Sunday, August 24, 2008

My Ultimate Desktop


This is my new Ultimate desktop :D I edited some xfce and gtk themes, and here was the result. The colors even go with The Perfect Wallpaper. If you need that theme, or anything close to it (may be only a change in the colors), please contact me, otherwise I think when I have a little free time I'll arrange the files and provide a link to them.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Recipe - Carrot Cake


As you might already know, I like cooking, so I thought about posting some recipes here. May be someone could give a try.

I Personally tried ALL recipes posted here.

Carrot Cake Recipe:
Ingredients:
Cake:
1 cup oil
2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 pack backing powder cocks
4 big eggs or 5 small ones
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons grounded cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups grated carrots (mabshour)
Dressing:
1 cup of sugar (then ground it), or 3/4 cup of powder sugar
1 teaspoon of grounded cinnamon
put the oil and the eggs and mix them well then add the vanilla and mix, add the sugar and mix then add the flour and the baking powder slowly while mixing add the salt and the cinnamon while mixing very well. add then the carrot and mix really really well.
get a 26 cm baking pan, oil it, then put some flour in and shake it well so it sticks to the oil. pour ur mix and put in a preheated oven to 170 degrees, leave it for around 45 mins b4 opening to check it (if u open b4 thatyou'll spoil the cake).
it should take around 1 hour to get cooked. to check if it's done, insert a thin knife into the middle of your cake 2 or 3 times, when u get the knife out, if u see ANY traces the cake left on it, then it still needs to stay more in the oven.
put the cinnamon on the grounded sugar, add one table spoon of water and stirr really really well keep doing so and add more water if needed but add it in really really small amounts and stirr well after adding water everytime keep doing it till you get a THICK paste, much thicker than honey, thicker that the cake paste after it was done. spead it on the top of your cake after it has cooled down to room temp. LEAVE the dressing in the air for a while to harden, otherwise it might melt when closed or when subject to some little heat.
Enjoy.
alternations, u might add more sugar, more cinammon or some nuts, peanuts are the best.
the one you ate today was with exactly no alternations from the recipe.
Bon Appetit.


Saturday, July 26, 2008

The Crocodile Project


Well, it's just for fun, I was bored, so I decided to start with the Crocodile project :D.
Here is the work so far. I only use my Swiss Champ.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Our Project Team

From Left to Right, Steffen Koch, Myself (Andrew Boktor), Marleine Daoud, Proff. Dr. Thomas Ertl, Christiane Taras, and Fred Morcos

Hoping - by Youstina Daoud







Hoping by ~Outa91 on deviantART

Monday, June 30, 2008

GUC LOL 2

Well, those 2 mails were sent to me by the GUC admission office. Ignoring that fact that their page doesn't work well with the 2nd most used web-browser, Firefox. Either this was the update in the e-mail, or there's some1 who doesn't know how to sum 1 bus + 1 bus :D

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Snow Night


Just another photo I took.

GUC LOL

Click on the image for a larger view

It's my first time to see such English, and also first time to see someone asking me to prioritize something using TextFields.

Monday, March 24, 2008

On the way to GERMANY

Probably while you're reading this post I'll be on my way to Germany for my summer semester. So talk to you from there.

so I'll be available on andrew.botros@gmail.com for mails and/or GoogleTalk
or mofied_andrew@hotmail.com for MSN Messenger.

This should have been posted very long ago, but seems it ended up in the drafts rather than published. Anyways here is my phone number as well: +491638510949

Monday, March 17, 2008

No More Dog AND...


So, no more dog, mum didn't support him. Actually he was a she, i called her Pepsi, that went well with the color, I hope she keeps that name in her new home..
AND, I had an operation in my eye 1 hour ago.. it was FUNNY :D

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

ConnectmeTV

I work now for ConnectmeTV, the environment at the company is really nice.. we're up to developing a complete UI for their device.. It's really nice and interesting.
So the company needs hirings, if you are "any" sort of developer or project manager please check the company website.

Monday, March 10, 2008

GasPaint v0.1


GasPaint stands for "Graphics Assignment Painting Program" probably we were drunk when we invented that. It's OpenGL based completely manually coded.

get the source here or checkout svn
svn co http://andrewboktor.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gaspaint


Developers:
Andrew Boktor (myself)
Fred Morcos
Marleine Daoud

Notes:
  • The filling code is awfully slow due to reading the buffer pixel by pixel not as a whole. There's a working filling code in the examples folder. Feel free to integrate it if you have time.
  • There's a hack made to correct the coordinates of the mouse clicks, I don't have any idea why this bug exists.
  • Undo/Redo haven't been yet implemented, feel free to contribute.



Andrew's Tetris v0.1



Andrew's Tetris v0.1 is the first version of an OpenGL/freeglut based simple Tetris game implemented as an assignment for a Computer Graphics course.
Download the source along with the binary here, or checkout svn on

svn checkout http://andrewboktor.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/andrews_tetris-0.1 andrews_tetris_read_only


Known Bugs:

  • There's something wrong with the rotation when you rotate beside the wall or another piece.
Feel free to post patches or other bugs.

and after all, Enjoy.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Rules for life

Well, these are the 3 basic rules i discovered for life so far. They are ordered according to their priority, or importance.

- Have your OWN company.
- Take your wife with you if you achieve rule #3.
- Migrate out of Egypt.

Monday, February 11, 2008

The Perfect Wallpaper

I think i finally found the perfect wallpaper.


I took this picture on a bridge in Germany - Passau summer 2007, no photoshop or other picture editing tools were used, this picture is right out of the camera.

Feel free to download it and use it as u want.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Men's Mind

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Going to Germany

It was a gr8 day, started by a new baby bird that hatched 2day morning. Then going to college, we got an acceptance letter to go do our project "OpenGrafik" in germany, me and fred and marly. Then we hanged out and ate Cheesy Bites :D lol.