Developer Pills

New Search Engine “Cuil” in Town

Adel Khalil — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:37:41 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:49:15 GMT

Finally Microsoft Shipping Open Source

Adel Khalil — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:53:16 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:30:36 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:54:41 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:46:34 GMT

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!!!

Adel Khalil — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:21:48 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:12:08 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:17:17 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:31:12 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:58:22 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:12:22 GMT

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.

More on Health Monitoring

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Suppressing JavaScript Error Messeges - Application/Page Level

Adel Khalil — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:33:55 GMT

if you having problem with Ajax Extensions, Ajax Toolkit controls..etc generating bad JavaScript code that cause the message "Error On Page" to appear on the status bar of your browser then you can't solve this by resolving the error or wrappe the whole thing in try/catch blocks.

What you need is suppress the error on a whole page, specific or on master page to simulate application level effect using this snippet in the HEAD section.

function silentErrorHandler() {

return true;

}

window.onerror=silentErrorHandler;

</SCRIPT>

Happy Coding..

RockScroll for Visual Studio

Adel Khalil — Sun, 11 May 2008 18:33:48 GMT

Scott Hanselman refers to this internal tool he helped get it out from Micrsoft very cool, check it out at Scott's post or download from here.

Windows XP {time out}

Adel Khalil — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:24:25 GMT

Save Windows XP