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A list of tips that should help you increase code reuse in your projects.
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This is aimed at people who come from a Windows environment and have gotten used to certain things they won’t have to be bothered about on Linux.
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A bunch of useful keyboard shortcuts for Firefox.
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The designs submitted to the competition for the architecture design of the national stadium where the 2008 olympics will be held.
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Opera have just released version 9 of their web browser. I like Opera because they’re always one step ahead of the competition innovation-wise.
Author: Mohamed Marwen Meddah
Mohamed Marwen Meddah is a Tunisian-Canadian, web aficionado, software engineering leader, blogger, and amateur photographer.
Bachelor’s Degree In Computer Hacking
Abertay University in Dundee, England, is offering the country’s first degree in computer hacking.
Classes in the major will teach students how to find out passwords and log-in information, and how to shut down computer systems; the aim is to produce hackers that could work for the government against computer criminals.
However, even teachers in the discipline say teaching criminal activities could produce more criminals.
Well, personally, I think it’s a good idea, but well they should make the name of the degree friendlier by maybe calling it “Computer Security” or something like that.
As for the idea that maybe teaching it could result in more criminals, I think it’s pretty much nonsense.
[Via: Thysdrus]
links for 2006-06-19
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Top ten super cars most of us can’t even afford in their dreams, but would love to take for a spin.
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A bunch of difficult, yet really cool, analytical puzzles. Must check out.
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Advice from leading designers on every stage of the creative process to make the most of your talent.
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10 changes you can make to your life to optimize your day and yield strong positive results.
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The email Bill Gates sent to the employees of Microsoft after the news about him leaving his full time position at the company in 2008.
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Top 10 cross-breds between animals of similar genetics. These mostly exist in captivity and are the result of human intervention.
Summer And Its Disgusting Weather
The weather is disgusting…
I can’t find a better suited word to describe the weather today.
The heat is unbearable…
It almost feels like hell’s doors are wide open outside…
It’s near impossible to breathe; suffocating is more like what we’re doing…
Humidity is taking over, making you feel all yucky and sticky even if you still aren’t…
And what’s worse is that this is just the beginning…
Days like this aren’t meant to be work days.
I should be floating on the ice cold waters of the Mediterranean sea, on one of Bizerte’s beautiful beaches, relaxing and enjoying the refreshing feeling of the cool gentle waves surrounding and carrying my body, daydreaming about whatever fantasy I have at the moment.
I hate summer…
Or maybe, what I hate is not being able to enjoy summer like I used to when I was a kid in school’s summer break…
Resident Evil 4 for PlayStation 2
I just finished playing Resident Evil 4 on PlayStation 2.
I played Resident Evil 2 on the pc some years ago, and I remember really liking it too, so when a friend from work recommended this sequel me, I got it right away, and it turned out as good as he said it was. I really enjoyed playing it.
Leon S. Kennedy, the character from Resident Evil 2, returns in this sequel, and he has become a Federal agent. When the President’s daughter is kidnapped, Leon tracks her to a remote, hidden fortress in Europe – where he’ll relive the horror he faced six years before in Raccoon city.
The graphics are great, some of the best I’ve seen on PS2 so far, the gameplay is very good and quite easy, the plot is interesting and enjoyable, the sound is pretty realistic, and has great replay value.
After finishing the game, more stuff is unlocked, letting you play with other characters as well as replay the game at a harder level with better weapons.
I had fun playing the game and it was a problem letting go each time, so I in turn recommend it to people who are into this type of video games.
Lost – First Season
Ok, so I’m probably the last person on Earth to watch the first season of hit TV show Lost, but well it’s not like anyone aired it and I chose not to watch, plus I’m not into watching crappy quality pirated french versions of it, so I had to wait for it to come out on DVD and for one of the stores I rent from to get it.
Anyway, I can see what the whole fuss is about. It’s very well done and I truly enjoyed watching every episode of it.
It sucks you in from the very beginning, and the mystery keeps you wanting more and more.
I can’t wait to watch Season 2 of the show to know what will happen to the characters and how the story will further develop.
I really like how the insight into each character’s life gives you a parallel series of it’s own, and how they get entangled through certain events.
I recommend watching this to whoever else is left in the world who has not seen this.
How Do You Deal With Stress?
People have different ways of dealing with the stress in their lives:
– Some suck it all in and let it eat away at them from the inside.
– Some bang on tables or whatever surfaces they find near to them.
– Some break things they find lying around them, glass objects are a favourite.
– Some shout their lungs out, obscenities galore.
– Some bang their heads on a wall.
– Some start a fight with the first person that crosses their path.
– Some rush for the fridge and have all they can eat.
– Some unleash it through sex or masturbation.
– Some do Yoga or meditation.
– Some pray and go all spiritual.
– Some go to anger management.
– Some go on a psychotic killing spree.
– Some pull out hair from their heads, eyebrows or elsewhere.
– Some run away from their lives, go to a far away village and become fishermen.
And some just don’t do anything about it and have a nervous breakdown.
Google News in Arabic
Google have finally rolled out an Arabic version of Google News. I checked the list of languages the service is available in this morning, as I always do when reading the news there, and found it was added.
The Arabic version pulls articles from 150 Arabic news sources, which is relatively very good, even though it’s a humble number compared to the 4500 sources for the English version.
I think it’s great to see Google’s evident push into Arabic recently with it launching an Arabic version of Gmail, English-Arabic / Arabic-English translation and now Google News.
I read a lot of my news from Google News, and now with this version, I’ll be able to keep up with what’s being written in Arabic news sources.
Hopefully more and more services will follow from Google and others, helping to give Arabic web presence a push.
links for 2006-06-12
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A list of 200+ extremely useful firefox extensions that save time and effort. Cool stuff.
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A list of the Top 10 Strangest (or coolest) Spy Gadgets. I especially like “The Pen Scanner”, the “Motion Detector Telephone” is a good idea too.
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101 version of Led Zeppelin’s classis “Stairways to Heaven”. Can’t be anything but cool.
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Tips on how to quickly learn a new programming language without reading hundreds of manual/book pages.
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A preview of some of the exciting new functions and features that are being introduced in CSS3.
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10 technologies that might help make the future a little brighter, environment wise.
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A bunch of unsolved mathematical problems for the geniuses among you.
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From promises of preventing cancer to relieving stress, green tea seems to be the hottest cure-all on the grocery store shelves.
Eating Pizza Cuts Cancer Risk
Good news for pizza lovers like me…
Italian researchers say eating pizza could protect against cancer. They claim eating pizza regularly reduced the risk of developing oesophageal cancer by 59%.
The risk of developing colon cancer also fell by 26% and mouth cancer by 34%, they claimed.
The secret could be lycopene, an antioxidant chemical in tomatoes, which is thought to offer some protection against cancer, and which gives the fruit its traditional red colour.
[Source: BBC News]
On the other hand Pizza can be high in saturated fat, salt and calories which would most probably result in an “outstanding” physique and a sudden “surprise” heart attack.
So if the chemical exists in tomatoes, I guess we should just eat tomatoes, instead of making up extra excuses to have a hot, delicious, stuffed crust, melting cheese, yummy pizza.
I’ll be in the pizza place next door, follow me 😛