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I just had a chance to visit Microsoft Pakistan head office here at Karachi, Pakistan. We discussed about on going Microsoft campaigns in the region, more areas to improve and collaborating and training our IT workforce too. I am glad I had an offer from the Microsoft Team to become a Professional Partner of Microsoft with my organization. Yuppy I am too happy....below are the pictures we took after the meeting :)

Remember the lessons on investments from old college days? Yes, the one that suggests, not to invest in the same industry or infrastructure, instead portfolio diversification was encouraged, but hey all these lessons were also valid and incorporated in IT infrastructure implementations, where organizations use to build a scattered or a central IT infrastructure to avoid any disaster and to recover using data backed up at other remote locations and for various other practices. Hence increasing the running and maintenance cost for the infrastructure. Then came the cloud computing concept, right after initiatives taken in web development hence promoting Web Applications now it is obvious all the flavours in Cloud Computing (IaaS, Paas, Saas) are here in IT to stay forever! Any guess why I am saying this? What's all in it for us (developers) and other parties involved? (But before I could start explaining why…I must let you guys know, development is no different for cloud, same g...

  Almost everyone who is beginning to read about Cloud Computing will encounter the difficulty of understanding the intricate difference between SaaS, PaaS and IaaS under the Cloud Computing realm. I am detailing the differences below in a way I understood it. May be you have an alternate approach to understanding the difference, nevertheless I believe that the explanation below gives you an insight into the beautiful difference between the three terminologies. Firstly, the terms stand for the following: SaaS: Software as a service. PaaS: Platform as a service. IaaS:  Infrastructure as a service. Whenever you consider a cloud computing system, (or rather let’s consider a simple server), there are three main types of capabilities that it exposes. These are: 1) Computing: Of course, you need lot of computing power to perform complex calculations. This is achieved by installing high-end complex processors into the hardware to expose to computing capability. Such processors ...

How do you answer the question, “what do I need to learn to be a good programmer?” I have written posts trying to answer that question, typically focusing on the languages that you should learn or the algorithms and other techniques you need to know. What about the rest of a programmer’s life? This is a less serious look at the life of a programmer. So, what does a programmer really need to know? 1.Caffeine – You need to find your preferred caffeine delivery system. Mine is black coffee, early and often. Others may prefer diet soda throughout the day. There are always the classics as well, Mountain Dew and Jolt. 2.Logic – As a programmer, you deal with logic constantly. Your true mettle will be defined by how you deal with the insanity (real or perceived) of the customer. The customer could be your project manager, the business analyst or the users. For any given project, you can count on someone sounding completely insane. 3.Hours – Expect to be working a lot of them. Program...