One Day Of My Own Life

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh..

so yes, I do cook!

Yesterday, we have held a potluck (Dish Party) in our office, people from all nations were invited to serve any dish they are famous for… and I’ve to tell you, these guys really know how to cook!.

I didn’t have much time to cook, had to wake up in the morning, buy supplies, come back home, cook and then go to work at 9ish… Cooking under pressure :D…

What recipe did I pick, Stuffed Grape Leaves (محشى ورق عنب)… I don’t have a good picture for it :( but here is a picture for the gr8 chiefs,

Here we were discussing what kobeba (كبيبة) is :D

Will post my recipe later! In Shaa Allah

Salam.

Alsalam alikom wa r7amat Allah wa barakatoh (Peace upon you..)

Long story short, you have AssemblyA (with source code) and AssemblyB… you want AssemblyB to be able to access internal members (types, data, methods.. etc) of AssemblyA…
You can of course do that through Reflection but come on, it’s not a descent way to do it.. right??

Continue Reading… [my MSDN blog]

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh…

I was reading a windows team post about Input Panels improvements in Windows7 [here]. When at the end I saw a very interesting –intuitive if you wish- new thing… which is, as you guessed, the Math Input Panel…

Yes, that crappy font is mine… I “drew” that by mouse as I don’t have a tablet pen/pc.

You can then paste it directly into word and it’ll recognize it as an editable equation…

During my tests, the output panel (the top part) hanged, but I liked that the drawing panel was still responsive and I could still write/erase… till the top one started to respond again…

One other thing to know, after you click Insert (that button down there) it copies the equation in MathML [Wikipedia link] format.. which is a standard way of representing equations and hence any application that recognizes the format can insert it not as an image but as a nice editable equation…

If you think it recognized something wrong, you can click “Select and Correct” then draw a circle around the part you suspect, you will get a list of other alternatives. However, It’s missing a “manually edit” or something like this, to let you define what you really mean in MathML or just as MS Word’s equation editor..

No, this isn’t mine.. I copied it from the post above

From the post:

The Math Input Panel (or MIP) is designed to be used with a tablet pen on a Tablet PC, but you can use it with any input device such as a touchscreen, external digitizer or even a mouse. MIP outputs the recognition result via the clipboard in MathML format, a standardized mathematical markup language. Any equation you write and recognize in MIP reaches your destination application in a completely editable form – you can insert and edit the output as you would edit any text.

We spent a lot of time researching and identifying as many areas of math as possible and endless different math notations. The final result is a great coverage of high school and college level math, and of even more advanced areas.

That’s it… stay tuned :)..

Thanks,

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (Peace upon you)

Have you ever got the feeling that you are sitting inside a hedge… in the sense that you are surrounded by noon-sun light but you don’t know the directions… and despite the fact that you are a few inches away from both sides, you are afraid to go either ways because you don’t know which side leads to the sharp edge and which is the safe ground…

What would you do… either wait the sun to set or take your best bet…

I don’t think there is a right answer, if there is one it would be “it depends”…

At least for me, I still can’t figure out what does it depend on! and I’m afraid to death that I won’t know till sunset! …

If I can ask you for one thing, that will be your prayers…

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh

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Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (Peace upon you)

I’ve recently ran into problems with VS 2008. Summarized here:

1. When you try to edit the project properties (specially C++ projects) you are faced with a little nice message saying “Exception from HRESULT: 0xF9F0F308”.
2. Sometimes when you are editing a file (specially large ones), VS doesn’t recognize you’ve made changes (ie doesn’t display that ‘*’ in the files tabs) hence, when you save, nothing actually gets saved.

For those 2 problems, a friend explained the problem and a work around (till they officially release a fix)…

1. Open up a Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt
2. Run cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE"
3. Make a backup copy of devenv.exe in case something does not work right.
   ie. copy devenv.exe devenv.exe.bak
4. Run editbin /largeaddressaware:no devenv.exe

Happy VSing… :)

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh

When I was a child, teachers used to show us a picture of an Ostrich hiding her head in the ground, back then they told us she is stupid because she thinks by not seeing the enemy, the enemy can’t see her…

Have you ever wondered whether this story’s true at all ?! (ie. Have you personally asked an ostrich and she told you that weird reason ?)

Let me ask you a similar question, why do you close your eyes when your doctor gives you a shot? I think it’s the feeling that you don’t want to “watch” the shot that will cause you pain…

Why don’t you think the Ostrich’s that same concept as humans? why did we judge she is stupid enough to think the other way!

My whole point is, try not to “judge” people by how you see their actions, let them explain them for you!

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh

What is Air without Sound anyway?

I was looking from the window beside where I sit now, there were some construction happening over there, I have my windows open to get some fresh air...

I thought, sound is not a substance by itself, it's just a sort of signal moving through materials... so if the material can alter the waves in somehow to the extent it eliminates them or at least makes them regular, then it'll not transfer the original sound waves... right?
Some Science:

Image via Wikipedia

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh

This is a post I started to write loong ago but never finished. For some reasons I remembered it and decided to finish and post.

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh

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