I'm joining RAYA Software starting next month (October), part of RAYA IT, a business line of 3 main business lines that form RAYA Crop., a well known name in the IT industry over the Middleeast. My role is very interesting. The entire company is interesting to me, not just for the size and brand, but...

Scott Hanselman has started a podcast called HanselMinutes to talk tools and utilities. Episode #4 on Continuous Integration caught my attention because of 2 names mentioned during the discussion of the Ruby Watir library. Both Dustin Woodhouse and Travis Illig got mentioned because of tools they have...

For those of you in the Portland, OR metro area you might be interested in attending the SAO Developers SIG on Wednesday Nov 30, 2005 at 7:30am. The topic will be Agile Development - The Academic and Industry Perspectives . I will be sharing the stage with Ward Cunningham and Greg Rose . My topic will...

Check out Clarke Ching's new book project Rolling Rocks Downhill . The purpose of the book is to help people – customers, managers, workers (and even their families) – who work on traditionally managed software development projects to find a better way. Personally I enjoy a fictionalized...

Yet another internal .NET Team email in my current company, Injazat Data Systems, that I sent yesterday, and am sharing with you as well. jQuery: · Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery · Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater · Reordering invoice lines using jqGrid...

Few minutes ago, I saw @mShady , my dear friend (Real life friend, not just on twitter ) tweeting: RT @ASGEgypt : RT @scrum_coach : Should the team be allowed to drop the retrospective? http://bit.ly/bkOgv   #scrum #agile #lean #xp #kanban I checked the post and found the options are: Yes, It’s...

I'll be presenting a session on TDD at the 2005 Portland, OR Code Camp on July 23 at 11:15am.