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What’s New in Windows 7

Microsoft Bangladesh launched a competition for the students called What’s New in Windows 7. General students from different universities took part in the competition. The intensions were to make users aware of the new features of Windows 7.

Students from different universities took part in the contest. The best part was maximum interested participants were non-technical students. AIUB university proudly hosted the grand finale event on 21 October 2010.

In the presentations, many of the features were not much highlighted by Microsoft for Marketing purpose. Features like Virtual Folders, Branchcache, Bitlocker, Bitlocker to go, Homegroup, Play To etc.

It was amazing that the non technical students went through that far and discovers all those features for their presentation.

There were 18 finalists and all of them did mind blowing performance. It was very tough to select only one of them. Finally Shahriar Rahman from AIUB university won the Dhaka – Singapore – Dhaka air return ticket prize.

All participants got participation certification from Microsoft Bangladesh. Mr. Uzair Khan Panni, Program Manager, Microsoft Bangladesh thanked all the students for their efforts.

Mr. Omi Azad, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Bangladesh finally handed over the grand prize to Shahriar Rahman, EEE, AIUB and thanked everyone for their efforts.

Mr. Omi Azad also encouraged all the audience to participate in all the future contests and events by Microsoft.

Building Tech Careers

In association with CSE department, Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET), the phpXperts group organized a workshop entitled Building Tech Careers. on 02 October 2010 at DUET Auditorium.

Targeted audience of the workshop were

• IT Professionals – who are already working as a developer.
• Recent graduates – Who are graduate and seeking for a good IT career as a developer.
• Tech Students – Who wants to see themselves as a developer in future days.
• Faculties – Who can update themselves with latest development trends and focus projects/assignments based on that.

Program Flow and Short Description:

1. Opening speech by Dr. Abul Kasem, Head of CSE, DUET
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2. Ghazi Asif Salahuddin (Lenin)
   CTO, Bullseyelogic
   Topic Title: How to prepare for the next step
   Comment: Lenin successfully draw all the audiences' attention by focusing on various example to success.
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3. Tarek Mahmud Apu
   Founder, WNeeds
   Topic Title: OOP in PHP
   Comment: This topic was too technical and long. The audience were not ready for a technical session at that stage.
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4. Arild Klokkerhaug
   CEO, Somewhere in Net Ltd
   Topic Title: Anything you really want to do, you can do
   Comment: Arild really knows how to have success in career and his guidance will obviously help the audiences. 
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5. M A Hossain Tonu
   Software Engineer, Improsys Inc.
   Topic Title: Software Engineering in PHP
   Comment: Very basic, very interesting and very informative.  
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6. Anis Uddin Ahmad
   Sr. Software Engineer, Right Brain Solution Ltd
   Topic Title: Successful Freelancing Career
   Comment: Freelancing became a passion for the tech savvies these days. They can invest less time and make more money, which good for the developers and the country’s economy. Anis selected a very HOT topic and audience should appreciate the guidelines he gave on his speech.
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7. Nhm Tanveer Hossain Khan
   IT Director, Tasawr Interactive
   Topic Title: Hi code man! Ain't you crazy enough?
   Comment: Most of the time audience do not understand Hasan’s high thought speeches. But this time he came with an exception. Hasan rocked this time.
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8. Emran Hasan
   Co-Founder & CTO: Right Brain Solutions
   Topic Title: LAMP - lighten up your career
   Comment: Another simple but informative topic. The QA session continued for a while as the audience were eager to know the prospect of PHP development.
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9. Hasin Hyder
   Founder, Leevio
   Topic Title: Successful Team work
   Comment: Not many speakers in Bangladesh selected this topic before. As a software developer this is a very important part for the industry. Hasin rocked the session as he did not focus on any technical issues but he really spoke the audience’s language. The QA session went well too.
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10. Omi Azad
    Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Bangladesh Ltd.
    Topic Title: MSDN, Finishing Speech, MSDNAA Announcement
    Comment: How MSDN can help to build a industry standard developers community. The MSDN for building a better industry standard community. The surprise MSDNAA announcement was very exciting for the student audiences.
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11. All Speakers
    Topic: Q&A
    Comment: This was the most important part of the entire workshop. We hope audiences got the answers they were looking for.

phpXperts are committed to arrange workshops like this frequently in future.

More pictures are available here.