رمضان كريم …Happy Ramadan
Happy Ramadan all, I hope you all get the best out of it, and may Allah grant you his acceptance and blessings.
Author Archives: Emad Alashi
Announcing open source project Bunian
What could be better, as an Open Source project, than a charity application! where your code is really worth something valuable; a smile on an innocent orphan face, or new clothes for a needy family in Eid. Announcing new open source project Bunian; the excitement is indescribable! eager to reach with it a stage when… Read More »
NHibernate Inverse attribute
I had to read documentation, articles, many blog entries and go into discussions with colleagues… all to get the root of this ambiguous attribute of NHibernate, it is trickey! This blog entry is another trial to explain the attribute, but with taking one more detailed step into the explanation. NHibernate is meant to persist objects… Read More »
Mapping Enumeration of type int in NHibernate
I wanted to map an integer enumeration type in NHibernate, I googled “mapping enumeration in NHibernate” and the best explanation was of Jeremy Miller in his post here. But as it appears (and according to my understanding) that the enumeration type should be mapped to a database column of characters type (varchar, char,…etc). What if… Read More »
نعام
ذات يوم خلال الأسبوع الماضي، صدف أن استضافني صديق لي في منزله. جلسنا أمام التلفاز، ثم بدأت عملية القفز العشوائي التي اعتدناها – نحن كمجتمع – بين محطات اللاقط. و في خضم المتعة العشوائية، استوقفت مضيفي محطة معروفة، كان يعلو منها حينها صراخ و عويل. و بنظرة منهكة، توجه إلي صديقي و سألني: “هل تعرف ما… Read More »
How we decide what to have for lunch
Do you go through the same, time-consuming, frustrating discussion with your colleagues when you want to decide what to have for lunch? well…this is exactly what we have been going through where I work. To solve the problem (partially, because humans can never totally agree! ), I made a small, quick and dirty web application; LunchPoll.… Read More »
Track your financial status
Lately, I have been living a financial chaos; I couldn’t tell how much money I had in the bank, lent to friends or in my Pocket! (ok the last one was exaggeration…I could count it anytime :P). I decided to put an end to this, so I started looking for a software to track my financial… Read More »
When a family dies in a car accedent!
On friday, my mothers cousin died in a car accedent on a highway; he, his wife and one of his 3 kids died in the accedent! the 2nd child is in comma while the 3rd survived. It was shocking! the last week he was enjoying the holiday at his family’s place with his three kids! The… Read More »
Are code comments important?
From the very first day I have heard about Agile development and I have been hearing things like “code comments are not such a good thing” The main idea behind that is that the code should be self explanatory; giving functions good names and splitting concerns into different functions. But what about the “why”; why… Read More »
In the memory of Srebrenica genocide
Can the mind imagine how brutal the man kind can be!! The last couple of days was the memory of one of the ugliest genocides took place in the recent history, with 8000 people killed mercilessly in couple of days! The frightning side of the story is that it was under the supervision of the so… Read More »