by the time i was there it was located here, and now it’s here.

it was my second company i’ve been in, but the first huge and international one !!

my internship was as Testing Software Engineer, writing unit tests on JUnit framework, of course with JAVA for the CHS project.

kind of i was pretty amazed by that product and the system that was followed there, very organized company indeed.

plus i was working with ZIZO on the same team, and seen how effective he was (fact) and how early does he come to work D !!

i think i’ve learned so many things there.

working on such big project, the tools i’ve used there (code editor, source control, etc..) and working with such nice team..

besides there i felt that i should start hating outlook D , duno why.. but it was just that !!

i really don’t think that i’ll forget the environment there especially those two marketing engineers beside the window D , they are both awesome guys !!

and of course the caffeine geek who was beside me, who introduced me to Ubuntu, although the DVD he gave me was corrupted but he encouraged me much to try it D

and every one of the rest in the team affected me somehow, really !!

i can remember that the team was called IESD or some combination of those four chars..

at the end, this company has a very good working environment, with a nice organized team, working on a big cool product.

for me it really deserved staying in Cairo for that 1.5 month !! D

the only thing i hated there is the transportation, that took +1.5 hours daily to get there or to get back home :S

but anyway, thats how i could finish more that 3/4 of Code Complete 2 in less than a month, while going back home from there D D .

Tagged: Cairo, Geek, Internship, JAVA, Mentor Graphics, Outlook, Ubuntu





Today was my first day at work, in a company called Andaulsia Healthcare Business Solutions  “AHBS” in my beloved Alex.

kind of i was surprised by the coding approach used there, it’s simply “No Coding”

Computer_Mouse

every thing is made using wizards and code generators, and i mean it  “everything”, where the computer’s mouse is the main actor here

and u use ur keyboard as a shortcut to Copy, Paste and press “Alt + Ctrl +Delete” when Windows hangs D

the manager has a point anyway, he doesn’t want “some kind” of developers to mess the code up, or write untraceable buggy code, and the company is specialized in one field where this approach can fit.

this approach depends mainly on MS products (SharePoint, InfoPath, Web Services,….. ), Markup languages (i’ve already seen +4 formats) and converters between those formats

i think in small projects this approach makes no sense, as it takes may be up to 3 times the normal development time, moving between apps and configuring various wizards

may be it saves some time with large systems, i don’t know till now, i didn’t see handling complex situations with this approach, but i think it won’t be that complicated

today, i’ve implemented 3 sample apps just to learn the process without using the keyboard except to name the files

for me it’s useful as i’m learning some new tools and approaches but i think writing loops, algorithms, playing with pointers and banging my head against the wall because of the stupid reasonless bugs is more interesting D

ah…. one last thing. i cant say  that outlook is not useful or small application, but for me.. it sucks and i hate it :S

Tagged: AHBS, Bugs, Code, Keyboard, Markup Languages, Microsoft, Mouse, Outlook, Pointers, Programming, Windows, Wizards