Anything I can find I'll try to blog about it, be it GIS, mapping, programming, graphics, CAD, networking, gadgets, music, both in English and Arabic. Technically everything tech-related and tech-unrelated.
2010-01-29
The iPad
A 9.7 inches LED Multi-touch screen (1024x768 pixel with 132 ppi) with 1.5 pounds and 0.5 inch thin body, and 10 hours battery life.
It has a custom 1 GHz processor designed by Apple, Wi-Fi 802.11n connectivity, optional 3G modem, built-in speaker; and 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB of flash storage.
The iPad uses the same OS as the iPhone but with higher resolution, it means that iPhone Apps are supported.
Many great accessories specifically designed for iPad will be available.
2010-01-28
Oracle Sun Acquisition complete
The event talked about many technologies that is affected by the acquisition, like:
Java
- JavaFX is the highlight of presentation layer technologies.
- Will continue to address Desktop (SE), Enterprise (EE) and Mobile (ME) platforms, and will try to converge the APIs between SE and ME and use JavaFX as the common presentation technology.
- GlassFish will join WebLogic as the Application Server platform for Oracle (positioning it for the Developers and the Open Source community while position WebLogic for the enterprise and mission-critical installations)
- GlassFish will continue to be the reference implementation, based on Open Source model, with commercial support for it, parts of it will be ported to WebLogic, most probably it will form the foundation for newer WebLogic releases and powers its Java EE-certified core.
- Web Center will be the strategic Portal solution (against Sun GlassFish Web Space)
- The JRockit JVM will be positioned on the same support level as the reference HotSpot JVM, most probably is that more interactions between the core-JVM and the JRockit in the upcoming years.
- Oracle JDeveloper will continue to become the premier IDE for Oracle and Java Enterprise Applications (for Database and Java EE based Applications, SOA, and ADF-based applications)
- Oracle Pack for Eclipse will continue to be developed to provides integration between Eclipse and Oracle, but no major new offerings (which was expected)
- NetBeans will continue to be an Open Source offering, and stay as very wide covering as it is now (for covering the complete Java portfolio) and support for NetBeans Platform will continue.
- Support for Hudson, Oracle Team Productivity Center, maven, Subversion, BugZilla, and many other ALM tools to be shared among JDeveloper and NetBeans
- The Matisse Visual Forms Editor from NetBeans will be integrated in JDeveloper
- SOA & Application Server Adapters will be shared from JDeveloper to NetBeans
- Continue support and development in Solaris and Unbreakable Linux
- Higher integration between the Oracle Database and Solaris ZFS
- Virtual Box will be continued to be developed and integrated with Oracle VM (to use the same Oracle Virtual Machine template format)
- Solaris Logical Domains (LDom) will become Oracle VM for SPARC and managed through Oracle VM management consoles
- Oracle VM for x86 will add support for Solaris
- Continued support for Solaris Containers and Dynamic Domains (on M Series Servers)
- Next version of Oracle VM will include Virtual Iron technology with better APIs and management console
- Sun VDI Broker will be continued to be development (including Secure Global Desktop)
- Oracle VM Storage Connect and ASM will continue to be used for Storage Virtualization
- Open Storage systems will be used for Storage at the hardware and low-level functions
- Oracle Enterprise Manager (For managing Database, Middleware, and Applications) and Sun Ops Center (for managing Hardware, OS and Virtualization) will be support for the short-term
- Higher connectivity between Enterprise Manager and Ops Center will be developed in the mid-term to allow shared alerts and events, and allow some data to cross applications (12-18 months)
- In the long-term, the Enterprise Manager will consume the functionality of Ops Center and become the unified management console of all the Oracle products
2009-12-20
كل سنة و إنت طيب يا عمنا
2009-12-19
خالد الهبر- اصنام العرب
2009-11-22
صحوة وطنية.. أم نوبة هستيرية؟ - بقلم جلال أمين

