Ammar Ibrahim's blog

Remember my post about modifying HTTP_Upload?

Guess what? The code I wrote was accepted by the maintainers of the package and they added it to the latest CVS version(1.47).

Here's what they wrote in the changelog:

+ added better support for a unique naming scheme (naming mode "seq"). Many thanks to Ammar Ibrahim!

View the file

Voting is over, tararara, the package was accepted! NET_DNSBL made it to be an official PEAR package! We got +7, two marks higher than was needed.

Well, If you don't know what PEAR is, let me explain.

If you know NOTHING about programming, imagine you're a musician, and a peice of music you composed was accepted to be national anthem for your country hehe, something like that! If you're a designer, imagine working with the best artists from around the world, and then they accept your work as a master peice of something. I really can't explain how great this is.

To the computer GURUs, simply PEAR is the OFFICIAL PHP classes repository. When you download PHP, you will have the PEAR installer installed most likely. So it's top quality community accepted PHP code. The goal is to create generic reusable PHP packages. Think of it as the 'official' classes that come with Java, but not the JVM.

"Qol ma 2aaloo ahh, y2olly howwa la2"

FUD is an abbreviation for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.

FUD was first defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products." (quoted in [1])

This term is popular in the open source community. Anyway, Michi Ramsay is shooting a movie about open source, entitled FUD.

Download the trailer: FUD Trailer (6.3 MB) AVI

Last week I signed off an MOU with Al-bawaba. I'm gonna be their IT consultant for sometime.

Hopefully I will be able to take Al-Bawaba to a new horizon regarding thier IT infrastructure. I will be working mainly on architecting new services for their online portal! It really means alot to me to see what kind of changes I'll be able to do in the next months. I would love to see the vision, I have in my mind, accomplished. Also it's important to understand the vision of the CEO.

It's great to be working with smart people; Mr. Jabsheh, CEO of Al-bawaba, is the key person behind the 'business' success so far. Hopefully, I'll be the key person behind the 'IT' Sucess in the near future!

I would love to know your comments, suggestion & feedback! This is really important.

The past week was one of the greatest weeks ever regarding my career and passion. I will write probably 3 posts detailing what happened, Some highlights:

• Signing an MOU with Al-Bawaba


• My contribution to PEAR is in the CVS now! this is the first official code that goes into PEAR


• Tom the voting will end on a PEAR package that I wrote with a german developer! Seems like we're gonna make it

Will write the details soon!

Open Usability - Mission Statement

OpenUsability.org is a project that brings open source developers and usability experts together.

The idea behind is simple: There are many Usability Experts who want to contribute to software projects. And there are many developers who want to make their software more usable, and - as a consequence - more successful.

Isn't that interesting, it's about time to have more usable open source software!

Interesting article Via InfoWorld.

My favorites are:

2. Dismissing open source -- or bowing before it

11. Developing Web apps for IE only

18. Underestimating PHP

IT managers who look only as far as J2EE and .Net when developing scalable Web apps are making a mistake by not taking a second look at scripting languages -- particularly PHP

ActiveGrid application server is what PHP programmers have been waiting for. It claims to allow programmers to write Grid Applications using LAMP( Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP ) technology stack!

This is really interesting, probably this is the next big alternative to J2EE & .NET I really hope so.

I logged in to my hotmail account, and here's what I found

I just watched Snatch. It's really weird. If you haven't watched it, you should

Which File Extension are You?

Peter Yard: The Next Language.

A really nice post, I've always hated Java for small-medium size porjects. It's an over-kill most of the times. That's exactly why PHP is the most popular langauge for web development. It was designed for the web, and in order to work with many technologies( e.g. XML ) it was better to keep it weakly typed.

But what I really like about Java is the community of enterprise software engineers. Things like design patterns were popular because of the Java people. Java developers raise software design to a really high level. The way they are concerend about reusability & modularity is really great, e.g. MVC.

I really enjoy reading some Java resources, they increase my understanding, and make me want to write better software. And those methodologies are easy to apply in PHP, well PHP5 to be more precise.

"HIER IS THE FACTORY". Sounds indian






How about Dr. Bull Shit?

Thanks to Osama Humeid for sending the pictures above