Cons & Pros [Mentor Graphics]

by the time i was there it was located here, and now it’s here.

it was my second company i’ve been in, but the first huge and international one !!

my internship was as Testing Software Engineer, writing unit tests on JUnit framework, of course with JAVA for the CHS project.

kind of i was pretty amazed by that product and the system that was followed there, very organized company indeed.

plus i was working with ZIZO on the same team, and seen how effective he was (fact) and how early does he come to work !!

The Very Good Studying strategy

here is what I’ve found myself being doing in the previous 6 years of my life, which was the last 6 years in my undergraduate life.

First…

can u tell me what is the aim of being student ?!

logically, to master some field serving some other people who master another field so all people get all services living in a proper way…

so i enter the school and college to learn how to do some specific thing.

so, the main aim is to “Learn”.

but that aim just has been ruined… and another one evolved, which is to pass the exams with the greatest grades, which is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous…

Cons & Pros [ShuraTech]

This company is located in El Maadi, here

and that was the first company I’ve been in, that was internship, i lasted there for a month.

it was a small company, we where 8 developers there during that time, but they’ve increased now.

it had relatively good projects and clients

Cons and Pros [Intro.]

Al Salamu 3alykom Wa Ra7matULLAH Wa Barakato (peace be upon you)

God willing, this post will be a start of a series of posts about Cons and Pros i found in the companies i’ve worked/interned in.

of course all of those Cons/Pros are from my own point of view.

but first i want to mention what i’ve seen in the internship.

Never Gets Old

Those are the videos that as what a friend of mine calls them “Never Gets Old”

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford

LinkIt [Chrome Extension]

And that would be my first extension for Google Chrome/Chromium

as i’m have been using FireFox -and still using it- for a long time, getting used to double clicking text -non activated- links to be opened in another tab using the FireFox plugin Text Link so i don’t have to go into the process  ”Select” – “Ctrl + t”- “Ctrl + v” + Enter to navigate to that link

you just go and double click the plain link to open it in a new tab or an email to open the default mail client

Helper Apps

Al Salamu 3alykom Wa Ra7matULLAH Wa Barakato

here are some apps i frequently use which does help daily lowering the number of my clicks and buttons pressing

1. AutoKey

this App. lets u assign shortcuts to some text, as i always write “:SA” and it replaces it automatically with “Al Salamu 3alykom Wa Ra7matULLAH Wa Barakato”

and u can add shortcuts as much as u want, and it replaces text anywhere u r using the shortcut

note. this is a Linux App that already exist in the repository, for windows there was an App called Texter

In the planetarium

it’s the week end…

i have to do something instead of staring at my laptop’s screen and declaring some integers, or surfing my google reader

so, i’ve read about an event in BibAlex related to a mini book fair, i’m not fan of such things but lets try, may be i can find a book related to programming

but it was a smaller event than what i was expecting, and i found some shelves having books about VB, C# and Windows Me

anyway, i got out of the hall looking for something to do, and there was the planetarium…

for those who don’t know it, it’s the blue-stripped moon seated beside the sun of BibAlex

With Ubuntu [A Fresh Install]

No, the old install didn’t crash !!!

i just was very anxious about the new Ubuntu release (Karmic Koala), so i installed the RC version

and as u know i hate to install a fresh install of any OS until the currently running one crashes, hangs and cries to let it die

But u r killing me !!

ok, i admit that it was an  innovative method that depends heavily on XML Programming,

i can say it saves a lot of time during developing the whole system, as the time required for every feature is nearly constant

just some generic methods to solve all the problems that can be found

but as known “Generic” can not cope with “Performance”, as there must be unneeded steps done with the small/mid sized problems, and it will be fully utilized with the problems that satisfies the general case problem -which is most of the time rare-

and even if u had the general case as the smallest/simplest case, u’ll waste some performance trying to combine those tiny generic solutions to solve the larger problems