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Quoted from beansoftware.com

For whom the bell tolls (ma3a l e3tezar lel o3'neya..lol)

This is a small incidence that happened to me on my way to taking my 70-547 (MCP) exam.. It has been a while since I last had an exam so I was a bit nervous (not in the careless mood I was used to put myself in before exams, in the good old days :D).. The incidence really make me relaived & was like a "sign from Heaven" to me :D..

The story below is actually an edited version of a gTalk conversation with a friend (I deleted their part of the conversation & edited some parts to be more readable without their replies).. here u go:

• I registered for the exam online
• So I didn't know where the "...." is the place I'm gonna take the test till I was there..
• While I was on my way, I started to feel lost
• Then I called them on the phone & told them my place (howa share3 6awel keda esmo l ba6al a7mad but I don't know the place exactly)
• The guy (on the phone) told me that I have to go back & look for some store (segad l asyo6y) on the way & that they (YAT) are exactly on the opposite side in some sort of a villa.
• I did start walking back then I ran into an old guy who asked me to help him cross the street :D
• I did help him to cross the first direction (share3 raye7 gy ba2a)
• But the middle "teletwar" had some sort of a fenced green area
• Which he couldn't jump over (@ that age)
• So we walked "me2angejen" till we found an opening in the fence so he can cross to the other side
• Then we crossed the street to the other side
• Guess what?
• :D
• I found YAT right in front of me
• Exactly in front of the fence opening :D
• L ragel kan 3amal yeshkorne em7asesny eno 3amalt 7aga gamda awe.. ma3a ene aslan 3amal agary we howa mesh mesta7mel..
• Actually ana kan na2es ashelo wagry beh 3ashan kont metsarba3 awe we howa kan mesh beyqawem kan beyegry ma3aya :D
• we 3amal yeshkorne awe.. omt oltelo ana l shokran ya 7ag.. enta l wasaltene :D
• You can never imagine how that made my mood :D
• kan na2es asma3 bells ringing & a "TADAAAAAAAA"
• :D

Why less blogging?

I've not been blogging for a while (I'm not a heavy-blogger, anyway, if there's a word like that)..

Generally, most of my posts are about sharing others' stuff (blog-posts, web-pages, etc) so I started to "blog" using two other things, rather than rewriting others' words:

• Google Reader (shares):

Lately, I've been using that heavily.. & even started to share it on facebook (thanks to Meligy).. the shared items are compiled by google reader in some sort of another blog. Here's the url http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06046351092935525579 . I'm not sure if it's readable by everybody (or just by my gtalk list). If you want but can't, please notify me :)

•  Twitter:

This is not really blogging.. but it's rather an alternative for my "Quote of the Moment" (blog-post &) gadget in my side bar that I haven't updated for so long.. This one's url is http://twitter.com/mshady

 There's other stuff like wishlstr & facebook shared items (I share some of these on gReader too) but I don't update them that much.. & fortunately all the above stuff has feed (I LOVE feeds)..

So I think your aspirin consumption will be less now :D..

Have a nice day

dotNetWork.org 9th gathering

Date:

Saturday, November 29th 2008, 12:00 - 16:00

Attendance is FREE =)

Note: Again (like the last 2 gathering), we are having 2 parallel tracks, but this time we have 4 sessions presented by 4 different speakers.. Waiting for your feed-back about that..

Speakers:

Mohamed Ahmed Meligy Senior Software Developer, Raya-Software.

Mostafa Mourad Team Leader, ITWorx.

Hossam El-Deen M. Barakat Senior Software Developer, Raya-Software.

Hossam Kamel Senior Software Engineer, ITWorx.

Agenda:

12:00 - 14:00	Applying Domain Driven Design on ASP.NET MVC by Mohamed Meligy.	Information Architecture by Mostafa Mourad.
14:30 - 16:30	IIS 7.0 by Hosam Kamel.	BizTalk-SharePoint Integration by Hossam El-Deen M. Barakat.

Location:

Canadian International College, @ "El-Tagamo3 El-5ames"

Buses will be available at: Nady El-Sekka (11:00 AM - 11:30 AM)

Please be there before 11:30 coz we will leave on time.. For those who wanna keep tuned with further news about this event & other upcoming events of the dotnetwork.org user group, please check the following links:

Yahoo!Group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dotnetworkorg/

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32256529483

You'd better join the above event if you have a facebook account so we can roughly estimate the attendees count..

Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/netWorkorg/13135685545

Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2409268236

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.. See u on the gathering ;)