Since last 5 years of my career, I have been mainly working on web application development in particularly using .NET technology stack and also mainly blogging on ASP.NET, client side libraries, C# and developing a small open source projects on GitHub as well. I do really enjoy working web because Read more…
Some months ago I migrated my blog from blogger to self hosted WordPress on Windows Azure. My initial experience was good, having a website hosted on azure standard instance with MySQL database somewhere in cloud. All good, I started doing some WordPress optimization. One day I got an alert from “ClearDB” that my database Read more…
Few months ago, I moved my blog to WordPress on Azure. I am not a WordPress expert, not even near to it but as hosting is charged or free for limited configuration, it is better to optimize and leverage the current resources first before scaling out on cloud. So I Read more…
You may have noticed the new look of my blog with a bit difference in URLs, as I have migrated from Blogger to WordPress that is hosted on IIS deployed on Microsoft Windows Azure. Objectives: Migrate all posts from Blogger to WordPress Don’t end up with broken links for blog Read more…
Though 2012 proved to be a year of change for me, I am ready to take another leap of relocating to new country to avail the opportunity to be part of Nintex product development team. For those of you working on SharePoint server probably know about Nintex, their Nintex workflow Read more…
This post is a short note to say THANK YOU to my colleagues, now ex-colleagues, for the good time we had in last 4 years at Telenor Pakistan, as you might already know, dear reader, that I have just left Telenor Pakistan. Overall I enjoyed working in Telenor and if Read more…
Super excited to share that I have been recognized as Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft for the consecutive fifth year. This time I have been awarded in ASP.NET/IIS space with technical interest in Client App Dev, Windows Azure and C#. Special thanks to our MVP Lead Hande, DPE Lead Read more…
Last week, I had honor to interact with community at Microsoft Community Meetup Islamabad where I got the opportunity to share my thoughts on community contribution and its significance. I talked about why community contribution matters to society and what are some of the common benefits of community meetup. I Read more…
Some time earlier, I posted about “Restoring NuGet Packages for External Dependencies” to restore dependencies when building solution and this way you don’t have to commit “packages” folder. Just a short note: If you are working with Git and have enabled restoring NuGet packages automatically then perhaps it would be Read more…
Like last year, I was invited by Microsoft Pakistan to evaluate the software competition entries for Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013. It’s a great opportunity to see how our academia is doing in terms of the output they produce and see how new talent is doing. In Islamabad, we evaluated around Read more…