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Friday, December 31, 2004

Imagine Cup Introduced!

Event at CSKU INETA went fine. We introduced Imagine Cup to the audience and received a positive response from them. The presentation can be found in the Content Repository section of this website. We are also able to distribute goodies (PDC KIT bags, CodeZone magazines and couple of Content rich CDs) to the audience (thanks to Microsoft Pakistan and DotNetWizards).


Hammad Rajjoub.

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The Code Room – Pilot Episode

Must watch episode at MSDN TV!

In this new reality show, three MSDN event attendees are taken to an inner-city warehouse, equipped with a partially-charged laptop, and tasked with designing and developing an e-commerce Web site

Hammad Rajjoub.
http://dotnetwizards.blogspot.com

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.NET Security Presentation @ PakCon 2004

On December 23rd I was invited to speak at PakCon2004 (www.pakcon.org). They defined PakCon as
Pak Con – where security matters!


Pak Con is an exclusive cyber security convention, the first initiative of its kind in the history of Pakistan IT scene. Pak Con is the brainchild of a group of capable security professionals who have employed their genius and aptitude to provide an overall extensive and comprehensive experience of information security in the form of a wide-ranging convention on information security. We at Pak Con aim to highlight all the issues related with information security and the problems faced by IT professionals, accurately and in depth. Our objective is to examine flaws with new and current technologies, finding their solutions, covering unique and interesting developments. We are well aware of the fact that there is a high probability to the level of certainty that technology can be converted from a tool of progression into a tool for repression. We intend to curb all the threats of such a nature by developing a sound and effective information security defense system that in turns daunts all hazardous actions. Our strategy is of a bold nature, instead of hiding our face from the reality of the situation, we are willing to confront all the dangers facing the IT community and provide them definite resolutions.

I was there to speak on .NET Security and How to develop enterprise scale secure applications. I had 50 minute time slot followed by 10 mins Q/A, the session went well and I belive audience enjoyed it. I focused on some of the core functionalities in .NET Security API, like Authentication/Authorization and CAS. I also showed a sample code snippet using IIdentity interface. Code and presentation are made available at PakCon web Site
Hammad Rajjoub.

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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Microsoft Event at NED

We had really nice sessions today at our Seminar by Microsoft at NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. The event started with a Qiraat by our user group member followed by the first presentation by Mr. Vaqar Khamisani who is a Developer Evangelist (DE) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Manager for Microsoft Pakistan. He talked about various activities by Microsoft in Pakistan. Some of the upcoming event are ISV Community days and MSDN Week. He also gave the audience a brief review on the past activities especially Pakistan Developers Conference (PDC). After his presentation Mr. Ali Pasha started his talk on Designing for Deployment. Mr. Pasha has been working for Microsoft as a Program Manager in the Visual Studio division on the modeling tools (codenamed Whitehorse) scheduled to be released as a part of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System – Architect Edition. Audience get to know about the Visual Studio Team System, how it works and what benefits it can give to the developers. In the end he showed an excellent demo which is also available to download on MSDN TV. We will post the link after sometime on our site so stay tuned.

After this Mr. Saad Syed started his speech on Windows XP Embedded. Mr. Syed is a Development Lead in the Windows Deployment Team and joined Microsoft Corporation in October 2000 as a Software Test Engineer. He gave a very interesting talk about various Embedded devices and their use in our daily life. He showed a small video on different Embedded devices which are utilizing Microsoft Embedded features and making our lives easier.

In the end we distributed some gifts brought by Microsoft to the audiences by a lucky draw. Congratulations to all the winners. I want to thank all the speakers for doing excellent sessions today, NED.net volunteers for working so hard in making a successful event, faculty of CIS department and the all the audiences for their overwhelming participation. The whole event is covered by our volunteer in the form of a video and will soon be available on CDs or DVDs.

Zeeshan Muhammad.
User Group Leader - NED.net
http://mea.ineta.org

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Friday, December 10, 2004

Microsoft Seminar at NED Lecture Theatre

You are invited to attend a Microsoft Seminar at NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi on Wednesday December 15, 2004 at 4pm. Click here to download invitation for this event.

Venue:
Lecture Theatre, Department of Computer and Information Systems Engineering, NED University Karachi.

Agenda
4:00 - 4:05 pm "Recitation from Holy Quran"
4:05 - 4:20 pm "Microsoft Pakistan Activities” by Vaqar Khamisani
4:20 - 5:00 pm "Designing for Deployment" by Ali Pasha
5:00 - 5:40 pm "Windows XP Embedded" by Saad Syed
5:40 - 6:00 pm Raffle to distribute some gifts brought by MS Pakistan

- Join us at neddotnet@yahoogroups.com to become a member of our .NET user group.
- Send an email to zeeshan.muhammad@ineta.org for your free registration for this event.
- Registration will be closed on December 13, 2004 at 12 pm.
- For further inquiries call Zeeshan at 0300-2368597

Hoping to see you all there!!!

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