QUOTATION: Knowledge

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing – that what’s counts. I learned very early the difference beaten knowing the name of something and … Continue reading QUOTATION: Knowledge

PERSPECTIVE: Improvement, The Tricky Part

I rarely meet a business or technology executive who is satisfied with the effectiveness and efficiency of  IT processes and activities. Common complains are response time, things falling in the cracks, under estimating, incomplete solutions….etc. Complains usually come with complete despair! we tried multiple processes, best practices….etc but nothing works!

What to change? How to change? or, Why to change?

A question I get over and over, in different formats such as: “We trained our resources on PMP, ITIL, PRINCE2 , we bought the tools, and guess what nothings works! do they ever work?”. “How did you manage to get Agile implemented? we tried, never worked”.  “Are you telling me that any of this can … Continue reading What to change? How to change? or, Why to change?

TRAINING: Sultanate Armed Forces , Signals Regiment, September 1st-5th 2012

Another time in Oman and Signal Regiment. I love this country. Oman is really amazing I really love being in Oman. A very calm and nice country. Most importantly, Oman people are really very nice, very polite and very cooperative. This is my second time at Signals Regiment. Like the first time, I have enjoyed … Continue reading TRAINING: Sultanate Armed Forces , Signals Regiment, September 1st-5th 2012

TRAINING: ITIL Foundation – Saraya Holding, May 25th-31st 2012

The second group from Saraya holding in Amman to have ITIL Foundation training with me. Hopefully based on the good feedback they got from the first group. It was another good experience for me and I enjoyed the discussions inside and outside the class room. Best of Luck Saraya IT staff in All your future … Continue reading TRAINING: ITIL Foundation – Saraya Holding, May 25th-31st 2012

TRAINING: ITIL Foundation Training for Saraya Holding , May 12th-17th 2012

Another ITIL training conducted for another eager-to-learn at New Horizons offices in Amman. The group was really very interesting and they were able to grasp ITIL concepts and reflect this on their experiences. All candidates has applied for the foundation exam and they passed! Congratulations for all.

Guide: jQuery Mobile – Content disappear after first call / Pageinit fires multiple times

Quick note, if you’re experiencing any of the following: 1. Pageinit is fired multiple times 2. Inability to manipulate the page components i.e. update .text or .html 3. Page content are not showing after the first call of the page The root of this is that your HTML might not be well-structured or not XHTML valid. Fix … Continue reading Guide: jQuery Mobile – Content disappear after first call / Pageinit fires multiple times

Guide: Show loading message while moving between pages in jQueryMobile – Part 2

In part 1 , I discussed how to show loading message while moving between pages. The suggested approach works both for Single Page  Template and Multi Page template like a breeze. If you’re not expert in jQueryMobile, I recommend you go with it. However, if you’re obsessed with clean optimized code, like myself. I assume … Continue reading Guide: Show loading message while moving between pages in jQueryMobile – Part 2

Guide: Show loading while change pages in jQueryMobile

I was looking for a why to show “Loading Please Wait” between pages transition in jQueryMobile for a while. Unfortunately, I was not able to find a good guide for this. All available resources are general and do not handle issues like, data-rel and Popups. Why I want to do that? because in some cases, … Continue reading Guide: Show loading while change pages in jQueryMobile