What Does it take to write a good blog?!

A friend of mine asked me last week, where have you been ?! you don’t blog that much ?!

I replied by telling him that I already blogged the vCloud automation series, he told me it isn’t that much blogging.

It is fair comment from him anyway , I did about 10 to 15 blogs last year, and I haven’t written any blog since July, but what does it take to write a good blog ?!

It took me 4 months to write a good blog I work hard to provide original contents and posts, I don’t blog novice How Tos, I can do that, but my readers know that when I blog, it is something series.

I didn’t blog since last July because I was heavily focused on vCloud Automation project that produced the 5 parts series (4 published so far); to do it properly I had to stop and learn vCloud Director and Orchestrator inside out, then I had to learn heavy JavaScripting because vCloud Orchestrator automation requires JavaScripting. Then spent 2 month developing the solution then re-enhance it for public reading, asking for more feedback from my community that leaped the automation to another level when they asked med to include reading data from CSV hence you got the blog series.

It is easy to comment or cross reference other posts, but I don’t, I provide my readers with genuine and original ideas and technical material; I believe this is what the community expects from me.

So, are you gonna wait another 4 months for the other blog series ?! maybe …

A look back to 2013

In the 1st of Jan 2013, I published this article to plan for 2013 https://autodiscover.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/what-i-plan-to-do-in-2013/, these were high-level activities to guide me through 2013, I listed the below activities (I will strikethrough what I have done):

– Lose some weight, at least 10 Kg, aiming for 15 or 20 Kg. < Started, and lost some weight but I don’t know how much I lost 22 Kgs so far.

– Gain some muscle back. < Started

– pushing my wife into the decoration BA.

On Career:

– MBA – But I don’t think I will go for it this year, maybe in 2014.

– Complete the CCEE < Will book the Exam Next Month

– Go for the CCIA.

– Go through ITIL certificate (as long as my company will put me into the ITIL training).

– Go for the TOGAF certificate. < Started but the Study guide is the most boring thing ever

– Complete MCSE Certificate (Private Cloud, Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013).

– Go through the CCIE Data Center Video training, I won’t go for the exam, at least this year.

– Go Through the Cisco UCS training. Will start this one today, but I am so lazy to go to the garage to bring my headset.

– Complete the Exchange 2013 Arabic Training video series.

– Complete Office 365 lab, maybe doing Arabic videos as well.

– Publish another book. Working with PackT on the new title.

– keep the MVP and BExpert certificates. I am thinking about changing my MVP track, not sure. I also attained VMware’s vExpert award

– Complete the documentation automation script, the one we use at the work.

– Auh, complete the 3PAR training I didn’t finish it in 2012.

I believe I did good, maybe I missed some career objectives, but I completed others, like learning VNX, vCloud Director ; vCloud Orchestrator and upgrading my Netscaler/XenDesktop and Windows 2012R2 skills

Tomorrow I will layout 2014 Objectives .

A look back to 2012’s Blogging

The Annual report of my blog is here https://autodiscover.wordpress.com/2012/annual-report/ I am so happy an proud with this years results.

 

Maybe the most remarkable thing, that my blog was viewed in 2012 around 110,000 times, more than anything before, pushing my total views to around 170,000.

Thanks a lot fans and friends, let us go for 2013.

What I plan to do in 2013…

2012 has been the best year in my life so far, it was the best…ever.

I am thinking about raising the bar for myself in 2013, putting some clear goals in front of my eyes will help me score my self by 2014, this blog will be a placeholder for those goals to keep reminding myself with them.

Personal:

– Lose some weight, at least 10 Kg, aiming for 15 or 20 Kg. < Started, and lost some weight but I don’t know how much

– Gain some muscle back. < Started

– pushing my wife into the decoration BA.

On Career:

– MBA – But I don’t think I will go for it this year, maybe in 2014.

– Complete the CCEE < Will book the Exam Next Month

– Go for the CCIA.

– Go through ITIL certificate (as long as my company will put me into the ITIL training).

– Go for the TOGAF certificate. < Started but the Study guide is the most boring thing ever

– Complete MCSE Certificate (Private Cloud, Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013).

– Go through the CCIE Data Center Video training, I won’t go for the exam, at least this year.

– Go Through the Cisco UCS training. Will start this one today, but I am so lazy to go to the garage to bring my headset.

