My Days. My Life.

I finally made the move. I’ve been wanting to buy me a new phone line ever since my incident with (shitty) vodafone. With their intolerable customer relations, they were by far not going to have me a customer for long. I passed by today and paid what I thought was fair of my bill, after all, I wasn’t going to accept money that isn’t mine. Nevertheless, I wasn’t going to accept being robbed by a company that claims to have excellent customer relations? WTF?

I’m pretty satisfied with the offers etisalat is offering. Very satisfied actually. I look forward for a very long relationship with them, I hope – heh, I like the new number quite a bit.

Anyway, I’m keeping my old line active for some time – sooner or later I will give up on it anyway. For those of you who have me stored in their contact list, please take a minute to update my number; you can find it here.

Or gray for that matter – I always wondered why the heck Americans and English never agreed on certain words spelling, I mean, it’s just a word! I tend to use English vocabulary more often though. After all, I was taught by English peeps.

Anyway, back to topic.

I was recently assigned a project to work on for a local community, nothing fancy. Just a bunch of wise fellows whom decided to start a community for their college – round of applause for them we should give. I was supposed to work on the development part mostly (well, I was supposed to work only on the development part, I’m just making it sound better that way, heh) and a friend of mine should have done the design of the website. She got pretty busy in the last couple of days (which shouldn’t be a problem to me, designing should never be an obstacle for a developer) and when I was coding my way through the website I got pretty bored (well, and tired too) and decided to give the design a go – heh, better should I have known.

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Having to live with the fact that you formatted your C drive, when you did not take any backup of projects and systems that basically are your entire life’s savings. That had specific bits and pieces of stuff that you use all the time, and now you will have to recode from scratch again. That had specific systems that are essential for some people, and now you’ll have to do all from scratch, again.

Having to live with the fact that you cannot use your wireless network card because you were too dumb to figure out that you don’t have the Drivers CD before you decided to press the “F” button (to finally give permission to format your partition.)

Disastrous too, and shocking. And I couldn’t post about it earlier on because? Oh yeah, the server was down as well. How worse can a nightmare be?

Regardless. Today was my first day at the GUC. It was only an orientation day – more of a “welcome to university” bunch of lectures. A few set of rules, regulations, how-to’s, where abouts, we are’s, and why to’s. It’s quite interesting the facilities they have I must admit, pretty extensive and unique too. The Dean of the Engineering Faculty seems interesting, I liked his presentation quite much, the most actually, he’s quite live and the lecture was pounding with energy – except the use of certain vocabulary more than necessary I must say.

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Well, I got to admit this Ramadan was quite different, for many reasons actually. One being that school hadn’t started yet, and two for having to break my fasting almost always after el-ma3`reb (for reasons beyond my will of course).

I was a bit lazy with this poster, but oh well, I like it! Heh, happy eid everyone, w kol sana wento koloko tayeben :blush:

I was talking with Ahmed Soliman about a week ago and dkSystem came up, heh. He asked me what I used to manage my templates and I told him that it was hardcoded in the system, of course. He told me that that is not a very wise method of managing templates of a system, and I should use a template engine – which I had no idea what it was lol.

So I searched, and the first result (after wikipedia’s result) I got was Smarty, php’s official template engine – which I honestly never heard of (of course, I didn’t even know what a template engine was to know of the brands).

Now after reading the crash course they have at the website I was stunned by how easy it was to use, not only that, but today earlier on when I decided to finish off dkSystem (finally) and had a closer look at Smarty, I couldn’t believe how easy it was to integrate it with dkSystem, unbelievable!

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