Python Arabic Text Reshaper
I was trying today to generate PDF reports using Geraldo Reports and I needed to generate reports with Arabic text in them. Arabic is a very special script language with two essential features: It is written from right to left. The characters change shape according to their surrounding characters. So when you try to print [...]
Android Map View With Pan & Zoom Events
I was working an Android application, and I had an activity that contains a map in it, the map is hosted inside a MapView. The application had to show some pins over the map, the pins locations are obtained from a web service. I had to retrieve the pins locations after the user pans the [...]
Log to a file on computer in Android
It’s been a long time since the last time I blogged about something, and many things have changed since then, I graduated, got engaged and moved to Dubai. I have plenty of things in my mind to blog about, many solutions and many tools that I developed that I’d like to share it with everyone, [...]
Google Buzz, OAuth And Python
Google Buzz is a social networking and messaging tool from Google Inc. that’s integrated into GMail. Google Buzz was released in early February this year (9th Feb 2010), and since then it has emerged as an important social network for GMail users, and many people (including me) prefer it now to other social networking platforms [...]

