Emad Alashi’s Blog

The feedback was very good, and I was glad that everybody liked it. Jordev is really moving ahead, and I am very excited being part of it

Below is the slide show (it’s an enhanced version from my previous one):

[slideshare id=821222&doc=introductiontonhibernate-1228487480885456-9&w=425]

Code is the same of the previous one which you can download from here

Lately, I have been living a financial chaos; I couldn’t tell how much money I had in the bank, lent to friends or in my Pocket! (ok the last one was exaggeration…I could count it anytime ).

I decided to put an end to this, so I started looking for a software to track my financial status; went through many solutions starting from Excell sheets passing by GNUCash, AceMoneyLite , and ending with Microsoft Office Accounting Express (the latter makes me want to start my own business! wow).
Nothing seemed to meet my simple requirements of …just…tracking my money!

Then I found it! ClearCheckBook; very simple, web-based and effective! you can define Your Accounts (your pocket, bank,..etc), define your expenses and income categories (Food, Gas,…etc), and insert your transactions depending on the Accounts and Categories. and you are on!

here are some screenshots that you might find interesting:

https://www.clearcheckbook.com/tour.php

enjoy managing your finance!

p.s. there are some competitiors like Mint and MySpendingPlan but Mint makes it compulsory to have an existing account with a known bank to their service, and MySpendingPlan had many JavaScript errors while I was browsing.

I have delivered the presentation I talked about in my previous post here.

Actually it was pretty simple and straightforward, the slides them selves don’t have code content; all the code was shown in VS directly (I always found it better to see the code in its really environment to better understand).
The attendees were handful, but if felt really great when they expressed how excited they were about the whole thing.

You can find the Power Point slides and the sample code in the following zipped file:

http://www.freedrive.com/file/395364,emadnhibernatepresentation.zip

I intend also to share with you the process I went through in order to conclude to the presentation in its final state.

I hope you benefit from it

Update: I did this presentation again with enhanced slides, you can find those slides on this post

Ok, now I am facing a hard decision; what to do next in my technical life?

In order to reach for better decision, I drew a mind map using this wonderful online tool Mindomo, it’s like  the following:

Those nodes are the things I think I want to study/do most.
I marked the most important ones with the red, yellow and then blue flags. Then marked the ones I need to do most urgently with 1 being the most urgent, 2 less urgent and so on.

We use NHibernate at work, it’s interesting technology and very much talked about recently, knowing it in details helps to be more productive and give my experience real credit for it.
So I thought about doing some session about it with anyone interested about it here at work (we need to refresh out technical enthusiasm),  my plan is to give a brief introduction on it with some samples, then have a longer discussion about it.
I gave it the highest mark of urgency because we usually are pressured at work and we don’t have the luxury to “sharpen our saws” by having such sessions (I know…don’t look at me like that!). so it takes the first place.

Second in  place, studying for the ASP.NET exam of Microsoft (which is something really cared about here), and I better take the exam before it’s too late.

Thy cycle goes on clock-wise, till it reaches this charity web application, then I thought why not use this chance of creating web application to learn the “Javascript in depth”, “Ajax”, and  “jQuery”?!
and this is what I will do by god willing.

If I want to do that I better commit to what i have just posted, so wish me luck…and if you think you can enjoy open source project, contact me and we might do the charity web application together