Mohamed Salem Korayem's Blog

Tayseer was the first to suggest having an Egyptian Python User Group. As a result, he created a forum for discussions (hosted by SpellCoder). I suggested naming it "Egypy" to avoid our excessive use of "Egyptian" as a naming convention in everything we try to do to the extend that it sometimes becomes ugly and kills new and creative names.

Finally, Tayseer is initiating the first Egypy meeting on Friday 27/8/2007. There is a Facebook event to disseminate the idea even further.

It will be a great chance to gather up and share our Python experiences and make people more aware about the beauty of Python.

Now go tell everyone....and see you there inshallah.

As for the theme, it will be added to the available themes for BlogEngine.NET.

Mads Kristensen has requested from the open-source community to aid the BlogEngine.NET team in localization and in adding more themes.

I had two ways to contribute back (in case you didn't notice this blog is running on BlogEngine.NET). The first was through creating an Arabic translation resource file to be used for localization. And the second was by sharing the theme I am currently using which I adapted Non Zero theme manually.

Arabic Localization for BlogEngine.NET 1.2: download here. I will try to maintain it in the future Inshallah.

NonZero Theme for BlogEngine.NET 1.1: downloading here.

I know that this contribution, plus my help in the wiki, is nothing compared to what the whole team of BlogEngine.NET is doing, but it makes me sleep better at night ;) 

I just hope that both of those contributions make it on time for the next release. It's due to TODAY.

I was chatting with Mohamed Hossam and he shared his agony with me about some people's opinions regarding the reason behind DemoDay 2. People think that it's a concpiracy and there must be a link to Microsoft Egypt.

Thankfully, Dody G., Silverkey CEO founder, responds about the matter in his blog. He also goes on to share Silverkey's future plans for Demo Day. 

SKDD2 slides are now available online for free downloading, with no copyright restrictions, as well as the Audience Evaluations of the whole day. This proves how open Silverkey is to the developers community in Egypt.

Update: Mohamed Tayseer had his intake on the event too. Nice read from a Silverkey insider.

In a very smart move by Gavin Joyce, dotnetkicks creator, the full source-code of the website is now public on GoogleCode and you can Checkout the code from it's SVN repository.

This move will make things much better as the website lacked a lot of important features that the community will now have the opportunity to add quickly.

To me, this is the first time I've seen anything like that. No website that offered a certain service to the people (example: facebook, digg, etc..) had it's own source code available to the public to enhance and update. The only 'open' thing about some websites is their APIs that you can leverage in your own application.

So far, Gavin didn't announce his plans on how persons will be able to update the actual website, but so far, running dotnetkicks locally is just good to see in your local computer ;)