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All my kids will program on Boku

One day, i will FORCE :D all my kids to program on Boku like Chris kids do.

http://devlicio.us/blogs/christopher_bennage/archive/2008/12/09/an-early-start.aspx

Full Time Software Engineers Needed

Just graduated with IT related degree ?

Are you creative, motivated and talented?

Excited by developing new applications that really make a difference?

Want to tackle new challenges?

kinematechs is hiring freshman developers

Great environment, great people…

apply jobs.kinematechs.com 

About Kinematechs®

Vision

Provide the framework and infra-structure for incubating new ideas and innovative projects in the field of Information and Computer Technology (ICT).

Mission

Provide creative and unconventional solutions to the most challenging ICT problems.

Develop software that implements these solutions .

Research and develop new technologies that will come to the benefit of the industry as a whole.

Values

Our people are our most important asset .

Quality is not a luxury, it is mandatory and must be reflected in everything we do.

We will always thrive to be creative and original in whatever we do.

Under all circumstances, Kinematechs® will always conduct business professionally and ethically.

Milk Offers and Notice Periods

Joel Spolsky talked in his recent post about exploding job offers (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/26.html), where the recruiter says that you have to response to the offer with in fixed period of time, that was what happened to me exactly couple of month back, were the offer had expiration date of 4 days :)

Their execute is that they can fill the position with someone else, as soon as possible.

Another thing I've noticed is the notice period thingy that you found in most contracts, which says that before you decide to leave your job you should tell them 2 month prior.

Now there is two problems here first, if i come to the situation that i hate the job, my boss and everything about the company and rather to stay home jobless and not to wake up for the next day to go to work, i should feel that 2 month prior to it happening,

seconded, if i was hunting for a job and got an offer, which company will wait for me 2 months so i can join them, there is but very few.

last thing, what if I'm get laid off, would they give me even one month notice.

Neat feature in Foxit Reader 2.3

So Foxit Reader is a replacement for Acrobat Reader, it’s light, can be stand alone, and has a super fast launching time and FREE. since i tried Foxit Reader i had no single Acrobat Reader installation.

Today i discovered a neat feature, if you closed Foxit Reader while you viewing PDF document, when you come back and open the same document it remembers the page you were reading not only that but the exact position of the scrolls so it will be arranged for the exact paragraph to resume your reading, very handy.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

.NET got new logo

.NET got brand new logo, I kind liked the old one more… anyway…

http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2008/10/25/embrace-the-new-net-logo.aspx

TechCrunch started a layoffs counter

In respond to the latest economy crisis TechCrunch started a layoffs counter, Companies like eBay, Yahoo, nVidia and many more have layoffs exceeded 3000+ employee.

http://www.techcrunch.com/layoffs/

Is the current crisis affect Egypt’s outsource spots?

New Search Engine “Cuil” in Town

Mohamed Tanna refers me via Facebook link to this promising search engine, i love the search result layout by the way simple and brilliant.

http://www.cuil.com

5 MB IBM Hard Disk, 1956

Finally Microsoft Shipping Open Source

This is awesome, Microsoft finally decided to ship open source software, jQuery will be shipped with ASP.NET MVC and will be supported as any Microsoft product, also will be shipped with Visual Studio on the long run, this is a bold move

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/jQueryToShipWithASPNETMVCAndVisualStudio.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft.aspx

Windows Live Messenger 2009 Build 14.xx.xx.xx

WLM 2009 leaked, if you tried to install it on Windows Server 2008 it may not work and return error message saying that the service is no available, if you do so and couldn’t get rid of the new installation remove the bits manually and use Windows Installer Cleanup tool to get rid of the entry on the Windows Installer log. 

Google Mobile Platform: Android

The Android platform is a software stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Developers can create applications for the platform using the Android SDK. Applications are written using the Java programming language and run on Dalvik, a custom virtual machine designed for embedded use, which runs on top of a Linux kernel.

There is a SDK at Andriod Website the two features that interest me is how application is created equal so you can create your own dialer for example and replace the existing one, as well as the multitasking nature of the platform.

Call Out: Contribute Wikipedia Arabic Edition

The Arabic edition of Wikipedia is suffering from ignorance regarding contributions, join Arabic Wikipedia 4th Day, and contribute to Wikipedia with enhancements on existing article or creating new ones.

August 30th

Cairo, Alexandria.

http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/ويكيبيديا:يوم_ويكيبيديا_العربية_الرابع

iPhone 3G suck!!!

I though Apple was going to make it this time, but apparently not yet. with the new iPhone 3G, reports from around the Internet showing less apprichioation for the new 3G cellular than expected, read what Joel Spolsky said http://shrinkster.com/11k5.

Also 7 reasons why iPhone 3G suck http://shrinkster.com/11k6

Searching for “iPhone 3G+suck” on Google came up with more than 1,400,000 result :).

I guess i will be buying the new HTC or have a look at Nokra E71.

32 Hours Recharge Cocktail

For the people who spend more than 24 hours with no sleep ( not recommended ), I’ve discovered the magic of baring with the sleepy eyes, I tried working from a cafe instead from home trying to prevent expected fall to bed, and the waiter suggested a weird cocktail that will have me recharged right away, this is more powerful than any coffee you may consider drink.

Pepsi or Cola (Only tested with Pepsi) with Nescafe together.

PROVED, now 4 PM still able to write this blog post and probably have few more hours to kill :)