Author Archives: AsifHamza
Looking back and 2010: Where did the time go?
How time flies. When I look back at my blog and at 2010 in particular, it’s clear that I didn’t accomplish much blogging. Once again the culprit was a heavy work load that only let up towards the end of … Continue reading
A small WPF project management application
They say the best way to learn something new is to jump in head first and just do it. Don’t ask me who “they” are but apparently, that’s what they say. One of my goals last year was to teach … Continue reading
So what happened to those 2009 goals?
Almost a year ago, I risked public ridicule by my friends and family and published my goals for 2009. I had hoped to track progress on all of them on this blog but that did not work out so well. … Continue reading
Beginning Development with Silverlight 2
Half way into 2009 and I’m already finding my New Years resolutions tough to keep. I’ve hardly touched typingweb, Symbian looks like a non starter and I would be lucky if I could memorise a grocery list much less half … Continue reading
The Blogs I follow
In January, I talked about the goals I wished to accomplish in 2009. I’ve been following a number of blogs to help me reach those goals. But the sheer number of useful sites I found made it impossible to visit … Continue reading
A New look and a New host
Last week I decided to make two radical changes to my blog. Create a new a new theme and in the process learn something about CSS and web design. Move my blog from the free wordpress.com hosting site and onto … Continue reading
Installing Windows 7
Vista’s not that Bad I must admit that I was taken in by all the negative press surrounding Windows Vista. So when my company decided to upgrade my laptop OS to Vista, I tried everything humanely possible to try and … Continue reading
Increasing my Touch-Typing Speed – Kickoff
Technorati Tags: Touch Typing I must confess, I started learning to touch-type sometime in November 2008. But I had fallen off the wagon at the beginning of January. To compensate and motivate myself to keep at it, I decided to … Continue reading
Some of my goals for 2009 and how I hope to achieve them
Technorati Tags: Goal Setting The Importance of Setting Goals One of the last tasks in my final year at university was to create my 1 year, 5 year and 10 year goals. We had an entire course on life skills … Continue reading
Choosing a new phone: Where to from the Nokia N80?
Technorati Tags: Nokia E71 Its that time in the life of my phone contract when I start to think about what phone to upgrade to. In the past I would start looking at whatever new Nokia phones and pick the … Continue reading