Abd Allah Diab's Blog
My Technical Blog
Google Talk Status Countdown
May 25th
A few days ago I was counting down to a presentation in my faculty. As I was setting counters all over my world (Side Bar Gadget, To Do List) I thought of a way to change my Google Talk status to a counter also.
Since I know that Google Talk uses XMPP protocol, and since my friends and I implemented XMPP last year in our faculty I tried to make a program to set my status to a counter; and here is the result:
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Loading ...Display Sub-terms In Drupal Term Page
Mar 31st
After working with Drupal in the last two months I’ve really got used to searching for modules for every problem I face and installing them.
While I was working on iCommunity website, I was creating taxonomy terms to categorize the files using them. I created terms with sub terms. The problem was that when browsing a specified term the term page doesn’t display the sub terms of that term.
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Simple AJAX Comment Preview in Drupal 6
Feb 15th
As I said in my previous post, I’m working on upgrading Computer Science in Syria website to Drupal 6.
I wanted also to have AJAX comment preview in nodes, but I wanted it to be simple without lots of JavaScript loaded. So as usual I got pissed off and decided to create my own code to do it. 
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Simple AJAX Quote in Drupal 6
Feb 13th
I’ve been upgrading the forum of Computer Science in Syria for a week now.
The forum uses Drupal, and it ran a beta version of Drupal 4, and I upgraded it to the latest Drupal version now.
I wanted to have AJAX quoting in the forum, but I wanted it to be simple without lots of JavaScript loaded. So as usual I got pissed off and decided to create my own code to do it.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Notepad++ Plugin To Run Python Scripts
Nov 3rd
I use Python everyday, it has become my first tool to use when I need to do anything. In Arabic (in Shami Arabic specifically) I’d say that Python has become my hand and leg 
Yesterday I was writing a small Python script to read the YACC file and generate a list of all the specified rules inside it, so I don’t have to scroll through the long file to find out what rules are inside it 
I use Notepad++ as my default text editor on Windows, and I was writing the script using it – Notepad++. I wanted to test if the script is working, so I ran an instance of Command Line Prompt, and as I was going to change the directory to the directory of the script I thought; “Why doesn’t Notepad++ have a Run In Python command in it?”. So as usual I got pissed off and decided to create my own plugin to have that command in Notepad++
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