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

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

Quotes i won’t forget

here are some phrases i’ve heard from some people i’ve met, mainly in FCIS -my faculty-

“this is the learning curve in FCIS”

Mohamad Meshref…. (SDE Microsoft Redmond)

*that graph was somehow accurate -for me anyway-

Some advices for the new Scientificers

for the SC batch 2010….

now you should have seen half the subjects in the first term in my beloved dept “SC”

here are some advices i hope it helps….

بالعربى

السلام عليكم و رحمه الله و بركاته

و كل سنه و انتو طيبين بمناسبه عيد الفطر المبارك

يعنى لو لاحظتوا يعنى -للى متابع يعنى- ان ده اول تدوينه بالعربى هنا, و انا كاتبها بالعربى عشان كذا سبب يعنى…. عشان بيبقى محسوس اكتر و عشان كمان مايفهموش غير اللى بيتكلمو عربى

نخش فى الموضوع

انا فاكر زمااان اوى اول مره رحت اصلى العيد مع ابويا….. مكانتش الامكن بتاعا الصلاه كتير طبعا زى دلوأتى ف كنا بنصلى فى حته كده يعنى ممكن نقول على بعد نص كيلو من البيت , انا مش فاكر غير انى ساعتها كنت مبسوط اوى وانا سامع التكبيرات من البيت و كأنها جايه من السما

و ماظنش كانو بيستخدو الميكروفونات ساعتها

كان احساس جميل اوى كده و الناس كلها مع بعض فى نفس واحد بيقولو نفس الكلمه, كان صوتها عالى قوى

نيجى دلوأتى بقى………..الاماكن كتييير اوى للصلاه و محطوط سماعه من النوع التقيل كل 10 متر ولا حاجه و تلاقى اتنين ماسكين الميكروفون و كل واحد يبدع حبه

و تقريبا مفيش غيرهم اللى بيكبرو

SQL Multiplication

i was shocked to find that there is no aggregate multiplication functions in SQL, something like

select mul(number) from table

but i needed to use a multiplication function…, so as usual i googled it and found this statement

select exp(sum(log(cast(number as float)))) from table

that does the multiplication,

so with a mouth half opened i tested this line and it worked