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May 2007 - Posts

Judging student software competitions

I had the honor of being a judge at the Software Development Trade Show hosted at University of Wollongong in Dubai It was a great event and good to see the level of projects that undergraduate students are doing here locally. Every team did a great job Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:48 PM by pooyad | 2 Comments
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Features I like in: Powerpoint 2007

This is the 2nd in my series of useful features in products we all use. This may be a well known one but I only started using it recently and have found it incredibly useful. Delivering a presentation on 2 monitors (or more likely on a projector) I deliver Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 1:47 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Watch this LINQ video

If you're at all interested LINQ, watch this video. Even if you're not interested in LINQ, watch the video and you probably will be. This was Anders' presentation at MIX. It shows some very impressive capabilities of LINQ for XML queries which I plan Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:04 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Gadgets with Arabic support

Have not tried this myself but it's been announced that Windows Live gallery and Vista Sidebar gadgets in arabic. Submit through the standard process. If you haven't built gadgets before, they're a lot of fun and very quick to build; start one and let Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:00 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) - great news for .NET development

Check out Jim Hugunin's blog post about the new Dynamic Language Runtime , better support for dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, ...) on .NET. This is huge for me, .NET already had support for dynamic languages but this takes it to a new level with a better Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:17 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Features I like in Office Communicator

One of the things that amazed me when I started working at Microsoft about a year ago is that there are so many great features in the Microsoft products everyone uses that people just don't know about. I could start talking about the lack of training Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:02 AM by pooyad | 2 Comments
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SOA factory, another interesting webcast

There's a webcast tonight (7pm UAE time) that a Microsoft partner is running on SOA factories. It's an interesting concept that tries to simplify parts of SOA with pre-built blueprints (the factory model), with the end result of auto generating WCF services. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:33 AM by pooyad | 1 Comments
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