The Learning Journey

Yesterday I presented Ruby on Rails for the first “real” time to a group of developers and interested minds. I think it went well. It was an introduction that covered a step-by-step for developing a simple issue tracking application (we traded off many of the application features to exploring the capabilities of Ruby and Ruby on Rails). The intelligent audience, albeit somewhat small, was so engaged and encouraging. You can view the slides here.

The opportunity was given by OpenCraft in their great “Technical Seminar” series. OpenCraft has been reaching out to and engaging in the FOSS community in Egypt and are taking on responsibilities in raising the level of collaboration, networking among entities, increasing awareness of FOSS, and improving the skills of IT personnel and users in various fields. That's not to mention their awesome new space and idea factory (stupid me, I haven?t taken pictures !!). Kudos to OC.

Perhaps just one more word for Egyptian developers about Ruby on Rails.

Ruby != ruby

This link shows how things would look like for my home city if sea level rises ONLY 1 m. Although, most of the city will not be affected, yet, it seems that It has turned into an island, which would definitely make it uninhabitable. What is our geovernment doing??? What is the world doing??? Hellooooo.

The mashup was prepared by Alex Tingle, with elevation data provided by NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. One of the most helpful mashups I've even seen.

via Baheyeldin Dynasty