Last time Microsoft developers were dancing like crazy because of the large penetration of IE7. Now the party will even get further with the Silverlight download rate hits the 1.5 Million downloads a day and increasing… Hell, now they gonna host a strip party in their offices! What’s next?!
I hope we can see this nano-technology in near future…
Microsoft, if you had read my last few post you’ll know they are dancing, has announced the launch of the first beta release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. More support for semantic web structures, therefore, web developers will find this beta version very useful especially if they want to keep up with latest technologies and weeding out the fads. Grab the browser here and add more tests in your testing environment arsenal!
Test post from Google Docs !
A post in phpguru got my attention after showing the statistics from TheCounter. IE6 is now overtaken by IE7 and both browsers are used by 78% of connected computers. That’s an astonishing penetration percentage for Microsoft. I’m sure they are dancing in their office right now!
Cool search engine that is in beta right now. Check out this video
Sign up for the beta if you are interested. I heard that this project costs around $31 million.
Okay, Wednesday (March 12, 2008) was hell of a day. I had to do 4 things in 1. As the picture explains either attend Microsoft 2008 Launch Day event, IT seminar by Eng Manar AlHashash, go in a meeting schedule with my “Super Coder” team mates in Kuwait Science Club, or read my feeds (It can be delayed though, it got delayed).
I finally decided not to go to the meeting since my team mates can do it without me. I also had to skip half of the Microsoft event because I HAD to attend a seminar that we organized it. So my Schedule went like this:
8:00am – 9:15am: Electronics lecture
9:15am – 9:45am: Wasted time waiting for my friend Hassan who forgotten to charge his cell phone! He called me 30min late telling me that he went home after lecture to recharge the phone and call me! So I told him to meet me and Mohammed Ghazall in the event area.
10:10am – 11:45am: Attended Developer Track seminar titled “Break Through Challenges with Visual Studio 2008”.
12:30pm – 2:45pm: I.T seminar in campus.
3:10pm – 3:30pm: McDonalds! Me and Mohammad.
3:45pm – 5:15pm: Attended the Microsoft event in seminar titled “IIS 7 for the Developer” and “Raffle Draw/ Closing”. Funny that my supervisor Dr. Thalaya Al-Fozan won a prize on the draw, but he wasn’t there so they canceled it.
5:45pm – 7pm: Arrived late to my CCNA-2 class.
7:30pm – 8:30pm: Finally at home, extremely exhausted and wasted. Catching my breath and getting ready for whatever comes next.
8:30pm – 2:30am: Done my homework and studies.
3:00am – 6:30am: Sleeping… sleeping… sleeping…
Wednesday… What a day eh?… truly hell of a day!
What’s the point of this post? None… just wanted to write something.
I have been busy lately with many projects and stuff I’m doing as you can see the number of post in my blog has been reduced in last couple of months. One of the things I’m working on is Imagine Cup competition which will be held soon. We have named our team “Super Coders” which was suggested by me :). I always wanted name my team with that name since the ICPC competition which was named by our Coach… sadly. There are two teams from Kuwait University and the name of the other team is “Superlevelers”.
My team partners are Hassan and Amtar and we are all authunsiase toward the competition. We are working hard to get it done in short time period because we have started the real work 2 weeks ago and we got about 1.5 week to submit the written proposal. We have implicitly divided our work and it seem that our team is working good and coherently. Amtar has been visiting various institution and companies to collect information about the project we are working on. Hassan is reading and following up whatever information Amatar finds and helps her. And I have been trying to get done with learning SilverLight as our project will heavily depends on it. Not to mention that I have to read/learn every information they collect. Me and Hassan are also currently working in the written proposal.
