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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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منوعات  تقنية

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

ِ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

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

	• 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

حوار شيق مع المهندس احمد عصام و رحلته في مجال التكنولوجيا و البرمجيات من البداية في القاهرة مرورا بمراحل مختلفة في اوروبا و الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية و حتى المرحلة الحالية من العمل في شركة Apple

	• What defines ethical? -- * 
	• Failing and realizing why it happened.
	• Respect your own capabilities with consideration of (is it hard enough?)
	• What do you do at work?
	• You as a brand, what message do you want to deliver? "What you do is perceived as who you are"
	• Dare to disrupt your life, When nothing is happening for while it is important to look on what have you done for the next step, what you are doing and the next months is basically the present (it is planned and determined and probably the outcome of it is known)
	• The need to explore other areas to empower the current moment.
	• Are you ready to answer all questions in a meeting? 
	• Do you intentionally mislead people with subtle language/words?
	• Starting a startup and how much I wasn't ready for it, how bad I treated people and how much effort did I have to work on my attitude?
	• Are you really as good/bad as you think you are?
	• Let's discuss "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway
	• Opinions and Facts, the critical need to distinguish both from each others.
	• Where/Who/What you are doesn't define you, Anything is subject to change and none should be defining your future.
	• Assuming (good intention)/(Positive attitude) when listening to people changes how people perceive you as ally or adversary
	• Why good language matters at work.
	• What is the difference between pushing the limits and (breaking the law / respecting others / etc)
	• Your values and what drives you.
	• Let's see why greedy will fall short to help you achieve your targets.
	• The multi modes for writing code, communicating and looking back.
	• What do you do while your work is compiling.
	• The balance of listening to others and going your own way. 
	• Picking up answers from Stack overflow. -- * 
When it works, do you know why it works? -- *

Ask Developer Podcast - 54 - Interview with Ahmed Essam - الرحلة من إمبابة إلى وادي السيليكون

Mostafa has a computer science degree from Cairo University. He started a company back in Egypt in 2011, and when the company failed he moved to work for Microsoft in Egypt. He later moved to Europe where he became a product manager for Booking.com in Amsterdam. He later moved to GoEuro in Berlin, and now he is a product manager at Zalando where he overlooks Zalando development infrastructure and developer tooling

Ekshef Postmortem
https://mostafanageeb.com/2018/07/05/ekshef-postmortem/
https://twitter.com/MostafaNageeb/status/1008333885019709440
https://twitter.com/MostafaNageeb/status/1039625450065195010
https://twitter.com/MostafaNageeb/status/1029495494781882374
https://twitter.com/MostafaNageeb/status/1039218640330125312
https://twitter.com/MostafaNageeb/status/1041083357642350598
https://twitter.com/MostafaNageeb/status/1039218640330125312

We can discuss this if you want, not in that level of details but can be part of the story.
https://twitter.com/MostafaNageeb/status/976121784453001217

EP55 - AskDeveloper Podcast - Interview with Mostafa Nageeb

في هذا اللقاء الشيق نلتقي مع المهندس على حلمي, المتخصص في مجال برمجة الألعاب و يرأس حالياً أحد الفرق البرمجية في مجال ال Animation في شركة Ubisoft العالمية لتطوير الألعاب بالسويد, و سبق له العمل في شركات ألعاب اخرى شهيرة مثل Crytek و ألعاب مثل Crysis 3 و غيرها.
نتطرق في الحديث لعديد من المواضيع من أهمها
	1. أهمية دراسة الهاردوير و الربط بين الهاردوير و السوفتوير في برمجة الألعاب
	2. تحدي البداية في برمجة الألعاب, و كيف تحصل على عمل في هذا المجال
	3. كيف تطور من امكانياتك و مهاراتك لتصل للمستوى المطلوب في البرمجة و الرياضيات و غيرها من المهارات و العلوم المطلوبة لسوق العمل في مجال برمجة الألعاب
	4. ما هي المهارات المهمة لمبرمجة الألعاب, و مدى التعمق المطلوب
	5. الفرق بين استوديوهات تطوير الألعاب المستقلة الناشئة Indie Games و الألعاب الاحترافية AAA Games و طبيعة العمل في كل منهم
	6. تحديات العمل في مجال برمجة الألعاب و مشاكل الصناعة

للتواصل مع المهندس علي, يمكنك مراسلته على تويتر @alihelmy

1- Road trip for a game developer "basically how did you make it ?".
2-Game development market in Egypt.
3-If you have exp co-founding a game studio or something relate to that.
4-Typical day in Crytek/Ubisoft "
5- Self-taught game developer , if possible and how ?.

EP56 - AskDeveloper Podcast - Road to Game Development - الطريق الى برمجة الألعاب

حلقة جديدة من AskDeveloper Podcast مع محمد الجيش
محمد يشغل منصب Chief Architect في شركة Voicera و له خبرة طويلة في مجالات الأنظمة الموزعة و الذكاء الصناعي في شركات مثلMicrosoft و LinkedIn
نتحدث عن خبراته و مواضيع متعددة.

Agenda
Biography
Chief Architect - Voicera
Before joining Voicera, Mohamed was an engineering manager at LinkedIn working on feed personalization and relevance in addition to building a human-in-the-loop platform, and incubating venture bets by leading “moonshot” projects. Earlier at Microsoft, Mohamed led a team of engineers working on email delivery for Outlook.com and worked on a PaaS system that powered up online services with 400M+ users. Mohamed finds "ikigai" in machine learning, ultra-scale systems, debugging, and software craftsmanship.

Stages
1- In Egypt? Any interesting thing?
2- Microsoft: scaling to hundreds of thousands of machines
3- LinkedIn: ML at scale, A/B testing, moving “faster”, microservices, standardized approach across the company, emphasizing craftsmanship
4- Voicera: moving faster, building from scratch, design choices, growing a team, AI-first approach,

Tech
1- Why Go? 
2- Computing with Data: the challenges of big data, 
3- The skill gap between system engineering and data engineering/statisticians

Advices
• How did you find your way out of Egypt (A mandatory question for any Egyptian out of motherland)?
• What drives you to learn more, and move forward?
• What is it like to go from Corporate job to a Startup life?
• Looking back, what would you have done differently?
• Looking back, what would you wish to have known about or learned earlier?

Misc
• Your upcoming Book: http://ComputingWithData.com
 Mohamed El-Geish: http://www.elgeish.com

EP57 - AskDeveloper Podcast - Artificial Intelligence at Scale with Mohamed El-Geish

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.

Our theme music is provided by www.podcastthemes.com

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

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