Mohamed Salem Korayem's Blog

7/7/7

No, this is not a codename for some futuristic software release. And it doesnt equal 0.14285...Close the Windows Calculator, will you? Just read on...

7/7/7 is the date over 400 people, ranging from students to professionals, left their cosy beds in the early morning on a Saturday weekend, that they usually spent relaxing from their Geekhood life to an event that will awaken their inner geek.

After all, who would miss an event that talks about the latest technology? New CTPs and Betas that will be released by Microsoft in the near future. New stuff that will literally change the future of how we write and develop applications, and what those applications will offer to the end user.

Silverkey really hit the jackpot that day with the broad topics offered in the sessions. There was a topic for everyone. Actually, most people complained that all topics were too good that they couldn't choose what to miss! Thankfully, all sessions were recorded and will be released soon on Google Videos.

The event showed how agile and dynamic Silverkey is. Egypt, IMHO, lacks this kind of business model which seeks to be truly on the cutting edge, and showing the rest of the world the bleeding part. Silverkey takes this model for granted to the extend that are eager to lead the way for other companies by sharing what they know, not on a personal level through their employee's blogs or so, but on an enterprise level through this event. This explains, to people with some doubt, why the event wasn't affiliated with or funded by Microsoft Egypt in any way.

Their target is to hold SKDD every 6 months. If you think that this period is very small, compare the topics offered in the SKDD1 to those in SKDD2. Technologies that were 6 weeks old had a whole session in SKDD2 (see Microsoft Jaspser session).

If you missed SKDD2, you can (besides cursing yourself for missing an awesome event) download the slides, codes and video sessions a week from now on DemoDay's website. (links and details will be posted here as soon as they are released isa).

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Commenting on El-Nably's post about chinese cars....

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It makes perfect sense.

We, in Egypt, put safety and risks at the very bottom of our priority list...and we put looks, options and hambaca at the very top.

Now that's a market segment chinese car manufaturers are now addressing. We are the PERFECT customers. No wonder these cars aren't and won't be sold in modern countries with high standards.

After china sells their crap to us and make some profit, they will start focusing on those factors...but for now, let us buy some crappy chinese cars.

We law gatt 3ala el crash tests, ya seedy rabina yostorha ba2a men 3ando...el mohem el shakl wel options!!

I took this wacky Progammer's Personality test to see what type of programmer am I, and it turns out I am a PHTB.

You're a Planner.

You may be slow, but you'll usually find the best solution. If something's worth doing, it's worth doing right.

You like coding at a High level.

The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.

You work best in a Team.

A good group is better than the sum of it's parts. The only thing better than a genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers.

You are a liBeral programmer.

Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We're not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.

So what type of programmer are you?? Share with us in the comments :)

NOTE: thanks to Bashmohandes for sharing this

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