)

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Google Apps phasing out IE 6 and old browser support in 2010

I received this email from Google Apps support :

"Dear Google Apps admin,​

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.  This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5.  As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010.  After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser.  We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience.  We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

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"Bank Masr" security exposure!

Today I and my colleague Eslam were at Bank Masr because he was doing something there. Not only the bank looks poor, in my opinion, but also the screen on the wall got me stunned!

The screen was displaying a windows desktop with a folder minimized to the task bar and a window of internet exploerer displaying a page containing currency rates.

Apart from the ugliness of that page, the problem was they were showing the internal IP address the browser is using!!!

http://192.168.111.162/currencies/la2yenfa3.htm

The page name itself "la2yenfa3" is the Egyptian Arabic slang to say "no it is possible"! It was obvious two members at the IT were arguing whether they can show this page or not!

I couldn't take a pic with my mobile at the time, but will the next time i go there.

Oh did i mention that there was a warning too on the taskbar?!

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The email i sent to Microsoft

Yesterday was a day of hell to me, because Internet Explorer deserves to be renamed to "internet Exploder!"...

I was working on the project and everything was going just fine, it looked very neat on firefox, opera and epiphany web browsers, with no errors or annoying distortions of any kind, it even passed the test of the w3c validator.

But when i was giving my client a status report, he told me the project is messed up, i opened an IE installation i have at my linux machine and everything was really upside down, with no obvious reason why it went like this!!

The client was upset, and he has the right to be so. So I spent all today trying to fix what IE destroyed. I really hate their browser, it is even not self-compatible, when you deal with IE the version differs so much that you have to make hacks in your CSS and HTML code for each and every version of them! How stupid that the same broswer renders html in a totally different way just because you are using another version!!

Out of frustration i issued a ticket to Microsoft's customer support as following:

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inbox 404!


What would be your feeling when you find that your inbox contains "404" unread messages?!
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Caffeine Code Cycle


Here is the Caffeine Code Cycle* in the life of a software engineer or a programmer :
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* I created this using the firefox pencil addon.

Originally posted at my website.

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Adhere : first open source mobile advertising platform

adhere mobile advertising platform

Citex Software (then company i work for now) has launched beta release of adhere -the first open source mobile advertising platform- on its website. You can download the product, or post any support issues on the adhere support forum.

For more info about Citex Sopftware Ltd. visit : http://www.citexsoftware.com

Long Live open source :)
originally written on my website.

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Chrome's sad tab


This is what Google's Chrome display when a tab goes bad! I really loved it so much (click on image to enlarge).

Note: This was my work pc @ media international, i was running windows, which i didn't like much, so I installed a Mac OS Theme.

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GIT..

just started using git, it is great.
go try it all of you,
bye CVS and SVN,
i finally found my soul mate :) 
Update : Back to svn, seems to have wider support in IDEs.
But it was a nice try.