Thoughts

Usable command line tools/scripts There are a lot of command line tools written in ruby, python, bash, c or any other languages. They are usable simply because there is a standard way in dealing with them this way can be summarized in the following points: There has to be a usage example/brief help at the finger tips of the user ( by running with  -- help      or -h) arguments should have default values which are explained in the help misusage or missing mandatory arguments should fire the help message ruby tools OptionParser  is part of the standard library in ruby that takes care of this script packaging.  they show long and short examples This is an example of the script: require 'optparse' options = {} OptionParser.new do |opts| opts.banner = "Usage: script_name.rb [options]" opts.on("-v", "--[no-]verbose", "Run verbosely") do |v|   options[:verbose] = v end end.parse! p options p ARGV # Actual script co...

Entrepreneurship has become one of the one of the most interesting topic in the business side in any country in the world. While it is digging its way in the middle east, there is some sort of confusion and a lot of aspects related to that topic. A Startup can act and advance to tackle business opportunities in a way that competes with large enterprises. and most of the times, they need to be supported by Investors to back them up. One of the things that started to really bother me in the culture is the definition of success of a startup. No one denies that a decent revenue generating startup is a successful one. However, some people believe that just raising an investment is a success.... umm, debatable. I believe we can make some kind of analogy with some entities that showed up in the past decade like biznas and skybiz (I'm sure some of you will remember those names).   they used an invalid scheme summarized as: People can register and join the network for a fee (as an i...