Today I was reading on Okaz newspaper a news about a contractor who abused of their confidence and programmed a password change after leaving his position at King Abdul Aziz University. Things that creates troubles in administrative transactions in the entire university. Without entering into further details, how this could happen, and why … It’s [...]

There are lots of howtos about creating a MySQL cluster, and this is another one that might be useful in some special cases. In this tutorial I will create a Two nodes Master/Master MySQL replication on Ubuntu server 10.04. I used in my cluster two nodes HP DL380G6 with 3 hard disks 15K in RAID5 [...]

Every time I read a paper about open source I can feel how it’s trying hard to oppose to closed source or proprietary software. People in the closed source side seems to take things differently : ” we are doing business and we have to generate sales, closed or open doesn’t matter”. I’m not going [...]

Yesterday a friend was requesting a MYSQL/PHP Consultant to speed up his websites, and today I was reading few comments and solutions on his facebook : Use APC, mem_cache for PHP, mysql query caching, use nginx instead of Apache, Use mysqli extension instead of adodb or mysql extension … etc. Of course all of these [...]

Part of Yesser e-Gov program an interoperability framework called YEFI. The framework concern any entity that exchange data and integrate services for the consumption and benefit of the public. From yesser website, YEFI is defined as “a unified framework to implement e-government. It includes cross – governmental specifications and policies, to enable cross – governmental [...]

I assisted today at the Efficient Edge 2010 conference organized by Wipro in a partnership with Sun/Oracle. The conference was held today in Intercontinental Jeddah from 8h30 to 13h30. Sincerely beside the commercial aspect of the conference, it was really very informative, and it was a pleasure to meet few names from Sun Microsystems mainly Iyad Al-Bukhari, Andy Clark, and Thomas Bretscher.