Tayseer On Programming

MIX09 videos

tayseer — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:26:00 GMT

MIX conference is my favorite conference. It is always full of surprises, and it is not restricted to Microsoft technologies. It has been a habit for me to grab the links to MIX videos since MIX 07, and I'm keeping this habit for this year too :).Here is the source code to the Python program which grabs the links. It generates two files: mix09_links.txt which contain only the links so you can import them in your favorite text editor, and mix09_title.txt which contain the title of every session and...(read more)

Automatic Admin interface for SQL Server using Django

tayseer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:51:00 GMT

A problem that we face everyday is creating CRUD interfaced for our databases. Creating a CRUD interface is always a boring and tedious job. Even if you want to initialize your data, you may break something by mistake if you use SQL Server Management Studio, because it doesn't know anything about your business rules. Django - A web framework for Python - gives you the solution. It has an application called "Django Admin" that provides a customizable, production-ready, nice-looking UI on top of your...(read more)

Python Arabic Book

tayseer — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:53:00 GMT

A friend told me that there is an arabic book for Python, which is a translation of "Byte of Python", one of the most popular Python books.This is a good step toward popularizing Python, specially among children.Please go and download the arabic version. Read it, and tell the author about any enhancements that the book needs....(read more)

Help spread Firefox

tayseer — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:44:00 GMT

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Stupid Type Systems - Innecessary Casting in C#

tayseer — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:22:00 GMT

If List<> inherits IList<>, and MyIdentity inherits IIdentity, then why the heck the C# compiler cannot cast from List<MyIdentity> to IList<IIdentity>??????It is the same, the compiler is not smart enough to know this.So to satisfy the compiler - acting as a good compiler slave - I have to write thisIList<IIdentity> returnList = new List<IIdentity>(); // A variable name cannot be stupiderforeach (var item in originalList){ returnList.Add(item);}return...(read more)

C#.Next, What it must NOT include?

tayseer — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:20:00 GMT

There are some talks lately about the next version of C#, and what is should add. People has gone too far asking for new features, most notably the dynamic lookup static void Main(string[] args){ dynamic { object myDynamicObject = GetDynamicObject(); myDynamicObject.SomeMethod(); // call a method ...(read more)

RSS feeds for youtube

tayseer — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:08:00 GMT

Everyone uses youtube to see his favorite videos. Most of the time, you need to subscribe to a certain user’s feed using RSS. Unfortunately, the ‘Subscribe’ buttons subscribes using their own notification system, and you have to be a member to subscribe. Contrary to popular beliefs, youtube provides RSS feeds, but they are hidden. It’s mentioned on http://www.youtube.com/rssls that you can subscribe to a user’s feed as http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[insert username here]/videos.rss...(read more)

The Django book is released

tayseer — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:23:00 GMT

Finally, the long-awaited Django book is released under the GNU Free Documentation license. Everybody can learn and suggest enhancements to the book or Django.Does Django runs with IronPython? Yes, it runs on IPCE, but I don't think that everything runs well, because the different DBMS drivers are not ported to IronPython yet....(read more)

Open Komodo is released

tayseer — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:50:00 GMT

ActiveState, the leader in dynamic languages development tools, has released the OpenKomodo intiative. OpenKomodo is targeted at creating an open source IDE for dynamic languages and the web, based on ActiveState Komodo IDE (which is proprietary)....(read more)

The First IronPython Book

tayseer — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:52:00 GMT

Manning Publishing is working on the first book about IronPython, called IronPython in Action. You can download the first chapter for free. They have provided the chapters 2, 3 and 4 under their early access program....(read more)

Blame yourself before anybody else

tayseer — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:25:00 GMT

Here at Silverkey, we use LLBLGen Pro as our ORM. One of the nicest features of it is prefetching related entities, so if you have a "CompanyEntity", you can tell it to fetch all related "Employee Entity". This makes our jobs easier, except when it doesn't!!!Today I had a few bugs with LLBL: Trying to save an entity threw NullReferenceException deeply from inside LLBL code. Even though it worked in some circumstances, it didn't work on others. It was easy to blame LLBL, since it was the source of...(read more)

Egypt 1st meeting results

tayseer — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:52:00 GMT

Last Friday was the date for the 1st EgyPy meeting. Few people showed up. We discussed the release of IronPython 2 Alpha 3, IronRuby, Microsoft support for dynamic languages & DLR.Also, Dody showed us Havana, our CMS which we built using C# & IronPython 1.1. Havana is different because Havana is not strictly a CMS. It's a content management framework with a helper interface.It supports uploading of content in zipped filesCommand-line interface: So you can type "zip *.jpg" and get all your...(read more)

1st Egypy (Egyptian Python Users Group) meeting

tayseer — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:42:00 GMT

What: 1st Egypy (Egyptian Python Users Group) meetingWhere: Cilantro Cafe in Mesaha Square, Dokki, Cairo, EgyptWhen: Friday, 27th of July, 2007, 6:00 PMWhy: For the community members to know each other.To define the activities for the next monthsShare experience with PythonHave fun If you don't know the place, it's hereFor any questions, you can contact me at ...(read more)

Python community in Egypt

tayseer — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:29:00 GMT

I am planning to start a Python community in Egypt. Python is a high-level dynamic programming language which values programmers' productivity over machine performance. You can register here & find the Python forum here...(read more)

Silverkey Demo Day II - an insider's report

tayseer — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:33:00 GMT

Update 16/7/2007: A version of my presentation in PowerPoint 2003 format is attached with this post. The demos are attached with the original one here For audience opinons, see Korayem or Ahmad Shreef To know how we got the idea of the demo day, read Dody's story. The Idea The idea of the 2nd demo day started after MIX 07. We were very excited about the new technologies: Silverlight, Jasper & DLR. We got more excited after we used these technologies...(read more)