Category Archives: EVENTS

summarizing of I event I attended

Oct 28 2011

EVENT: ITIL V3 Foundation Training – Texum

Last week I conducted ITIL V3 Foundation training for a group of six managers and engineers at Texum.

It was one of the best group I ever worked with. They were really very interested in acquiring new knowledge and practices. They have consistently challenged me with questions, that reflects great passion for knowledge, as well as, solid background and experience.

I am very comfortable that they will pass the foundation exam at easy and pursue the ITIL track up to the expert level. Continue reading →

Oct 25 2011

EVENT: GJordan – Day 2

Yesterday I have attended GJordan, my impressions were not really very good.

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I found that presentations and discussions were really very shallow, and I did not really learned much about new technologies.

That does not definitely means that Google does not have great and exciting technologies and tools, but, I believe it was improper organization. Continue reading →

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Oct 1 2011

TRAINING: ITIL V3 Foundation Training, 25-29 September 2011

Last week I finished the first of two ITIL V3 foundation training for Bayt.com IT Staff in Amman.

Delegates were really very interested in the subject. They have consistently challenged me with their questions.

Overall it was a very successful training and I expect that all the delegates will be able to pass the foundation exam.

Jun 30 2011

TRAINING: ITIL V3 Foundation – East Nets

A very interesting and challenging training that took place last week, with a distinguished group of IT managers and engineers from East Net.

The delegates were really very enthusiastic to learn about ITIL. All discussions and questions reflected very good understanding of the main concepts and terminology, with huge stress on the practical aspects.

Overwhelmed with the discussions, I forgot to take photos for the audience!

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May 11 2010

EVENT: Amman Tech Tuesday May 4, 2010

Definitely, a great step towards having more dynamics in the Jordanian IT idle community. A step that should have started many years ago in a country like Jordan, where there are a lot of IT geeks, talents and experts. Big thanks to all who worked hard to get this all together.

As a start the organization level is satisfactory and promising. Keeping the same momentum I believe we will have better organization.

That said, I found myself obliged to give my comments, hoping that organizers will take my critique with an open mind. Continue reading →

Apr 19 2010

EVENT: Presentation at University of Jordan

Below  the presentation I gave today at the university of Jordan as part of the Open Source Technological Week, the presentation illustrates “where does the time go?” between typing a URL in the address bar till the page is completely rendered. The purpose of this presentation is to understand where and how the time is spent to be able to optimize the performance of any website.  The presentation sheds lights on performance optimization principles and enriched with simple examples

Feb 22 2010

EVENT: Jordan Web Awards

In a fogy atmosphere that is saturated with cigarettes smoke, Jordan Web Awards were distributed last Saturday in Hyatt. Being an anti-smoking fanatic, I have to say it was not a pleasant experience. In three hours, I believe that I inhaled an amount of cigarettes smoke that superseded the amount I inhaled in the last five or maybe ten years.

In addition to smoking, and with all respect to the audience, I believe that the audience lacked the courtesy to listen to the emcee and the key speakers, to that some speakers were not able to hide their resentment. Continue reading →

Feb 28 2009

EVENT: A Step in the thousand mile journey

istock_000007218852xsmallTime went quickly, this is  how it goes whenever you’re having a nice conversation, and this is how it went with Dr.  Adnan El-Nasan,  Dean Assistant in Hijjawi Faculty of Engineering.

Dr. Adnan’s visit to Bayt.com is part of Hijjawi Faculty of Engineering initiative to build relations with businesses. Hijjawi Faculty of Engineering, represented by Dr Adnan, is seeking to break the ice and  to build a feedback loop and real interaction with businesses.

Dr. Adnan came with a very clear agenda. Together we went over the following:

  1. Curriculum development:  We agreed that students should have better understanding of different computer engineering and science concepts. And they should have more exposure to and knowledge in:
    1. open source concepts and technologies: Fortunately, Hijjawi Faculty of Engineering has already started with this, they have been building relations with international organizations interested in supporting open source.   At the moment, Hijjawi Faculty of Engineering teaches a Linux course as part of their curriculum.  The course covers different operation system aspects down to customizing the operating system to meet your own needs!
    2. Software development methodologies: This is already part of the curriculum and is taughtas part of Software Engineering course. However, the real challenge is to convince students with the importance of methodologies to produce quality software. We agreed that business can play a vital role through seminars and presentations that reflects real life examples and applications.
    3. Web architecture, Web Development and Web concepts: we agreed that the curriculum should emphasize more on them. Again, businesses can play a vital role  to help students understand that web development is very challenging and requires much more than  HTML and JavaScript
  2. Interaction events: we agreed on the importance of participating in workshops, seminars and presentations held in the university. This is highly required to help student realize the importance of the concepts introduced to them and how they are practically applied. It will also help students to broaden their horizon and to prepare themselves better to be competitive in the job-market.
  3. Professional training and job opportunities for college students.

The discussion was very fruitful and reflected a sincere desire from Dr. Adnan and Hijjawi Faculty of Engineering to improve the quality of their graduates in order to have a higher positive impact on the community.

I was really very pleased to meet Dr. Adnan. His passion, energy, and focus have inspired me. And who knows, this step might be one step – if not the first – in the one thousand mile journey toward having a real software and computer industry through collaboration between universities and businesses in Jordan.