Reem Al-Ashry

My New Web Site

2009-04-19T02:22:00.006+02:00

Hello all ,
2 months ago i made a migration from blogger to wordpress .
and now i have just got my new web site working online .
I'm going to continue blogging there en sha2 Allah
so,i hope u like it
See u there :)
here is the link :

http://reemalashry.com

Regards

My WordCamp Session : Top 10 WordPress Plugins

2009-03-30T17:44:00.002+02:00

Here are the slides of my presentation in WordCamp Egypt
you can check them out

Top 10 WordPress Plugins

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WordCamp Egypt

2009-03-14T01:00:00.010+02:00

Hello all,

this post is to announce the place and date of the coming WordCamp in Egypt

Place: Conferences' Hall, Al-Hawwar Club, Al-Mashaya Al-Sofleya,

Al Mansurah, Al Dakahlia, Egypt

Date: Saturday, 28th of March, 2009

You can announce it now for all your friends and colleagues.

Till now,More than 180 people confirmed to attend the event ,this number includes

Engineers,Developers ,Designers,Bloggers and users from all over Egypt

and we are still waiting for more .

The event's Web site

The event on WordCamp Central

Find the event on Facebook

Follow the event on twitter

For more about WordCamp Egypt

So Don't Miss it,

I hope to see you all there .. :)

Regards

The first WordCamp in Egypt !!

2009-03-05T02:03:00.007+02:00

Hello all,

we are glad to announce that we are going to make the first
WordCamp in Egypt !
WordCamp is organized by depiak, an authorized CAT
Foundation.It's a pleasure to host such event in Egypt,
and especially in Al-Mansoura.The event is going to take
place in the next 2 weeks in Al-Mansoura ,it might be in
Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University but we are
still looking for a bigger hall .

so If you are a developer, designer or even a company who is looking
for any of those, we can assure you that this event is for you.
Also if you want to collaborate with a session in the same event
please let us know, sessions should be exclusively Wordpress
and till now we have almost 4 sessions, the schedule will be
announced soon, so you should hurry up.

If you are a designer, and want to collaborate in the marketing
campaign for a Multi-National event, this is your chance, it will be
great putting something like this in your CV !

If you are a blogger that cares about blogging concerns
and blogging new features ,This event is for you

We are also still looking for sponsors, so if you know a company
that wishes to sponsor a Multi-National event, please let us
know to contact them with our sponsorship deals -
which are not too expensive .

For more about the event and how to Contact US

The event on facebook

please check regularly to know about the final date and place of the event

you will benefit alot from attending such a great event .

So Don't Miss It !!

Cairo ICT 2009

2009-02-12T04:21:00.012+02:00

yesterday we visited cairo ICT exhibition
we spent nearly 3 and half hours there ,the first wonderful
thing there was the decorations just wooow ,i liked them
alot specially TEData and vodafone's decorations .
about technical stuff the first thing that was new to test
was HP TouchSmart IQ512me Desktop PC ,an amazing touch
screen that really turns heads ,it's really fun as users
can use it to browse the web ,view photos or watch a movie .

another company was Smart , where we tried for the first
time their SmartBoard and Smart table which are
fascinating and very funny and also reliable in learning
process specially for kids .
we played alot there actually like these kids are playing
in this video

and about apple they didn't introduce any new technologies
in ICT exhibition as i have seen all apple products that
were there before .

i liked the fuchsia external hard disks
introduced by alot of companies ,i've to buy one .

if u missed ICT this year u have to visit it
next year ensha'a Allah .

Regards .

The clean al-Mansourah ..Nazeefah Nazeefah Nazeefah

2009-02-09T03:56:00.007+02:00

yes it's nice that our street is clean ,very clean
no rubbish in the street ,no dark as they switched
the lambs on specially that the same streets where in
a miserable case before weeks .
Hay el gama'a where i live ,one of the best areas in Al-Mansourah
and a place that is supposed to look clean "actually all the city
is supposed to be" was full of rubbish thrown at the
street weeks ago , that awful view that i had to see every
day on my way to college made me think about going
to the governorate of al-dakahlya to write a complaint to
the governor of Al-dakahlya about the uncleaned streets.
"btw hya esmaha dakahlya leh ?!"
ok now every where is clean ,so wut is the problem ?
the problem is that al mansourah is cleaned only because
the Prime Minister was coming to visit al mansorah !
he is welcomed but also we deserve to live in a clean and
healthy streets all the year not only for a particular day !

wla lazm ya3ny el nas el nazeefah teegy 3shan
el mansourah tb2a nazeefah ..

that is not only happening in al mansorah ,
that is happening in many of our egyptian cities as well .
and that is really frustrating .

