We’ve just added new services and features to SAUDI NET portal my.saudi.net.sa:

• New prayer times service, with alerts 🙂 , just click setting and add it to your page.
• Two newsfeed: alriyadh.com, and alarabiya.net through RSS.
• New option in the setting for external link target, either to open them in the same page or new one.

Slashdot covers the Simpsons in Arabic.
Link

No tapes or discs any more! It stores 5 hours of DVD quality movies.

http://www.jvc.com/presentations/everio_g/

FreeBSD finally updated the website. I wrote about the new website 10 months ago, I guess it took more than they expected 😉
The new website look modern, but the logo still old.

🙂

MBC will broadcast an Arabic version of the Simpons, Mohammed Heaindi will play Homer Simpson, it will broadcast in Ramadan Month.
Couldn’t wait for it 🙂

Tadawul returned powered by SAUDI NET logo once again.

This is a nice regular expression feature, sometime when you have complex regular expression, you could forget what each refer to:

$str = '2005-08-01';
preg_match('/(\d{4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})/', $str, $m);

Now you don’t know which group is which part in the regular experssion.

Instead you can name all groups by using the format (?P<name>pattern) instead of just (pattern), then you can access this group by name you assigned it, so the previous regular experssion could be written like:

preg_match('/(?P<year>\d{4})-(?P<month>\d{1,2})-(?P<day>\d{1,2})/', $str, $m);


This week SAUDI NET customer care team left NCCI building and moved to one of the STC (out parent company) headquarter buildings.

The customer care works in shifts 24 hours a day, and today it is the first time since I came to SAUDI NET 5 years ago I come to my office and no one else in our floor except me.

I rarely chat with the guys in customer care, I am not very social person after all, but today I really missed them a lot, I really feel a huge void in my life, very sad moment indeed.

http://my.saudi.net.sa/webcam