Pooya's place (in the Gulf) : presentations

Features I like in: Powerpoint 2007

pooyad — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:47:00 GMT

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 a lot of presentations in my work as a technology evangelist and powerpoint is something I use on a daily basis. With this feature, you can view the slide, see the presentation notes, keep tabs on the time and highlight points on the slide on your monitor while the audience sees only the final version of the slide in their view. See the article linked above for a detailed explanation but you'll find the feature in "Slide Show-> Use Presenter View and Show Presentation On:".

Not sure how many of you do presentations that regularly, but it's been a great thing for me.

Geeks II: SOA presentation

pooyad — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:50:00 GMT

Geeks II was a great success and thanks to everyone who attended, the best part for us is to get to interact with the developer community in our region. You can see some of the coverage of the event already.

I've had some requests for the SOA presentation that I did at Geeks II last week, so I've posted it along with this entry. For those of you that attended the Architect Forum preceding Geeks II, you'll recognize the first part of the presentation on how to get started with SOA. The second part differed as I focused on the concrete steps a developer should take on how to actually implement the services since the audience was more developer than architect.

update: all presentations from Geeks II are now posted

Microsoft Architect Forum: Enterprise Search

pooyad — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:27:00 GMT

Beat Schwegler discusses the topic of Enterprise Search.

Please check back soon for Beat's presentation.

Microsoft Architect Forum: Web 2.0 and Semantic Web

pooyad — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:23:00 GMT

Daniel Akenine gives some thought provoking insight into Web 2.0 and semantic web.

Micrososft Architect Forum: SOA session

pooyad — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:20:00 GMT

Here is my presentation on Service Oriented Architecture. I tried to make this a practical guide and discuss what I consider a very important (but often neglected) aspect to a successful SOA implementation, business modeling.

It is in powerpoint 2007 format, the 2003 version is too large to post, but I will convert to PDF soon and update.

SOA Presentation from the MSDN Roadshow

pooyad — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:45:00 GMT

We're now about a third of the way through the MSDN Roadshow, thanks to everyone who attended the events in Oman and Dubai.

I'm posting my presentation for those who attended and want to review it on their own. There was as usual too much information and not enough time (espcially in Muscat), sorry guys but I'm sure you enjoyed all the great demos from Amr and we had to make sure you got some food before it ran out.

I'm very happy we're doing this type of roadshow as it allows me to get to know the developers out there and meet the architects as well. As I mentioned at the events', I'm setting up an architect forum in the gulf and would invite every architect (no matter what level you are currently at) to join. If you are interested, please drop me an email or leave a comment on this post.