Jazoon is an annual convention for java and software development in Zurich . I’m having the opportunity to attend it and I decided to blog about the experience.
Because of the overwhelming material I’m going to be writing only short notes and buzzwords (brain dumps). The intent is to mediate the buzzwords of today’s software development market.
Here is a brain dump of Day-2.
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Tags: agile. assessment, human interface, Java, javascript, JBoss, NOSQL, Open Source, Oracle, Scala, Scrum, v-model, Web
Java | asmaklad, 27 Jun 12 | 
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Jazoon is an annual convention for java and software development in Zurich . I’m having the opportunity to attend it and I decided to blog about the experience.
Because of the overwhelming material I’m going to be writing only short notes and buzzwords (brain dumps). The intent is to mediate the buzzwords of today’s software development market.
Here is a brain dump of Day-1.
Read more »
Tags: agile, assessment, human interface, javascript, JBoss, NOSQL, Open Source, Scala, Scrum, v-model, Web
Java | asmaklad, 27 Jun 12 | Comments (1)
Everybody knows Excel. The world’s leading spreadsheet application. but do we really use it to do just spread-sheets editing or can we do more with it?
Excel could be used to Automate tasks, to analyze data and go beyond just creating reports.
In this article I try to expose some of the functionalities I mostly use in Excel as developer and production support staff at the same time.
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APEX is a great Oracle product, yet some-how is under-rated.
Think of APEX for Oracle the same as Access is for Microsoft. It is light-weight-declarative tool to build database applications without much coding.
If you embrace this analogy between APEX and Access, then allow me to introduce APEX by comparing it to ACCESS.
Tags: Access, APEX, Databae, Excel, HTML, javascript, Oracle, PLSQL, SQL, Web
Apex, Oracle, PLSQL, SQL, Web Technologies, XML | asmaklad, 5 Mar 12 | Comments Off on Oracle : What is APEX ?
Egypt is experiencing its first free elections since decades.
Egyptian Coat of arms
And I have decided to test if the web technologies practiced inside a secure enterprise network would also work in the real-Internet-world.
I got the permission to go ahead and use the API provided by the Egyptian government for the people to query their database for Election Locations, candidates ,constituents and contests.
I got to learn a lot about the political map in Egypt and try to adapt my application quickly to different and shifting requirements.
I have made the following technical decisions:
- Use PHP and MYSQL . because that is the available platform I have
- Use the PHP framework Codeigniter . Which I have to admit, so far I’m enjoying that decision. Sometimes you feel there is a lack of documentation, but if you dig deep enough you will find your answers. anyway not bad for my first time.
- For Ajax and JS, I’m using the Prototype Javascript library. I have used JQuery before, but I had to go with Prototype because there is an AJAX library already available with CodeIgniter.
So Far I’m not getting heavy traffic on the site (only 220 queries) so the real load-test has not been reached yet.
My biggest problem so far is Marketing for the website. Unless you are willing to spend some money, nothing could be done beyond telling you network on Facebook and twitter about the site.
Anyway that is my experience about the difference between Enterprise -web and real-web applictions.
Looking forward to hear your suggestions and rating.
Ah, the website I created is : http://eg.maksoft.ch