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Geniuses are made, not born
November 1st, 2009Do we really need H4ck3rZ?
September 28th, 2009An important question popped into my head, do we really need H4ck3rZ website?
We have done enormous efforts for renew our web footprint and now we have stuff that CAT never had, like the central authentication and social networking but with no result on the activity meter.
Currently almost nobody is visiting our website and no activity is being done except for the projects which are terribly slow because no serious contributers are around, so let’s think for a moment, what will happen if we gave up and stopped H4ck3rZ? Will you even notice?
فطار الكات
September 6th, 2009بقالي فترة مكتبتش هنا و السبب ان حياتي فعلاً ملخبطة و مضطربة بسبب عدد كبير من المشغوليات لكن ان شاء الله الأمور تبقى اكثر تنظيما و يرجع الاستقرار و النظام لحياني قريباً ، المهم ان كان فيه افطار جماعي للكات امبارح و انا كنت سعيد جداً و حزين جداً جداً ، سعيد لأني قابلت اصحابي اللي بقالي فترة كبيرة ماقابلتهمش زي احمد بكر و ابراهم عبد الفتاح و السيد جمال و كمان المفاجئة ايهاب عبد الرحمن و اللي بقالي تقريباً اكتر من سنه و نص ماشفتوش و معرفش عنه اخبار و كان ليه راجع من كندا بقالو يومين. و كمان قابلت زمايل في الكات بعتز اني في يوم اشتغلت معاهم و شاركونا الحلم و بذلوا مجهود كبير زي احمد مدكور و محمد صفوت و محمود متولي )ميتو ( و ناس كتير مش عايز انسى اساميهم لكن كل الحضور كانوا ناس محترمين بصراحة.
كنت حزين لأسباب كتير و اهمها ان العدد كان قليل ، حوالي 25 واحد بس من كل الكات و ده بيعكس حاجات كتير قوي و برضو انشغال الناس من الحاجات دي لكن كان نفسي احتفل باتحاد الكات اجتماعياً و اشوف الناس كلها اصدقاء و عايزين يشوفو بعض مهما كانت الظروف لكن للأسف الحقيقة ان الوضع الحالي للكات اكتر من مذري و ده اتناقشنا فيه في جلسه ثقافيه جميله بعد الفطار و اللي كان بيتزعمها السيد جمال بخطابه الحماسي المتفائل و ردودي المحطمة للآمال و كان فيه جزء من النقاش عن اسباب مشاكل الكات الحالية و ليه في انهيار سريع في المستوى و ازاي الجامعه مش بتساعدنا و الناس مش متعاونة و حاجات كتير عايزه مقاله منفصلة
المهم كان فيه تكريم بسيط لأبرز اعضاء الكات و اللي تشرفت اني اكون على اول القائمة مع السيد جمال و ابراهيم عبد الفتاح و اللي بنعتبر حاليا اقدم اعضاء في الكات تقريبا اللي لسه نشطاء و متواجدين و اخدت هديه ظريفه و هي “كأس” الكات 
اتمنى اني اشوف جيل تاني زي الجيل اللي عمل الكات و كبرها و وصل بيها للنجاح ياخد الرايه و يبهرنا و يخليني اقول انا بجد فخور بالعمل ده و اتمني اني اشوف الجامعة و الشركات في المنصورة بيدعموا العمل ده بدون انتهازية او سلبيه
و كل عام و انتم طيبين
Lessons We Learned From H4ck3rZ Online Systems
July 3rd, 2009We have been using forums and CMS systems for long time now to run all CAT websites on the internet starting from the ancient CATReloadedt website that was based on Drupal and ending to this amazing and extensible system “H4ck3rZ Network” that’s based on Buddypress and we have faced hunderds of problems that we didn’t really spend the right amount of efforts to learn from and to solve.
We in H4ck3rZ have spent sometime thinking about that and studying how to stop falling into the same problems and how to engineer a system that is really scalable without the loss of users information that is the most precious piece of our software and we could really design a system that can fix most of our problems in a granular manner, so we can fix things as we go and with minimum users intervention. But because we are engineers and our H4ck3rZ community is engineering community, we decided to share you some of the internals and details of what we have done.
The Ancient Problems
For long long time a faced a problem that we didn’t learn from it, that’s having accounts of our members stored inside the system and we didn’t feel the problem until we faced the problem of migration from drupal to phpBB and the booming fact is that migration might not be possible and people have to register again, we also had a mailing list that had its accounts stored in it and it’s a completely isolated island and we had no easy way to check if both systems are in-sync or not. More problems was arisen when we started the foundation system because each foundation started building its own website and again we lost the user base and people started new registrations on each website independently and moreover people used several e-mails and usernames and that was really a hit because now you cannot identify people by username anymore a good example is that I used the username h4ck3r in H4ck3rZ Foundation online systems while I use the username ‘linuxawy’ in PixiCat and please don’t ask me why 
read the rest of this article in my blog Soliman n H4ck3rZ
Ahmed Soliman Farghal is a professional "Software/Systems" engineer with exceptional computer science background and spectacular record of projects and achievements.
