It’s been almost 5 month since my proposal for GSoC was accepted, I’ve learned alot in these concentrated 5 months about Mootools and J! 1.5 , I was introduced to many interesting people, Coping with College and GSoC was a bit challenging specially that I have classes during summer but things worked out well.

Final evaluation results has been announced a few hours ago, and I passed! , Which means I’ll be getting *The* T-shirt and the certificate Insha’Allah , Yaaay!

hmmm.. that’s all, I’ll go get some sleep :)

Today I received a piece of scam that is worth noting , it comes from someone claiming to be “Mrs.Nazek Hariri, wife of the late Prime Minister of Lebanon, MrRafiq Hariri”

So scam does cope with political events!

Dear Sir/Madam.

I am Mrs.Nazek Hariri, wife of the late Prime Minister of Lebanon, Mr. Rafiq Hariri, who was assassinated on 14 February 2005, along with 20 others, near the St. George Hotel in Beirut. it’s my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country, though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk,confounding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$25million, which I seek your Partnership in accommodating for me the deposite made by my late husband in a security company in WEST AFRICA before he was assassinated by unknown people suspected to be his opposition political parties .You will be rewarded with 20% of the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner on this?

I want you to assist me in retrieving this money from the security company. Due to the up rising of political crisis in Lebanon. please i would want you to warned that the security company did not know the content of the metallic box deposited by my husband because he deposited it as the family valuables.

All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the Above quoted Sum and I will re-profile the funds with your Name, which will enable The WEST AFRICA Firm transfer the sum to you and equally invest it on his behalf in your country.

Please do contact me via my private email:
Personal Name: Mrs.Nazek Hariri
Email:nazek****@live.com

The transaction has to be concluded soon. I Will provide you with the details. Thank you very much.

Regards
Mrs Nazek Hariri

Man!, I almost fell for that!

Looking at all these makes one wonder, who’s in control of the US and what’s the point of all the elections.

Copied from : http://www.aipac.org/about_AIPAC/default.asp

AIPAC Achievements

As America’s leading pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC works with both Democratic and Republican political leaders to enact public policy that strengthens the vital U.S.-Israel relationship. With the support of its members nationwide, AIPAC has worked with Congress and the Executive Branch on numerous critical initiatives — from securing vital foreign aid for Israel to stopping Iran’s illicit nuclear program. Some highlights include:

• Overwhelmingly passing resolutions honoring Israel’s 60th anniversary by a 417 to 0 vote in the House and by unanimous consent in the Senate, where the measure was cosponsored by all 100 senators.


• Strongly backing Israel’s right to defend itself in the face of daily rocket attacks by passing a House resolution in a near unanimous vote, 404 to 1.  


• Securing critical foreign aid to Israel, which totals $2.42 billion in 2008 and provides military aid and refugee assistance.


• Strengthening U.S.-Israel energy cooperation by passing legislation that establishes a grant program that funds joint projects between U.S. and Israeli entities in the field of alternative energy.
• Calling upon the administration in a letter signed by more than 180 members of the House to provide strict guarantees that the proposed sale of sophisticated technology to Saudi Arabia will not harm U.S. forces or undercut Israel’s qualitative military edge.


• Strongly urging the administration to take its decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist group and weapons proliferator through an amendment supported by 76 senators and key legislation passed in the House of Representatives.


• Strengthening U.S.-Israel homeland security cooperation by passing landmark legislation creating an office within the Department of Homeland Security to support joint research and development projects between the United States and key allies such as Israel.


• Calling for the strengthening of UNIFIL’s mandate to stop arms shipments to Hizballah across the Syrian border by supporting a letter signed by 104 House members.
• Highlighting the need to stop weapons smuggling in Gaza through a letter signed by 32 senators urging the United States to press Egypt to take action.


• Passing a House resolution congratulating Israel on the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War, praising the Jewish state for reunifying Jerusalem and protecting religious freedom in the city, and calling on the president to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.


• Reiterating standards for the Palestinian government through letters signed by 259 House members and 79 senators urging the EU and United States not to provide aid or grant recognition to any Palestinian government until it fulfills internationally backed requirements.   


