Competition is the other face of hesitation

I have published an article in Medium.com about competition and the hesitated customer. It can be found at :

Competitive Cooperation, A paradigm shift!

Is it not too late!

The art of creating hope is really sth of need to the people who would like to do sth in their lives.
Why I am saying so?!
After I have passed by http://www.damonkohler.com/2012/12/cloud-robotics-at-devoxx-2012.html
about Cloud Robotics at Devoxx 2012... I just remembered old days when I dreamed about Robotics and how my objective at that time to be IT and Control Systems Engineer. Also, how I use his blog at 2009 to help me with my 1st Android application. I was having a passion for science and technology and I still do but I could not utilize it. I have this discovery spirit, moving from a technology to another without producing sth.
It is not enough to have a good intention or to be talented. It is ultimately critical to utilize what you have for what you want...
Stand up and survive!

Restart Concept

In Digital World, The reboot or restart concept is always dominating! That is it if you have the ability to

• Switch (device...) off and on 
• Plug (cable...) and unplug 
• Kill (app...) and restart it
• ...

would be the easiest and the fastest way to solve the problem. If you are afraid from losing data or interrupting service then troubleshooting is the way but some times even you will need to apply the reboot concept.

A case study:
If you are facing a problem in identifying your android device to the ADB tool:
adb devices
List of devices attached is empty

device then, apply the Reboot Concept: All steps are intuitive but for the app, issue the following CMDs:

adb kill-server
adb start-server

BTW, to move new installtions in Android to the SDCard to solve the Memory low problem:

adb shell pm set-install-location 2

Some notes in Restful APIs

There are many tutorials describing RESTFUL APIs, but here I would just highlight some of the things that I think they are really important:

• HTTP request and response consists of Header "template based text" and Body "any format". the content type of the body is specified in the header "i.e Content/Type: application/json"
• S = Stateless: means every transaction or request to the server is independent from others

• HTTP verbs:

- GET: a read-only request from the server for a certain URL to retrieve data. But the the client can do some processing on the coming data such as changing the appearance. Body is Empty.

- PUT: mostly used for updating data (with a specified URL i.e id) but also can be used to create data on the server. Body has data.

- Delete: the opposite of put for this specified URL. Body is Empty

- POST: mostly used for creating resources but without a specified URL. Body has data.

• Idempotent methods: whenever they are repeated the result is the same. PUT "the specified url has been updated or created by its ID", DELETE "deleted once, a repetition has no effect as it is already deleted", GET "retrieve the same data as it is a safe operation no data will be changed".

References:

- http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/a-beginners-introduction-to-http-and-rest/

- http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/intro/api.html

Git in a nutshell

The most basic CMDs you need in order to deal with Git and GitHub:

  git init      // initialize the git repository
  ls
  git status     //show what is going on!
  git add .     //add files from directory to the index
  git status
  git commit -m "add basic files"     // commit index to the head
  git status
  git remote add origin https://github.com/aselims/UCML.git      //the point connecting to GitHub
  git remote -v  
  git pull origin master   // retrieve data from server 1st step before uploading
  git add .
  git commit -m "modify readme2"
  git status
  git push origin master   // upload data


-- Terminology
§ master: This is what a branch is: it’s simply the hash of the last commit scribbled down in a file. It’s a clue, a starting point, sometimes called a tip because this represents the tip of the iceberg that is the entire history of the master branch.
~/mysite$ cat .git/refs/heads/master
0d0321f29f04f734e8d9873e34d9409fe115b496

And since you can have multiple branches in a repository, we should also remember which one we’re working on right now.
~/mysite$ cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master

show the commit of 3bd54c
git checkout 3bd54c

- One good resource: http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide

JavaScript, A world of possibilities!

I waded into many programming languages. I forget some and recap with some... Wondering VARIETY as a principle is good although the effort exerted for choosing one option is really hard.

I remember old days dealing with Javascript as front end simple scripting language. Now, things have been changed, it is being used in variety of domains not only Server-side but also reached the Embedded Systems field. And I think the trend is going forward and being adopted by many of the technology stakeholders!

I just decided I am going to specialize on JavaScript as primary programming language and see how it would interact with other libraries and domains.

Cloud9 IDE, Interesting!

I checked this Cloud9 IDE. And I am quite amazed  with the result.

One nice feature is the terminal and c9pm tool, I issued the command and the following appeared... Huh, Wow! it is just a programming machine in the cloud!

aselims@demo-project:~/712923 (master) $ c9pm list  | less
4suite-1.0.2
4suite-1.0.2
a52dec-0.7.4
apache-httpd-2.4.4
asciidoc-8.6.8
at-3.1.12
bsddb3-4.5.0
bsddb3-4.5.0
bzip2-1.0.6
cairo-1.12.2
cairo-1.12.2
cairo-1.12.4
cairo-1.12.4
clojure-1.5.0-RC1
coffee-script-1.4.0
coffee-script-1.4.0
cups-1.5.4
dbus-python-1.1.1
dbus-python-1.1.1
diff-1.0.3
diff-1.0.3
dropbox-1.4.21-bin
dropbox-cli
ed-1.7
emacs-23.4
emacs-23.4
emacs-24.3
emacs-24.3
emacs-24.3
exiv2-0.22
gcc-wrapper-4.6.3
gd-2.0.35
git-1.8.2
go-1.0.3
groovy-1.7.1
haproxy-1.4.20
ImageMagick-6.7.5-3
ImageMagick-6.7.5-3
io-2011.09.12
io-2011.09.12
j-701_b
joe-3.7
lftp-4.4.5
libsexy-0.1.11
libsexy-0.1.11
lua-5.1.5
mono-2.11.4
mysql-5.5.28
mysql-5.5.28
nano-2.2.6
nginx-1.2.4
nmap-5.50
nodejs-0.8.15
nodejs-0.8.23
nodejs-0.8.23
parallel-20120322
phantomjs-1.7.0
php-5.3.18
php-5.4.14
picolisp-3.0.5
postgresql-9.2.4
pth-2.0.7
pycairo-1.8.8
pycairo-1.8.8
pycrypto-2.5
pycrypto-2.5
pycrypto-2.6
pycrypto-2.6
pycups-1.9.57
pycups-1.9.57
pyexiv2-0.3.0
pyexiv2-0.3.0
pygame-1.7
pygame-1.7
pygobject-2.28.6
pygobject-2.28.6
pyOpenSSL-0.13
pyOpenSSL-0.13
PyStringTemplate-3.2b1
python-2.6.8
python-2.7.3
python-2.7.3-wrapper
python-2.7.3-wrapper
python-2.7.4
python-2.7.4-wrapper
python3-3.3.1
python3-3.3.1
python-irclib-0.4.8
python-libsexy-0.1.9
python-numeric-24.2
python-pip-1.2.1
python-recursive-pth-loader-1.0
python-setuptools-0.6c11
python-setuptools-site-0.6c11
PyX-0.10
PyXML-0.8.4
redis-2.6.9
rhpl-0.218
r-lang
ruby-1.9.3-p194
ruby-2.0.0-p0
rubygems-1.8.17
ruby-sqlite3-1.2.4
scala-2.9.2
sip-4.13.2
sqlite-3.7.14.1
sqlite-3.7.16.1
sqlite-3.7.16.2
sqlite-3.7.16.2
sqlite-3.7.9-full
st-0.3
strategoxt-1.8pre24429
subversion-1.7.9
tig-1.1
tk-8.5.7
tor-0.2.3.25
vim-7.3
wxPython-2.8.12.1
xmpp.py-0.5.0rc1