I still get a lot of searches and hits on my “Mytube” page as well as some inquires by mail…which tells me two things. One is that people still do not fully understand how to fully use flex and the other is that RIAs are pretty popular these days. To… Read more“On Adobe Flex and dynamic websites”

Michael Ivey recently wrote about his git work flow over at and it turned out to be a pretty useful article and was just the encouragement that i needed to blog about my own experience. Although I’ve used git before, I much rather use bzr whenever possible. I’m not into… Read more“My bzr Workflow”

Samples initially sent by the consultant don’t look anything like the HL7 messages sent by the system.What part of sample don’t u understand

I just heard about a project that uses WhatsUp, which is sort of an uptime server or network monitoring service. I couldn’t help but imagine how the SMS alerts would go.“You wanna know what’s up? Not your server that’s what’s up.” Weak, i know…Some more meaty posts on the way.

We’re going to have 3(yes, 3) applications that implement the same charging feature, each with its own set of bugs. At least those are the 3 that i know about. But hey, why stop there….let’s implement a couple more. Oh yeah, and say it with me folks. Its called Inter-process… Read more“Let’s implement one more”

I finally got around to releasing the BombMaker Gnome applet that i blogged about. I’ll share with you a little secret, I’ve actually been using it for the past 6 months or so. I even learned to package debian packages just so that i can release it.(manually installing gnome applets… Read more“Bomb Maker Gnome Applet Released”

Two years ago, I learned that you can be a brilliant programmer and write awesome code but if your code doesn’t help solve some problem or doesn’t ease someone’s pain, then you’re not really doing your part. This is exactly the lesson that this book tries to drive home. It… Read more“Book Review: From Program To Product”

Dear Ati and Ati’s daddy AMD, A week ago, i needed to replace my graphics card and so after being an Nvidia customer for several years, i decided to go with an Ati card this time to support the company for choosing to open source their graphic drivers. I am… Read more“A letter to ATI/AMD”

Currently attending #barcamp-lebanon. Sitting in a session about IP law and creative commons. The main question is why don’t we promote creative commons as a way for brand recognition in this part of the world. This is specifically true for Arab media networks which are unknown in the western world…. Read more“barcamp-lebanon session about IP Law and creative commons”

I am a big fan of the Galactic Konquest game. It is similar to the risk board game, except it occurs in space and it may have different rules, i am not familiar with risk myself…ahem… It is a part of the kdegames package and thus comes with some strings… Read more“Project: Space Explorer(SpaceX)”