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Welcome to the AskDeveloper Podcast, in this podcast Tamer Zaki & Mohamed Elsherif are discussing the many software related issues especially in the Egyptian technology market, and how to change the culture for companies and development teams to adopt the right methodologies and processes.

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الحلقة الثلاثون من راديو اسأل مطور, في هذا الأسبوع نطرح دور الDevOps في تطوير المؤسسات

What is the role of DevOps?
 "Automate All Things"
A role currently related to Online Services.
The principle of self-serve IT
Streamline and Automate Operation tasks
 Monitoring & Alerting
 Deployment
 Scaling up & down
 OS\Platforms upgrades, patches ... etc
 Building internal platforms to facilitate many IT related jobs
  Creating virtual machines
  Assigning DNS's
  Configuring load balancers \ software load balancers
  Self-Serve deployment
Technologies 
 All virtual machine automation software
 Chef http://www.getchef.com/
 Puppet http://puppetlabs.com/
 Salt http://docs.saltstack.com/index.html
 Graphite http://graphite.wikidot.com/

EP30 - DevOps

اللقاء الأسبوعي الثامن و الثلاثون, في هذا الأسبوع يحدثنا المهندس طارق عمرو عن الMachine Learning.

Slides for the presentation
http://tarekamr.com/slides/datascience

EP31 - Ask Developer Hangout - Week 38 - Machine Learning With Tarek Amr

Max Shron and Jake Porway talk with Jon Bruner about frameworks for making reasoned arguments with data. Max's recent book, <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029182.do"><i>Thinking with Data</i></a>, outlines the crucial process of developing good questions and creating a plan to answer them. Jake's nonprofit, <a href="http://www.datakind.org/">DataKind</a>, connects data scientists with worthy causes where they can apply their skills.

For more on this episode, visit the <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/03/podcast-thinking-with-data.html">O'Reilly Radar blog</a>.

<i>This episode is brought to you by <a href="http://solidcon.com/">Solid</a>, O'Reilly's new conference about the intersection between software and the physical world--including hardware, manufacturing, design, and the code that makes sense of it all. For more information on Solid, and to reserve tickets, visit http://solidcon.com.</i>

Thinking with data

ِAsk Developer Podcast الحلقة 34, في هذه الحلقة نناقش موضوع ال Freelancing و كيف تبدأ فيه و ما هو و مميزاته و عيوبه و بعض النصائح من التجارب الشخصية.
What is freelancing? 
Comparing freelancing to regular job
How to find freelancing opportunity? 
How to handle clients? 
How to put your name out there? 
Places To look for freelancing opportunities. 
 Rentacoder
 Guru

Video version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-562HWe1N4


EP34 - Freelancing

الحلقة السادسة و الثلاثون من راديو اسأل مطور, نناقش في هذا الأسبوع أهمية نظم حفظ و تنظيم الكود Source Control و نقارن بين أنواعها المختلفة و نتكلم باستفاضة عن Git

What is source control
Why do I need Source Control
Source control absence from official CS curriculum is a disaster
Source control can be as important as If Else statements
Important for individuals. Vital for teams
Types of Source Control Systems
	Centralized (Traditional)
		CVS
		SVN - Subversion.
		TFS
	Distributed
		Git
		Mercurial 
Awesome Git Features
	Stash
	Branching with no overhead
	Local Commits (never lose a thing)
	Rewriting History (rebasing)
Git vs GitHub
	GitLab
	Bitbucket
Using GitHub in non-programming projects


EP36 - Source Control And Git

In this episode, I talk with Liza Kindred, founder of Third Wave Fashion and author of the new free report “Fashioning Data: How fashion industry leaders innovate with data and what you can learn from what they know.” Kindred addresses the evolving role data and analytics are playing in the fashion industry, and the emerging connections between technology and fashion companies. 

In the second segment, I chat with Max Firtman, founder of ITMaster, about the state of the HTML5 space and the future of mobile. He stresses that the change the Internet of Things will bring to the space will be significant and companies need to prepare: "All we know for sure right now is that everything is going to change."

For more, visit O'Reilly Radar: http://oreil.ly/101zhb5

What happens when fashion meets data?

