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I wanted to to write about my 2-week trip in 2013 to Düsseldorf, about going to a muppet show with my cousins, about losing one of my best friends, about being unable to breath, about jealousy, about sports, about learning to drive, about buying a car, about recreational activities, about Syria, about acne, about the books I recently finished reading and may be about other topics I can't remember now but I am writing about DevOps. I must admit that I am impressed with HashiCorp  and I bet they are re-defining data centers and web services life cycle alike. Their philosophy and products to the web and DevOps are like UNIX to operating systems. In other words, they are building what should be a solid base for the de facto Web Service life cycle in the next 15 to 40 years - only if they are given time, opportunity to grow and adopted by big market leaders. I am not talking ITIL wise, I am talking Agile wise. What HashiCorp is offering to the field of DevOps is like offering the s...

A short story by Angie Tawfik He found her so sweet, that he would talk to her four continuous hours over the phone, he even did most of the talk, he wanted her to fall for him. He kept the strong and massive communication for almost 10 days. Then he asked her if she had fell in love before or not, she didn't give him a definite answer but told him a short story about an early childhood romance. It was one-sided romance. In the same phone call he started bragging about the fact that he never fell in love before. He lied. He was too much in love with his ex that he denied his capability to love altogether. She couldn't buy it, but didn't raise anything about it. Shortly after that call, she told him she didn't like being with her ex-fiance, and enlisted a few drawbacks about that relationship but she didn't make a big deal out of it nor did he. Then slowly the fires of his so-called caring started to put down, instead of him calling, she became the one who usu...

* في الأذان --> الله أكبر، أشهد ألا إله إلا الله، أشهد أن محمدّا رسول الله، لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله (تـُقال عند حي على الصلاة وحي على الفلاح) * في الصلاة --> الحمد لله (في الفاتحة) وسبحان ربي العظيم في الركوع و سبحان ربي الأعلى في السجود. فنجد أننا:  نذكر الله في كل ترديد مع الأذان، ونكبر الله في حركات الصلاة، ونحمد الله ونحن واقفون (في الفاتحة والقيام من الركوع - سمع الله لمن حمده، ربنا ولك الحمد) ونسبح ربنا ونحن إما راكعون أو ساجدون فإن كان التكبير ونحن نتحرك،  والحمد ونحن واقفون، والتسبيح ونحن إما راكعون أو ساجدون، والذكر لله ولربنا، أفلا نتفكر؟ 

Mum, Dad, Sara, Radwa, Hend, Nashwa, Mona, Dina, Samar, Ibrahim, Mr. Gamal, Mdes, Mr. Fahmy, Mr. Mostafa, Mr. Mostafa, Mr. Mahmoud, Mr. Magdy, Mr. Ali, Mr. Ali, Mrs. Safaa, Mrs. Khadiga, Mrs. Zeinab, Mrs. Mervat, Mrs. Ehsan, Mrs. Salwa, Mrs. Nagwa, Mr. Reda, Mr. Ashraf, Eng. Hany, Mai. I owe you all, and I love you :)      

Again, another mile, another story finished. Honestly, after "All we leave behind", one feeling is ruling me above all. I gotta change my life and accept some stuff within, then I could make room for another book, and make time for seeking real joys. Any how, I am writing to post a screen shot from French Open results. If any body knows me well here, they would wonder why I am writing "French Open" instead of "Roland Garros". May be because the French language is so delicate and feminine in pronunciation that many people love it. May be because the French perfumes are the best. May be both reasons, but for some reason I want to convey supremacy of the Grand Slam. I have always argued with many people that Roland Garros is far better than Wimbledon but I then figured out that it feels like comparing apples to oranges, totally different. Here is the pic, I wish Gulbis this time have the guts to give Nadal / Djokovic a hard unforgettable time :D Push th...

I had a few days to break. I spent most of them usually working and in my spare time watching TED Talks. I have developed this syndrome of heavily watching TED after something big has happened. Finishing Inamorata was sort of big to me. Not in the sense of accomplishment, I have finished larger and more difficult books earlier, but in the sense of having peace with the feelings and the thoughts that poured upon me from the story. It's overwhelming with too many things to contemplate and re-calculate in a good sense. Many lessons to grasp and hold on to. It was also difficult to settle with the idea that one can easily find another book of at least the same quality writing-style and higher value thoughts to drive home. Then all of a sudden, after a few days, I started another Wattpad book. It is called " All we leave behind ". After catching myself unable to put down the tablet expect when extremely tired, I figured out a common factor between the two books - although the...

-- Please accept my apologies being written on a Google service, you know Google's uptime is sexy -- So, Oracle makes most of the databases empowering telecom giants, and telecom giants offer mobile services to end users and end users are usually addicted to their smart phones that usually have What's app, Facebook and many Google products. Now that Facebook has bought What's app, I can rest back and safely announce that the war has officially moved from desk / lap tops to mobile devices. The internet will ruin itself and everything around...