Life Bug

Honored by Mrs. Hillary Clinton

Join me LIVE Wednesday 6th of July, 12 pm Washington local time, 7 pm Amman local time, honored by Mrs. Hillary Clinton at the U.S Department of State, Washington DC :)

http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/clinton_techwomen

LIVE on: www.state.gov/

How to teach geeks how to meditate?

QR.Me.Code

can be read with a qr code reader

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

Packing Buddy

It's hosted live now, but the prototype is not yet finished, however I added a sample demo to be viewed, you may visit it here.
Still needs lots of work.. I need a UI designer/developer!!

YallaStartup Weekend ~ Back to Amman

I got back last week but didn't get the time to write anything..
We're done.. and we got recognized as the most hard working team there :)
And we got positive feedback from more than 5 organizations!
our PackingBuddy rocks and soon we'll post a sample prototype online

The hardest part was the way back to Amman, 12 hours in the bus... and my feet became like the GOM player!!

Exorcism of the wireframe

Disclaimer: No warranties guaranteed for this post, or any post anyways!

We had to do an exorcism process to the laptop running the 3D part of our project this evening...
The project is going so well so far, 2 new members (a UI designer/developer, and a real good programmer girl) joined my team today so now we're 7, the components are almost ready, integrating them, getting the 4 minutes presentation slides ready, multiple interested clients and investors, all ppl around saying "Ooh that's so fucking Awesome!", programming while crossing fingers to win the first or second place...
Spent a great evening in Jummaizeh/Beirut with very nice ppl and the Yahoo! Ba66ah...

Tomorrow is gonna be the big day, we either close some deal(s), and then celebrate at one of Beirut's best places, or get disappointed and forget about it at one of Beirut's best places as well...

I played the pope role in the exorcism this evening, and i learned a new lebanese vocab first thing in the morning by one of my team members cz he didn't believe what I achieved then was actually mine!! (fannaSah)...

I'm so enjoying this event !

YallaStartup Weekend - To Be Continued...

YallaStartup Weekend is a very nice technical event at Beirut, the whole thing is highly organized.. I pitched my project idea and got enough votes to win, recruited a team of 4 developers + myself (although I highly needed a 3D designer and the event really lacked designers, but we can manage for now) and now working with the team during the weekend to get the project prototype ready by the end of Sunday... I'm so enjoying and excited... sleeping in sleeping bags and having showers at the gym section showers, working on round tables with a highly motivated and enthusiastic team...

The bad thing is, I gotta wake up very early in the morning!!

(To Be Continued...)

no place like 127.0.0.1

SuperMario Flash Game

I love it too much that i cudn't but to post this!!

Life is real... unless declared integer.

Only geeks find that humorous ;)

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error..

Open Door

...Pressure pressure...

...Public Speaking...

...SEVEN HUNDRED Attendees...

...Microsoft Open Door...

...Tripoli, Libya...

...300/400-Level Session (Advanced Technical)...

..Only 2-Days preparation..

[The audience is gonna be much larger than this!!]

Okay so away from pressure.. I got invited and approved as a speaker in Microsoft Open Door event, Libya's Open-Door, for two 300/400-Level sessions in TFS, a deep advanced technical presentation and discussion... 700 attendees of IT professionals and developers who are gonna be asking questions.... lots of work and preparation to do.... 2 days to do all that work, including agenda preparation, presentation slides, presentation material, virtual machines, labs material and rehearsing....

Why me: bcz I'm one of the best at what I do!

