Holycow… lol funny way to start a post. But that’s true! I haven’t been reading my feeds for a week or more because I have been busy doing my school works. Look at the number of feeds I still got to read!
Oh god! it’s gonna take forever!
Or should I say Chanukkah? Spelling doesn’t matter. Different parts of the world has different spellings but the word Hanukkah in Jewish means “dedication”. Today is December 12, the last day of Hanukkah Festival.
Hanukkah, aka Festival of Light, is an annual 8 days Jewish holiday to celebrate and to commemorate the rededication of the Second Temple which was burned by the Greek empire. The temple was located in the occupied Palastine territory. This festival involves 8 candles each one is lighten-up in each of the Hanukkah holiday.
I do not celebrate this festival but it is nice to know other’s culture and festivals.
Ladies and Gentlemen… The winner of the International Collegiate Programming Contest, Arab and North Africa Regional Contest, is Cairo University. Congratulation for Cairo University and best of luck for all institutions in next year’s contest! Interested on viewing the problems?! Check it out here.
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
