Me and Open Source is a long story that started around ten years ago, and it’s only this year that I started introducing myself as Open Source Evangelist even if it was part of my job and my every day’s activity since many years. This year I felt the need to talk about Open Source [...]

Yesterday was held the first Jeddah geeks meetup and I wanted to thank everyone who assisted, participated, or organised the event. Since the topic was about web application development, I was talking yesterday about new trends in open source distributed database : NoSQL with a quick introduction to CouchDB and some case studies. Introducing CouchDB [...]

In my new office I faced problem connecting to Internet behind ISA proxy server from my ubuntu desktop. So I googled the first time and found people using ntlmaps. After install and configuration it was working fine but ubuntu became very slow and load quickly reached 8 and 10. sudo dpkg-reconfigure ntlmaps, sudo /etc/init.d/ntlmaps restart, [...]

This is officially my new home page. My old personal blog will be redirecting here very soon. All my previous posts since 2005 will not be moved here, and by the way it was not updated since last year. I have created this blog to share my projects, my professional experience, articles and thoughts. As [...]