@hhaddad, hey Habib how are you doing, I hope everything is going great. First of all I would like to thank you for your great breakthrough in the world of arabic typing which really made our lives much more easier and fun when typing Arabic. Yesterday I was teaching my dad how to type using Yamli and he really likes your app.
I am actually interested in working at Yamli but not as a full timer beacuse I am still at university, but in case you want internships by next summer I am ready. I am majoring in Management Information Systems at Haigazian University, I am in love with programming and doing web development and I am currently setting up my own little freelance business on the web
http://www.devzilla.net but the pages are still incomplete but I will finish them very soon. I am also working on some projects in Java and Php. I have also some experience from previous years, I worked at a company called TimeWare(specialized in making HRMS solutions) I worked as an alpha tester and then as a junior web developer.
I am always following your latest news on Facebook and twitter. In addition, you Yalla Startup project is really cool and I hope it will help making better entrepreneurs for the future. Furthermore, I was thinking if you would do seminars in Universities around Lebanon to make more people aware of this new project. If you are interested I can talk to the business department at my University and maybe we could arrange some time for you to come and visit us and talk about Yalla Startup.
Oh and here are my answers to you question,
* What’s your favorite development platform (server side or client side) and why?
My favorite platform is Java SE for making client side apps, so I prefer using Netbeans 6.5 and it has all the plugins I need for web development too that is Php, java script, CSS, and Ajax. So I like to work on both but these days the web platform is taking more of my attention and work on both server side and client side, that is Javascript and XHTML for the client side and Php for the server side. Recently I have just started to explore the zend framework.
* Who is your hero in the development world and why?
Of course not Bill Gates, he is more of business man after all :P It is Linus Torvalds since he is the founder of Linux OS and made a big step towards distributing the concept of open source to people. He didn't care much first about how he is going to sell and advertise his software, he just wanted to do something new, innovative and made people's life easier.
* What one product or gadget can you not live without and why?
My Laptop, because I have all my work on it, and I can't but work on at least one of my projects ever day,
actually programming has become an addiction to me.
* What blogs/news do you follow?
I mainly follow the industry news and blogs at the </dream.in.code> website:
http://www.dreamincode.net
I am an active member there and I have contributed some tutorials and code snippets to community.The community has lots of experienced developers who share ideas, experience and development tutorials in different languages.
* What’s the toughest bug you’ve had to fix and why?
Optimizing memory usage in my Java app and speed, we all know that Java programs are quite slower than natively compiled ones such as C++ and they tend to consume more memory. I usually try my best in making them as efficient as possible.
Thank you very much and have good day, keep up the good work :)