Introduction
What is a package?
What is a Package Manager?
Why Do we need Package Manager?
Pros and Cons
	Pros
		Break your code into sharable components.
		Reduce build times.
		Easy to find well-made packages to speed up development.
		Resolving versioning in a clean way.
	Cons
		Sometimes packages don't play well together
		Too many package managers with very little differences
Examples
	Ruby Gems (was that the first one?)
	Python Pip
	NuGet
	NPM
	apt-get
	OneGet
	Chocoloty
	Bower
	Yum
	pacman


EP38 - Package Managers

O’Reilly’s big data guru Ben Lorica sits down with prominent data scientist DJ Patil to talk about his new ebook (written with Hilary Mason) and other topics in data science and big data.

A Brief Look At Data Science's Past And Future

O’Reilly’s Ben Lorica chats with Kira Radinsky, CTO and co-founder of SalesPredict, about predicting events using machine learning, NLP, and semantic analysis.

Forecasting events, from disease outbreaks to sales to cancer research

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica talks with Angie Ma, co-founder and president of ASI, about the concept of the ASI, the structure of their training programs, and the data and startup scene in the UK.

Turning Ph.D.s Into Industrial Data Scientists and Data Engineers

Today, our guest is Kristin Branson, a Group Leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus. We’ll be speaking with her about searching for the right topic to study, tracking animal behavior using machine learning, and thinking about problems globally. 

Neurotalk S5E13: Kristin Branson

	• What's wrong with the world as it is today?
		○ Gatekeepers and Walled Gardens 
		○ The Master Switch by Tim Wu
			▪ Tim Wu is the one who coined the Net Neutrality term.
			▪ This book tells the story of how every communication medium starts a revolution that upsets the order, then eventually it gets controlled. The same thing could happen to the Internet.
	• Bitcoin
		○ Is this about money, or about technology
		○ Is this about the technology or bitcoin, or the technology of distributed money.
		○ How Bitcoin works. Video.
		○ Bitcoin mining in plain English.
	• Blockchain
		○ permissionless distributed database based on the bitcoin protocol that maintains a continuously growing list of data records hardened against tampering and revision, even by its operators. The initial and most widely known application of block chain technology is the public ledger of transactions for bitcoin, which has been the inspiration for similar implementations often known as altchains
		○ Trustless transactions
		○ Simple explanation of how Blockchain works.
	• Distributed hash tables
		○ class of a decentralized distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table
	• Git
		○ Git GPG Signature
	• BitTorrent
	• IPFS: Inter-Planetary File System
		○ Intro to IPFS 
		○ IPFS: Why We Must Distribute the Web (Video)
		○ How to Use IPFS to fix NPM
		○ HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed permanent web
			▪ This page is actually served via IPFS
It covers important points: how IPFS does mutable data, how it does human-readable URLs.

EP45 - A little bit about Bitcoin

Welcome to the first episode of the AskDeveloper Podcast, in this episode Tamer Zaki & Mohamed Elsherif are discussing the Software Quality issues especially in the Egyptian technology market, and how to change the culture for companies and development teams to adopt the right methodologies and processes.

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EP01 - AskDeveloper PodCast - Software Quality

Welcome to the second episode of the AskDeveloper podcast, in this episode we are excited to announce a new host (Ahmed ElMalt) who joined us this week to give us his perspective and experience with software quality.

This week, the hosts are discussing in more details the subjects of Test Automation & Coding Standards.

Some links and tools mentioned in the episode.

Selenium a tool to automate web UI testing
Jenkins a cross platform Continuous Integration tool that can be used to automate the whole process from the Build to running tests to running analysis tools and have a good plugin ecosystem.
Clean Code One of the best books in market discussing the modern coding standards, and how to refactor and adopt the right practices for keeping the good state of code.

EP02 - AskDeveloper Podcast - Software Quality (Contd)

Welcome to the third episode of the AskDeveloper Podcast, in this episode we switch gear to answer the hard question of "How to build a good team?" and we start by the first stage in building your team which is recruitment, we discuss different aspects and stages of the recruitment  like

Who is a good candidate?
Where to publish job posts and find candidates
Recruitment Process
Industry Hires
Collage Hires
Interviewing for Interviewees
Interviewing for interviewers
Book recommendation

EP03 - AskDeveloper - Team Building - Recruitment

Welcome to the 4th Episodes of AskDeveloper Podcast, in this episdoes we start our journey talking about design and we start by discussing
* Why to Design
* Architecture vs Design
* Design Principles (SOLID Principles)
* Design but not Over engineer


