Ammar Ibrahim's blog

I spent quality time with two best friends today at Crumz. It's been over 2 months since we all got together. This post is dedicated to Mais & Dima whom without my life would be really different.

I consider them part of my family, we've been very close for like 9 years now, Without you guys I wouldn't have passed Tawjihi, seriously, I owe you alot It seems like yesterday when we were in the class room throwing papers & erasers at each other. Those were the days my friend!

Some photos for the occassion( still practicing to get better photos ). Click on any thumbnail to enlarge

Dima & Mais

I spend 10 hours checking the menu. Very undecisive!

Dima enjoying her soda in a sunny afternoon

Mais is always smiling

I will never gain weight I'm so thin!

This is supposed to be a chicken crepe. It doesn't look like one to me

to post a semi-spam entry.

I keep my collection of music spread over 4 computers. Total Number of songs approx 11,000. Volume: 25GB approx.

Playing now: Smashing pumkins - 1979

Fav Songs, but I can't stick to 5, It's gonna be a big list! My all time fav songs are!

1. Don McLean - American Pie
2. Leonard Cohen - First we take Manhatten & Closing Time
3. Hendrix - Little Wing. But honestly anything for him is a favorite of mine
4. Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca
5. Pearl Jam - Release
6. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb & Wish you were here
7. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
8. The Doors - Soul Kitchen & LA Woman & Break on Through, sara7a kolshy
9. Scooter - Nessaja
10. Bruce Springsteen - Racing in the streets & Glory days
11. Deep Purple - Hey Joe
12. Dire Straits - Sultans of swing
13. Camaron y Paco de Lucia - De tus ojos soy cautivo
14. The Beatles - Let It Be
15. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven

I just came across some interesting results from a survey On Philips Blog. check out the full results.

The numbers surprise me. I can't really explain!

While spending some time at Salute with a friend. I decided I need to start taking some pictures. My photography skills simply suck. Out of 5000 pictures here are the best three, in random order.

Some African dude

In Jordan guys come up with weird expressions/terms to describe cute/sexy girls. I hope this page becomes a reference

• Shagfeh
• Jamal
• Sarookh
• Khasseh
• Lamba( btethwe )
• Thorraggah
• Madfa3
• waaal, a7la min 3erg il sous

That's all I can think off now, my hatshaneh mood is not fully siwtched on, please enrich this reference.

We just finished Lufthansa's survey, now it's launched.

Arabic    English

Abu 7maid, can you feel the beat? can you can you feel the beat?

slow wind, fast wind, move your body.

No hes-hes no Vitamine.

I've been asked to optimize a search interface for a project that I developed almost a year ago. It was a requirement from the client to develop it in ColdFusion( CFML ). Argh I just hate the language.

For a start ths syntax is ugly, very ugly. CFML is tag based, something like HTML. It's really damn slow. The community is really small, you don't find enough resources compared to PHP. No OOP. It's just a weird language.

Naming conventions just kill me, I hate it when language designers come up with "friendly" names for things that end up confusing people. e.g. Variables coming from POST are Stored in something similiar to super globals array in PHP, in CFML they are called FORM, while those coming from GET are called URL. This would make it harder for developers to learn standard termonology, and what kills me is that they forgot that you can have your forms method as GET, which would end up having variables coming from your form stored in the URL struct.

I can go on forever, but there are some really cool features in CFML. To name two; 1- Application level transactions. 2- Verity Search Library: really rapid and powerful way to add search functionality to your project.

PHP: I love you baby.

"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy" Queen

Don't worry, I'm not high. But really, how can you tell dreams/fantasies from real life. How would you know what's real and what's not?

Will share some pictures soon.