May 2012
4 posts
SpahQL: Query, manipulate and manage JSON data... →
Think of SpahQL like jQuery, but instead of handling DOM elements, it handles JSON data. Instead of CSS selectors, you use SpahQL queries. It’s a querying system for JSON data, aware of hashes, arrays, strings and booleans.
#CurationRotation and why you should get involved →
Announcing TweetWeek Syria! →
TweetWeek Syria is a localization of the Swedish Curators of Sweden and TweetWeekUSA projects and the concept behind it is based on the #RotationCuration model. You can read more about it on Wikipedia.
Different curators will have full control over the TweetWeekSyria account on Twitter every week, allowing them to share their visions, perspectives or ideas to mass audience using the Twitter...
April 2012
1 post
“The Long Reader exists not just because creators Beshr Kayali and Mohammad...”
– Very interesting thoughts on a service @beshr and I created on a weekend :) (via digitalhunt)
March 2012
1 post
GitHub hacked... →
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Putting aside the way GitHub handled the situation (quickly and with aplomb), the main issue is that GitHub was vulnerable to an incredibly simple and well-known Rails hack that has probably existed since the site’s inception. Ruby experts like Michael Hartl and Eric Chapweske have been writing (and warning) about the mass-assignment vulnerability since 2008, when GitHub was first...
February 2012
1 post
Lightning Talks To Remember →
A History Lesson
Lightning Talks first appeared at PyCon (Python Conference) in 1997, at that point it was just called “Short Talks”. The name “Lightning Talks” was first coined by Mark Jason Dominus, one of the leading Perl developers, for a similar session at Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC) in 2000.
Lightning Talks gradually became a meme at tech conferences and...
January 2012
4 posts
9 Reasons Why You Should Submit a Lightning Talk... →
For this year’s event we’ve announced that during the Developer Days we’re going to have more lightning talks and we’ve put up a call for papers.
So far we’ve had an amazing and diverse array of talent come on board, but since there are a few of you out there that might still be hesitant to join, I thought I’d provide more information on why I think every single person attending...
December 2011
2 posts
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Announcing Sawt, a tiny app for discovering the...
Sawt is a tiny discovery tool for Arabic indie music.
You can visit Sawt here: http://sawt.ep.io
Limitations:
Works only on Google Chrome & Safari
No way to keep track of what you listened to (history)
No way to specify what genre of music to listen to
I haven’t worked on this much (weekend hack) so it’s not completely done yet.
One of the cool things I wanted to have in...
October 2011
2 posts
Not Disappointing At All! →
4S or 5, it really doesn’t matter! What’s amazing is how much buzz the Apple brand can generate no matter what they do, and if it’s anything, it’s actually good!
The fact that some people are disappointed by the iPhone 4S is by itself disappointing! Three reasons for that: A) It’s just a phone, so get with it. B) It’s Apple, that’s how they roll....
August 2011
2 posts
Kinetik, Social Networking for Apps →
In light of the success of activity-specific social networking apps, a new San Francisco based startup recently introduced its application Kinetik - providing people who are passinate about mobile applications to discover and share their favorite apps.
Read more…
July 2011
6 posts
G+ as a Blog?
So, some people have actually started using Google+ as a blog. Here’s my analysis on this: Pros:
It’s dead simple to share stuff, you can even share stuff directly from your Gmail (or any other Google service for that matter, through the top bar, though I would love to see a Chrome extension that adds that bar everywhere).
Realtime: One of the greatest thing about G+ is the...
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
7 posts
April 2011
14 posts
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
لماذا يحقق تطبيق انستغرام هذا النجاح؟
hyperboo:
Listen!
مشكلة المنبه في اي فون ٤
hyperboo:
Listen!
November 2010
2 posts
Google Beatbox
super awesome :-)
yvynyl:
This rules.
catbird:
Click ‘Listen’