April 3, 2011
by agawish
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For the people who still wonder where am I – I doubt there are any! – I’m still alive.
I’m preparing for my wedding ceremony so I won’t be available for the next period, but I hope I can be back to blogging soon.
I’m sorry for people who sent me mails but I didn’t reply, please forgive me but I don’t have any time to spare to answer.
See you soon.
February 13, 2011
by agawish
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“Yaaaaaaaaaah” I never felt this relief before, at last we will build a new Egypt,
at last we will live freely and feel our human rights and
at last Egypt is a Free Country.
The past 18 days were so hard, as I’m not currently in Egypt, I felt so bad not being part in all this, felt so bad that I’m safe here, while my family and my friends are at risk, I felt so bad that I can’t be part of a big change happens to people from inside and reflected on their outer behavior, I felt so bad to realize I’m more patriotic than I could ever imagine, and yet I couldn’t do something about it!
All people who know me knows that I hate political news and News channels, but after thinking about those days I realized that I didn’t change Al-Jazeera channel for those 18 days, waiting for any statement of the President like a child waiting for candy, disappointed when I realized that most of them are not candies, but a mere rotten Hrnkc-حرنكش- but I was jumping in joy as I heard the latest statement of Omar Soliman, GOD I FELT SO HAPPY!
I wish that I could be there, joining the forces of Revolution.
I wish that I could help my family, when thugs attacks were many.
I wish that I could share the happiness of the Egyptian street, in Cairo.
I wish that I could be there, cleaning Al-Tahrir with all the others.
But in the end I’m so proud of being an Egyptian, like never before, and I’m so proud of Egypt, the Free Country.
I’ll leave you with this video that My Brother made:
December 15, 2010
by agawish
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A new blog post on mdlwr about how easily to integrate and use WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for Active Directory and how to Single Sign on.
Here is a brief:
WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for Active Directory
I’ve recently installed and configured WebCenter Interaction to work with Active Directory in my recent project, and I can fully say with a heart full of confidence that WebCenter Interaction are the best customizable, editable portal I’ve ever seen!
The configuration, and customization level that can be done is pretty much amazing, all I had to do, is installing the component (has a separate installer) you can find more about the installation process in here.
Restarted my server, created an authentication source, and voala, I’ve the groups and users from the Active Directory, and I can map additional attributes in Active Directory through profile source, and accordingly I can dynamic assign users to groups based on rules on the attributes, so I don’t have to manually put each user in his respective group, and therefor the privileges for his community.
All done in simple easy steps, that could be done in an hour or two top, when you have all configurations.
November 13, 2010
by agawish
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So I was busy in the last couple of weeks, doing multiple work with ADF with RIDC
I have to admit, RIDC really ROX, and also working with SOA 11g and how SOA literally changing my life -to the better-.
I bought the book Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook It’s really amazing, not only from technical point of view, but the case study that is presented in the book is more than beautiful, the book teaches how to Think in SOA not just what component does what in Oracle SOA Suite.
The topic that interest me the most is Complex Event Processing or CEP, CEP importance is everywhere and who doesn’t need to search for patterns in the data to take decisions, and all the big companies have this critical business that needs to process data real time for such patterns to take actions.
Add to that my journey with WebCenter Spaces and how to fully customize and extending it, and how can this amazingly beautiful product to have such a capabilities and integration methodologies, they took a lot from WebCenter Interaction -The best in WCI- and added more of Social Activities and Web2.0 enhancements with the powerfulness of Weblogic, you got a complete stack -Slow but Powerful- (Slow as I’m testing all that in a single machine!)
I’m really having a great journey with Oracle Fusion Middleware and my next couple of Articles I’ll be presenting some of its powerfulness with some cool tutorials I promise, and It’ll be presented in the mdlwr blog.
During this time also, I’ll try my best to provide an enhancement to the Android Browser WebView to enable Android Devices to read basic Arabic letter, with the latest BAR source control, after enhancements.
I’m planning also to buy the HTC Desire HD to test my solution, and see the application live working.
Wish me Luck!
October 27, 2010
by agawish
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No matter how hard you try to make your development environment as close as possible to your production, you get disappointed by a lot of errors in production mode!
Experience is what helps you in that issue, but even with experience the migration process from development to production still can be very painful.
But…I can proudly say, that you won’t face such a trouble with WebCenter Interaction!
