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I got back yesterday it was one of the greatest workshops/conferences I've been to. My presentation was really good, the way I wanted it to be

I met Stallman, I'll be writing alot about him later. I'll keep ya posted with everything

Tommorrow at 8 PM i'll be leaving to Syria to attend & Speak @ FOSS 2005. Almost 20 people are going from Jordan to attend this conference, 3 are going to be speakers. All Jordanian speakers will speak on the 3rd day of the conference.

I'm really excited that I'm gonna be speaking in this conference, I'll be giving a presentation on building Web applications using Open source technologies( PHP ).

Hope to see you there guys

Today I got Netgear Wirless Router MR814. Now I can have a wireless connection at home since I got a laptop with WiFi. I like the idea of staying at bed, in your underwear while developing websites and browsing the internet probably this idea will get me more clients.

I'm going tom to the IAA conference, Jordan?s first annual advertising and communication conference.

I bought a laptop yesterday. If you know me really well you'd know how much I hate laptops, but this was a good deal, and this laptop is basicly Kick Ass; Toshiba Tecra M1, 1.6 Centrino, 512MB Ram, 60GB harddrive, firewire, infrared, WiFi, Digital Video Card, Combo DVD/CD-RW And some more features. But the looks are yucky, Maybe i'll mod it to look like iMac or something

The reason why I hate laptops, they keyboard is silly, I can't even write my name on it. Beleive it or not I also hate LCDs, bigtime I'm planning to buy a dock station to solve these issues.

I'm planning to install Windows XP & Debian( Or Ubuntu ) on it.

But this would be good to present some stuff for my clients. carry my work around, spend my free time hacking when i'm not home.

Really Nice tool WinMerge.

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

I really feel like writing, but nothing to write about hehe

After two weeks of hard work, we managed to completely move all the servers of Albawaba.com to a new hosting company. Now We have more servers, better hardware, optimized many things and better everything

Yesterday was the biggest operation, 17 hours non stop, 6pm-11am. It was PERFECT!

One new service has been added.

There are many things to improve. I'm not satisfied with the main website, as I haven't started working on it yet. We're working very hard to improve it.

Feedback Please

I registered a new domain http://ammar-ibrahim.com . I'll be working on a personal site when I have some free time.

The PHP Security Consortium has officially launched. The following is the
press release:

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Leading PHP Experts Join Forces to Establish the PHP Security Consortium

NEW YORK, NY - January 31, 2005 - An international group of PHP experts
today announced the official launch of the PHP Security Consortium
(PHPSC), a group whose mission is to promote secure programming practices
within the PHP community through education and exposition while
maintaining high ethical standards.

"As PHP has transitioned from personal projects to enterprise application
development, the need to educate the community about secure programming
practices has risen," said Chris Shiflett, the group's founder.

The PHPSC web site (http://phpsec.org/) provides a variety of security
resources for PHP developers, including the group's flagship project, the
PHP Security Guide.

"PHP application security is a topic of growing importance," said Andi
Gutmans, one of the group's charter members. "The launch of the PHP
Security Consortium is a landmark event for the PHP community, and because
most web development technologies face similar security concerns, we
believe that developers using other solutions can also benefit from our
efforts."

About the PHP Security Consortium

Founded in January 2005, the PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an
international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure
programming practices within the PHP community. Members of the PHPSC seek
to educate PHP developers about security through a variety of resources,
including documentation, tools, and standards.

In addition to their educational efforts, the PHPSC engages in exploratory
and experimental research in order to develop and promote standards of
best practice for PHP application development.

Great SQL Formatter & beautifier. Check it out

Isam Bayazidi Posted about FOSS Syria 2005.

I'm sooo excited for this event, and going for sure. The big surprise is that richard stallman is among the speakers there! I can't beleive it, hes the father, philosopher And inventor of the whole free software concept.

The List of speakers is exciting, Isam is going to be a speaker also. I can't beleive the Syrian guys, they are doing such a great job.

Last year it was one of the best conferences/workshops I've ever been to. Many useful sessions, interesting speakers & great food.

So Far I think 10 people from Jordan are coming.

Enjoy the warmth and joy of Eid. The world needs more smiles.

Wishing everybody the best.

I wanted to do a task every minute on my computer. Currently my desktop machine is Win2K3 server( shoot me if you must ). Windows Task schedular just sux, I couldn't figure a way to run a task every minute, and wizards just kills me.

A quick search showed me that a windows version of cron exists. It even installs as a service. It simply rocks.

Linux/GNU tools are cool.