What is Open Door:
Open Door is a technology event that is designed to share the latest technology advancements with the IT Pros and developers in the local market and to provide a chance for the attendees to ask questions to Microsoft's specialists. The event will take place in Tripoli, Libya on November 1st, 2010

Plug & Play

I was thinking the other day -wohooo finally!!- , no seriously, i was thinking about religion -again!!- and imagined the world in a very weird prospective perspective... like let's say 2~3K years from now, ppl would be looking back at us and calling us the "religion age" like we call the "ice age", where in that ice-age ppl used to believe in what we think are stupid stuff...
Then, in my imaginary far future, ppl will describe our age as the generations that were obsessed about something they created, followed and worshipped for centuries and named it "religion"..... The first image that came to my mind that ppl then would be living peacefully in harmony and would be loving to each other (my typical utopian vision of all times) since they will not have religion and thus will be extremely accepting to each other, will not be judgmental and thus won't have religious wars! -how naive i am to think this way- then I remembered our humanity facts, that humanity is a fucked-up ugly shit, and humans amongst other races do the most disgusting and humiliating things to both human race and other races... So obviously NO.. the world won't be better off without religion (not sure if it's better with it anyways, i can't tell)..

I came to this geeky analogy while thinking, it's like we -humans- are the hardware devices, and religions are the driver software, more like a user manual maybe, there are many versions of this driver software, but they all agree on the same basics and do the same job, which is to drive the plugged hardware to it's best.. BUT..... WHY! why was humanity created to need guidance??? why is it this ugly stinky bullshit?? why do ppl torture other ppl and animals? why do fathers rape daughters? why do ppl fuck animals? why this? why that? why why why?????

WHY aren't we a plug & play race?? like angels maybe.. where we wouldn't need any "driver" or religion to tell us what to do and what's the best for us? why do we need religion to tell us that hurting ppl is not allowed while we feel like hurting them?? why don't we simply NOT feel like hurting them, and NOT need religion?

Then I (as my usual thinking pattern) calmly remembered.... this race (the plug&play race) already exists in religion and is demonstrated in angels.... and we humans are the less advanced race, and we have to accept this fact and work by it, or don't... whatever suits you! meh

Career Path Crisis

It's that time of the career path where things change and you don't do what you love doing anymore... after certain years of experience you become a "senior" and you're expected to manage projects rather than executing them...
You manage the team, the people you envy for doing what you love, while you're swamped in writing proposals, attending presales meetings, maintaining project plans, burn charts, check-points, deadlines, client communication, emails urgent boring stuff yeffff someone get me out of here !!!!

This happens when you work in small to medsized or startup companies, it's good as a start so you won't be too specific or specialized in one thing.. . i mean, if you work in small places, you get the chance to fulfill multiple roles: UI designer, user-experience designer, OOP designer, coder and QA... so it's kinda comprehensive experience, but it reaches a point where you get all the "needed" knowledge and experience to start managing a team.. and this is exactly when the "doing-what-you-love" phase starts collapsing...

In order to keep yourself in the operations level, you have 3 options
1. You either join a really well established and big company which would appreciate your years of experience rather than overqualifying them.. you would then become specialized in one too-specific area, which is not a disadvantage anymore at this point of your career-path, since you have already gained the comprehensive knowledge.
2. Compromise your salary and insist to stay as a Software Engineer or whatever your specialty is, in the same place you work at or a similar one.
3. OR swamp yourself with extra part-time and freelance projects to quench your passion to do what you enjoy doing..

The first option in not available in Jordan and getting it outside is harder than I thought it would be, the second will simply guarantee you a low-salary forever.. I'd go for the third and be whining about it once in while.. 14~20 daily working hours... Get me out of Jordan!

WOW

Once again, I'm amazed!


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Memory Leaks

Is there a way, any way, to fix memory leaks in a human system?
I've been suffering with my weak bad memory since forever and it's driving me crazy lately, I forget things, events, people, appointments, my phone.. whatever might come to anyone's mind! I even forget to eat sometimes..
I forget important things that shouldn't be forgotten, sometimes things that I really long for, I would passionately wait for a certain day to come, and when it comes I totally forget all about it!
I would commit to an extremely important appointment, forget my phone at my car and totally forget about it!! It's like i'm having Alzheimer.
I know some would suggest using reminders, but if I already forget my "reminder-device" then it's not gonna work, I tried switching my watch to the other hand to remember important things, it worked for a while then I started forgetting to switch it.. I'm tired of forgetting !!

My code's compiling :)