JorDev

During the last quarter of 2011 we have hosted two amazing Jordanian Microsoft guests, Yousef Al Khalidi (Distinguished Engineer), and Ayman Dahleh (Development Manager for the Global Experience Platform group), who happened to be having their vacation here, they generously accepted our invitation to deliver sessions here in Jordan despite their busy times. The community recorded these two inspiring interviews with our guests through which I can see how close achievements can be. ...

Last Saturday 14th of May 2011 we had the first web camp in Jordan among Jordev’s activities, and it was great! check my presentation slides at the end of this post. The event was like the following: 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Registration 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM: Four 50 minutes sessions with 10 minutes between each for breaks, there was a few attendees at the beginning so we delayed the first session for couple of minutes (yes we have a morning problem here). Sessions were “Entity Framework 4.1”, “ASP.NET MVC One Step Deeper”, “Dynamic Data”, and “jQuery” 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM: lunch break, where people went to the near market and had their lunch there. 2:15 PM – 4:30 PM: free coding session. Things went great: ...

For too long, all Jordev’s activities have been in the form of sessions with fast code demos, and for the first time we are going to break this rule and do our first web camp in which attendees will have the chance to have hands-on experience with some of Jordan’s active experts. It will be on the 15th of May 2011. There are two things in web camps that make them more interesting: REAL CODING and COLLABORATION; coding is a practice science, best way to learn it is by practice, and this practice will be much more fruitful and enjoyable if done with a bunch of enthusiasts who share the same passion with you. Speakers will have their share, but the biggest share will go to the hidden experts who have been hiding under excessive working hours and who avoid boring talkative sessions. This gathering will be a chance for us to dig these gems out and have the most geeky fun and benefit we seek in such communities. ...

It was great to get back to presentations after this while; ASP.NET MVC was the topic for the latest session I delivered through Jordev. The audience was great, I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did preparing for it. you can find the slides on Slideshare, embedded here as well: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC View more presentations from Emad Alashi. ...

Here is your chance (with little effort) to win a fully-paid trip to Tech-Ed Middle East 2011. Simple tasks are required from your part and you will find yourself with the ultimate geeks in Dubai next year. For the details check the competitions website on http://compete.jordanruns.net/

I just finished a session about Communication Skills one-to-one for the MSP program with Microsoft and Jordev. As I promised the audience, here are the slides shared on the very good site SlideShare: Communication Skills one To one View more presentations from Emad Alashi.

The feedback was very good, and I was glad that everybody liked it. Jordev is really moving ahead, and I am very excited being part of it 🙂 Below is the slide show (it’s an enhanced version from my previous one): Introduction To NHibernate (SlideShare) Code is the same of the previous one which you can download from here

JorDev .net is a .NET user group founded by enthusiastic Jordanian IT professionals. On Wednesday, November 26, I will be doing my first session in a series about NHibernate. Talk Details Overview: NHibernate is an object-relational mapping (ORM) solution for the Microsoft .NET platform. It provides an easy-to-use framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. Its purpose is to relieve the developer from a significant amount of relational data persistence-related programming tasks. NHibernate is free open source software distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Target audience: .NET developers, software designers, software engineers, and software architects. Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008. Location: MIC (Microsoft Innovation Center, Royal Scientific Society Building, 3rd Floor). Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm (Amman, Jordan local time). For more info: Mohamed Saleh: 0788716457 Ayman Farouk: 0795727344 Reminders Live Calendar Facebook event Outlook Calendar Google Calendar