Thanks to the WebCenter Interaction Migration mechanism, which export portal object in a .pte (PorTal Extension) to be imported easily with their dependencies and parents, the migration process couldn’t be easier, and it took me about ummm 30 minutes, to transfer more than 50 Community, 100 pages, layouts and custom portlets with it’s related dependencies (Includes copying and pasting files from both servers!).
So bad that WCI is no longer in strategic products of Oracle, it could be the best out there
September 28, 2010
by agawish
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As I recently get to eat by myself, I always think, well as my hands are full doing eating -duh-, what should I watch on my PC, and as I’m a TV hater, so I watch everything on my pc
If it’s Wednesday or Friday, then its Bleach and Naruto respectively…
humm, that’s a problem, I eat more than 2 times a week, so I started to download other stuff, stuff like TV Shows, well I watched so many TV Shows, Heroes, Prison Break, Malcolm in the Middle and House, and I finished them all -except for Malcolm, I couldn’t find a decent torrent-, and I always find it great to have a little laughters in my meals.
That’s why I love stand up comedy shows, its so amazing, Jim Carrey always crack me up, Robin Williams woohooo and lastly George Carlin
This guy is truly amazing, He may be old, but I had my hands on his old shows, and God it was hilarious, it has less swearing than the others, but lots and lots of fun.
His facial expressions always crack me up, and his quote always surprises me “There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.” Taking about the present in one of an amazing shows.
Well, let’s stop talking, here is a sample of his stuff!
September 28, 2010
by agawish
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So today, as I’m celebrating my birthday alone, I bought something to myself as a gratitude of thanks, 25 years is a big time to be spending together with myself!
So I brought me a LogiTech Wave Mouse and Keyboard wireless, God it’s amazing, the options and everything, makes me want to blog and write more
That is the kind of stuff I like, and as I’m writing this blog with this amazing keyboard, I wondered why I kept struggling this long time with the silly keyboard of my laptop.
But after all, my laptop is the portable, and this keyboard is a large one, but in a heavy duty work, this baby will go boosting my productivity to the max.
wondering about the cost, no…It’s expensive, but worth it.
Happy Birthday to Me 
September 27, 2010
by agawish
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As I knew that there is no way my post commenter(s) can know if new comment has been added, and watch the thread.
I was searching for a nice solution that can help me out through to solve this problem.
and so I was introduced to Disqus, a great web application that seamlessly integrate with any blogging system -except for blogpost-, and override its commenting system to replace it, and sync comments in both sides!
That’s great news, then why didn’t I do it early??
well I didn’t have much time!!
But as today is my birthday, so this is my gift to myself and to all who watch this blog, thank you all and happy commenting!
September 26, 2010
by agawish
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I’ve published another post in my mdlwr blog named Creating Oracle UCM portlet in easy steps
Here is a head start, and enjoy the rest on mdlwr with Oracle Middleware Products
I recently faced a requirements when the customer needed to display a custom portlet of Oracle UCM specific Document Type in WebCenter Interaction, and those who don’t know WebCenter Interaction aka WCI aka AquaLogic User Interaction aka ALUI, should read about it!
Anyway so I went through UCM Content Portlet Suite (CPS), and I found the search but, the customer wanted a thumbnail (Rendition) of the document to be displayed!
After searching online I found an amazing article on different ways to integrate WebCenter application with Oracle ECM, of course the author was talking about Oracle WebCenter not Oracle WebCenter Interaction -There are differences, huge ones!- but one of the ways specifically interested me, that is using JSON output of the UCM services to be parsed using Javascript and do the work needed.
So HTML pages, can display content from UCM using Javascript and JSON Parsing, COOL!
So instantly -actually 2 weeks later!- I started to dig out how to deal with this JSON object returned, and how can I use it to fulfill my needs.
The author of the Video/Article gave 2 simple examples, Showing the folder structure of the UCM and to search UCM, using the Ajax way!
So as I wanted to get the result of a specific document type, so I was interested in his last example,
1- How can I tune his search query to give me what I need?,
2- How can I actually get the rendition of the file? and
3- How can I know the image path using the rendition?
Read the rest on mdlwr
September 10, 2010
by agawish
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Happy Eid By e-emoo
Long time, no posts I know…
Life was taking me so away, so away that I didn’t wake up but today at the middle of the day realizing that I’m all alone, and all is what I have left of me!
But that’s not what I’m talking about now, now it’s time for Feast, and I wanted to tell you all Happy Feast and sorry if I’m late in response to you either by mails or by writing posts, but inshaAllah I’ll be more active in the future…
Enjoy your Feast, and Pray for New more Ramadan(s) to come inshaAllah