Hey,

 

it has been more than 1 year that I no longer am a Microsoft Employee, I’m still in very Good terms with everyone .. and also I still have lots of friends there, so I’m kinda still connected to Microsoft in a way; but I have to admit, the thing that I missed a LOT was MIX! the Rush I used to get watching that Event and Fueling my Pack with Materials that last for YEARS from Presentations to Videos to Tools… and Being a DJ … The name of the Event have a Special Meaning for me too .

 

About MIX

MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. Sessions range from technical, code-based topics to expert advice on content strategy, usability and design.

Check out a small Remix I made of some funny moments from the Keynote!

 

 

if you want to get the sessions videos and materials please visit: http://live.visitmix.com/ 

 

Cheers,

SC

 

I was always inspired by the Success Story of Maktoob.com, the idea that was started by 2 ambitious persons who wanted to create an email for every Arab, and they did!

 

Maktoob rapidly grew and served lots and lots of individuals across the arab world, and was ranked among the international #1 websites from the Middle East & Pan Arab Market Share;

 

Recently Maktoob.com was acquired by Yahoo!   and a legend was now REBORN!

 

on the 29th of November 2010, the Yahoo! Developer Network, held it’s FIRST event in the Middle East right from the home Country of Maktoob.com in “a Morning with the YDN in Jordan”.

 

130 Developers attended the half day event and lots of Momentum was created; although the Brand Yahoo! was fairly new to the Developers Community of Jordan, but the Pride of the Success of Maktoob was certainly JORDANIAN.. and with  mixed feelings the Community welcomed the YDN , interacted with its representatives and learned more about the technology that powered Yahoo.com

 

I had the chance to be among the Co-Organizers of the event and loved it all the way…

 

Enjoy the Video and See you soon!

SC

 

 

So here’s some little & SIMPLE Developer Tech-Talk that I did with one of the Lebanese Microsoft MVPs a while ago :

 

What is PRISM?

PRISM is a Composite Application Library that is a guidance provided by Microsoft Patterns & Practices  team to support WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)  and Silverlight.

it Promotes developing modular applications, where you compose an application out of several modules that get loaded either at startup or on demand.

Each module loads its own UI, and all those modules get composed into a main shell, i.e. Main screen

PRISM provides event aggregation to support communication between diff modules

Prism promotes presentational design patterns such as MVVM through the use of commands, where a command is fired on the UI and gets handled in the view model.

 

A Big Thank you for Bilal Haidar, we hope to see him in Dev Events more often   …

PS: Although Bilal is also a very Confident Public Speaker and Trainer… for some reason, when we were filming the interview… he had some hard time not to laugh …. Check out the  MAKING OF Video

Cheers,
SC

One last farewell Gift i made for my friends in Microsoft Lebanon, was providing an extra hand in the organization of the Official Launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010… 2 of my favorite Products Microsoft Ever Made!

 

 

We prepared Special Videos that were displayed before the actual film has started, and they were displayed as follows:

 

1- Introduction (i haven’t upload the Actual Edited One but this is the cool part of it )

 

2- Prince of Persia – The Game

 

3- Introduction to Sharepoint 2010 by MSDN Regional Director, Khaled Chebat

 

4- We knew some people will have little or No CLUE what sharepoint is… so we included this nice video called “Sharepoint in PLAIN ENGLISH!”

 

 

5- and off course one of my Master Pieces, the remixed version… Scratch IE

 

6- Now since /*Life runs on CODE*/… a Special video prepared by Wessam Zeidan and myself to put people in the right MOOD!!

 

 

 

7- SkechFlow (i haven’t found the actual video that was displayed on the net, so here’s another more detailed one on Expression Blend & Sketchflow)

 

 

 

8- A Nice Office 2010 Commercial called “Work Anywhere”

 

 

9- A Quick Overview by Ghassan Chahine from Microsoft Lebanon ( Btw he’s the one that replaced me :o) ) introducing the highlights of Office 2010

 

 

 

 

10- Another Nice Office 2010 Commercial called “Work Better Together”

 

 

 

11- And one Video i really Enjoyed Making… Office 2010 Overview.. by you know who (it’s split into 2 videos because of the 10 minuntes YouTube Limitation)

 

 

 

 

And Last but Not Least… the Ultimate Office 2010 Movie….

 

 

One thing to note though, that we had tried to make several versions of the DVD to be given to the Movie Theater, and we had to compromise on either the Quality of the Videos or the Crop of the HD Videos… so we had to use the HD Version so some videos were cut from each side… so definitely some of the attendees have joked about that…  but that was the best i could come put together in the small timeframe i had to prepare :o)

 

Enjoy and Don’t forget to SHARE!!

Cheers,
SC

Back  When i was in TechEd ME, i had the change to meet one of the IT Security Superstars, and a World Wide known expert, Andy Malone, an Enterprise Security MVP from the UK. 

We both were speaking at TechEd, so we used to bumped into each others in the speakers’ area; so i had to steal him for few minutes to record few tips & tricks on IT Security;

There you go:

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

SC

 

Visual Studio 2010, was launched on Monday April 12th  2010, what are the new features and additions to this new Product?

 

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Mohamad Saleh from Jordan tell us a little bit about it!

 

 

 

Cheers,

SC

 

When a DJ Works at Microsoft and had a great time in TechEd Middle East… you can imagine what is the outcome :o)

 

Enjoy;
SC

 

I met Scott Recently in TechEd Middle East, and i had the chance to catch him for few  minutes and we recorded a few minutes on cam to talk about his involvement in the Tech Community and what are his advices to the Tech Communities in the Middle East;

Interview Worth Watching…. Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

You can check out Scott's Blog

 

And make sure to follow him on Twitter @shanselman

 

Cheers,

SC

Hey,

 

It’s an Exciting Day Today, as it marks the first day of TechEd Middle East!

 

i grabbed some Photos and Videos and put them together to share with you what’s happening here;

 

My Session Starts at 12 and now it’s 10:00… YES I’M A BLOGGING NUT :o)

 

Sharing is Caring (Those are also my Initials!).. so there you go;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Video also Shows Mohamad Saleh, C# MVP from Jordan  Rocking the ASK THE EXPERTS on Visual Studio 2010!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

SC

Hey,

 

Last Wednesday we’ve had a Nice Developers Community Night Hosted by “Lebanese Developers min 3enna!” and the guest speaker was Ralph Varjabedian from Telephone.com to talk about “Speeding up your Website”

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can download the presentation from Ralph’s Blog here

 

 

 

 

 

And remember to Join the Lebanese Developers min 3enna Group on Facebook if you like to know about & get invited for Future Community Nights

 

 

Cheers,

SC