– Complete the Exchange 2013 Arabic Training video series.

– Complete Office 365 lab, maybe doing Arabic videos as well.

– Publish another book. Working with PackT on the new title.

– keep the MVP and BExpert certificates. I am thinking about changing my MVP track, not sure.

– Complete the documentation automation script, the one we use at the work.

– Auh, complete the 3PAR training I didn’t finish it in 2012.

let us see how I will do by the end of 2013…

How to Remove the Other Device “Open Tabs” from other devices from your Chrome

if you signed into chrome using your Google account into multiple devices, you will see all the opened tabs from other devices when you open chrome, that is quite annoying specially if you watch porn , of course not, it is useful but not when you have signed to kios or want to remove that history.

to do that, simply go the device that is syncing your history, open chrome and disconnect you account from chrome and you are done .

don’t watch porn again , just kidding.

google celebrates Abu Rayhan El Biyruni’s Birth #Google #Arabia #Egypt #Qatar

I was surprised today with Google’s home pages on .eg and .qa domains “I believe it will be the same for all arabic domains” with the celebration of his birth.

He was a famous scientist and known with his findings and research in math and astronomy and physics “apparently he didn’t catch up the cloud hype ” back in our golden era.

Al-Biruni is regarded as one of the greatest scholars of the medieval Islamic era and was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist and linguist.^[7] He was conversant in Chorasmian, Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit, and also knew Greek, Hebrew and Syriac. He spent a large part of his life in Ghazni in modern-day Afghanistan, capital of the Ghaznavid dynasty which ruled eastern Iranian lands and the northwestern Indian subcontinent. In 1017 he traveled to the Indian subcontinent and became the most important interpreter of Indian science to the Islamic world. He is given the titles the “founder of Indology” and the “first anthropologist”.^[8] He was an impartial writer on custom and creeds of various nations, and was given the title al-Ustdadh (“The Master”) for his remarkable description of early 11th-centuryIndia.^[7] He also made contributions to Earth sciences, and is regarded as the “father of geodesy” for his important contributions to that field, along with his significant contributions to geography.

find more about him on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%C5%AB_Ray%E1%B8%A5%C4%81n_al-B%C4%ABr%C5%ABn%C4%AB

Your Social Presence and Community responsibilities in relation to scams

Social Media usage is increasing dramatically, it is a fact and no one can deny it, even a lot of corporates encaurages Social Media use during work with a lot of recent studies that proves major losses within corporates that ban the use of SM.

But with increased use of SM usage there are lot of security threats that comes within that, a lot of recent scam messages appeared lately on Facebook, and last week I started noticing same scam messages on LinkedIn as well.

not mentioning the security threat associated with those scams for stealing your personal infomration, there are 2 factors captured my attention, 1) your social image, 2) your community responsibilities.

A lot of us uses the social media to enhance his image and demonstrate his expertise within the perimeter of his friends/colleagues and cross the barriers to reach other organizations and professional through out the world, but what will happen to this image and efforts when your friends or connections see you sharing sexual contents, posting inappropriate contents or worst inviting them to do the same or visit specific page that displays those contents.

Of course you are not the one who is posting or sending those messages, it is the damn scam who tricked you to click somewhere and “baaam” all of your contacts and connections are receiving these messages, but don’t you see the risk?.

What will happen if you are trying your best to be a celebrity within your fields and your fans, followers, friends and worst boss gets those, all of your efforts will be gone in vain.

What will happen if you are considered a trustworthy person and started sending those messages and posting those links and your friends and followers started to get infected as well because they trusted you.

In my opinion, there is a specific but unmeasured responsibility for your usage for social media either for fun or professionally, you should be aware that not every message you can post and not every received link you can click, again this is not measured but definitely it is there and you should be aware of that.

I am posting this to all of my friends who are unintentionally sending and posting those spam messages, because it damages your social image and online credibility.

stay safe…

“The Jury Has Spoken” some thoughts about Samsung Vs. Apple from my consumer mind

Today, The Jury has decided the Samsung stolen some of Apple’s innovations and patents and ordered Samsung to pay Apple more than 1 Billion USD, afterwards Apple’s CEO sent this amazing email:

Today was an important day for Apple and for innovators everywhere.

