Talks around Computer Science and Stuff
In: AWS
14 Jul 2017I am going to switch job in a few weeks. As I mentioned, I decided to take the AWS Solution Architect Certification exam before starting on that new position. In case of you want to do the same, those course notes were a nice summary of what is covered during the exam.
In: AWS
5 Jun 2017I started preparing to pass the AWS Solution Architect Certification. One of my colleague at Origin just recently re-passed the exam. He was nice enough to share his course notes on his blog at : http://www.beddysblog.com/marks-aws-solution-architect-course-notes-aprmay-2017/ I just went through them and they are pretty useful. I encourage you to take a look if you […]
In this first article, we will talk about how to integrate a strong and flexible search engine within your web application. There are various open source search engine available in the market. This talk will be about Solr. I have been using it for different projects and it offers a nice solid set of features. […]
In: Uncategorized
16 Feb 2015I just discovered a new web application named IFTTT. The concept is so simple and so powerful at the same time. It allows to create simple rule : If This Then That Where “This” is a trigger and “That” is an action. Both happens in what they call “Channels”. Channels are applications like Facebook, Linkedin, […]
In: Uncategorized
16 Feb 2015The first annual PHP Australia Conference will be in Sydney in 4 weeks ! http://www.phpconference.com.au/ Don’t miss this exciting event ! Cya there.
In: Uncategorized
18 Sep 2014I am glad to learn that I will be a speaker at the 2014 OSDC in the Gold Coast : http://2014.osdc.com.au/ Not only, this is going tobe a very interesting conference seeing the different talks and speakers, but also you can expect some good fun in the Gold Coast. Hope to see you there !
I recently had to work on integrating an ERP with DHL XML API Services. I could not find a PHP open source library to consume their API, so I decided to share the one that I wrote. You can download the code on github : https://github.com/alfallouji/DHL-API If you want to read documentation about the DHL XML […]
In: Fun and stuffs
27 Nov 2011Open your shell script and type : telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl Enjoy 🙂
In: Uncategorized
15 Sep 2011I recently developed for fun a webapp offering forex currencies alert. It allows users to create 100% free custom currencies alert on approximately 100 currency pairs. Alerts are sent by email for now, but others channels will be available soon such as SMS, IM. You can check it out at www.fxalert.net. Any feedback is welcome 🙂
My name is Bashar Al-Fallouji, I work as a Enterprise Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.
I am particularly interested in Cloud Computing, Web applications, Open Source Development, Software Engineering, Information Architecture, Unit Testing, XP/Agile development.
On this blog, you will find mostly technical articles and thoughts around PHP, OOP, OOD, Unit Testing, etc. I am also sharing a few open source tools and scripts.