Eventtus in ArabNetCairo
"Eventtus will help you Find interesting events you don't want to miss, Share your plans with friends, Socialize during events like never before, Meet new people who share same interests, Organize...
View ArticleFind your sports mate with SporBro
SporBro is one of the startups creating during STartupWeekendCairo on April 2011. They've launched the beta version. and participated in Startup Demo of ArabNetCairo.It is basically about match making....
View ArticleEnrich your travel experience with Touringa
If you happen to travel to other places, you can find more about those new places easily and effectively with Tourunga. It connects travelers with other travelers and with the locals of the country,...
View ArticleMarhaba Palestine
One of the most remarkable startups that are valuable to the community. Marhaba Palestine is there to change the way the world looks at palestine. and shows how it is a wonderful country for tourism....
View ArticleNew mothers, You are not alone
SuperMama, The winner of the first positions in StartupDemo of ArabNetCairo, is a community based website that supports mothers through the rough times of motherhood..Check their wonderful presentation
View ArticleMeet Zaytouneh, arabic short video recipes
One of the amazing startups presented in ArabNetCairo, was Zaytouneh, which provides its end users with easy recipes elaborated in short videos (upto 2 minutes). The founder, @FidaTaher, is a video...
View ArticleMedia and Advertising panel in ArabNetCairo
One of the most interesting panel discussions in ArabNetCairo was about Media & Advertising. The speakers were:Fawzi Rahal: Founder of The Next Web Middle East and Regional Digital Director at Grey...
View ArticleCuban Pete
They call me Cuban PeteI'm the King of the Rumba beatWhen I play the marracasI go chick-chicky-boomchick-chicky-boomYes, Sir, I'm Cuban PeteI'm the craze of my native streetwhen I start to...
View ArticleUtilizing Page Caching while using query string parameters using Nginx
One of the common practices for ruby on rails developers is to wrap all parameters in the URI itself, so they can easily make use of page caching. Sometimes having a lot of parameters can start being...
View ArticleSuccess of Startups
Entrepreneurship has become one of the one of the most interesting topic in the business side in any country in the world. While it is digging its way in the middle east, there is some sort of...
View ArticleWriting usable scripts in Ruby
Usable command line tools/scriptsThere are a lot of command line tools written in ruby, python, bash, c or any other languages. They are usable simply because there is a standard way in dealing with...
View ArticleMigrating repos from SVN to git
It is straight forward to migrate your old SVN code to git. I highly advice everyone to do that even if they're not going to publish it on github or actually use it. but backing up a git repo can get...
View ArticleBackup and Restore Git Repositories
Sometimes you need to move repositories from your local git server to github.com, bitbucket.org or vice versa. the situation where you want to archive the whole "bare" repo, not just a close with the...
View ArticleExporting data from remote mysql instance in csv, using mysql client and sed
Mysql allows exporting query results to csv using the INTO OUTFILE, like the following example:SELECT a,b,a+b INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/result.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES...
View ArticleOrganize your readings with Pocket, opportunity for more
I have been using pocket for a while now to queue all the articles I want to read, so I can avoid interruptions and read them when the time is more convenient. This was actually the philosophy of the...
View ArticleRedmine service hook for github
Github servicesgithub.com allows you to activate some service hooks on your code repository. Hooks include lots of interesting functionality like posting email notification about commits among...
View ArticleLinode finally back to the new baseline of VPS Hosting
2 days ago Linode finally announced their new VPS Hosting offering with doubling the RAM and moving to Fast SSD storageSSD Storage will allow much faster operations for both setup operations,...
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Stress Testing with Siege and Bombard, know your limits
I couldn't find a clear quick intro on getting siege and bombard in action, so I'm writing one here.Siege is a load testing and benchmarking utility that has been available for quite a while, It allows...
View ArticleFacebook "Thank you" moments
Few years ago, Facebook launched their "7 years look back" videos. where any Facebook user can go to https://www.facebook.com/lookback to find a video generated for him, showing highlights over his...
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Smarter Egypt Hackathon, Nov 2014
Last weekend, IBM Egypt in cooperation with ITI and other parties organized a 4 days hackathon in the theme of applying big data technologies to solve national problems in Egypt.The organizing parties...
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Google Adsense Sensitive Categories
According to a note from Google Adsense website, starting last month, they rolled out new beta inventory of ads that might be bothering to some people, which is "Social Casino Games".This includes...
View ArticleConverting a batch of files of csv format to xls or xlsx
While working with data, we tend to deal a lot with CSV files. It is more efficient and trivial to manipulate csv data either through command line tools or through programming languages like...
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Android Marshmallow highlights
Nearly a couple of weeks ago, I got system update of Android 6, Marshmallow on my Google Nexus 5. Having system updates early is one of the things I like much about Google Nexus devices.There are...
View ArticleSharing Is Caring
As they always say "Sharing is caring", However, it struck me that for new generations, specially with those heavily using Facebook, that it might need emphasize on the different meanings that the...
View ArticleThe butterfly side effect in making later appointments
One of the things I learned in life when dealing with appointments at service centers, specifically Visa Related appointments, is to be there as early as possible. pick the first appointment...
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