EP04 - Talking Design - Part 1 - SOLID Principles

Welcome to the 5th episode of the Ask Developer Podcast, in this episode we continue the discussion about Design, in this episode we cover the design process, and what are the most effective ways to approach design in your team.
أهلاً بكم في الحلقة الخامسة من راديو اسأل مطور, في هذه الحلقة نكمل حديثنا عن التصميم, و نناقش اسلوب التصميم و كيفية تطبيقه في فريق العمل

EP05 - Talking Design - Part 2 - Design Process

الحلقة الثامنة من راديو اسأل مطور, في هذه الحلقة نستعرض موضوع جديد و هو تطوير الألعاب الاحترافية, نستضيف معنا المهندس محمد مشرف, و هو مهندس مصري له خبرة طويلة في برمجة الألعاب في مصر و في الخارج.
Welcome to the 8th Episode of Ask Developer Podcast, in this episode we discuss the topic of Game Development with guest Mohamed Moshrif.
Moshrif is an Egyptian Software Engineer with years of experience in game development, his career includes well known titles like Halo in 343 Industries, and Cell Factor.

EP08 - Game Development

اسأل مطور, الحلقة التاسعة, في الحلقة دي معانا المهندس محمد تيسير ليحدثنا عن مواضيع كثيرة في البرمجة الاحترافية و أهما هو الشغف و حب البرمجة و التطوير, و كيف تستطيع أن تبني تطبيقات و خدمات يظهر فيها حبك لعملك.
محمد تيسير مؤسس و مدير مشروع "روَح دوت كوم" و هي خدمة مجانية لمستخدمين المواصلات العامة.
Welcome to Ask Developer Podcast Episode 9, In this episode we talk with Mohamed Tayseer, who will discuss with us many Software topics and especially how to be a passionate developer, Tayseer is the founder & CEO of www.rawa7.com a free online service that helps public transit commuter in Egypt.

EP09 - Passionate Developer

راديو اسأل مطور, الحلقة العاشرة, في هذه الحلقة نستعرض موضوع جديد و هو موضوع أنظمة التخزين الحديثة, و التي تتعدى مجرد قواعد البيانات الكلاسيكية, نتعرض بتفصيل لأسباب اللجوء لهذا النوع من تقنيات التخزين, و فوائده و عيوبه, و أشهر التقنيات التجارية في هذه الأيام
Ask Developer Podcast, Episode 10, in this episode we discuss the NOSQL subject, which challenges the traditional database models in the current web scale world, we discuss in details the motivations behind this kind of technology, and the pros & cons of it.

EP10 - NOSQL - Part 1

الحلقة الحادية عشر من راديو اسأل مطور, في هذه الحلقة نكمل حوارنا الشيق عن نظم التخزين الحديثة و نتعمق أكثر في الفروق بين النظم الحديثة و النظم العلائقية الكلاسيكية.
Welcome to the 11th episode of Ask Developer Podcast, in this episode we continue our discussion about NOSQL, and this time we dive deeper into the differences between NOSQL data stores and classical Relational (RDBMS) databases.

EP11 - NOSQL - Part 2

راديو اسأل مطور الحلقة الثانية عشر, في هذه الحلقة الخاصة نعود بالماضي لصيف عام 2003 و نتذكر شركة صغيرة بدأت في هذا التوقيت  في قلب العاصمة المصرية و داخل أحد أكبار أسواق الالكترونيات و الأجهزة المحمولة, هذه الشركة الصغيرة بفريق من 6 أفراد أغلبهم لازالوا في الجامعة  استطاعت أن تحقق نجاحاً متميزاً في وقت قصير جداً.
معنا في هذه الحلقة الفريق التقني و هم أحمد حسني, و محمد صالح و هشام عبد الحافظ و محمد الشريف. 
Welcome to the 12th episode of Ask Developer Podcast, in this episode we go back in time to Summer 2003, and we remember a company that got founded in that time by 6 individuals, most of them are still university students, the company specialized in mobile software especially on Symbian devices which back then were the highest technology available on smartphones.
In this episode the 4 technical team members reunion to tell their story.

EP12 - The Story of CougarTech - Part 1

Weekly Podcast discussing the Egyptian IT industry, and various other technology related topics 
راديو عربي على الانترنت من المبرمجين المصريين للمبرمجين, باللغة العربية و باللهجة المصرية