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All my kids will program on Boku

Adel Khalil — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:38:56 GMT

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

Adel Khalil — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:07:41 GMT

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.

.NET got new logo

Adel Khalil — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:58:53 GMT

.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

Adel Khalil — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:56:26 GMT

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

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

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

Windows XP {time out}

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

Save Windows XP

Yes, This is the solution

Adel Khalil — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:42:18 GMT

I thougt it will be matter of time to see something like a Unified Rendering Engine or for browsers to fully support w3c but no when it comes to improving developer experiance force the user to change there's.

new movment aimed to "guid" users to drop IE6 for IE7 which will make developer life much easier check at www.savethedevelopers.org

Egypt Technology Events: Near You!

Adel Khalil — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:30:00 GMT

Mark your calenders guys there is couple of events on an overwhelming week so if you near Cairo, Egypt sign up for .netWork User Group (March 22nd, 12:00 PM) 3rd meeting and Microsoft Launch 2008 (March 24th, 9:00 AM)

See you there :)

Mark Miller latest post in promoting CodeRush, shocking

Adel Khalil — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:06:13 GMT

i don't know about you but this http://www.doitwith.net/2008/02/22/HotChicksWritingCodeNaked.aspx dosn't seem the proper way to promote software product.

More effort on Testing Technologies

Adel Khalil — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:24:13 GMT

When i try to pull more from Google about the amazing project Pex i've came across another effort toward testing technologies.. Microsoft CodeName "Camano"

…a standalone application that allows users the ability to author, plan and manage a testing effort from a simple UI specialized for displaying test artifacts.

Pex: Unit Test Generation

Adel Khalil — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:48:09 GMT

I've never been excited about a research project as my feeling today toward Pex, Pex is a MSR project that will enable test-driven development for wider adoptability, it runs static analysis on your code and generate unit test to cover your codebase - the more yuou run Pex the more covarage you got - and it's also suggest ways for you to protect your code..

for example if you have a parameterized function and the null value throw exception Pex thrwoing chunk of code that checks the parameter before use it. this is a simple scenario but you get the idea.

for how long test-driven development have been around it was very hard to convenice business and stakholders to adopte it inside development teams. with Pex ithink this won't be that hard as the time consumed to write thousand of test cases will be reduced by tests that increase covarage generated by Pes (Parametrized tests - like in MbUnit).

check out the Pex Project and Blog also there is this screencast don't miss this screencast pretty amazing stuff.

tafiti: A very cool Silverlight search show case

Adel Khalil — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:06:00 GMT

A very cool show case for Silverlight maybe, the functionality not emprisive like the graphics

Source: http://www.tafiti.com/Original/default.aspx

Volta announced, GWT Architecture and Script#

Adel Khalil — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:49:44 GMT

Microsoft Live Labs announce the new web coming technology Volta, which is a set of developer tools that in plain English work as MSIL re-compiler to cross-browser compliant JavaScript .

The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns. First, design and build your application as a .NET client application, then assign the portions of the application to run on the server and the client tiers late in the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and communication, serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together.

Volta simply allow you to use your existing C#/VB.NET/IronPython or any other .NET language to write code that you can control it's execution side Server/Client by decorating the Class with attribute and the Volta post-compiler take care of spitting JavaScript code.

if you are looking for highly optimized JavaScript code i don't think this is for you. you can look for alternatives like Nikhil Kothari's Script# or Google Web Toolkit.

Erik Meijer Volta Architect explains the difference between Volta and GWT

From an architectural point of view, Volta facilitates a many-to-many mapping between programming languages and execution environments by leveraging the Common Intermediate Language as defined by ISO/IEC 23271:2006. The idea of using a common intermediate language to translate M source languages into N target languages dates back as far as 1958 with UNCOL (see also this). You can use any .NET language to write your application and compile it to a .NET assembly using an unmodified compiler. Volta then post-processes the generated MSIL inside the assembly based on declarative annotations in the code by automatically inserting all the boilerplate code necessary for running the application across multiple tiers and making asynchronous invocations. Finally, you deploy the modified assembly on any target execution environment that is capable of executing MSIL.

Live Labs summarize Volta:

Language-independence. Write Volta code in any language that compiles into MSIL. For example, C#, VB, IronPython, etc.
Leverage the entire .NET toolchain. Use libraries; the IDE, Intellisense, auto-complete, snippets; FxCop; profiler; class browser; ILDASM; and so on.
Low entry barrier. Reduce your learning burden; use “only the languages in the room.”
Brown-field applicability. Volta-enable existing applications for the cloud.
Beyond 2 tiers. Refactor to as many tiers as you need using exactly the same mechanisms recursively applied.

Download Volta CTP