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P@SHA LaunchPad, an envent to foster up entrepreneurship in Pakistan

Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

P@SHA (Pakistan Software House Association) has come up with a great idea to promote entrepreneurship in Pakistan. They are conducting an event LaunchPad.  Previously the president of P@SHA, Jehan Ara was involved in conducting session called Startup Insiders. A panel discussion where people ask question about their startups to the people who are from silicon [...]

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Sun CEO’s internal memo to employees, before his resignation

Posted on 06. Feb, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

Today I found that Jonathan Schwartz has tweeted about his resignation as Sun CEO. Due to the new control to Oracle. Schwartz sent following memo to his employees. Jonathan is an avid blogger used to blog on blogs.sun.com/jonathan.

He also tweeted about his last blog post on Sun.com, saying “Where Life Takes Me Next“.
Read the memo [...]

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Sun.com is dead now

Posted on 31. Jan, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

Just found that sun.com is now redirecting to oracle.com. Some days back I visited Sun’s original website. But it didn’t took long by Oracle to make it red. Well I am a regular visitor of Sun forums. And with this change, I am trying to adjust myself with this transition. As I am having some [...]

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Oracles message to Sun customers and challenges IBM

Posted on 12. Sep, 2009 by Tahir Akram.

Just found on Oracle website that they have placed a message for Sun customers about their objectives and their focus on Solaris and SPARC. And more interestingly you can find Larry Elison (CEO of Oracle) challenging IBM to compete in hardware business. A marketing tactic.

Picture reference: oracle.com/features/suncustomers.html

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Non CS skills every CS graduate or programmer must have

Posted on 29. Aug, 2009 by Tahir Akram.

CS graduates come up with superb knowledge of computer, networks and other IT skills. If they are programmer they write sharp logic and design and code software well. These skills helps them to advancing them in their technical career. But being a technical practitioner a CS junkie should know some non-CS skills and abilities. Because [...]

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Tips for a successful career in IT

Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by Tahir Akram.

Information Technology has completely changed our lives. No matter who you are, you can’t escape to be affected by it. It has a divining force on our lives. I have drawn some tips that I have come up by discussions with friends, colleagues and students directly or indirectly attached with IT fields. These tips can [...]

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Switching platform from Windows to Linux for Java development. What you will miss?

Posted on 02. Jul, 2009 by Tahir Akram.

It’s been some days in my office an activity is going on to shift operating system of all machines from Windows XP to Fedora and Ubuntu. Most of employees got their PC’s operating system changed and remaining are under process. This is a great edge to use Java and open source based softwares that you [...]

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Oracle has acquired SUN Microsystems. So whats the impact?

Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Tahir Akram.

On 20th April Oracle has eaten up another company. SUN Microsystems which was dangling around in the corridors of IBM, now at last got settled with Oracle on price of  approximately $7.4 Billion in equity value or $9.50 per share in cash. Both companies have been collaborating in Java platform and have strategic relationships. Oracle [...]

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My participation in ComSPEC’09

Posted on 26. Mar, 2009 by Tahir Akram.

Yesterday I participated in ComSPEC’09 and presented my final year project with my group member Aisf Shehzad. This event was organized by computer science department of CIIT Lahore. My project was Open Source Healthcare Management System which we guys developed as our degree project under supervision of Nadeem Ghafoor with the intention to make it [...]

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Working 100% time

Posted on 04. Apr, 2008 by Tahir Akram.

Agree…?

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