ridaalbarazi.welcome

It is always exciting to see more of Ruby and Rails here in the Middle East and specifically in Dubai, UAE. Since our first (and only) RailsUAE meetup six months ago we didn’t have much activities, but now with the Google Group and its active members, we start having more discussions and what’s more important [...]

Lately I had several discussions with many friends on what is the best market for web business firms to target, is it the local market, or the international market?
In any project and in every company during the planning stage, the owners and the creators start by studying the markets and see the benefits of each [...]

As you can tell from the 9rules logo in the sidebar (unless you are reading this from a feed reader), now I’m officially a member of the 9rules network, something to be proud of with my young blog and its few readers.

Reading The Four-Day Week Challenge by Ryan Carson on A List Apart brought this article to my mind, it is a lovely idea to work 4 days a week instead of 5, but is this possible during the construction stage?
Not only towers and buildings or architecture work have a construction stage, we as human [...]

The great success that CSS Reboot Spring 2006 has accomplished this year is due to the great designs and designers that got involved in it, the art of CSS is becoming more popular, and more artistic, many personal websites, many companies websites, all to reboot in the same day, different colors, distinguish designs all in [...]

I’m proud to announce the second reboot of this website, Version 2 beautifully designed by my friend Mohanad Alyajouri, featured in the Spring 2006 CSS Reboot, with many changes inside and many more that will follow (stay tuned), including new pages like my about page “rida” and my projects page “work”.
This reboot was fruitful to [...]

When I have started this website as a blog six months ago, I didn’t understand what blogging really is, I had some very different idea from the one I currently have, I thought that blogging is just about writing whatever you want whenever you want and publish online, well maybe this is what some people [...]

Few days ago I was doing some riffs, and while surfing here and there it got my attention that ATTAP (the same producers of riffs) had some cool attap ideas too, such as PersonalDNA, I immediately took the test specially that I normally like such psychological stuff, and believe that it help sometimes to make [...]

Almost everybody is blogging his own review of 2005, picking some of it’s good and sharing his plans of 2006, so here is mine…
Last January I was hired to do a web design and development as a full time job and I wanted to do something unique and new, specially in my region (The Middle [...]

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