Pooya's place (in the Gulf)
A blog about Architecture, Students, and Startups in the Gulf
Bringing Startup Weekend to Dubai
After a successful Startup Weekend in Oman in July, we are in the very early stages of discussions...
Date: 11/01/2010
IE9 beta: beyond speed and standards, 5 simple things done well
Most of the talk around IE9 has been on performance and standards support but from the first few...
Date: 09/16/2010
Startup talk at SP Jain
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at the SP Jain Center of Management in Dubai Technology...
Date: 08/22/2010
WebMatrix – making web development simple
You have probably seen ScottGu’s list of new web development technologies (IIS Developer Express,...
Date: 08/05/2010
Startup Weekend Oman
Had a great time at Startup Weekend Oman today, met some very enthusiastic entrepreneurs who were...
Date: 07/29/2010
Check out the Archivist (Twitter Analysis tool)
Do you spend a lot of time on Twitter? Interested in analyzing trends, sources and more...
Date: 06/29/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Launch in Kuwait – May 18th
After the successful local launch of Visual Studio 2010 in UAE and Qatar, we’re coming to Kuwait....
Date: 05/16/2010
Imagine Cup Gulf 2010 Regional Finals – May 3rd
Next week is a big week for us: Visual Studio 2010 launch in Dubai on May 2nd and our Imagine Cup...
Date: 04/28/2010
Visual Studio Launch in Dubai – Code and a MOVIE
I’m happy to announce that we will be hosting our local launch of Visual Studio 2010 in Dubai on May...
Date: 04/26/2010
Visual studio 2010 launched, available for students in msdnaa and dreamspark
On April 12th the long awaited Visual Studio 2010 launched. Hopefully you’ve been using the RC...
Date: 04/13/2010
Oman education event
Thanks to all the faculty and representatives from higher education in Oman who attended the event...
Date: 03/27/2010
Expression & Silverlight session at Microsoft Dubai
We had the pleasure of having Michael Koster with us in Dubai last week and he held an Expression...
Date: 03/22/2010
Digital Lifestyle of a Student event - HCT Abu Dhabi Mens College (Feb 2nd)
In partneship with the Higher College of Technonolgies in UAE, we'll be hosting the "Digital...
Date: 01/24/2010
Teched Middle East
For the 1st time, we are running TechEd in the Middle East! and I am now officially a TechEd track...
Date: 12/13/2009
Better presentations
I’m currently reading Presentation Zen which is very good and gives concrete examples of good and...
Date: 09/30/2009
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...
Date: 09/15/2009
UAE University and Jebel Hafeet
What an interesting day. Spent the day at UAE University, one of the largest and most prestigious...
Date: 09/14/2009
Students and Startups
My 1st blog post in a while and a good time to discuss some of the changes you’ll notice around...
Date: 09/14/2009
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...
Date: 06/30/2009
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...
Date: 06/09/2009
Web 2.0 talk at TechTalk
We held the first "TechTalk" today at Al Murooj Rotana for Partners who work with Microsoft with...
Date: 01/25/2009
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...
Date: 09/18/2008
Cloud computing explained
I've been asked a lot more recently about "Cloud Computing" and especially how Microsoft is playing...
Date: 08/20/2008
SOA Day at Microsoft Dubai
I hosted severl of our customers for an "SOA Day" at Microsoft Dubai today. It was an interesting...
Date: 05/08/2008
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...
Date: 05/04/2008
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...
Date: 04/29/2008
SaaS concerns and S+S
I was pointed to an article by John Dvorak on the feasibility of SaaS as a business model given...
Date: 04/01/2008
Programming languages
I always get asked by our customers about market share of the major programming languages and what...
Date: 03/25/2008
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...
Date: 03/15/2008
Deep zoom composer
If you liked the Hard Rock demo from MIX, here's how you can easily build something similar yourself...
Date: 03/12/2008
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...
Date: 03/06/2008
Internationalization with XAML
I attended a session on internationalization and leared some very useful things about what's...
Date: 03/06/2008
Day 1 at MIX
After a long long journey from Dubai, I finally arrived in Las Vegas for the first day of MIX08. A...
Date: 03/06/2008
Another big step in the right direction
Microsoft has continued to improve in the area of interoperabillity in the recent past and today is...
Date: 02/21/2008
Kuwait Community Open Day on Feb 16th
For those in Kuwait, mark your calendars for Saturday Februrary 16th. DotNetBoom and Pro Rangers...
Date: 02/06/2008
Will Software as a Service (SaaS) lead to a wider range of programming languages being used?
I've been reading a lot and giving talks on SaaS and S+S (Software + Services) but the thing most...
Date: 02/01/2008
Popfly: Building simple and quick apps - Sharjah Airport Arrivals
As those who've attended my sessions will know, I really like Popfly, I think it's the future of how...
Date: 01/26/2008
Gulf eCommerce Forum talk
I'll be presenting at the Gulf eCommerce Forum tomorrow in Bahrain. My session is on Connected...
Date: 11/25/2007
MSDN Roadshow: Software + Services Presentation
Some people have requested my presentation from the MSDN Roadshow on Software plus Services. Please...
Date: 11/15/2007
MSDN and TechNet Roadshow - Will be in kuwait in 2 days
If you haven't signed up already, there's still time. My session is right after lunch on Software +...
Date: 11/12/2007
World party at teched emea (Wed Nov 7th)
Please join me and Anton along with the other attendees from TechEd Barcelona at the World Party on...
Date: 10/30/2007
lIVE writer for x64
Forgot to mention in the last post but the new Thinkpad is 64 bit. One drawback of this is that...
Date: 10/29/2007
Lenovo Thinkpad add on for IE7 slowing things down
I just got a new Lenovo Thinkpad T61p at work and am getting it set up. Overall, it's very nice, I...
Date: 10/29/2007
Official MSDN Roadshow invite .... See you there
The TechNet and MSDN Roadshow proudly presents the “Gaining Insight Tour 2007”. This tour, coming to...
Date: 10/24/2007
Register to attend this year's MSDN Roadshow
You can already sign up to attend this year's MSDN Roadshow. See my last post for the dates and...
Date: 10/23/2007