Developer’s Vista

Some years ago, it would be difficult to find what does a web search engine company have to do with the performance your browser could show when visiting the web. (more…)

Last year I had an interesting chance to closely watch, help and appear (obviously filling some empty corners here and there) in Lisa Virtue’s short film CUBEd. But for me, it was a unique experience. (more…)

With a great honor I received the news of my best friend Elias Track getting a special observance from his Grace Isaam Darwish; the Bishop of the Melkite Catholic Church for Australia and New Zealand, by awarding him a Medal for his volunteer work to the community. (more…)

I put it this way because I always thought about LCD monitors as one of those unjustifiable gadgets that you wouldn’t spend money on but you will be so happy to receive them as a Christmas present, and that’s what somehow happened to me at work this year.

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Actually I haven’t and none of my friends or co-workers have moved yet to Windows Vista.

However, Dell did and now it seems the company is Switching back to Windows XP. Never in any previous version of Windows I remember this lack of enthusiasm about a new release and resistance to upgrade.

Is it Linux may be?… Many are saying that Vista’s older brother, Windows XP, is its main competitor and I think this is right because of many reasons… (more…)

In the past year, we read a lot of articles about whether Microsoft is dead or dying, like there is no third option. We saw these speculations ten years ago when Microsoft was about one tenth of its current size and we’ll probably read them again ten years from now when Microsoft is 10 times its current size.
Ian Rae explains how (more…)

Today, just hours ago, …

I said good bye to her,

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It doesn’t take a high level algebra to recognize that raising a company profit could be done by two ways; raising the company’s sales figures, or, when this is difficult, lowering its expenses is the only other way.

Unfortunately, in software development business, (more…)

Is there such a thing called Cubicle Etiquette? To answer this question we need to understand those two words.

The Cubicle System, As I heard it from many fellow developers, is “the most stupid design a workplace could ever have“. Despite the fact that it was designed for what is called “White Collar” professions, I could only distinguish it from the Production Line system we commonly find in factories by its cleanness. If you are surprised I’ll explain.

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I hope you really feel welcome as a reader, a commenter or even a skeptical. The purpose of this blog is not to impose opinions on others but to just have one, not to expect numerous supporters but to create a constructive debate, and most importantly not to disturb any body by mentioning a specific incident as stories might be useful to support the idea.

Oh, and one more thing to elaborate, I’m not a native English speaker and English is not even my second language; well just the third, so I hope you bare with me when I try with difficulties explaining certain ideas, it may sometimes take longer and more sentences than it really deserve. I guess you already have seen one example .

Remember to refer to my F.A.Q Page for more info about this blog.

Finally, I take care of this blog when I need a break from my main day course, and today it seems my break was so long for setting up the blog… so now back to reality, back to work…