Zef
Hi everyone!
My name is Josef Houssney, but a lot of people call me Zef. I'm Lebanese/American and will be living in Mansourieh for the next few months — I arrive on Wednesday. I'd really like to get it touch with the tech community while I'm there and make some new friends.
A little about me:
I grew up in the US and visited Lebanon a number of times growing up. Last time I was in Lebanon was about six years ago before I went to university in the US. I'm now married and am bringing my wife to see Lebanon for the first time.
What I do:
I do freelance programing and consulting and I'm working on a number of my own projects as well.
I spend most of my development time making web applications with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. For front end stuff I generally use jQuery to make javascript more enjoyable.
Recently I've been getting more into iOS development and just released my first iPhone/iPad app a couple weeks ago.
I love Apple products. I do my development on a Mac and usually use Ubuntu for my server needs.
What I want:
I want to meet you! If anyone out there is interested in getting together, please let me know.
I would love to share my knowledge and learn from others! I'm also looking for people to collaborate with, so let's meet and get to know each other if you are interested.
Anybody interested in Ruby? From what I can tell from searching on the forums there isn't much going on with Ruby in Lebanon, but it's really a wonderful and beautiful language. I would be glad to help people learn more about Ruby and help you get started!
Thanks, I look forward to meeting you all!
Ayman
Hello Josef, great to have you here with us, what a great introduction of yourself, I really like that :)
I am sure we will also be happy to meet you in Lebanon and discuss with you many interesting topics, hopefully in the next lebgeeks meeting which will take place this month we can all meet.
Glad to have you here with us, enjoy you stay in Lebanon, and we hope to see you around the forums, have a good day :)
samer
Hi Zef,
It's good to have you here. We're having our IRL monthly meeting mid/end-of-September and it would be nice if you join us. In the mean time, enjoy your stay in the forums.
rolf
Hey, glad to see someone who puts up his real picture and takes the time to talk about himself.
You'll be living about 10 minutes from me (Dekwaneh).
I'm a freelancer, in PHP, with jQuery and MySQL as a database when needed, trying to progress and build my own tools. I don't have too much work for the time being.
I'm comfortable with PHP and dont see no reason to switch to Ruby, especially since that will kinda set me back to "beginner" and I don't want to be experimenting with something new in commercial projects - although I've often been doing a bit of that... and I am curious about Ruby and might enjoy learning new stuff.
I would be interested in meeting too, and I'm always in for collaboration.
As samer said, the Lebgeeks meeting will be an opportunity to meet a bunch of us face to face, but we still don't know how many will be showing up, and I'm not even sure I'll be in the country, but that remains to be seen.
Take care and see you around :-)
Bassem
Hey Zef. It's me Bassem! What a surprise to see you here.
kareem_nasser
Welcome back home dude.
xterm
Welcome to the Lebgeeks, enjoy your stay.
Joe
Welcome and enjoy :)
Kassem
Hey Zef,
Welcome to Lebanon and to LebGeeks :)
Flakk
Welcome back to Lebanon Zef.
J4D
Great introduction ! I'm personally looking forward to your interaction around here ! Have fun around, and it will also be my pleasure to meet you in person. Although i have nothing to do with programming (i know programming) ! all hardware over here :P
Zef
Thanks everyone, I look forward to meeting you.
Excited to see you again Bassem!
cnicolaou
Hey Zef,
Welcome back.
Interested in knowing more about what you do. perhaps we can meet at the september IRL meeting or have coffee sometime.
Cheers,
Costa