Ahmed EL-Harouny

Doodle 4 Google Egypt Vote Now!

ahmedelharouny@yahoo.com (Ahmed EL-Harouny) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:33:05 PDT

Google is made a design competition for children in Egypt. The winning design will be the official Google logo for Egypt. Go to this page and vote for the best design.

My Best is this:

Don't miss Mix 2009 videos

ahmedelharouny@yahoo.com (Ahmed EL-Harouny) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:24:59 PDT

As usual the people in Mix are very kind and they provide the whole Mix 09 conference sessions for free watching and also download. Mix 09 is a huge event with 152 speakers form all over the world, they usually focus on Microsoft Products, Design, Web Standards, Marketing and new web technologies.

you can download sessions from videos.visitmix.com/MIX09

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

ahmedelharouny@yahoo.com (Ahmed EL-Harouny) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:13:23 PDT

I'm very happy to see that MVC has now a separate navigation link in the ASP.Net website that is because MVC 1.0 is now released.

MVC (Model–view–controller) is a very nice new technology - new to asp.net - that forces you to make concern separation in your applications .
for information about the MVC design pattern check this Wikipedia Page

Download Asp.Net MVC 1.0

MVC Home Page In ASP.NET Site

MVC Video Tutorials

ASP.Net MVC Home Page

How to change your career to Software Development?

ahmedelharouny@yahoo.com (Ahmed EL-Harouny) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:10:43 PDT

I always got this question from people with almost no IT background, maybe they are graduates of other majors like Commerce or Engineering or any other field but some of them asks "How can I be a developer?" , "is their an easy way to do this?" and as a matter of fact ; yes there is an easy way only if you are prepared enough for this transition so first answer the following:

Are you good in English?
Do you have an email account?
Do you go to websites and register in it and these kind of things?
Do you know how to find what you are searching for from GOOGLE?
Do you know how to install and run programs?

If the answer of these questions is yes, you are ready to the first stage, I recommend this free course from Stanford University:

Introduction to Computer Science | Programming Methodology

Instructor: Sahami, Mehran

This course is the largest of the introductory programming courses and is one of the largest courses at Stanford. Topics focus on the introduction to the engineering of computer applications emphasizing modern software engineering principles: object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing.
Programming Methodology teaches the widely-used Java programming language along with good software engineering principles. Emphasis is on good programming style and the built-in facilities of the Java language. The course is explicitly designed to appeal to humanists and social scientists as well as hard-core techies. In fact, most Programming Methodology graduates end up majoring outside of the School of Engineering.

Prerequisites: The course requires no previous background in programming, but does require considerable dedication and hard work.

SQL Server 2008 - Securing Your Data

ahmedelharouny@yahoo.com (Ahmed EL-Harouny) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:02:11 PDT

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 introduced many security enhancements, from data encryption to advanced context impersonation. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 further helps administrators protect their database with the introduction of new features such as Transparent Database Encryption, Extensible Key Management, and Auditing.

Join us for an interactive webinar that will provide you with essential information about the new security enhancements in SQL Server 2008 and discuss how to best take advantage of them.

Member Of

Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack In the same book

ahmedelharouny@yahoo.com (Ahmed EL-Harouny) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:08:24 PDT

My best 4 folks in Microsoft Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack are together in an upcoming Wrox book "ASP.NET MVC 1.0". I can't wait to get this book actually it avaliable for pre ordering in Amazon here
and there is a free chapter by Scott here

Key Class In Flash - Part1

ahmedelharouny@yahoo.com (Ahmed EL-Harouny) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:42:59 PDT

In this tutorial I will show you how to interact with the keyboard in Flash using the Key Class:

1- craete a new flash movie and select the first frame
2- open Actions window and type this code

var listener:Object = new Object;
Key.addListener(listener);

listener.onKeyDown = function():Void{
trace(Key.getCode());
}

Now, click on Control&Enter to test the movie and press on keyboard keys, you should see some numbers in the output panel every time you click a keyboard button

Explanation:

var listener:Object = new Object;
This line just creates an object named "listener".
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Key.addListener(listener);
Here we are telling "listener" to start listening to the Key class.
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listener.onKeyDown = function():Void{

}
Now we are declaring an event the belongs to the Key class which is onKeyDown and what it does that it runs the function that it is attached to every time a keyboard button is clicked.
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trace(Key.getCode());
Trace outputs text to the output panel while testing movie in runtime and here I told it to output the getCode() Property which is associated with the key class and all it does is returning the code of the clicked putton.