Petitions!!

Today I came across a couple of petitions,

ScottGutoME & #iWantScottGuInCairoCamp:

The first one was about asking Scott Gu to be there on Tech·Ed ME 2010 in Dubai..

After tweeting about it, Meligy & I started a convo about it, which lead to a kinda another petition for Cairo Code Camp 2010, so go on retweet it!! :D

RT #iWantScottGuInCairoCamp if you want @scottgu to come to Egypt during #CairoCodeCamp.Make it twitter trend so that GU notices

[Ar]droid:

Another nice petition was about pushing Google to Support Arabic in Android, which is a nice petition from a user perspective, but kinda lame speaking as a developer & taking into consideration that Android is (mostly) open source.. Arab Developer community need to get more involved.. not to just "ask for Arabic support"!!

Another funny thing is that most of the comments on the issue on Android Google Code project is that almost all the comments are in pure English.. For God sake, dudes!! Google has “Google Translate”!! :D

Yet, speaking about ROI (for Google), Arabic Language is spoken by more than 280 million people as a first language, and by 250 million more as a second language.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language

Fix Arabic Google Translation

Go to ‎http://translate.google.com/ translate "اسرائيلي يقتل فلسطينيا" from Arabic to English, then "اسرائيلي يقتل فرنسيا"!! The 1st is translated "Israeli killed by Palestinians" and the 2nd "Israeli killed Frenchman"!!

Please share & Contribute a right translation!!

Quote of the Moment

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see." --John Burroughs

Let alone: All the videos (& movies) I wanna watch, all the chats I want to have, all the events I wanna attend, all the phone-calls I wanna make, all the articles/blogs/tweets I want to read, all the posts I wanna blog, all the new technology(ies) I wanna give a try and all the email messages I want to check :D

Did you know?

A couple of years ago I watched a video.. It was really mind blowing, but unfortunately for lazy people like me I forgot about it.. Not only the data, even the sound track & the motto repeated "Right here! Right now!", or should it be "Right there! Right then!"!!? I wish I/we bear it in our mind for much longer time :)
A couple of hours ago a friend shared this video. I went to find the whole series on YouTube..
1st: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI
2nd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
3rd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8
4th: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
Just realized while I'm getting the different versions that I saw 2nd & third only & mixed them in my mind, thinking they are one!! I find the first 3 very consistent while the forth -a bit- deviates the pattern..
Read more about "Do you know?" or "Shift happens": http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/History+of+the+Presentation
One last question: Why haven't they heard of twitter till the 4th one? Is twitter that young? Or am I so immersed in it that I thought I had for ages? :D

How to create a C# Class from XML file (via xsd.exe)

A friend asked me a couple of times about how to I created the class I used in “twitter common friends” to handle xml as objects (includes reading and writing back). Actually the tool (xsd.exe) is pretty simple and takes no more than a couple of commands to create the class for me.

It’s just that I usually forget the keywords/parameters & their order (you can create a dataset or class that can be C# or VB, and there’s a couple of other option I never used before). I usually refer to its MSDN page when asked..

So I thought a post would be easier to remember. First you should create the xsd file out of the xml, using the VS command prompt:

xsd myFile.xml

That will create “myFile.xsd”, now to create “myFile.cs”, write the below line:

xsd myFile.xsd /c 

Now you can add the cs file to your project and use it as illustrated in my previous post.


Cross-posted from FCIH-Blog