2009-11-19
يعني هيا دي الوطنية ؟ ... ماتش كورة و نظيط في الهيصة ؟ ... طب كل واحد علي شغله لإن المشكلة ماهياش حكومة يا أمة ضحكت منجهلها الأمم.
الموضوع أنا حاسس بقا بزيادة ....يعني ماتش كورة و تصفيات كأس عالم ... ماشي .... إنما تتفرج بقا علي المسخرة ... حالة عامة من الإحباط بعد خسارة الماتش .... يعني ما كانش فيه حاجة تحبط قبل الماتش !!! داحنا كان فاضل نبدأ تنظيم حفلات إنتحار جماعي ... يبقي ليه بقا التعلق بقشه نظيط فيها و نحاول نفرح بأي طريقة ولا شكل .... و لا هوا علشان دي الفرحة السهلة ... ناس هاتلعب و فرقة تكسب و إحنا لينا الزيطة ... طب و لما إحنا بلد بتعز الفرحة زي عنيها كده ... مانعمل لروحنا فرحة بجد .... نخلي فيه بلد ينفع نفرح فيها ... ولا هوا لازم يعملولنا علشان إحنا نفرح.
و راخر التانيين ... شعب الجزائر الشقيق .... ده إيه الهبل ده يا ربي .... هوا أنا مكتوب عليا أفضل حاسس إن مافيش دم عند 250 مليون واحد ؟ .... ضرب و غباوة و هبل و سخافة و صفاقة .... حاجة بجد مالهاش لازمة ... طب يعني أنتوا راخرين بلدكوا خلاص تمام التمام و الدنيا زبادي خلاط و فاضل ماتش كورة علشان تبقوا علي قمة العالم .... بلا وكسة.
2009-11-04
Depreciation plans for ArcGIS 9.3.1 and 9.4 (2)

- ArcGIS Desktop will not support Windows 2000, Visual Basic 6, Visio, Visual Studio 2005 in 9.4 and later will not support Visual Basic for Applications in 9.5
- ArcGIS Engine and ArcReader will not support Sun Solaris in 9.5 (keeping only Windows and Linux)
- ArcInfo Workstation will not support IBM AIX in 9.4 and later will not support Sun Solaris in 9.5, which will be the last release of the product
- ArcSDE will not support Informix 32-bit, SQL Server 2000, PostgreSQL on Red Hat 4, HP-UX on PA-RISC (keeping HP-UX on Itanium), Oracle 9i, Server-side geocoding in 9.4 and later will be the only component in ArcGIS to support Sun Solaris in 9.5
- ArcIMS will not support ArcMap Server, ArcIMS Route Server, IBM AIX, HP-UX in 9.4 and will later not support ArcIMS Metadata Server and Sun Solaris (keeping only Microsoft Windows and Linux) in 9.5, which will be the last release of the product
- ArcGIS Server will not support Enterprise Application Developer Framework (EADF) for Java in 9.4
Depreciation plans for ArcGIS 9.3.1 and 9.4

- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (it is very simple to move from VS2005 to VS2008 and to VS2010)
- Internet Explorer 6 (while it is still used ... it should be phased out of support lifecycles)
- Crystal Report Wizard, a new reporting engine is used that should be more robust and have better features and performance.
- The Survey Editor Component and Survey Dataset within the Survey Analyst (I don't know what's left from the Survey Analyst)
- CASE tools and the Import Schema Wizard (that means goodbye for Microsoft Visio)
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6 (time to leave such ancient platform)
- Sun Solaris 9 for ArcReader and ArcGIS Engine (This keeps only Solaris 10/Linux/Microsoft Windows Platform)
- IBM AIX (the only remaining platforms are Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris)
- ArcMap Server Extension to ArcIMS
- ArcIMS Route server extension
- IBM AIX
- HP-UX (the only remaining platforms are Microsoft Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris)
- 32-bit Informix on the AIX and Solaris platforms
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000
- HP-UX on the PA-RISC processor (support for ArcSDE technology on HP-UX on the Itanium processor is continued)
- PostgreSQL on Red Hat 4 (support for newer version of Red Hat Linux is continued)
- Oracle 9i
- Server-side geocoding in ArcSDE (ArcGIS Server geocode services have replaced the server-side geocoding functionality in ArcSDE)
- Enterprise Application Developer Framework (EADF) for ArcGIS Server Enterprise Java release (EADF provided out-of-the box Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) that were ready to use and deploy across supported J2EE 1.4 application servers. Users can still take advantage of EJBs by following patterns highlighting the ArcGIS Java Web Services Toolkit (AgsJWS) and EJB3)
- Sun Solaris 9 (with the exception of the ArcSDE technology component)
- Windows CE .NET platform (including Windows CE .NET 4.2 and 5.0)
- Sun Solaris (with the exception of the ArcSDE technology component)
- Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) (as Microsoft no longer promotes or updates VBA)
- ArcInfo Workstation will be decoupled from ArcGIS Desktop 9.4
- Windows 7 as the last expected Windows platform upgrade
- Support for connecting to ArcSDE
- ArcIMS Metadata Server (replacing it with search technology in the ArcGIS Geoportal Extension 9.3.1, and in ArcGIS Server 9.4)
- The last planned release for ArcInfo Workstation on Windows (which will be the last supported platforms)
- The last planned release for ArcIMS on Windows and Linux (which will be the last supported platforms)
2009-11-03
2009-11-01
إنا لله و إنا إليه راجعون





