Developer Pills

Neat feature in Foxit Reader 2.3

2008-10-30T22:11:33Z

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

2008-10-28T23:58:53Z

.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

2008-10-24T00:56:26Z

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

2008-10-15T16:37:41Z

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

2008-10-05T04:49:15Z

Finally Microsoft Shipping Open Source

2008-09-29T00:53:16Z

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

2008-09-27T01:30:36Z

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

2008-09-26T23:54:41Z

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

2008-08-28T05:46:34Z

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!!!

2008-08-26T18:21:48Z

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

2008-08-14T14:12:08Z

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 :)

New Start, Wide Horizon

2008-07-27T14:17:17Z

I’m leaving my current employer August 8th. I had a great time working with Archer Systems team, but now it’s time to move on, for new challenges, new people but same old great career.

if you want to hire me please contact me through this blog.

you can review my resume here.

Thanks!

VMware Woorkstation not supported on Windows Server 2008

2008-06-03T11:31:12Z

VMware Inc., for one, won't officially support it on VMware ESX Server or on VMware Server until the third quarter – for at least another three months, Support for Windows Server 2008 on VMware Workstation could come even later

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid94_gci1302139,00.html

Video Clouds

2008-05-19T23:58:22Z

This is cool, another use for the idea of tag clouds but this time with videos check it out here

Configuring ASP.NET Email Notification for Health Monitoring

2008-05-13T17:12:22Z

ASP.NET provide a very conveniant way for health monitoring notifications, that will allow you to setup an email prvider to catch web events and send email messages when any arise.

all you need is to configure your web application to send emails, also have a configured SMTP Virtual Server on your running IIS6.

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <healthMonitoring enabled="true" heartbeatInterval="0">
      <providers>
        <add 
          name="MailProvider" 
          type="System.Web.Management.SimpleMailWebEventProvider"
          to="healthmonitor@mycompany.com"
          from="healthmonitor@mycompany.com"
          buffer="false"
          subjectPrefix="Web Event Notification"
          />
      </providers>
      <rules>
        <add 
          name="MailEventProviders" 
          eventName="All Events" 
          provider="MailProvider"
          profile="Default" 
          minInstances="1" 
          maxLimit="10000000" 
          minInterval="00:01:00"
          custom="" 
          />
      </rules>
    </healthMonitoring>
  </system.web>
</configuration>

This way any web even that fires you will get notification email at your configured address.

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