Saleh Blog

Here’s TIME’s poll result of best gadget of the year:

Hehe at least I own one thing off the list… the DragonFly and soon iPhone I think!

Okay this one of the best articles I have read during the year. The author starts off talking about the Quite Structure design concept. Then he goes off explaining and comparing the between CNN and USA Today website design. For web designers this is a most-read article as it gives more and deeper ideas to consider when designing a webpage such as layout and image with text positioning, logo complexity, white spaces… etc.

I’m trying to form a team for Imagine Cup 2008 contest sponsored by Microsoft. I’m currently looking for 2 out of 4 students to join the team, if anyone interested please contact me or leave a comment with your email or phone number.

You don’t have to know .NET programming as we are going to train together one of the .NET tools. But you have to be a Kuwait University Student, undergraduate or studying master, and you need some experience in any other programming languages.

Contact Email: DELETED

For whoever is interested, I got a project for my E-Learning course and I have to advertise my online class as a homework. If you are interested in Arabic online course for Actionscript you can visit it here:
http://t3leem.6moo7.net/course/view.php?id=54

AOL announced today that it will no longer support Netscape Navigator, the first browser for many of us, including me! It’s time for Netscape’s fans to say goodbye for the 13 years old browser.

As of this month, Netscape had only 0.6 percent of the browser market, which was still dominated by Internet Explorer with more than 77 percent, according to Web application and analytics firm Net Applications. Firefox was gaining, however, with market share just over 16 percent.

The winner of Aral Balkan‘s SWX contest has been announced few hours ago. For more information check out SWX blog.

Interesting video… See what happened behind the scene just before ACM ICPC 2007.

So you picked up a project and write the code in Java then comes the time to distribute your program. You are going to need to create an installer package rather than distributing it directly as a JAR file.

It is better to give them a normal plain installer package that they know how to run through the wizard.

Geek Stuff Javazing blog has an article on how to do that. Ultimately before you’ll be able to follow the tutorial you going to have to download the following tools:
1. Ant tool.
2. NSIS: a scriptable win32 installer/uninstaller system.
3. ProGuard: java shrinker, optimizer, and obfuscator.
4. Launch4j: Cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs.
5. NSIS Ant task: to compile NSIS scripts.

Bored from the div attribute of HTML? Well, I am bored myself and I have been writing HTML 4 since I was in Middle School. We have been using HTML 4 for almost a decade and it really needs an upgrade. In fact, W3C and WHATWG have been working on setting the specification of HTML 5. Major browsers companies and groups are taking part in setting some specifications of HTML 5, but I don’t think it will be done soon.

A List Apart has a really great article on HTML 5 preview which I really encourage all web developers to read it.

Roshan posted in his blog some reasons of why PHP is a bad programming langauges in his oppinion. Unfortunately, I disagree in some of the points Roshan pointed out.

1) No need to define and declare variable
2) No Strict data conversion

I can’t see how these two points can make PHP a bad programming language. PHP just let the interpreter binds the variable to a type.

In my opinion, dynamic type binding provides a great deal of flexibility in programming. You don’t have to know the type of the data input to be able to process it. However, that flexibility advantage is not free. It will cost us the speed of detecting the type of the assigned value each time a new value is assign to the variable.

4) No namespaces

Namespace will be introduced in PHP 5.3.

6) Seldom use of Framework

It depends on the developers and the size of the project. There are many Frameworks available and for free. But when some, or many, developers decided not to use Framework in their projects I can’t see how it makes PHP a bad programming language. Like any other programming languages, you can always not use framework for any kind of project.

what i think, PHP is a incomplete programming language as well as a bad programming language which gives bad practise for the programmers.

It can’t be true. PHP is one of the famous programming languages (after Java) and one of the most used. Many companies and organizations prefer LAMP developers than any kinds of web developers. PHP is still growing and you can find almost any sample of codes available all over the web.

VCP-310 test focuses on the VMware product lines and as well on the ESX server. 640-802 judges a candidate’s abilities and skills needed to install, operate, as well as troubleshoot medium size company branch network. 70-290 and 70-291 enables you to learn about connectivity needs for example connecting branch offices and individual users in remote places to the company network. The MCSE on Windows Server 2003 is a requirement and basic criteria for 70-649.