I hope that this bad attitude change soon .

Regards

Web 2.0 session

2009-01-28T05:26:00.010+02:00

Today i presented a session about Web2.0 revolution and technologies .
it was quite good session "al7amdollellah" .

here are some keywords mentioned in the session :

-The read-only web
-The read/write web
-Tags (folksonomy)
-Mashups
-RIA
-API

-Some Web 2.0 applications mentioned in the session
that u have 2 check :

-Even if u don't love viewing pictures
this is a very interesting web-site :
:http://www.flickrvision.com

-A search engine that aggregates search results from
live ,yahoo and google search :
http://www.triplify.com

-Read ur mail with your RSS reader :
http://www.mail2feed.org

-Online photo editing web-site :
http://www.splashup.com

-Two web-sites for books sharing
http://www.bookjetty.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/

also some web sites u can use 2 know about new Web 2.0 applications:

http://www.TechCrunch.com/

http://www.listio.com/

http://technorati.com/

http://www.allthingsweb2.com/

and u can download the slides from here :

Web2.0 session

Regards

I called the strong Gaza

2009-01-11T00:36:00.011+02:00

on thursday i called gaza , i was watching "al tab3a al2ola"
when they showed phone numbers in gaza that we can call and
support gaza's strong people .
i never never imagined how strong are these people till
i heard tha voice of the palestinian lady that answered .
i'm watching news every day viewing alot of horrible pictures
every day since the war started ,and i always knew that people
in gaza are brave as they defend their land and stay in their
homes without being afraid from death but what i didn't expect
what the lady said , when i told her that i'm calling
to support her and asked her about how is she ,she only said
"al 7amdolellah"
with her strong and sad voice .
bas kda ! , i thought that a woman in that situation if i asked her about
how is she and her family ,she would shout, cry ,but she didn't ..
she only said "al 7amdollellah we are ok "
w kman da3tly :)
that is why israel will never kill gaza
it can kill children ,women in gaza but it will never kill
gaza's faith
that's why gaza's people are so strong because
they believe in Allah .
that woman may have children that she of course feel
afraid about them
she may have lost one of her family in that war
actually i'm not sure if that woman her self is still alive
till now ..
but she said " al 7amdollellah " .

btw u can call gaza on : 0097282820000
and replace the 0000 with any 4 numbers

Regards :)

A new year has come : 2009

2009-01-04T01:16:00.010+02:00

Happy new year for all ,actually it's late as 3 days already
passed from 2009 but unfortunately I'm busy as my exams
started today .
2008 for me was good "al 7amdollellah",in 2008 i had my goals
clear, I started blogging ,learned php and mysql,
participated in MAB ,read some useful books actually 2008
was the "back to reading year "but of course i need to read more ,
i also presented a session in depiak day about mysql. and i used
linux for the first time and now i don't switch to windows at all :)
but of course i had some goals that i didn't manage to
achieve in 2008 may be because of bad time management .
Now i making my list of wishes and goals for 2009 that i'm
Asking Allah to make me achieve this year En sha'a Allah .
I wish 2009 will be a very happy year for me ,my family ,my friends ,
my country ,for all Muslims in the world and for Gaza Ensha'Allah
i wish all our dreams of happiness and success come true in 2009

Ya Rab ..

Regards :)

Gaza will never die ..

2008-12-29T01:52:00.009+02:00

Stop killing palestinians !!

2008-12-27T21:33:00.011+02:00

i feel speechless while i'm watching what the israeli terrorists
doing with Gaza, Gaza's people who suffered from lake of food
and medicine ,now they are killed in savagery .
the inhuman criminal israel killed and still killing innocent
palestinian children, women and men .
what did they do to deserve to die ?!!!!
while the world is celebrating a new year a palestinian child
is losing his family , a woman is losing her husband or child.
we can do nothing but pray for Gaza .
May Allah help them .

