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Signing up for dreamspark

I’ve had several people ask me about the process for how to download software through DreamSpark . It couldn’t be easier. Go to http://www.dreamspark.com Sign in with a LiveID (Remember this can be any email address including your .edu school address) Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:04 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: students

Better presentations

I’m currently reading Presentation Zen which is very good and gives concrete examples of good and bad slides and presentations. I’m hoping to incorporate some of the techniques into my own presentations this year, so hopefully you’ll see an improvement. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:30 AM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Imagine cup gaming finalist now available on Xbox live

Megalopolis, one of the Game Dev finalists of Imagine Cup 2008 from Germany is now commercially available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Try out the demo if you have an Xbox, or check out the video . Amazing what students can do these days, the team’s Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:33 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: imaginecup, students

UAE University and Jebel Hafeet

What an interesting day. Spent the day at UAE University , one of the largest and most prestigious universities in the UAE meeting some of the professors and getting a tour of the labs there. Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis (who runs the lab) showed me around the Read More...

Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 8:10 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: academic, uae

Students and Startups

My 1st blog post in a while and a good time to discuss some of the changes you’ll notice around here. This year I’m going to be focusing a lot more on Academia and what we refer to as the Local Software Economy. Basically this means I’ll spend a lot more Read More...

Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 7:40 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: academic, startups

Win7 Beta expiring - get on the RC

I'm sure those on the Win7 Beta have seen the messages from your machines, but just in case you didn't, tomorrow is the expiration of the Win7 Beta, it's time to move to the RC. “Starting July 1 st , the Beta will start to reboot every two hours and will Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:02 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: microsoft

Bing search, try it out

I'm sure most of you have heard of the new Bing search from Microsoft. I've been using it for a while (I've always been fond of the Image search capabilities , infinite scrolling, filtering, and the previews) and I'm pleasantly surprised to say it's been Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:12 PM by pooyad | 2 Comments

Filed under: search

Web 2.0 talk at TechTalk

We held the first "TechTalk" today at Al Murooj Rotana for Partners who work with Microsoft with sessions on: · Introducing Windows Azure - Anton Delsink · Windows 7 - Wilson Xavier · Web 2.0 - Pooya Darugar · Network Access Protection - Zahid Tikrity Read More...

Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 2:18 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: web 2.0, events

Silverlight for Flash designers and developers

I've been spending more time with the web design agencies in Dubai and it's a whole different world than the SOA work I do with the large enterprises, for one thing their offices tend to be much cooler. We speak a lot about Sivlerlight and the power of Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:13 AM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: web 2.0

Gulf Developers: Profile yourself to receive event invites and news from Microsoft Gulf

A lot of people have been asking me what the best way is to recieve invitations to our Microsoft Gulf events for developers and to recieve news from us on new technology. We have lots of sources for this, but the best way is to profile yourself and let Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:30 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: microsoft, gulf, events

TBot (Messenger Bot) for translations

Live translator has been around for a while and its quite cool, being able to translate whole pages and see both the original and the translated version side by side. Unfortunately it is blocked in the UAE by Etisalat (the major ISP) as all translation Read More...

Posted Sunday, September 07, 2008 8:26 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: web 2.0

Cloud computing explained

I've been asked a lot more recently about "Cloud Computing" and especially how Microsoft is playing in this area, I'll link to the articles when they come out. In the meantime David Chappell has written a nice summary of the current state of cloud computing Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:11 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: web 2.0, S+S

SOA Day at Microsoft Dubai

I hosted severl of our customers for an "SOA Day" at Microsoft Dubai today. It was an interesting discussion focused around SOA that also touched on specific areas where Microsoft has great technology enablers of SOA, Biztalk, WCF, ... . I'm posting the Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:12 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: soa, events, uae, presentaions

How to split a powerpoint slide into 2 - Community Clips

I just uploaded my 1st video on Community Clips :) It came from a discussion we had this morning in a meeting as we were previewing some powerpoint slides. The slide had gotten quite long with a lot of text and we wanted to split it into 2 slides. One Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 11:34 AM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: web 2.0, webcast

Easiest Screen Capture tool I've ever used

I've been looking for a good, free and easy to use screen capture tool and today I finally found one I like, Community Clips , and it turns out it's from the Microsoft Office team . It uses Media Encoder underneath and does a good job of compression with Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:58 AM by pooyad | 0 Comments