It is so sad to announce that DiCE has been marked dissolved, and will be no longer available to produce anything or enhance anything made.

Well, after more than one year of working and faithful attempts to follow successful paths, it has shown until now that team costs are more than the available resources in terms of money and loyalty, thus, our periodic attempts to find alternative solutions to replace team’s key members have been faced by failure.

I would like to congratulate those who are waiting to hear such news, for their patience, and their enmity.

And finally we don’t know if we are capable to reestablish such a wonderful project in the near future or not, but when self-interest becomes a priority; there won’t be any meaning to team work!

Labels: Business and Work, Computer World

Recently some unknown sneaker, who once did it and looked shamefully into some of my private data, is trying now to make another judgment using his “Old Powerful Force” like before; but this time through my blog.

Well, in whatever the way he/she tries to do so, this is a “blog”, and what you read is what you get. To make this a little bit clearer, let me tell you some story up here.

“Once upon a time, two adult male friends worked together at some place on earth. They were really good friends at first, by time and at some dark night the first one went to his friend’s house, knowing that his friend was away in some far place. The first one entered the house and suddenly saw his friend’s wife, purely naked … ouch, what a shame.

And how ironic how it happened at that night when his friend suddenly went back to get some forgotten stuff, he saw everything and his friend and his wife naked, and he got mad and angry and, blah blah blah till the end of the story”

What would any reasonable person, who has some kind of sensation, judge on this? for sure all the blames fall on the first friend, since he is the one who made the whole mess by entering the forbidden area.

Moving back now, and getting this heck accent out of me, frankly and professionally, I am a senior software developer now, who got a promotion to be responsible for implementing new technologies and apply them over the team work, and monitor their schedules.

Why would anyone think that I may give a fuck to any group of losers around??

Anyone feels afraid of big mistakes he/she made in the past and their coming effect, why he/she did it anyway??

Labels: Business and Work, The Me, Thoughts and so

We all agree the point that no one liked his teacher neither his education process in general, even when we heard our supervisors talking about how much we are going to appreciate this after all, the fact that education is a process of learning and nothing else; it differs from the practical application of the theoretical knowledge, few of us had only made use of this, and the fewer were ready to understand the life cycle.

Anyways, it has been almost two years and a half; being far away from those Engineering Faculty's halls in the Hashemite University ... moreover, it is defiantly now the time to appreciate someone over there!

To Mr. Ali Al-Kattan:
Thank you for the greatest efforts that you gave generously, trying to deliver us a purified piece of knowledge. Thank you so much.

Labels: Business and Work, The Me, Thoughts and so

Bsara7a, my professional experience has been tested inside three companies till now, freesoft, mit, and e-tech and I had experienced many different situations and events that really affect developer’s productivity anywhere …

The story is; most of the time, the job interviews can be deceiving for both, the interviewer and the interviewee. In fact, most of the interviews I have made so far, was adopting the “enlargement policy” that exposes their “unique and powerful” technical abilities, however, after experiencing a few ones in the same field I found that getting a job offer after an interview is not that difficult, it is some kind of art as I think, you say what do they want to get from you, and other common things, and da da … 60% you will get that job offer …

But how to get the offer after the interview is not the case, it is in fact the extent to which it could be the one you want after being hired? Is it the environment you wish to work in? Are there the potential advancement degree and the professional dealing you are looking for?
Actually, there is no guaranteed way to figure this out at the interview time, but at least and at the end of each interview, most interviewers give you the ability to interview them in turn, this could be helpful…

Honestly, here is a list of common questions that can be used to enhance the interview level from an interviewee side, and this list is actually a reflection of a personal experience of mine, plus, few other stories around …

1. What is their complete stuff number?
2. What are the departments they have in?
3. What kind of contracts they have? Opened or limited ones?
4. What are the expandability choices to their employees?
5. Is there any probability to change company’s location in the near future?
6. What sister companies they have, and what competitors?
7. Is the field they work in going to be updated, expanded, changed, etc…?
8. How do they motivate their employees, usually?
9. Is there any public CV or profile for the company?
10. Are there any rules to formalize the work nature, uniforms, email notes, etc.
    

Finally, these are the golden hints, and I say that all of these points are subject to omit according to the kind of the interview.

Labels: Business and Work

Why do most of Jordanian IT companies loose their stuff?

Honestly, I have been into three different companies so far, and they were all getting a good job; in terms of money for sure, but neither the first nor the second has a stable team work, or even a-more-than-1-year-lasting developer!!!

Really it is getting worse than before, I am being asked one hundred times everyday about some of these companies and about the right choice to “forward on” the CVs, many newly-graduated, and even with 7-year experienced …

And why do most of employees hate their managers? Is it too bad to loose a one-stable job for a 100+$ for another?

The answer is the “American Coffee”; well, we all know that many of us would just “worship the moment” at where we sip a coffee bought from “cups and kilos” while reading the email inbox, or to listen to “Moh’d al Wakeel” during the car riding or whatever at the very beginning of each working day…

People tend to like the American movies just for the way they show how does a real business go … to me, I actually can’t deny that many of the “bad” habits we try to simulate the American ones are really exciting and most times cool … but this leads in fact to discharge the potential inside the employees, especially the software developers.

So I will put on my special list for most of the bad habits that “we” do

1. Coffee Breaks at the edge of each hour.
2. MSN, some of you would just kill me for saying this, but come on, this is a fact.
3. Meaningless email forwards.
4. Junk-food-based lunch breaks.
5. Everywhere anywhere laptop.
6. Top-ten and heavy downloads
7. Flash Games
8. On-time work leaves

Pray god not to be received by a manager …

Labels: Business and Work, The Me

Actually, I read the article written in al ghad! and it seems that the plans to change the brand name is being put into action for real this time, and however, when I told the guys here in company, they immediately relate it to Israel and Zionism ... lol
Well, the points and the reasons that mobilecom mentioned for their change! Seems so reasonable to me! starting with the matter that it should be from the beginning branded with the name "Orange" ... and following the noticeable increased adz and marketing balances, sounds really logical to introduce mobilecom with the new name ... not from defending point of view, rather, Arab businesses should really be reconsidered and verified very well!

Labels: Business and Work