• Prohibiting U.S. aid and contacts with the Hamas-led PA until its leaders recognize Israel’s right to exist, renounce violence and ratify previous Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements.


• Extending U.S.-backed loan guarantees to Israel until 2011 and renewing the authority to transfer U.S. military equipment to be stored in Israel for use in a potential crisis.
• Ratifying an agreement that led to the Israeli medical service Magen David Adom’s admission to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (IRC).


• Condemning Iran for holding a conference casting doubt on whether the Holocaust happened. The resolutions reproached the anti-Semitic statements made by Iranian leaders and asserted the United States’ commitment to preventing a nuclear Iran.


• Passing the Iran Freedom Support Act, which renews and strengthens sanctions aimed at curtailing funds and international cooperation necessary for Iran to pursue nuclear weapons.


• Passing the Iran Libya Sanctions Act, which seeks to reduce funds for Iran’s nuclear weapons program by allowing sanctions against foreign companies investing in Iran’s energy sector.
• Reauthorizing the Iran Nonproliferation Act to include sanctions against entities providing technology to the missile and weapons of mass destruction programs of both Iran and Syria.


• Fostering U.S.-Israel homeland security cooperation by supporting the countries’ efforts to sign a landmark Memorandum of Understanding and taking U.S. homeland security professionals on trips to Israel to meet with their Israeli counterparts.


• Passing congressional resolutions that demonstrate overwhelming support for Israel’s right to self-defense in the face of attacks by Hizballah and Hamas.


• Designating Hizballah’s TV station as a terrorist entity through legislative language as well as support of a letter to President Bush signed by 51 senators.
• Passing the Syrian Accountability Act, which allows the president to sanction Syria for its continued involvement in Lebanon and support of terrorism.


• Increasing military aid to Israel during the height of the Palestinian intifada by working for $1 billion in government grants that help cover the escalating costs of the war on terrorism.


• Keeping world pressure on Hamas, by working to pass a House Resolution before PA elections that warned of serious policy implications for U.S.-Palestinian relations should Hamas be part of the Palestinian government.
  
  

A few days ago I decided to suppress my “conservative” stance towards massive Javascript usage and started working on a WYSIWYG editor for HTML Forms, The application resembles drag-and-drop GUI editors, I’ve spent lot of time in building the codebase to make it as Object oriented as possible.

The codebase is simply composed of two parts, Core and pluginis “Elements”

Each draggable element is handled by a 2 files

• A javascript file that does the rendering and the event handling “Events are triggered by the core and passed down to each individual element”.
• A php file that defines what properties the element has, these information are used by the core to generate property page, this file is just meant to hold configuration parameters, no actual coding involved.

Adding a new element would just require writing two files and the core handles the rest.

I’m using Prototype, script.aculo.us and Webtoolkit context menu, No true AJAX has been used so far, everything is done on the client side.

Now the question is , what does the end user see?

• Drag and drop environment
• Context menu for each element
• Properties for each element
• Simple keyboard interaction “Selected element can be deleted by pressing the (del) button (except textfield and textarea)”

I’ve tested this on FF2 and IE6.

What I really need to implement right now is the “Resize” function

Why don’t you check A demo of the code in action

I plan to turn this into a Joomla! forms component soon Insh’Allah.

Update: My Proposal to Google Summer of Code has been accepted and I’ll be working on implementing this form editor as a Joomla! 1.5 component, You can find more information about my progress on my GSoC blog

No , My blog is not broken , CSS has been deliberately turned off to celebrate the 3rd CSS Naked day.

You know what, I kinda like my blog the way it is now, without any CSS :).

http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1713839,00.html

We don’t have much. What we have in excess is women. So if you want them we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands.

MAO ZEDONG

Thanks to IE stupidity I’ve pulled what’s left of my hair out and burned out my Adernal Medulla.

I hope God punishes IE devs Severely for this!

The long waited Joomla! 1.5 has finally hit stable status

http://sorryeverybody.com/

I like these ones

• http://sorryeverybody.com/gallery/single/se30.jpg/
• http://sorryeverybody.com/gallery/single/se20.jpg/
  

Things might’ve been slightly better if Bush wasn’t elected but after all ….

Is it worth it? or it’s just a big ego booster with no true benefit.