Comments for more about the 8 http://more8.wordpress.com Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The Shortest [Problem of the week] by sandrar http://more8.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/the-shortest-problem-of-the-week/#comment-231 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:35:31 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/the-shortest-problem-of-the-week/#comment-231 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> Comment on My Programming Experience.. (Books) by my blog http://more8.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/my-programming-experience-books/#comment-229 my blog Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:48:50 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/?p=5#comment-229 <strong>check this out...</strong> this is mine... check this out…

this is mine…

]]> Comment on Open Source in Egypt by Hatem Abdelghani http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-226 Hatem Abdelghani Tue, 05 May 2009 07:03:40 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-226 This is the enternal problem of having ties when ranking, similar to what happens when you <a href="http://cm2prod.baylor.edu/ICPCWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Results%20World%20Finals%202009" rel="nofollow">rank contestants</a> :D. The last 10 countries might all have 1 project each, then you still have to order them - perhaps using some other cirterion like the size of the project or whatever. Anyway, I believe that the communinty ranking was done in a different way. It is not always easy to assign a project to a country, specially for open source projects where the development process is distributed among developers worldwide. Being ranked 50 in open source community activity may mean that we are the country with the 50th most active open source community (Egyptian developers are the 50th most participating developers in open source projects). Sadly, I guess most of those developers are from schools other than FCIS Ain Shams. This is the enternal problem of having ties when ranking, similar to what happens when you rank contestants :D . The last 10 countries might all have 1 project each, then you still have to order them – perhaps using some other cirterion like the size of the project or whatever.

Anyway, I believe that the communinty ranking was done in a different way. It is not always easy to assign a project to a country, specially for open source projects where the development process is distributed among developers worldwide. Being ranked 50 in open source community activity may mean that we are the country with the 50th most active open source community (Egyptian developers are the 50th most participating developers in open source projects). Sadly, I guess most of those developers are from schools other than FCIS Ain Shams.

]]> Comment on Open Source in Egypt by Mohammed Fouad http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-224 Mohammed Fouad Sun, 03 May 2009 17:10:10 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-224 @Mostafa: Thanks man :D .. that was very informative @Hassan i knew that u will have something to add :D .. and thanks for pointing the interview out .. i should dig inside arabcrunch a bit may be i find something there .. @Hatem: lets assume for argument sake that the country of rank #75 has 1 community project .. that means that for the country #74 to be higher it has to have 2 projects .. so if we rank #50 then that means we have about 25 +/- projects .. fain homma ba2a :D ! @Mostafa:
Thanks man :D .. that was very informative

@Hassan
i knew that u will have something to add :D .. and thanks for pointing the interview out .. i should dig inside arabcrunch a bit may be i find something there ..

@Hatem:
lets assume for argument sake that the country of rank #75 has 1 community project .. that means that for the country #74 to be higher it has to have 2 projects .. so if we rank #50 then that means we have about 25 +/- projects .. fain homma ba2a :D !

]]> Comment on Open Source in Egypt by Hatem Abdelghani http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-223 Hatem Abdelghani Sat, 02 May 2009 04:03:16 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-223 <i>That makes 3 or 4 say 10 companies .. where the heck did this 63 of 75 rank number came from ??!!</i> Perhaps because the remaining countries have less companies than that. That makes 3 or 4 say 10 companies .. where the heck did this 63 of 75 rank number came from ??!!

Perhaps because the remaining countries have less companies than that.

]]> Comment on Open Source in Egypt by Hassan Ibraheem http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-222 Hassan Ibraheem Fri, 01 May 2009 22:14:03 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-222 I was surprised too, but I didn't have time to go deep into how they collect the data and the calculations' details. There's of course red hat partners in Egypt (Master Linux & Linux Plus) and http://www.itsyn.com/ , and another company in Alexandria that starts with a 'v' (but can't remember the name, they are doing rails developments and contributing to OSS too). <a href="http://arabcrunch.com/2009/02/espace-an-arab-pioneer-in-open-source-contribution.html" rel="nofollow">This</a> was an interesting interview with eSpace. I'll subscribe to comments for now to comment back later :) . I was surprised too, but I didn’t have time to go deep into how they collect the data and the calculations’ details.
There’s of course red hat partners in Egypt (Master Linux & Linux Plus) and http://www.itsyn.com/ , and another company in Alexandria that starts with a ‘v’ (but can’t remember the name, they are doing rails developments and contributing to OSS too).
This was an interesting interview with eSpace. I’ll subscribe to comments for now to comment back later :) .

