October 2009

Software Industry, In Dr. Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf’s Words

October 20, 2009

These days every individual desires an International Visa and wishes to settle abroad. Every Pakistani is striving hard to pursue a professional career or move to a foreign country for higher education and never return. In the midst of this crowd there exists an individual, who returned to Pakistan in order to show the world [...]

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Circumference Factor: Are you overpaid? You must be overweight

October 20, 2009

By Sara Waqar Khan “Techies and Nerdies usually have a great tendency of growing their tummies much faster and quicker. So, for God sake please get out and do some more work, I mean physical “no offense”, participate in one or two sports at least twice a week most probably on a weekend. Code isn’t [...]

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Emerging .NET Devs – Oct UG Meeting on LINQ

October 20, 2009

Contributed by Adil Mughal We had a fantastic show at User Group, UG meeting on 17th October ‘09, on “Practical LINQ”, organized by Emerging .NET Devs at Microsoft Innovation Center. We would like to thank every individual who participated and made the event successful. We would also thank our speakers Adil Mughal (MVP) and Munir [...]

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Windows 7 Here I Come

October 19, 2009

The disaster called Vista took Microsoft many flights down. Vista was Version 6 of Windows operating system. It is believed that the disaster was Windows self created event. Its main cause was unwanted and uncalled for delay of Vista, failed to catch many users attention and some of them were disappointed to the extent that [...]

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The Intel Atom Developer Programme

October 16, 2009

Intel Corporation recently launched the Intel Atom Developer Programme for independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers. The program provides a framework for developers to create and sell software applications for netbooks with support for handhelds and smart phones available in the future. “We want to fuel the growth of Intel Atom-based products designed for the [...]

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Shaping The Future of Game Development in Pakistan

October 14, 2009

Shaking hands with Netsol one more time was a great pleasure for CodeWeek. But this time we twisted the whole situation. Last week we met Mr. Khurrum and this time we were face to face with a young and talented graduate who is currently working at Netsol. With the two years experience as Software Engineer [...]

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From Our On-Campus Correspondent At FAST-NU

October 14, 2009

Reported By Farah Zaheer Khan CodeWeek has strengthened its everlasting bond with FAST-NU. As we said earlier that CodeWeek always fulfills its promises. It was only last week that the Executive Team of SOFTEC 2010 in FAST National University Lahore Campus, were painted in the colours of CodeWeek. Our on-campus correspondent Farah Zaheer Khan reported [...]

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C# 4.0 + Visual Studio 2010 Beta

October 14, 2009

Contributed by Adil Mughal Here we are with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta installed on Windows 7 RC, the coolest and latest stuff out yet :) In this article, I wanted to share some glimpse at Visual Studio 2010 beta along with some demonstration of one of the feature of C# 4.0 :) For Windows [...]

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Did you Know I’m Halal?

October 14, 2009

We are clearly aware of the growing competition among the browsers and search engines. Especially when it comes to those against the ever growing Google. But do you honestly think we need one particular search engine solely for Muslims, so that they can avoid and prevent such websites which offer culturally offensive and pornographic stuff. [...]

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Goby- Create Your Own Adventure

October 12, 2009

Every day we spend hours on social networking websites in order to cure boredom. We have some good news for everyone in form of Goby. Goby will help you find the perfect leisure time activity for your boredom. Users don’t need to hop around from website to website in order to be entertained, because this [...]

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