Couple of days ago I received the wonderful email from Microsoft telling me that I was awarded the MVP; it really feels nice when you achieve results. But the best part of all this is my friends’ reactions, the congrats, and the big smiles on the faces (not mentioning a generous gift from my colleagues… Read More »
To be frank I hesitated a bit to review a “a Martin Fowlers signature book”, but I have to share this review with others; to set expectations. The book “Continuous Integration” is ok, but it’s too general, that’s it! I have read several articles about Continuous Integration and posts here and there until I thought… Read More »
Last Saturday 14th of May 2011 we had the first web camp in Jordan among Jordev’s activities, and it was great! check my presentation slides at the end of this post. The event was like the following: 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Registration 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM: Four 50 minutes sessions with 10 minutes… Read More »
For too long and all Jordev’s activities have been in the form of sessions with fast code demo’s, and for the first time we are going to break this rule and do our first web camp in which attendees will have the chance to have hands-on experience with some of Jordan’s active experts, it will… Read More »
Today I was looking for a fast way to find the index of a nth occurrence of a string in a string, so I found this very simple and intuitive site on which you can find and share .net extension methods, the website is http://www.extensionmethod.net Dah! I couldn’t find what I looked for, so I… Read More »
The other day I needed an ASP.NET MVC grid control, and I have always heard about Telerik’s ASP.NET MVC Extensions and the great tools they provide, so I decided to give them a try. So I followed the installation guide step by step, and prepared my code to use the extensions; I added a reference… Read More »
It was great to get back to presentations after this while; ASP.NET MVC was the topic for the latest session I delivered through Jordev. The audience was great, I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did preparing for it. you can find the slides on Slideshare, embedded here as well: Introduction to ASP.NET… Read More »
Here is your chance (with little effort) to win a fully-paid trip to Tech-Ed Middle East 2011. Simple tasks are required from your part and you will find yourself with the ultimate geeks in Dubai next year. For the details check the competitions website on http://compete.jordanruns.net/
Update: Twitter “statuses/followers” API documentation had a small note at the bottom that says that it returns only 100 followers if no paging is used, I have updated the script accordingly. Thanks to @RamyMahrous for notifying me on this in his comment below. <End of Update> For a long time I thought that @DotNetArabi shouldn’t… Read More »
In this post I will show you an example of how smartly built controls and API’s can make the developers programming life extremely enjoyable, hopefully this example will urge you in giving such a smart effort when you build your own control or API. Lately I have been playing around with a very nice tree… Read More »