Many of you have been closely following the trial against Samsung in San Jose for the past few weeks. We chose legal action very reluctantly and only after repeatedly asking Samsung to stop copying our work. For us this lawsuit has always been about something much more important than patents or money. It’s about values. We value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. And we do this to delight our customers, not for competitors to flagrantly copy.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the jury who invested their time in listening to our story. We were thrilled to finally have the opportunity to tell it. The mountain of evidence presented during the trial showed that Samsung’s copying went far deeper than we knew.

The jury has now spoken. We applaud them for finding Samsung’s behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right.

I am very proud of the work that each of you do.

Today, values have won and I hope the whole world listens.

Tim

I found the message impressive because it has it all, Apple won because of their effort to create something original, the walked the hall 10,000 miles to create something that is original and not they find it original, they got a court verdict they they are original.

but I am not a philosopher nor business SME, I am a phone consumer and when I decided to buy a phone I found that my phone “Samsung Galaxy SII” was much better phone than it counter iPhone.

The android application are very rich, the phone is awesome and it does what I want, so I appreciate that Apple is original, but what about creating a good phone that really beats the others.

In the Egyptian and gulf market there are a lot of copycat phones from China that mimic Nokia, Apple and Samsung, do they have a market share?, hell not!!!

So why did Samsung got their market share?, it is because they make really good phones, I am not a business SME nor a mobile market expert but Apple; you are original but you need to compete and make good phones that can win.

congrats to Apple I love you being original, but as a consumer I will buy my wife the Samsung Galaxy SIII.

مناظرة دكتور محمد يسري و دكتور مصطفى النجار و قراءة اخرى #Egypt #egyelections–الجزء الاول

انا لا ادعي انه انا افهم في التحليل الحركي و لغة الجسد بس كان واضح اشارات معينة في المناظرة ، الاراء ده مجرد اراء خاصة بي و اشاركها و هي ليست بالضرورة صحيحة و الاخذ او الاستفهام منها متروك لك:

كلمة دكتور مصطفى النجار بدأت هادئة و مجرد ان ابتداء بشرح البرنامج بدأ باستخدام يده اليمنى مع الاشارة و تركيز النظر على عمرو الليثي من الواضح انه بداء في التوتر

كلمة الدكتور محمد يسري الملاحظ فيها انه كان بينظر للاستوديو على انه الجمهور يا ريته كان بص للكاميرا ، و كان ينظر لهم دائما بس عندما بداء بالتحدث عن التوازن و تداول السلطة نظر الى عمرو الليثي نظرة مباشرة (اعتقد انه اراد ان يخاطبه هو مباشرة بهذه النظرة) شوف الثانية ابتداء من 8:24

الدكتور محمد يسري عندما بداء بالتحدث عن دائرة مدينة نصر نظر الى مصطفى النجار (باينة اوي شوف 8:51 في اشارة واضحة الى عدم تحدث النجار عنها) و دي اول مرة كان يسري يبص للنجار

يسري يا لعيب ، اول مرة ينظر للكاميرا كان عندما بداء يتحدث عن حقوق الانسان شوف ابتداء من 9:28 في خطاب للجماهير مع انه كان بيعتمد

على توزيع الخطاب و النظر يمين و يسار

مصطفى النجار من الواضح نفسيا انه ضد التيار الليبرالي ، شوف ازاي كان بيشاور بيمينه دايما و عندما تكلم عن التيار العلماني و الليبرالي شاور بشماله مع انه دي اول مرة يستخدمها شوف 10:26

شوف في اخر كلمته عندما تحدث عن انه الحزب نواة الشباب و قال انه لا نهتم بنظرة الناس لنا ، من الواضح انه قال غير الحقيقة شوف ازاي استخدام يديه الاتنين بنفس المقدار عندما تحدث عن وجود تصنيفات عديدة للاحزاب 10:51 و نفس الحجم عند قال انه لا نهتم بهذه التصنيفات  عند 11:16

دكتور يسري لا يستعمل يديه من الواضح انه كان متوتر على عكس من انه باين هادي ، لكن واضح انه اراد التأكيد على انه يؤيد الديمقراطية فتح صباع الابهام و هو يشاور الى الليثي شوف الابهام في الحركة اللاارادية في 11:59

