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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar Date: 08/22/2010

WebMatrix – making web development simple

You have probably seen ScottGu’s list of new web development technologies (IIS Developer Express,...

Author: pooyadarugar Date: 08/05/2010

Startup Weekend Oman

Had a great time at Startup Weekend Oman today, met some very enthusiastic entrepreneurs who were...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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....

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar Date: 04/13/2010

Oman education event

Thanks to all the faculty and representatives from higher education in Oman who attended the event...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar Date: 12/13/2009

Better presentations

I’m currently reading Presentation Zen which is very good and gives concrete examples of good and...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar Date: 09/18/2008

Cloud computing explained

I've been asked a lot more recently about "Cloud Computing" and especially how Microsoft is playing...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar Date: 04/01/2008

Programming languages

I always get asked by our customers about market share of the major programming languages and what...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar Date: 03/06/2008

Internationalization with XAML

I attended a session on internationalization and leared some very useful things about what's...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar Date: 11/25/2007

MSDN Roadshow: Software + Services Presentation

Some people have requested my presentation from the MSDN Roadshow on Software plus Services. Please...

Author: pooyadarugar 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 +...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar 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...

Author: pooyadarugar Date: 10/23/2007

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