Archive for February, 2007

Feb
27

In the beginning I really thought it was fake, but when I saw other photos I was convinced that it’s real photos taken at Versoix in Switzerland. This is the whole collection of Versoix Ice photos, you can view as slideshow. I would love to visit, but in summer if there is any !

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Feb
27

Yesterday I worked on Thomas Applications and Personal Profile Analysis, one of the powerful technology in human resources widely used especially in large corporates. I’m not sure if there is similar application for small and medium companies, because profiling expertise for around $200 or $300 per person isn’t accessible for anyone. I bet software like this is used in large companies such Google, with more than 10′000 employer, this certainly need an efficient management with similar technologies.

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I used especially the PPA feature, where you can generate executive summary, PPA profile, Personal review, strengths and limitations, compatibility, how to manage, ideal team report, team audit, management interview questionnaire, sales interview questionnaire, general questionnaire, management audit, sales audit, admin/tech audit, call center audit, training audit, candidate feedback, career guidelines, job evaluation (HJA), Job candidate - comparison, graphs and score. The Thomas’s dongle I have got more than 3000 usage available, but if you know other solution I’ll be very interested. And oups, I forgot to generate report for my own profile, I’m not sure if this could be useful for

Feb
26

I find it by coincidence two months ago. This is something if you hear the first time you’ll be impressed, the second time you want to hear it again, the third time you’ll fall in love with it, the fourth time you’ll keep it in loop, the fifth time you’ll become absentminded, the sixth time you’ll think about the words meaning, the seventh time the harmonies take you again, the eighth time you’ll hear how Marcel interpret the song, the ninth time you’ll think about all the things you was listening to before, and the tenth time you should not find the words to describe your feelings. Sorry this is for good music listeners only.

سجر البن

بيني وبينك سجر البن
وحبّ الهال
وزهر النوم
بيني وبينك تسع جبال
وعرب وصحرا
وغيبة يوم
بيني وبينك ضربة رمح
وفرس وسيف
وهجم الصبح
بيني وبينك طيرة طير
ونادوا كلُّن ع الفراق
وقطفني متل الصبيّر
صوت الغنّو بالعراق
رايح إسرقلك غابة،
واسرقلك جان
وعلق ع سجر البحر
عقود المرجان.
لو نقدك كان مدينة
وبالشام العرس
لاركب ع الفرس وجبلك
مفتاح القدس

Feb
26

Hamadi pointed me to the Arabic translation of “Diaries” in my logo. I thought it was interesting to add it to my blog, especially that I don’t like couscous at all :-) Welcome to حاتم دياري

Feb
26

I think this is something you should forget, someone will link you if there is a meetup or a group activity such the blank post, There is no need to say how worth a blank link is ! The concept of creating a link to a Tunisian blog is totally absent, expect in blogrolls. So conclusion, we have the worst ranking, only generate traffic between each others most of the time, and thanks to websites such TN-Blogs and TuniBlogs people will have hard time to find your blog on search engines. Don’t you think that there is something wrong, something missed ? Like the social web ?!

Because there is just two things :

  • We don’t know : ما نعرفوش
  • Or we don’t want to know : مانستعرفوش

This was to followup a discussion with Karim about getting your blog popular and generate more traffic.

A mediter …

Feb
22
PHP Magazine

This is not an official announcement of the service, but our Jobs section is finally up and you can notice a link to Jobs below every post that I’m testing here. I have been working on this since November 2006, but after a recent interview with Keith Schacht, JobCoin CEO, I decided to switch their solution. It’s easy to customize, have the basic features and there is more advanced features coming, in addition to the distribution through widgets and feeds. Most important for me is to make the service work online so we can focus on other internal projects.

I’m also glad that JobCoin are adding many custom features for phpmagazine.net, this will help us to get maximum profit from the service and certainly all others publishers will profit from this in the future. JobCoin and many startups will assist in the Chicago beta meetup for entrepreneurs and web 2.0 companies on February 28, so if you are around this something very interesting do not miss.

Check : PHP Magazine Job Board

Feb
22

Night at the Museum


Last night I saw Night at the Museum movie with Ben Stiller in the role of Larry. I was watching the movie with two other friends, and really wasn’t expecting so much fun ! It’s definitely a must see !! The story of a man who was looking for a job to stay near his son, but couldn’t find any. There was a last chance, to work as night guard at the Museum of Natural History. Everyone assigned to this job before didn’t stay more than one night, but for Larry he got the chance to stay 3 nights. Lots of science fiction, fun and history. I really didn’t see a GOOD movie since long time.

Feb
21

After turning off for a long period, Gravatar website is back working again with a new design more professional, easier confirmation and adding of new gravatars, in addition to the availability of premium accounts to add more email addresses for $10 per year. For a single account you can have up to two gravatars with an easy way to switch between them. What do you think better, I keep the current icons from website or support Gravatar ?

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Feb
20

I just noticed today that Alexa added more detail in their stats including the percentage of visitor from each country in addition to the rank related. What I noticed is that only US based data is accurate, for example it’s displaying 29% of traffic from US for phpmagazine, I’m not sure for which period it have been calculated but it’s around 30 and 35% overall which is not too far. Germany show 10% which is absolutely wrong, we have lot of traffic from Germany but it’s less than 3% overall. I didn’t compared with other websites, but I’m sure that you’ll find always a very small margin in US results, certainly because the number of people using alexa toolbar is much higher in US things that give results more accuracy.

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Feb
19

Today is for Fun only I think, I don’t recommend you to visit the place where I have find it, so If you don’t know the SubServient Programmer you have to check it now. And really sorry it’s IE only. Ok I was joking, please visit Mohammed Khanduqji’s website, he also took notes of orders he usually get from me, it’s unfair to ignore your sources :-)

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