Saleh Blog

This is funny. Somehow, BBC interviewed a taxi driver instead of an IT/Apple expert!

UAE residents cannot tweet anymore. After banning Flickr and Orkut, the UAE government decided to block Twitter.

Disabling social networks is becoming increasingly popular in some parts of the world. Many blogs, UAE or nonUAE, are reporting that the government might block Facebook in the near future.

Papervision 3D version 2.0 is now out in Alpha (pre-beta) version. According to Ralph Hauwert the alpha version is not yet optimized so expect a lot of updates to come.

The announcement came 6 day after celebrating the first anniversary for Papervision as an open source project. Papervision has been used by many Flash developers to create 3D interactive environment in Flash using Actionscript programming language. It even goes further, as it is being used to create 3D games for consoles such as Nintendo Wii!

Omg omg omg more of those great Web 2.0 fun videos. I LOVE this 🙂 I wish I can think of something so innovative like this.

Chances are, if you are reading tech news, you have heared of flash player update being tested several weeks ago. The new Flash Player update code named “Moviestar” is now available in the wild.

The news cache mechanisem is a new feature which makes Flex applications feels lighter and faster. It also supports multicore processors which should enhance the flash playback experience in client side. And as previously stated, it also supports H.264 video codec and ACC audio codec. It also officially supports Leopard OS and Linux x86.

More information about this release available in the release note.

A list of great programmer’s quotes collected from the web. I like this one:

The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers

Lately, I have been talking a lot. That’s not the normal me, usually my relatives (especially my parents) are complaining about me not talking with them or discussing anything. The reason I start talking more is because a good friend moved his desk to a lab I spend many hours a day sometimes there and it is really awkward not to chat to him from time to time. Another reason is because I’m being a part of a student society in my college and they like to ask me some stuff about computers.

Anyway, that wasn’t my point. I have a problem pronouncing the letter ‘R’ which is called lisp! I knew I had this problem since I was a kid, but I never thought about it much because I’m not used to talk much. However, now I’m a part of a society and I’m really shy to talk to anyone and I couldn’t manage to fix my lisp. I have been trying to pronounce my last name (ends with R, lol) many times but I can’t manage to get it right in English and Arabic (there is an Arabic letter close to R). I had a problem with people sometimes when giving my last name lol. I searched the web but I couldn’t find anything helpful to cure my lisp.

If anyone got any resources available online or how to overcome this problem please let me know :).

Jeffrey Hammond, a senior analyst, writes about whether to choose Ajax or Flash for business web application. In addition, he shows some advantages and disadvantages of both technologies and when to choose the each one of them.

In selecting an RIA technology, application development professionals should choose AJAX when time-to-market is critical and updates are frequent. Experienced Web developers ramp up on AJAX quickly. AJAX also makes it easy to build RIA capabilities into existing apps with small, frequent releases. Finally, AJAX’s customization capabilities make it possible to tune client frameworks to meet specific application footprints; this makes AJAX the better solution for smaller RIA deployments and for deployments where performance is critical.