]]> Comment on Open Source in Egypt by Mostafa Muhammad http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-221 Mostafa Muhammad Fri, 01 May 2009 21:18:18 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/open-source-in-egypt/#comment-221 Asslamo Alikom These are some statistics about GSoC since 2005 http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p6DuoA2lJToKmUzoSq6raZQ Hope you find it useful :) Asslamo Alikom

These are some statistics about GSoC since 2005
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p6DuoA2lJToKmUzoSq6raZQ

Hope you find it useful :)

]]> Comment on PC^(2++) by Mohammed Fouad http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/pc2-2/#comment-219 Mohammed Fouad Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:51:00 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/pc2-2/#comment-219 To Haytham: Thanks man for your suggestions :D <i>gr8 that you are thinking about it…</i> Sorry, i didn't notice that the link didn't appear from the theme http://pccube.wordpress.com/ it started as an OnlineJudge for the acmASCIS .. but it became this .. so there is no going back :D <i>bad point is, it’ll consume the server resources badly</i> yep .. sadly .. but i didn't figure any better way till now .. actually i plan the test to be in 0.8 or so .. still a loong way :D <i>I would also like to see it as a plugin into VS/Eclipse… so that you can easily test/submit ur code files.</i> Great idea :D .. never thought of that .. that's going to the feature list isA :D To Haytham:
Thanks man for your suggestions :D
gr8 that you are thinking about it…
Sorry, i didn’t notice that the link didn’t appear from the theme http://pccube.wordpress.com/
it started as an OnlineJudge for the acmASCIS .. but it became this .. so there is no going back :D

bad point is, it’ll consume the server resources badly
yep .. sadly .. but i didn’t figure any better way till now .. actually i plan the test to be in 0.8 or so .. still a loong way :D

I would also like to see it as a plugin into VS/Eclipse… so that you can easily test/submit ur code files.
Great idea :D .. never thought of that .. that’s going to the feature list isA :D

]]> Comment on PC^(2++) by Haytham http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/pc2-2/#comment-218 Haytham Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:44:26 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/pc2-2/#comment-218 That's good so far... I was actually going to comment on ur previous post saying "everybody who uses PC^2 dreams of building a better one.. but nobody I know of actually did it"... :D gr8 that you are thinking about it... I think you will still need a client side app to run the integrity test... (Native Client comes to mind ;)) - another option is to allow something like fake-submit... which is equivalent to Test in PC^2 but runs on server... bad point is, it'll consume the server resources badly- I would also like to see it as a plugin into VS/Eclipse... so that you can easily test/submit ur code files. That’s good so far… I was actually going to comment on ur previous post saying “everybody who uses PC^2 dreams of building a better one.. but nobody I know of actually did it”… :D

gr8 that you are thinking about it…

I think you will still need a client side app to run the integrity test… (Native Client comes to mind ;) )
- another option is to allow something like fake-submit… which is equivalent to Test in PC^2 but runs on server… bad point is, it’ll consume the server resources badly-

I would also like to see it as a plugin into VS/Eclipse… so that you can easily test/submit ur code files.

]]> Comment on PC^2 by PC^(2++) « more about the 8 http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/pc2/#comment-217 PC^(2++) « more about the 8 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:25:37 +0000 http://more8.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/pc2/#comment-217 [...] .. So, in this post, i will try to figure out how PC^2 can get better .. by giving it some lousy [...] [...] .. So, in this post, i will try to figure out how PC^2 can get better .. by giving it some lousy [...]

]]>