يسري من الواضح انه فخور بنفسه و لا مانع في ذلك و شوف كيف اقترب من عمرو الليثي و مال بجسمه قليلا ناحية عمرو الليثي  في اشارة داخلية واضحة شوف 12:02

من الواضح انه النجار غير صريح في اجابته عن سؤال عمرو الليثي في انه طلب من الناس فض الاعتصام ، شوف غمض عينيه كتير ازاي و لم يحرك يديه كعادته و بربش كتير جدا مقارنة بالاسئلة الاخرى شوف ابتداء من  13:13 و شوف كيف عاد الى استعمال يديه عندما بداء بالتحدث عن نفسه و انه من شباب الثورة و عاد لطبيعته ابتداء من 13:32 (جوا نفسي بقول كداب يا خيشة) ليه كده بس

كل الناس اما بتيجي تتكلم عن مشاركتها في الصورة بتكون حساسة مش عارف ليه شوف الدكتور يسري بربش ازاي عندما اتكلمن عنها شوف 14:45

نكتفي بالجزء الاول و البقية تأتي في التحليل الجسدي و الاشارات لباقي المناظرة

ننا و طنط سعاد

بعد احداث الاسكندرية اول امبارح مش عارف ليه افتكرت جدتي اللي بناديلها ننا و طنط سعاد جارتنا اللي قودامها بالظبط

من يوم ما اوعا و طنط سعاد و جدتي راشقين مع بعض و كنت دايما بشوف عمو شكري الله يرحمه بيقعد مع جدي الليه يرحمه هو كمان بيتكلموا بالساعات

الصداقة اللي كانت بينهم عمرها ما لفتت نظري و كانت شئ طبيعي ، لم اهتم بها الا اول امبارح

ماما كانت بتحكيلي ايام زمان ازاي كانو بيتجمعوا ايام حفلات ام كلثوم و كان جدتي بتعمل كحك و بسكوت و طنط سعاد كمان و يتلموا علشان يسمعوا ام كلثوم

و ازاي عمو شكري كان بيحب يقعد يسمع الخطب يوم الجمعة مع جدي لو منزلشي الصلاة لظروف صحته

عمري ما اتقال قودامي انه طنط سعاد دي مسيحية منكلمهاش او عمو شكري ده كوفتس او اي من الكلام الاهبل اللي بيتقال

ابن طنط سعاد (نبيل) سافر امريكا من زمان و اما خالي سافر برضو كان واحد من الناس اللي دايما بتسأل عليه و اما طنط سعاد بتسافر امريكا كانت بتسيب مفتاح الشقة مع ننا علشان تسقي الزرع و تحاسب الراجل بتاع الكهربا و تشقر على البيت

اما جدتي تعبت و سافرت امريكا طنط سعاد خلت نبيل يسافر من الولاية اللي هو مقيم فيها الى نيويورك علشان يسأل على ننا و خلته يكلمها من هناك علشان تكلم جدتي و تطمن عليها

الناس دي و رغم محدودية ثقافتها و اطلاعها (مقارنة لم هو متاح الان في عصرنا) استطاعت انها فعلا تعمل نسيج اجتماعي وطني و انها تتكيف مع كل المتغيرات و تعيش مع بعض في حب وود

النهاردة و رغم تقدمنا التكنولوجي لكن فكرنا بيعاني من التأخر و التخلف و للاسف اتنين جارين مش عارفين يعيشو مع بعض

التخلف ده احنا اللي حطينا نفسنا فيه، و بقول لكل اخ مسيحي ان كنت فاكر انه الحادثة دي ضايقتك لوحدك فانت غلطان  او انه التخل ده انت بتعاني منه انت لوحدك فانت غلطان انت كمان و اوعا تفتكر انه المسلمين او الاسلام بيدعو لكده

بس هو تخلف الفكر و انتشار الامية الفكرية و الثقافية برغم تقدم العلم هو السبب في انتشارالطائفية و الافكار المتخلفة دي كلها

و ياريتنا نرجع زمان

و على فكرة ننا و طنط سعاد دول مش شخصيات وهمية دي جدتي مقيمة في شقة 14 عمارة 99 عثمان ابن عفان و طنط سعاد في الشقة اللي قودامها مباشرة

و عزائي لكل اخواتي