I am a computer engineer since 2006 from NED and currently pursuing my masters from NU-Fast. I live in Karachi, Pakistan and my work revolves around Microsoft technologies. SQL Server and .NET are my main area of expertise. Despite developing rich internet applications using Silverlight, I love to work with SQL Business Intelligence platform. I use to write articles at CodeProject; my article listing can be viewed here. I love to play Soccer (real) and first-person shooter computer games. I am fond of logical challenges and have also won several programming competitions, some of which are listed below:
- 1st position in Silverlight competition held at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology in Aug 2008
- 1st position in Softec 2006, 2nd All Asia and 11th All Pakistan Dynamic Programming Competition, organized by Fast-NU, Lahore in Mar 2006
- 2nd position in ProQuest 05 Dynamic Programming Competition organized by Karachi University in Nov 2005
- 3rd position in Softec 2005, 1st All Asia and 10th All Pakistan Dynamic Programming Competition organized by Fast-NU, Lahore in Mar 2005
- 1st position in All Pakistan National Software Competition organized by Computer Society of Pakistan in 1999
I also won several TSQL challenges which are listed below:
- TSQL Challenge 7 from BeyondRelational.
- TSQL Challenge 8 from BeyondRelational.
- TSQL Challenge 9 from BeyondRelational.
March 13, 2009 at 11:53 PM
I was following this article on securing web services. Thanks for your help. I am having an issue with my Silverlight app is prompting me for my login credentials the first time the service is being invoked. Subsequent invocations don’t ask. Any thoughts?
http://smehrozalam.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/securing-silverlight-application-and-wcf-service-using-aspnet-authentication-techniques/
March 21, 2009 at 11:51 AM
What service security configuration are you using in web.config? It would be better if you move your question to the related post so that your experience may be beneficial for other people reading that post. Also, did you look at the service security settings in web.config that I discussed here? Hope that helps you.
June 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Very impressive blog.
Best Regards,
Pinal Dave
June 8, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Glad to see such comment from an SQL guru. Thanks very much, Panil.
June 14, 2009 at 11:33 PM
are you at all familiar with visifire contols?
regards
james
June 16, 2009 at 10:49 AM
@James
No, haven’t used their controls.
June 16, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Al salam alaykom, great blog, excellent posts & achievemnts masha’a Allah, best wishes.
regards
Mohammad S. Samaha
June 17, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Wa’alaikum Assalam, Mohammad. Thanks very much for your nice words and best wishes.
September 30, 2009 at 10:35 PM
I liked your blog about CTE (included a reference to my blog) and I hope to visit your other blogs.
Keep up the good work!
October 5, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Thanks for your comment, Naomi. SQL Server 2005 came with great TSQL enhancements: CTE, Ranking Functions, Pivoting and the ones I can recall.