Gone with the winter

2008-12-19T03:53:00.014+02:00

omg,it had been a long time since i wrote here in my blog,
when i thought about it i said may be cuz i was busy in college issues ..
But later i found my self writing a post without publishing it
i just click cancel ! i didn't know why do i do that ?!
then recently i remembered that we are in winter and winter
is to be blamed for my long absence ! seriously i dunn like
winter at all, it's long darkness ,everywhere silence drives
me to be silent too. in winter i usually don't talk as much as
i think about any thing, "and that happens every winter " :)
i always feel that winter is depressive "specially with exams" :s
I like it when it rains but not in al-mansourah as streets have
their worst case when it rains, they become miserable .
i don't know if seasons can affect people's mode and even
the way they act ,i think i'm gonna search about that topic
and see what psychologists say about it :D
any way i'll take it easy and wish that all those bad feelings
will be gone with the winter ISA :).

Scope Keywords

2008-11-01T15:01:00.009+02:00

From the 28'th to 30'th of October I was attending CAT scope 9 which was a great one .

the attendance was great they all enjoyed the scope sessions and had alot of new technical information in different IT fields.

for me I had many keywords to search about like:

folkstonomry
Rich internet application "RIA"
API
Ajax framework
cross browser
JVM
PKI
IDS
IPS
nabaztag
ISA server
Google file system
RFID
Information theory
Mind Mapping
Tony Buzan

Now i'm searching these keywords and i'm gonna post here some

summarized topics of the results .

Here are some links plz check them :

http://www.nabaztag.com/en/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ

Regards :)

2008-10-29T21:18:00.005+02:00

وَكَانَ فَضْلُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكَ عَظِيمًا

My First Session

2008-10-22T04:11:00.019+02:00

Today was Depiak day , it was a great day ,the day included
5 sessions about different web and web development topics
I made my first session and it was a very good one , people was
satisfied and so i felt :)
The session's name was "Introduction to mySQL " it was a talk
about mySQL db server,I managed to talk well and to control my tension.
honestly I expected to be more tensioned and stressed than
i acted as it was my first time to make a session but thanks GOD :)
a year before in CAT scope 7 , it was my first time to attend
CAT scopes i was very impressed by sessions and very good
presenters and i asked myself if I can be like them
and make such a good session ,i asked "can I do it next year ?!"
now i realized that speaking in public is not bad ,it was an
excellent training for me to strengthen my presentation skills
that i need in my career ensha'Allah .
today My friend Maha gave me a bundle of white flowers as a gift
in the occasion of my session ,it looks awesome i liked it soo
much as i love flowers specially white and fuchsia ones
thanx sis :)
i've to thank God who helped me,then my family that was supporting
,my friends, all people who listened to me and attended and special thanks
to CAT and
depiak members who changed me alot
hope next time would be better .

You can download the presentation from this link :
http://www.4shared.com/file/67896781/2c8ba6a7/MySQLpptm_Autosaved.html?

Regards :)

"Back to Egypt" Status Report

2008-10-11T22:42:00.020+02:00

-Now i'm back to Egypt after 3 months in Kuwait .
-The vacation is ended .
-I didn't manage to do all what i planned to do
during last vacation :S.
-As usual i feel so depressed as i left my
father alone in kuwait :s.
-The weather is like winter weather .
-The air is so polluted .
-I feel that Al-Mansourah is overcrowded .
-The Taxi driver was putting seat belt while driving .
-Today was my first day in college this semester.
-The main building of our faculty is being repaired !
"although the whole faculty's buildings need
repairing not only the entrance!"
-My colleagues told me i missed alot of lectures "that i usually don't attend!".
-I attended Algorithms course it's really an interesting one
i didn't get all the points mentioned in it :S,but may
be 70 % of 'em and it's ok as a start .
-I 've alot to study and do ,may Allah help me .
-I may present a session in depiak Day.
-Linux-plus company cancled Java courses i was going
to have there :S.
-Did this post made it clear that i'm depressed ?!
i hope i get well soon ensha'Allah:)

I Can't swim , But somtimes I Dive :)

2008-10-06T02:40:00.004+02:00

Happy EidS !

2008-10-01T16:01:00.011+02:00

Happy Eid Fetter for all Muslims in the world may Allah bless Us.
This year i'm spending Eid in Kuwait and that is nice ,but the
disappointing thing is that today is the second day of Eid
Al-Fetter in Kuwait while it is the first day in Egypt !
Although It's not the first time to happen, it's the first
time for me to feel how silly is it :S, Can't we celebrate
Muslim's Eid together!!! , It looks like there are two Eids
at the same time !
Any way Happy Eids Have Fun :).

How to be a Successful person ..?

