Kids below 25

ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
i dont get along with kids

ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
below 25 years
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
dont u know this?
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
i just feel hostile
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and they feel frightened
Mother Nature says:
laih basssssssssss
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
because little kids are usually causing lots of noise
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and secretions
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and i hate both
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and they just dont know when to stop
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and when to hit the road
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and when to stay and cause more trouble
Mother Nature says:
laih bass
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
i only managed to be a friend with a little girl, she is around 4 yrs old
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
she is the daughter of a friend of mine.
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
she is exactly like her mom, so I could manage
Mother Nature says:
hahahaah
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and this is the only girl i could deal with
Mother Nature says:
YA RAB ASHOUFLAK 5 3iyal kida
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
I would say , ya rab 1 only.
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
i dont like lots of kids
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
they are resource depleting and an overhead on the mom.
Mother Nature says:
mate2la2sh ...they are the most pure things in the world... loua il atefal fil doniya di kanet il 7ayh teb2a sa3ba wi gaffa..
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and their efficiency as a closed system is below 10%
Mother Nature says:
laih baaaaaaaaaaaaaaas
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and their payback is very late
Mother Nature says:
ya sater laih kidaaaaaaaaaa
ANTI_KIDS_NERD says:
and not guaranteed

Ticket Granting Ticket... Chicken Fried Chicken

Java RAD Vs. Microsoft .net

During my working years as a Java developer, and holding the flag of Java on Oracle(well even before I became officially an Orcle Staff) I was always tempted to know how is it going at the other side of the competition, how do you, Microsoft Guys work?

I was really neither convinced that I had to change my belief and work for some company as a "Microsoft developer" to discover this, nor was I convinced that I have to purchase, download, or borrow a book on .net and start at my free time, because my free time is for me, not for Microsoft :) and I was not convinced to sacrifice it.

It happened that I ve got the golden opportunity to help a friend with a project with my expertise as a developer, and guess what? it was a .net project, and I had to roll up my sleeves and get down into the .net development environment to discover the fantasies of microsoft.

I have found that when you need to display a table's data, you just drag and drop what was called a data grid, then a wizard appears and voila, you have got your table. In literally 15 seconds!!!! Amazing, really it was.

Wait, wait. Don't speculate. I am not by any means deciding now that it is microsoft that prevails. On the other side, i have known the reality about it all :) It just prevents unexperienced developers from getting experienced, and make them stick to its wizards and remain as such.

On the other side, to do this in Java, you had to do this by yourself, to the latest details, and I mean it. Most of you understand what I mean so I won't get into technical details.

I was just amazed by the idea that I can finish a .net project in a tenth of the time if it is a straight forward with some lists and lookups, which is the case for small projects. so what the heck? why don't I just be somehow unethical, and buy this?

Then I thought that if I am going to buy it, I would buy it smart. I would search for a counterpart for this within my side.

What I have discovered then that I have a typical similar environment to build applications like the .net development environment called Oracle JDeveloper 10g.

JDeveloper as an IDE is not more than a fancy editor that I really admire(well, I have go to do this as an Oracle staff anyways :). But digging down in the Oracle ADF framework, and its integration into JDeveloper 10g, I have displayed the data of a table into a web page with all the whistles and wheels (a.k.a. paging and navigation) in less than 3 minutes. And I have not wrote a single line of code. It was all drag and drop of objects into GUI and here is my first page in the application up and running, hot, straight and normal.

You can discover this for yourself.Point your browser to:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe9051jdev/adftojsp/defaultendtoend.htm
and do the tutorial. You will like it.

You could also check the page suggested by Steve Muench in his comment to this blog via the url:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/adf/learnadf.html

In my humble opinion, it gives an edge over .net because it is as easy as .net, meanwhile I have the full power and flexibility to tweak, change, modify and enhance my old plain java code sitting behind.

Translation

Fly me to the moon- and let me play among the stars

طيرنى للقمر - و سيب الحبل و شد

The transformation of the city

As I was walking the very typical daily path that I am used to walk, since I have learned how to walk,on my way to work, and my subconscious is "aware" of every single detail in the streets; the way people look, the color of buildings, and the bumps at both sides of the road, It has sent me an alert today that there is something missing, and it was not small to overlook. Another villa was destroyed.

Alexandria is presumed to be a beautiful city. Some people claim that it is beautiful for the sea, other say it is because of its citizens, and most of them believe that buildings are the real reason. Comparing to Cairo, Alexandria is still not a Forrest of cement, dust, and pollution as is the case in Cairo.

Nowadays, someone has decided that there has to be equality between Alexandria and Cairo, and both must have the same Forrest, so the law to ban destruction of villas is outdated and everyone with a heritage is selling it to a building tycoon to raise a 20 story building to gain more money, make poor people just poorer and make this city as ugly as he can.

Rabena 3al zalem wel moftary we ebn bent el .... :-)

SWIFT

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication; an industry cooperative that provides a standard format for transmitting payments, stock transactions, letters of credit and other financial messages to more than 7,500 member banks, broker-dealers and investment organizations around the world. A SWIFT code is widely used to transfer funds between banks.
ANB SWIFT service allows customers to perform money transfer outside the kingdom with any currency or inside the kingdom with a foreign currency.

Lebanese Colors

When you live in a small town like Alexnadria, there are very small chances to find a nice place, that is not crowded all the time. For me, a place that serves shisha is a prime place. I used to be enjoying the famous cheap shisha at Sa3a le2albak, made by Alaa, the one and only, and enjoying the company of my entimate friend abo 7ouda. But guess what? Abo 7ouda is gone to the gulf, and Alaa has left town too. So sa3a le2albak is not an attraction anymore.

Lately, I have discovered a very nice place, called Lebanese Colors. It is located at this new area beside acacia and county club. One of the virtues of Lebanese Colors, besides the cutie chicks of course, is Shisha. :). Shisha is really good, balanced, served in a nice way, and coal is changed regularly.

Although, the prices are a little bit high, and sometimes you just can't find a nice place on a soft, but their moonlight(cocktail) is a milestone. :)

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To cap it all

To cap it all = اللى زاد و غطى
An example from the dictionary:
"He spilled red wine on the carpet, insulted my mother, and, to cap it all, he broke my favourite vase."

Hyundai

I was chatting with a friend this afternoon, when he told me about an episode he just watched on Discovery, about the origin of Hyundai, this Korean Auto manufacturer.

A farmer who decided to leave his parents and live in the city, started a rice shipping company. At that time the Japanese were colonizing Korea, and they stopped anyone from flourishing a business. This farmer was no exception. His business was stopped.

A stubborn and ambitios one like this farmer decided to start over with an auto repair garage, where he used to repair the Japanese cars and sell used spare parts as if they are brand new.

Today, This garage is one of the biggest Auto manufacturers globalwide!!