Since this blog was starting to be full of ghosts, i said that i must break the silence by some quick post.

Last Saturday I attended the JDC 2010 (Java Developer Conference) which is organized by EGJUG , I attended the last JDC which was at 2008 and it was pretty good and after looking at the agenda of 2010, i just couldn’t resist

Most of the sessions were quite interesting, i got to know some of the new technologies and made some good contacts with great people in the industry here in Egypt.

I also bought an excellent book “Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers” by Ed Burns who was a speaker at the conference (and he was also a speaker at 2008), and he signed it for me , Thanks Ed.

After the conference we had a quick visit to Google

Actually that was at the Google Booth , Some of the Google guys were there like AbdelKarim Mardini showing the new Nexus one and some other cool stuff.

A lot of interesting people was there like Sang Shin, Fred Sauer, also from Egypt Mohammed El-Refaey whom i really enjoyed talking to.

So in the end, it was a pretty good day and meeting a lot of my friends added a tasty flavour to the mixture, JAK Shabab.

Time to move on and finish that piles of work to do !

Google just released an updated version of the Google Mobile App, but now with Voice search !

You just say the keywords in your voice and the app does all the work

The new Google Mobile App for iPhone makes it possible for you to do a Google web search using only your voice. Just hold the phone to your ear, wait for the beep, and say what you’re looking for. That’s it. Just talk. Once the App is on, you don’t have to push any buttons to search. Check out the video below to watch engineer Mike LeBeau explain how this works.

Here is a video from youtube that explains it very well:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3z7Tw1K17A

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When i first heard of Google Chrome, the amazing browser, i was really amazed specially after reading the story behind it, but what made me mad was that it was supported only under window$ systems and not yet available for other Operating Systems like Linux and Mac OS.

Well, the good news is that we have a port for Linux systems right now :biggrin: , done by the company that made CrossOver: the famous application for emulating windows apps under Linux..and they called it “Chromium”.

But don’t get too excited, Chromium actually works by using the windows version of chrome but using appropriate emulation of WINE (Windows Emulator) so you will find some problems with fonts, performance..looks like we will have to wait for the native release from google any way  :cwy: (still this try is  a good one thought)

I will be posting some screen shots of my test isA..

To download the Binaries for Linux:

• CrossOver Chromium for Ubuntu and Debian (32 bit)
• CrossOver Chromium for Ubuntu and Debian (64 bit)
• CrossOver Chromium for Red Hat, Mandriva, and Suse
• CrossOver Chromium for all other Linux distros.

For more information, please refer to that page

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