National IT-BPO Capacity Summit 2007 - Career Fair

This career fair is going to happen between 1st-2nd September at BMICH.

The career guidance fair is open to parents, career counselors from schools, O/L and A/L students and also existing middle management professionals, who might be interested in entering the growing IT-BPO industry. All other stakeholders in the industry such as potential employers, educational and training institutions will also be present.

For more information please visit www.nics.lk

Vacancy for a software developer

Outlook mails to your mobile

There is a free software which you can use to receive your emails and Outlook data to your mobile phone.

With that software

1.Receive your emails and Outlook data anywhere, anytime
2.Handle your schedule and meetings via your mobile device
3.Enjoy synchronized Personal Information Management (PIM)
4.Access information about your Contacts, anywhere, anytime

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Develop php applications using Visual Studio IDE

There is a php integrated development environment based on Visual Studio. With VS.Php you can design, develop, debug and deploy Php applications within the Visual Studio IDE.

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.NET User Group Meeting August 2007

VSTO development using VS.NET 2008

By: Prasanna Amirtalingam (MVP - Visual Basic)
http://www.prasanna.ws

By now you heard the Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 is released.
So join us to take a look at some of the new designers available in Visual Studio.NET 2008
which simplifies programming for office. This session would also show how easy it is
to extend the Microsoft Office platform in embedding custom business logic.

Date: 1st August 2007
Time: 6.00 PM onwards
Venue: Microsoft Sri Lanka Training Room, 11th Floor, DHPL Building, Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 02
Entrance: Free (as usual)

Office File Conversion

Now youcan convert your old (non office 2007) documents into office 2007 documents. Visit below link and download the software.

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Visual Studio 2008 Downloads

Download Microsoft Visual Studio code name "Orcas" beta 2 release and other related stuff by visiting below link.

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Code in .NET 2.0, Build for Java, Run on Linux!

I found out a site which provide a plugin for Microsoft's® Visual Studio 2005 IDE which enables you to produce .NET Web and server applications that run on Tomcat under Linux® and other Java-enabled platforms, without having to rewrite your C# or Visual Basic code.

The plugin can be freely downloadble.

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Imagine Cup 2007

Congradulation for the teams who won 1st (Team : SARA, Application : ISECED
),2nd (Team : MaTHaKa, Application : KAMZA
) and 3rd (Team : Sanhitha
, Application : Iddhipada
) place in Imagine cup 2007 Sri Lanka which held yesterday.

I must congradulate other 3 teams who came up to the finals.

I wish all the best for the team whome are going to Korea for the world finals and hope that they will bring proud to Sri Lanka.

Finally thanks Wela for inviting my self and Dumidu for the event.

Bradby Express To Kandy

Hurray....

Our rugger team won the first leg of the bradby last Saturday. It was a very joyfull time for us seeing our team winning the first leg.

Hope that the our team will win the second leg as well and get the Bardby trophy.

Free SMS

Do you want to send free SMS messages? Then become a member in below site.
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Developer Toolkit

There is a toolkit called Facebook Developer Toolkit which you can use to develop cool windows and web aplications.

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Free Microsoft Certification Exam

If you are going to do your first Microsoft exam you can do the exam for free. This offer is only for students and faculty members only.

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.NET User Group Meeting June 2007

Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the platform for building new generation connected applications in Windows.
In this session, Buddhike will be talking about the WCF fundamentals and walk you through a demo to show how to get started with this powerful & exciting technology.
Session prerequisites: Some WS-* required ;)
Level: 200

http://blogs.thinktecture.com/buddhike

Date: 6th June 2007
Time: 6 PM onwards
Venue: Microsoft Sri Lanka Training Room, 11th Floor, DHPL Building, Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 02