Pooya's place (in the Gulf)
A blog about Architecture, Students, and Startups in the Gulf
Microsoft IT Showcase
In my job of evangelizing Microsoft technologies to our largest customers I often end up using...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 09/17/2007
SaaS - how to use a Software Delivery Platform
It's been a long summer hiatus, hopefully everyone enjoyed their summer as much as I did; finally...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 09/06/2007
Enterprise Architecture framework comparison on MSDN
Browsing the MSDN Architecture Center I ran into a nice article on descriptions and comparisons of...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 06/11/2007
Judging student software competitions
I had the honor of being a judge at the Software Development Trade Show hosted at University of...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 05/17/2007
Features I like in: Powerpoint 2007
This is the 2nd in my series of useful features in products we all use. This may be a well known one...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 05/14/2007
Watch this LINQ video
If you're at all interested LINQ, watch this video.Even if you're not interested in LINQ, watch the...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 05/10/2007
Gadgets with Arabic support
Have not tried this myself but it's been announced that Windows Live gallery and Vista Sidebar...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 05/03/2007
Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) - great news for .NET development
Check out Jim Hugunin's blog post about the new Dynamic Language Runtime, better support for dynamic...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 05/02/2007
Features I like in Office Communicator
One of the things that amazed me when I started working at Microsoft about a year ago is that there...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 05/02/2007
SOA factory, another interesting webcast
There's a webcast tonight (7pm UAE time) that a Microsoft partner is running on SOA factories. It's...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 05/01/2007
Microsoft Tagspace: Web 2.0 for Microsoft technical content
Here's a very useful new way of classifying technical information on Microsoft technologies. One of...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 04/16/2007
Geeks II: SOA presentation
Geeks II was a great success and thanks to everyone who attended, the best part for us is to get to...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 04/02/2007
Microsoft Architect Forum: Enterprise Search
Beat Schwegler discusses the topic of Enterprise Search. Please check back soon for Beat's...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 04/02/2007
Microsoft Architect Forum: Web 2.0 and Semantic Web
Daniel Akenine gives some thought provoking insight into Web 2.0 and semantic web. 2pm Daniel -...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 04/02/2007
Microsoft Architect Forum: SaaS session
A great overview of Software as a Service (SaaS) from Kevin Sangwell. 12pm Kevin - SaaS - An...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 04/02/2007
Micrososft Architect Forum: SOA session
Here is my presentation on Service Oriented Architecture. I tried to make this a practical guide and...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 04/02/2007
Microsoft Architect Forum - Dubai March 27th
Thanks to all for attending the first (of many) Microsoft Architect Forum in Dubai last week. As...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 04/02/2007
Geeks: Return to the code
We're hosting the 2nd annual gulf developers conference next week, and it should be an exciting 3...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 03/22/2007
Adding a custom search provider in IE7
I spent a few minutes building a search provider for Firefox the other day and today saw that the IE...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 03/22/2007
Microsoft Architect Insight conference in London (March 5-6)
A 2 day event with multiple tracks, useful for anyone who will in the UK around that time or willing...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 01/30/2007
Jon Udell joins Microsoft
I come back from vacation and see that a whole group of people I admire and have been reading for a...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 12/17/2006
(Beta) Launch of Gulf Skyscrapers
As I have mentioned previously on this blog, I'm looking to build an architect community in the Gulf...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 11/16/2006
Architecture is Magic!
That seemed to be consensus of some very long discussions with Udi. In essence, I'd like to have a...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 11/14/2006
TechEd Developers 2006 Barcelona
I just came back from my first ever TechEd in Barcelona. It was a great event and I had a chance to...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 11/12/2006
SOA Presentation from the MSDN Roadshow
We're now about a third of the way through the MSDN Roadshow, thanks to everyone who attended the...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 09/07/2006
MSDN Roadshow in the Gulf
We're very excited to be having the first ever TechNet & MSDN Roadshow in the Gulf. We'll be...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 09/02/2006
New releases of IE7 for public use
IE7 public release candidate 1 is now available! I've been using IE7 for a few months and I have to...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 08/26/2006
Microsoft Virtual Earth
In my previous post I mentioned 2 great uses of mashups for business. The wow factor in both of...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 08/15/2006
Mashups for business
John L. Scott, and Coldwell Banker Bain real estate companies in the Northwest United States have...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 08/14/2006
Entry #1
My name is Pooya Darugar and I'm the Architect Evangelist in Microsoft Gulf. That's Gulf as in the...
Author: pooyadarugar Date: 08/09/2006