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March 2008 - Posts

Programming languages

I always get asked by our customers about market share of the major programming languages and what percentage of people are programming in .NET vs. Java or PHP or ... . Technically .NET should be broken into the specific language as the .NET framework Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:29 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Java and .NET interoperability session at Egypt Java Developers Conference

I had the pleasure of speaking at the 2nd annual Java Developers Conference being held in Cairo ( where Microsoft was a gold sponsor ) by the Egyptian Java User group . The session was about interoperability , specifically interoperability at the application Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:49 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): java developer's conference - egypt - publish.pptx

Deep zoom composer

If you liked the Hard Rock demo from MIX , here's how you can easily build something similar yourself with the Deep Zoom Composer . It's based on the same technology that powers PhotoSynth (SeaDragon) and makes creating these deep zoom applications very Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:53 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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MIX08 Steve Ballmer keynote - web developers, web developers, web developers

I somehow got a front row seat for the Steve Ballmer keynote ; blogging from here right now :) A funny and interesting keynote session, you have to see it to fully get the title. The audience questions are, as expected, mainly around the proposed Yahoo Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:50 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments
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Internationalization with XAML

I attended a session on internationalization and leared some very useful things about what's available in XAML. The most useful aspect for the typical applications I see was FlowDirection property which lets you easily switch from Left to Right to RtoL. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:28 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments
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Day 1 at MIX

After a long long journey from Dubai, I finally arrived in Las Vegas for the first day of MIX08. A very exciting day for me to see Microsoft make some big announcements around the future of our technologies on the web. Check out the official MIX blog Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:25 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments
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