Category: Career & Community

I still remember when I was around 7 or 8 years old and we managed to get our first PC back in Egypt. It was a used computer running on an Intel Pentium 3 700Mhz, but when the PC eventually booted and I saw the Windows logo for Windows 95 and heard the famous start-up…

Shocked to see that my last blog post was from September. Although I do have 7 unpublished drafts that I did not get to publish, my apologies going MIA on you all. But I am sure you can all forgive me, when you find out that I have been promoted to a father and that…

Since we are now in the era of digital conferences and meetups, Microsoft’s popular Build conference turned digital too with the event being free for everyone and the first 1000 registrants getting a sweet Swag box from Microsoft. The keynote by Satya Nadella was as usual on-point with the current situation we are in and…

Right after university, I was lucky enough to start working with IBM. Back then, IBM had a very friendly WFH (Work From Home) policy, and although I lived 5 minutes away from the IBM lab (5 minutes walking 🙂 ), I made sure I leveraged that policy from time-to-time. As for my current position, it…

Summary This year, I again had the great opportunity to go to Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida. I was not sure I was going to make it due to this horrible flu me and my wife caught a week before but as soon as I told my body that I might miss a Microsoft conference,…

Hello all, I had the great opportunity of being invited to give a guest lecture at UOIT on DevOps and Cloud Computing. It was an amazing experience going back to University after 5 years and giving a lecture to the 4th year Software Engineering class, just a few years ago I was sitting in their…

Did you know that Microsoft Edge has Cortana built right in?. Are you thinking, how does that help me? well think again. You go to YouTube and are listening to a new song but you are wondering what the actual lyrics are? Well no need to Bing for it, Cortana has it for you. Impressed??…