DotNetArabi

نشأ دوت نت عربي منذ ثمان سنوات ليكون من أوائل المواقع العربية التي تقدم محتوى عربيا ذا جودة عالية، قدم من خلالها العديد من الحلقات مع نجوم تقنيين عرب أصحاب خبرة طويلة و أداء مميز. بدأ البودكاست بجهود فردية و نفقة شخصية غير ربحية، و استمر عدة سنوات بأداء جيد و بمعدل حلقة كل أربعة أسابيع و بشكل مستمر. و لكن خلال السنتين السابقتين بدأ إصدار الحلقات بالتباطئ و باتت الفترة بين الحلقة و الأخرى تطول على الرغم من كل محاولات زيادة الانتاج. فكرة إخراج العمل من دائرة العمل الفردي إلى دائرة العمل الجماعي لم تغب عني و منذ سنوات، لكن لم أستطع إيجاد آلية واضحة و عملية يمكن الاعتماد عليها لتحويل العمل من فردي إلى جماعي تطوعي، و يمكن من خلالها اغتنام ما قدمه بعض المستمعين المخلصين من رغبة في المشاركة في هذا العمل. استمر الأمر كما هو عليه حتى كان لا بد من الخوض في فكرة العمل الجماعي التطوعي حتى و لو بأبسط الأدوات. و “أن تأت متأخرا خيرا من أن لا تأت”. ...

After I have moved to WinHost, I was surprised they don’t support multiple domains under one site out of the box; you have to rely on IIS URL Rewrite magic to achieve that. So as expected, I looked for a solution in their KB and the internet (you don’t reinvent the wheel, remember?) and found couple of posts here, here, here, and here that helped a lot in achieving this. So I managed to have www.emadashi.com and www.dotnetarabi.com working fine together residing in the folders “emadashi-blog” and “dotnetarabi-root” respectively under the root; they both have same IP address, but upon request a redirection is made to the proper application folder. ...

This is a shout-out to MP3 Skype Recorder, the best Skype recorder I have ever used to record Skype calls. It’s been two years since DotNetArabi’s first episode, most of the episodes were recorded over Skype using MP3 Skype Recorder. It wasn’t the only tool I tried, I have downloaded several, but none competed with its simplicity and robustness, never hanged, never failed, and it’s totally free! ...

Update: Twitter “statuses/followers” API documentation had a small note at the bottom that says it returns only 100 followers if no paging is used. I have updated the script accordingly. Thanks to @RamyMahrous for notifying me in his comment below. For a long time I thought that @DotNetArabi shouldn’t follow it’s own followers due to various reasons I had, but lately I discovered that I was wrong. So I have decided to follow them back no matter how many they are, but that would be a tedious thing to do manually. Here comes Powershell to the rescue. ...

Lately OData (Open Data protocol) is gaining a great momentum, everybody is talking about, and in fact it deserves all this fuss. OData is a protocol through which you can share data provided as ATOM or JSON formats by exposing URI’s to be invoked via HTTP, check the FAQ for fast information. ...

Last Saturday we had a SharePointSaturday event here in Jordan, in which I had the pleasure of interviewing Joel Oleson and Michael Noel for DotNetArabi. At the end of Joel’s valuable interview, which can happen only in a life time, I stopped the recording by hitting the “Stop” button, simple. Surprisingly, instead of stopping the recording, Audacity just froze! I could hear myself screaming inside “NOOO!!!”, I guess even Joel heard that! the whole machine stuck that I had to force it to a Hard Shut down. ...

After publishing 8 episodes of DotNetArabi, I think it would be nice to share on this blog how it goes and what equipment needed in the process. But before we begin, dear reader, note that I am not an expert, I am still in the beginning of the way, though it’s going good so far. My working machine is HP dv 6700 laptop, my first trials with recording was with simple microphone like the ones you use for chats; recording in winter made things smooth, but when summer came a long the heating problem became obvious in the low quality of the audio recorded, in addition to the higher target I needed anyway, so a different measure had to take place. ...

 Episode 5 of DotNetArabi podcast is published on www.dotnetarabi.com Mohamad Meligy talked in this episode about ORM (Object Relational Mapping), he explained in details how they work, why we need them, their advantages and disadvantages, and listed some of the known ORM engines. لقد تم نشر الحلقة الخامسة من دوت نت عربي على www.dotnetarabi.com. تحدث فيها محمد مليجي بإسهاب عن الـ ORM (Object Relational Mapping). مفصلا ماهيتها، و كيف تعمل، و حسناتها و سيئاتها، و ذكر كذلك بعضا من المكتبات البرمجية منها و حسناتها. ...