2008-09-18T15:22:00.008+02:00

To be a successful person , Amr Khaled
mentioned seventeen points you can choose only ten
points of them and keep them up ,the seventeen points
are very practical and can be easily executed :

1. read a book every week or every two weeks,
2. read a purposeful newspaper daily,
3. subscribe to a cultural magazine or web-site,
4. travel around the world,
5. learn a handicraft from a specialist,
6. visit the landmarks in your country along with an expert,
7. accompany a successful person to learn from his experience,
8. watch Discovery channel,
9. watch the daily news bulletin,
10.research your pedigree,
11.try writing a story, a poem, a song, or an idea,
12.do not be shy to discuss and ask questions in class,
13.play chess,
14.use the Internet resources beneficially,
15.visit a public library,
16.work during the summers,
17.learn a new skill or a sport every three months.

I Hope I can execute them ISA ,
Hope they are useful :).

A Story About Justice in Islam ..

2008-09-12T18:29:00.008+02:00

Amr Khaled the very appreciated Islamic preacher has presented
an episode from his tv program "Parables of Qur'an" about justice
in Islam it's a parable mentioned in The Holy Qur'an ,
You can check it here : Amr Khaled web-site
hope it's useful :) .

Cartoon :)

2008-09-09T05:23:00.012+02:00

While checking youtube i found an interesting children's cartoon video

about Ramadan and how to fast ,it is an episode of children's cartoon

series called "Upin and Ipin" in Indonesia .

I really liked watching it :) .

i dunn know why don't we have a cartoon like this with this quality
for kids here in egypt ?!
there is nothing but super henaidy :D:D .

Google Chrome : Amazing !

2008-09-03T14:00:00.013+02:00

Yesterday Google released it's web browser : Google Chrome Beta version.

I Began to use it and really i liked it very much as i'm posting using it now :D.

It's design is awesome as it makes your browsing very interesting process

I felt that pages are wider and so clear ,I enjoyed viewing my personal

iGoogle page and my Blog :D , also viewing page source is amazing .

The first thing i looked for when i started using it is the search box then

I explored that address bar is used as one unified box for Web search ,

Web history and Address bar .

in addition to some features which are not available in

Firefox or IE Like :

-Create desktop shortcut for web applications

-incognito window as pages you view in this window won't

appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't

leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close

the incognito window .

-A default home page when you open new tab dispalys your most
commonly visited sites.

Disappointing that the released version is only for windows , but

Mac OS X and Linux versions are under development and will follow

the Windows version. As usual Google is surprising us !

Ramadan Kareem :)

2008-08-28T17:30:00.006+03:00

Ramadan Kareem ,kol sna w kol el nas tayba ..
May Allah forgive us this ramadan and give all of us great thawab .

12/8 ..Events :D

2008-08-12T05:29:00.011+03:00

Here are some events of day 12/8 :

-The IBM Personal Computer was released on 12/8/ 1981.

-The First International Youth Day was on 12/8/2000, International Youth day is on August 12 each year .

-Queen Rania ends her series of videos on 12/8/2008 ,changing wrong ideas and thoughts some people may have about Arabian and Islamic world , on her channel on youtube .

-My Birth day ...:D

Great day , isn't it ?! ...:D

Learning How To Learn...

2008-08-10T18:23:00.001+03:00

I was checking hackerz web-site while i found this interesting post ,
and i want to share it with you :)

What can you do to bend your mind into submission ?

1-Slow down .the more you understand,the less you have to memorize.

Don't just read, stop and think. When book asks you questions, don't just skip
to answers.
The more you deeply you force your brain to think, the better chance you have
to remember.

2-Do the exercises. write your own notes.

Don't just look at exercises, use your pencil.
You must know that physical activity while learning can increase the learning.

3-There are No Dumb Questions !

That means all questions.They are part of the core content, Don't skip them.

4-Don't do all your reading in one place.

5 - Make this the last thing you read before bed. Or at least the last challenging thing.

Your brain needs times on its own, to do more processing.
If you put in something new during that processing time, some of what you just
learned will be lost.

6- Drink water. Lots of it.

Your brain works best in a nice bath of fluid. Dehydration decreases cognitive function.

7 - Listen to your brain.

Pay attention to whether your brain is getting overloaded.
If you find yourself starting to skim the surface or forget what you just read, it is time for a break.

8 - Talk about it. Out loud.

Better still, try to explain it out loud to someone else. You will learn more quickly.

9 - Feel something!

Your brain needs to know that this matters.
Get involved with the stories.

10 - Type and run the code. Or design something!

Apply this to something new you are designing or refactor an older project.
Just do anything to get some experience.

Reference
Head first books