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A Lost Nation on a Path of Self-Destruction!

As the Shock and Distress from last Friday settles down and the news of distant relatives and friends being laid to rest and being treated in hospitals has stopped, feelings of Anger, Hopelessness and Disappointment are taking over. Anger towards the merciless animals who attacked and killed innocent people (including young children) and disappointment from the Pakistanis, especially from ...

Role of IT Architect

The Secret Science of Motivation – Daniel Pink

Pink argues that the extrinsic motivators or incentives are the legacy of the industrial age, they only work for procedural work which does not require creative thinking. The Motivation of a 21st century information worker revolves around the following intrinsic motivational factors. AUTONOMY MASTERY PURPOSE  

Url Shortening: Tr.im shutting down

A few days back I posted a few concerns about the URL shortening and the “tiny url’s” which are now all over the place literraly. Now another conern comes along, so what happens if the company you are depending on for keeping all your URL’s safe which you would be posting for months or years (in future) suddenly shuts down. You loose the meaning of all your life long tweets which thousands of ...

Using Log Parser for analyzing IIS Logs

Microsoft Log Parser is a Command Line tool to analyze and extract data from all sorts of Log Files. It is a command line tool and does not have a fancy UI but is extremely power. The most powerful feature is the use of SQL Like query structure to extract information.

Best Web-Based Email System – GMAIL

I have been using GMAIL from mid 2005 and the moment I started using it I just could not go back to Yahoo! which I was using earlier. Hotmail was not even in the league back in 2005. Although gmail when it was first introduced was quite different in managing email replies and threads and I know a lot of people who could not just get around the management of the replies. I am not sure it was ...

Is the party over for Microsoft?

A perfect Analysis of Microsoft strategy in recent years. They just can’t stick to what they do best and want to compete every other successful company in the industry. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-the-party-over-for-microsoft-2009-07-24

My View of our new Workplace

Woods Bagot is designing the new workplace for ADTA’s new building and they did a session with us about how the new workplace should look like. Following is my view of what should be in the new workplace.  

Karachi before the year 1900

I received these in email, apparently they are from British Library and I think they are worth sharing.   Napier Mole Bridge (road to Keamari). Manora lighthouse visible in the distance Sind Arts College (now DJ Science College) – built 1877 Karachi city street view Lyari Market

Applications & Services Architecture

Spent the morning today working on this. Although couldn’t get a chance of explaining everything in the presentation but the diagram was surely helpful for an overview of the services being offered and the depth of integrations that we have.  
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