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First there was LINQ, then ...
Yesterday at the Saudi Arabia launch event in Jeddah there was a lot of interest in LINQ. One of the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/06/2008
Language Wars Won & Lost & ...
Pooya mentioned some choices in terms of programming languages thanks to the Software+Services...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/27/2008
Launch in The Kingdom
Join us for the Saudi Arabia launch events for Visual Studio, SQL Server and Windows Server 2008!...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/25/2008
DotNetBoom & ProRangers in Kuwait
We're having a lot of fun at the Community Open day here in Kuwait. The .NET Boom and ProRangers...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/16/2008
VSTS Hands-on Labs in Qatar
We just finished our Visual Studio Team System hands-on labs here in Doha with a lot of interesting...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/13/2008
It is 2008 in Qatar!
Thank you all for coming to listen today and yesterday; I had a great time with the wide range of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/11/2008
Kuwait Community Open Day
Saturday February 16th is Community Open Day in Kuwait! Come meet members of .NET Boom and Pro...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/04/2008
Dubai today, Zambia on Friday
From a mild winter here in Dubai to the summer of Lusaka; this is going to be an interesting change...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/23/2008
Free WiFi @ my place
Bruce outlines all his reasons for running an open (unsecured) wifi at home. I'll add one: I am...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/11/2008
Road Warriors
For those of you constantly on the move, you already know about www.seatguru.com, but now there is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/06/2008
What's New in .NET 3.5
Someone asked me something like this during our road show but never emailed me their exact question,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/22/2007
Hyper-V Architecture
The Windows Server blog has a nice set of graphics about the Hyper-V architecture coming up in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/21/2007
NTFS Sparse Files with C#
Sparse files in NTFS has been a pet interest for a while now, but I just never had the combination...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2007
Holiday Season
With Eid, Christmas and New Year all upon us, I'll have plenty of time to catch up on all that email...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/16/2007
MSDN Road Show Gulf
We're almost done with the MSDN Road Show - we already visited Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman. Now we're...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/25/2007
Beta 2 VPCs for VSTS expired
In case you're affected by the expired virtual machine images / VPCs for Visual Studio 2008 Team...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/02/2007
Geeking out; non-PC
In my world, that would be Lego then of course :) Naturally people suggested Mindstorms, but no, I'm...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/28/2007
Anton + Machine == speeeeeed
This was the most mechanized fun I've had since selling my previous Alfa. Quad bikes + dunes + speed...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/23/2007
Chicken or the Egg?
Which came first, the shelving or the LCD? How can I not fill that void? Five years without a TV and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/21/2007
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Kuwait, Muscat, Bahrain
The travels are starting! Come talk to me about Visual Studio 2008 all over the Gulf: Kuwait on the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/20/2007
Great start to the day
Every day since Wednesday morning I've been greeted by this sight. What a wonderful way to start the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/19/2007
The Start is the End
The start of this construction is the end of my peace. I chose my flat on this side of the building...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/18/2007
ReadyBoost vs USB Hub
One of those "duh" moments: For an hour today I couldn't understand why copying from a USB 2.0...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/15/2007
Electricity from Wind without Turbines
What does bridge collapse and fluttering in the wind have in common? Inspiration for a novel way of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/15/2007
New Intel Chipset
Makes me want to trade in my tablet: check out this new Intel chipset, named X38, on...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/14/2007
Graduations Congratulations!
Congratulations to the Class of 2007 at LITA - LinkNet IT Academy - in Macha, Zambia for completing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/12/2007
Channel9 Spider
Don't try this at home folks, but I had to. Actually mine is still running. And I don't know if I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/06/2007
VSTS TechNotes
I found this handy list of links to various interesting VSTS nuggets called TechNotes. Team...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/04/2007
Teachers Rock!
October 5th is World Teacher's Day! A day to remember the great ones for what they give so freely:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/04/2007
Hibernate
If in Vista you managed to switch off Hibernation by deleting its file in c:\ then you'll need the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/25/2007
Multiple Web Sites on Vista IIS7
XP taught me to not even try: you can configure more than one web site in IIS7 on Vista. It is still...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/25/2007
Team System Mind Map
I'm back in Dubai from Lusaka and the first thing I find in my inbox is a really useful mindmap of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/22/2007
GeekSpeak: Team System
GeekSpeak is a talk show on Channel9 - they asked me to answer listener questions about Visual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/04/2007
Off the grid
Well, off Google Maps, but according to Live.com I'm actually going to a place that exists: Macha,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/04/2007
Content Aware Image Resize
Saw several links about this topic presented at SigGraph, the best of which this video demonstration...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/27/2007
MSF Agile Activity Map
Brightwork.com has a nice bit of detail on activities done by each role in MSF Agile.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/26/2007
Good sushi & sashimi in Dubai
Pooya knows his way around New York's food scene, so when I got an invite to join him for sushi,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/26/2007
Tafiti
Excellent demonstration of what the web could be with Silverlight: www.tafiti.com - means "to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/23/2007
SaaS for ISVs
Now I too get it. Thanks to Gianpaolo's diagram of hosted services, it finally "clicked" for me. So...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/21/2007
MSMQ 3.0 Feature List
Bookmark to self: MSMQ 3.0 Feature List
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/18/2007
"Offline" DB Development
I prefer to use the term "sandbox" for that "offline" database used by Visual Studio Team Edition...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/16/2007
Hotmail goes Arabian
Just out of Beta: Right to Left languages now available in Hotmail! If you read Arabic, go to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2007
TFS 2008 Feature List
On Brian Harry's blog, the complete feature list for Team Foundation Server 2008. Good way to give...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/09/2007
VSTS Q&A Links
Thanks to all those who attended the GeekSpeak Q&A session yesterday. We promised to write up...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/09/2007
Sleepless in Dubai? VSTS chat at midnight
I'll be on the Channel9 show GeekSpeak tonight: Improving the Software Development Life Cycle Using...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/08/2007
Design for the other 90%
“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2007