Egyptian developer got rank 4 in Google Code Jam 2009

Google Code Jam is a coding competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time. The contest is all-inclusive: Google Code Jam lets you program in the coding language and development environment of your choice

In 2009, total 8605 people competed. In the qualification round 5 out of top 10 participants were from US, 3 from Russia and 1 each from Egypt and Netherlands

Ahmed Ali who got rank 4
Egyptian devlopers also got rank 19(oa12gb),67(Naguib),76(Islam Diaa)
Participants who did 99 score from Egypt were 24 participants

Congratulation for all Egyptian developers

Alice Teaches Kids To Program

Computer scientists have found a way to make computer programming visual. Instead of using numbers, letters, and punctuation like other programming languages, Alice uses three dimensional figures placed in a storyline. Users select from a gallery of characters and backgrounds, then select the character's movements through a pulldown menu.
Alice is an educational software that teaches students computer programming in 3D environment.

Sun Microsystems presented its 2009 Duke’s Choice Award for Java Technology in Education to Carnegie Mellon’s innovative Alice software system during the JavaOne conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center

You can download Alice 2.2, Alice 2.0 Designed for High School and College and Storytelling Alice Designed for Middle School

Intro to GIS By Thabet

This my first presentation in GIS and it focus on developers specially to know what benefits of using GIS in our life ?
I did my greatest efforts to create this presentation to do the task I want.

download

You've got to find what you love-Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is an American businessman, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs previously served as CEO of Pixar Animation Studios & NEXT.

I attached here his video in
Stanford Commencement 2005 about his 3 real stories
1-Connecting to dots
2-Love & Lose
3-Death


also I attached here the text here
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Google Wave

Google Wave is "a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, robust spelling/grammar checking, automated translation between 40 languages,and numerous other extensions.Initially released only to developers, a "preview release" of Google Wave has been extended to about 100,000 users on September 30, 2009.

EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB:
is a privately-held company that provides enterprise class support for PostgreSQL through its product Postgres Plus Standard Server, an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) built as a superset of PostgreSQL with additional open source packages and targeted for the enterprise market

Benefits of EnterpriseDB
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EnterpriseDB is a reliable, accountable company - not a loosely organized community of developers - from which customers can acquire the database and associated services
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EnterpriseDB has extended PostgreSQL to enable it to run database applications written for Oracle
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EnterpriseDB has significantly increased PostgreSQL's run-time performance
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EnterpriseDB provides professional-quality tools for use with the databas.

Crystal Report with PostgreSQL

Problem:
I want to create reports from PogreSQL DB, But when I used a crystal report wizard I couldn't find PostgreSQL from available DataSources

Solution:

Check my post @ C# Corner Crystal Report with PostgreSQL using dataset