Microsoft Pakistan recently hosted “Microsoft Web Days” in collaboration with P@SHA at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi. Microsoft Web Days is an exclusive get together of all Web Development, Designing and Hosting companies in Karachi with the objective to interact with Microsoft executives and gain an insight on Microsoft initiatives for web community. Launch of Microsoft WebsiteSpark is also planned on the same day. Following speakers presented during the event.

• Naveed Bajwa – Developer & Platform Group Manager, Microsoft Pakistan
• Ziaullah Khan – Microsoft MVP
• Jibran Jamshad – Technology Consultant, Microsoft Innovation Center
• Wajahat Abbas – Microsoft MVP
• Aleem Bawany – General Manager, Online Strategy and Development, Express News
• Jehan Ara – President Pakistan Software Houses Association

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Microsoft Pakistan recently organized a bloggers meetup named as “Bloggers Day” to showcase Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi. This event was especially organized for the bloggers community of Pakistan. Here are some pictures from the event.

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Microsoft Pakistan is organizing a bloggers meetup named as “Bloggers Day” to showcase Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. This event will be organized especially for the bloggers community of Pakistan by Microsoft. This event will help you in developing a much better understanding of the real world applications for Windows 7 & Internet Explorer 8. Bloggers Day will also be an excellent opportunity to network with other Fellow Bloggers from Industry & the Microsoft Team Members. Following are the event details:

• Date –  January 23rd 2010
• Time - 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
• Location - Microsoft Innovation Center, 1st Floor – FAST National University of Computer and Emerging, Sciences (City Campus), 22-G Block, 6 P.E.C.H.S Karachi.

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Saifullah Shafiq, SharePoint MVP has published a new SharePoint book called “SharePoint 2007 Tips, tricks and techniques“. He have been writing technical programming articles/tutorials since 1999. His technical articles have been published on 62 different programming related web sites. He is also the founder of SharePoint Pakistan User Group, which is the first and only SharePoint related user community in Pakistan. Click here to view MicrosoftFeed interview with Saifullah.

SharePoint is a powerful collaboration platform. It gives users power to implement content management and search solutions. It helps in information sharing. SharePoint can be used to create sites quickly, sites that can provide complex business intelligence and records management solutions. This book is a recipe book that gives you ready-to-use recipes to implement complex solutions in your organization. It contains full length articles as well as small tips that will come in handy at some point during your development cycle. SharePoint learning curve is steep; books like these enable you to learn SharePoint quickly. Book contains tons of information on InfoPath. Remember, using InfoPath with SharePoint gives you a powerful platform to create business applications. You can create electronic forms easily with InfoPath and publish them in SharePoint where users from across the organization can easily access them. Browser-enabled forms is another excellent feature that InfoPath 2007 provides. Not only InfoPath but SharePoint integrates well with the Office 2007 suite. The book shows you how you can use products like Groove and OneNote with SharePoint. It also gives you examples on how to use it with Access.

You will find lots of walkthrough exercises in this book that will help you get up to speed with topics like web services, web service deployment and consuming web services. More information about this book is available at http://sharepoint2007tips.com. Users can download free sample chapters from the book site. Book is available in both paperback and ebook editions.

Tell us who you are?
I am a BizTalk Server MVP recently awarded by Microsoft. I am an active blogger and a participant on the MSDN BizTalk Server Forums. I am currently working as a SharePoint consultant in a Health Services company in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before this position I worked as a BizTalk Architect in Bank Saudi Fransi in Saudi Arabia. I have a deep interest in SOA, EAI and B2B solutions using BizTalk Server and WCF. I started working on BizTalk at United Bank Ltd. in January 2008 in which the Bank was using BizTalk as a primary technology for SOA and EAI. During this period also worked as a part time freelance developer for WSI which is one of the largest outsourcing companies in USA.

Besides BizTalk I have also worked as a web developer for 1 year in an outsourcing company in Pakistan and have been working on ASP, ASP.NET, PHP and customizing Open Source solutions since 2006.

Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I was awarded recently for the first time on 1st January 2010.

What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
My primary interests are in BizTalk but besides that I like to keep up with the latest Microsoft tools. I try to follow blogs, forums and visit Microsoft site to follow up what is coming up.

What does being an MVP mean to you?
First of all it means responsibility and commitment to the community and providing them with the correct information and guidance. I try to put my best to be keep up with the latest information so that I can provide feedback to the community and that is what they expect from me.

What do you do when you are not building software’s?
I love spending time with my family and wife, watch movies and go to my favorite cuisines.

If you could ask Steve Ballmer one question about Microsoft, what would it be?
I would like to request him and Microsoft to market the BizTalk Server product in the Asian and Middle East region as the structure of industries are in serious need of integration and if the product is seriously marketed it can be a BizTalk Heaven.

Had a chance to attend “MVP Global Summit”? When and how was your experience?
Not yet, looking forward to attend the summit this year, InshaAllah.

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