i ordered the new o'reilly book off amazon, "Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications." its written by cal henderson, one of the guys behind flickr. i've read a little bit and so far it seems to be pretty good.
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building scalable websites
Thursday, June 1st, 2006three books, wp 2.0, etc
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006peace... i installed wordpress 2.0 (actually, its been installed for a few days now, i installed svn version right before it came out because the download link was broken). as you can see, no asthetic changes here... but the control panel is much nicer... really beautiful. in addition, i installed a plugin (spam karma 2) to deal with the comment spam... so far so good, lets see how it fairs over the next while.
in any case, after watching the excellent (yet depressing) syriana movie, mansoor suggested i get the book the scorpion's gate by richard clark - so i picked it up and also picked up dan brown's digital fortress (at the recommendation of emad).
syriana by the way was excellent... i say it is depressing because of the fact that what it portrays feels like a very accurate picture of the state of matters as they are now. i also watched munich, but i didn't really like it. i felt it was very one sided, and i could not enjoy a movie whose plot was to kill muslims...
also, there is a new book, "islam & terrorism... myth vs reality," by mauri' saalakhan... it was just published recently in answer to a particular book that was attacking islam. should also be an interesting read.
i came across a pretty neat looking arabic typing tutorial program (open source) - its called kitab (kitab.sf.net). have not downloaded it yet, but from the screenshots, it looks good.
that's all for now...
hitchhiker’s guide, ruby mozembed
Friday, September 9th, 2005"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
i finally got around to reading the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. really funny book. maybe i will try to read the other books at some point.
i played around some today with ruby-gnome2 bindings. all i can say is wow. the website documentation is incredible, and you can do so much in so little code. i played around some with ruby-gtkmozembed, and in a few lines of code, you basically have a fully functional webbrowser.
require 'gtkmozembed' class Main def initialize Gtk.init window = Gtk::Window.new window.resize(800, 600) window.title = "ahmed's google test" browser = Gtk::MozEmbed.new browser.chrome_mask = Gtk::MozEmbed::ALLCHROME browser.location = "http://www.google.com" browser.signal_connect("title"){ window.title = browser.title; } window < < browser window.show_all window.signal_connect("destroy"){ Gtk::main_quit } end end Main.new Gtk.mai
that's all for now.
prayertime app update, etc
Monday, September 13th, 2004peace... i pretty much finished the linux gtk2 version of the prayertime application... all i am missing is 2 things - a nice icon for the tray, and adding notification (ex. athan or a dialog box when a prayer time comes about). there's also one little bug i am trying to fix, i am not sure if its an itl bug or if its a bug in my code, so insha'Allah going to try to figure that out...
i got my copy of the mono developer's notebook today. at an uber short glance, it seems pretty cool...
bookpool rocks for technical books... their prices often times beat amazon's and their shipping prices seem pretty reasonable (i got 2 day shipping for just under $5).
halo rocks. even if its sold by microsoft. that is all for now...