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{ Monthly Archives } June 2009

An unexpected surprise!

This is not really a post for people under 18 but I will keep it as clean as possible !!! I just have to blog about it !!!
So on my way to play sports I couldn’t find my standard sports bag so i decided to get one from the top of my cupboard. I …

Stereotyping Arabs

A Chat with my buddy Diego (who is working with me on “Data Relevancy using a Heat Emission model” ) was so odd I have to blog it:
(22:58:45) diego: seif
(22:58:52) seif: yes
(22:58:53) seif: :)
(22:58:55) diego: do you know any arab terrorist website?
(22:59:02) seif: uhm
(22:59:03) seif: WTF?
(22:59:05) seif: no
(22:59:13) seif: and if i know I …

Understanding the Event Centric Experience

Application Centric Experience (ACE), e.g: Every Application knows the documents it touched.
Document Centric Experience (DCE), e.g: Every Document knows the applications that touched it.

Event Centric Experience(ECE): ACE U DCE

The only constant variable on your computer are events. If no events are happening then computer can not be running.
An event consists of minimum 5 variables:

1) …

Lesson of my life: 1.01 Overthinking things as a kid!

Well this actually happened when I was 3. It is pretty embarrassing and I know it might land on some planets but i think its fun.

It took me five minutes to draw it. Why not share an embarrassing moment of your life drawing it :)

Cool Observation!

Zeitgeist is being maintained by a Moslem (Seif), a Jew (Natan) and a Christian (Siegfried).

Some of the developers are Atheist and still things are at peace.

Long live FLOSS

Some Zeitgeist Visuals

Sebastian Faubel came up with a nice icon for Zeitgeist

Before UDS I started hacking on an alternative GTK+ UI for the Zeitgeist engine and within days I will have it complete. I think this view could be used for ARM based UNR distributions since they don’t use clutter. The Categories are created dynamically. I …

Candidate for the new Zeitgeist DB

At last we  have a candidate for the DB. After the Xesam dude (Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen) joined the team he took my last proposal of a new DB design and did his voodoo to end up with.

Again please forgive me for using UML class diagram tools for designing the DB.

Here you can read more …

First attempts on improving the Zeitgeist DB before GUADEC

During UDS we changed the DB a bit to store the applications that were used for the activities. allowing us to bookmark applications, and detemrining most used ones.

Well here is the current Zeitgeist DB (pretty simple and stupid)

Natan has suggested improving the tag table. After some thought i decided to give it a shot …

UDS's influence on GNOME Zeitgeist

Last week, Siegfried (my GSoC student) and I, attended UDS. I would have loved more from the Zeitgeist team to be there but sadly it did not work out.

It was my first time to meet Siegfried. He was pretty shy at the beginning but started coming out as a jerk later on when he …

UDS’s influence on GNOME Zeitgeist

Last week, Siegfried (my GSoC student) and I, attended UDS. I would have loved more from the Zeitgeist team to be there but sadly it did not work out.

It was my first time to meet Siegfried. He was pretty shy at the beginning but started coming out as a jerk later on when he …